"Counterfeit Gods"
Country/Region: United States
Genre: Comedy
Production company: Universal Pictures, etc. in 2003
Director: Tom Shadyak
Starring: Kim Carey, Jennifer Aniston
Synopsis:
TV reporter Bruce Nolan is a small person who likes to complain about the unfairness of fate, and he reacts nervously to all the small unsatisfactory things in life, and complains that God has no eyes at the slightest displeasure. Unexpectedly, God and his old man were also six impure roots, and they were scolded so much that they could not bear it, and under the exception of the case, they handed over the drudgery of managing the human world to Bruce at once. In this way, a mortal suddenly becomes powerless, and of course, the signature pranks of Kim Carey continue to occur, and God is constantly enlightening this mischievous boy to re-understand the true meaning of life.
If you were God, what would you most like to do?
Start by asking yourself a question: If one day you have all the power of God, what would you most like to do?
(Group friends: enough money, enough good food, do what you like, have a cute child, love each other's husband... ）
"Counterfeit Gods" tells such a story: the male protagonist Kim Carey, like all the little people who will encounter setbacks in life, will only complain, cause a bunch of trouble, but complain to God every day.
He is a news reporter on a radio station, but he is not satisfied with broadcasting small news, and he wants to be a host to report big events and big news with depth.
In a live report of the exclusive news, due to the suppression of his peers, he lost his job without saying a word, so he cursed God and finally scolded God.
God's approach is very special, and since you are not satisfied with me, then you try to be God yourself. So Jim Carrey had all the divine powers of God. An ordinary person, like us, when he has divine power, what does he want to do?
In fact, the hero's mind is very simple, nothing more than to meet his many aspects of ordinary needs, success at work, make his girlfriend's chest bigger, let the moon close to meet his romantic needs, let the puppy learn to pee on his own...
Although this ordinary wish is fulfilled against the norm, it has caused unimaginable consequences, such as the moon, although it expresses his romance, the tides caused by the moon have hurt many people; for example, the meteorite fall that was exposed to his headlines has also caused many accidents and injuries...
But these things did not attract his attention and attention, for him, these things have nothing to do with me, he just to fulfill his own careful wishes.
God has divine power, is He omnipotent?
Just then, God appeared again and asked him: You have been doing God for a few days, how much work have you done?
At this time, he suddenly realized that he had power and obligation, so he began to perform God's duty—to listen to people's prayers.
The way he works is very simple and crude, that is, to fulfill everyone's wishes - to let everyone get what they want.
Yes, everything was messed up, and everyone who wanted to buy a lottery ticket won the lottery, so everyone only got a little bit of money.
Finally, after losing his girlfriend, he finally realized that love requires hard work, even God cannot change the will of man, and any wish needs his own efforts to be realized. Only then did he understand how important his lover was to him, but because he was used to being around her, his love was miserly and greedy, but unfortunately, all this was discovered after he lost it.
Seeing this, I especially want to discuss: God has divine power, is He omnipotent? What are some things that cannot be obtained by divine power?
In Harry Potter, Voldemort's mother relied on magic to get his father, but was eventually abandoned because she didn't have love. In The Troubles of Charlotte, Charlotte gains wealth and fame, but he loses love and happiness.
The end of the world is over
In the movie, there is a detail related to the beggar, and every time the sign is held, it is in line with the chaotic life of the male protagonist, has anyone noticed?
The first time the male protagonist was late for work because of traffic jams, the sign read: Are you blind?
Bruce scolded and grinned, "You're blind! "Blind here, my understanding is that he can't see the good side of life, only bad luck and unhappiness.
The second time the male protagonist was fired, he was also beaten by a small, and the sign read: Life is... The male protagonist's answer is still a constant complaint.
The third time was in the midst of the riot, and the sign read: May your kingdom come. The result of the fulfillment of all prayers is the collapse of the social order and the insurrection that comes like the end of the world.
The fourth time is when the male protagonist sees the beggar's sign when he is stuck in traffic after the riot: to win all. This sentence was also a turning point in his heart. He began to become active in life, and finally began to help others and feel happy from it.
The fifth time Bruce stood next to the beggar, and the beggar's sign read: God is a good man. Bruce also held up a card that read: "He's right."
The God that the two people here say should not mean the same thing: the beggar is talking about God, referring to the male lord, because he has truly become a good man. And the God that the male protagonist said should be the real God, because God made him really feel happy. For the first time, he truly identified with God and stopped complaining.
The last time is when he participates in the blood donation campaign that he scoffs at the beginning of the film, and calls on more people to participate in the event and save more people in need of blood transfusions.
For the first time in the show, he generously acknowledged the identity of his girlfriend's fiancée and made everyone feel happy.
Then God appeared and said: The end of the world is over.
The end of the world is not only the irresponsible abuse of divine power by the male protagonist, the abnormal movement of the moon has caused natural disasters, nor is it not only the male protagonist who uses the divine power to pull the asteroid to hit the earth, causing power outages.
The end of the world here is the end of the world belonging to the male protagonist, who has rediscovered the meaning of life from a person who is tired of life.
We are all our own Gods
Are you also in the end of the world of your own, but don't realize it yet? Your God is also around, do you feel it?
Yes, we are all our own Gods.
While giving the male protagonist divine power, God also warned him: First, you cannot tell others that you are God, and second, you cannot change man's free will.
So even if He is God, he cannot change the fact that a loved one is gone. He tried to use his divine power to save his girlfriend's feelings, but nothing could change, and in the end, he still loved and regained his girlfriend.
There's a saying in it that God said, and I love it: People always overlook their ability to fulfill their wishes.
No matter what kind of belief, it is only a spiritual sustenance, and it does not make it easy for you to do what you want. Similarly, God may be right next to everyone, maybe a bad old man on the subway, maybe a beggar in a crowd, maybe an open flower. Or, God is yourself.
We ourselves are the masters of our own lives.
In fact, from a comedic point of view, this film does not have a lot of laughs, but I think Kim Carey's actions and performances are too exaggerated. But the highlight of this film is that many of us find our own shadow in it.
I'm probably the same person as Kim Carey in the film. When you step on a puddle, you will be angry and violent. When you think that everything is not going well, you will complain in your heart that your life is not good enough. Have a good life and work, but will feel that others are better. Will be resentful of not being able to reach the goal. There are people around who love themselves, but they only care about taking, and do not know how to care and return.
I used to be, too. For the beauty that I already have, I feel that I deserve it. If there is no desire to be satisfied, it is considered to be an injustice in heaven. I've also had a lot of dreams, such as winning the lottery, or waking up one night with superpowers and so on. Unfortunately, we did not experience an adventure like the male protagonist, but grew up with various pains.
There's a sequel to Impostor Gods, and in 2, there's a passage that says, "If someone begs for patience, do you think God will give them patience?" Or give them the opportunity to learn to be patient? If you pray for courage, do you give them courage? Or give them the opportunity to learn to be brave? If someone prays for closer family, do you think God only gives them the feeling of grinding in their ears? Or give them a chance to fall in love? ”
To conclude with this sentence, perhaps, what we have to do is: learn, not get.
This film is actually quite chicken soup, and everyone can find the nutrition they need. Go home and see the one in your own house, and if he becomes a different person, do you still love him?
——Zhang Jingjing
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If you were given god's divine powers, what would you want? A lot of money or a lot of love, or more? What if everything you want is accidentally realized? Will that be heaven or hell?
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