<h1>Desires and rules</h1>
I always feel that the "Metamorphosis" of Chihiro's parents is a thrilling metaphor, not just a portrayal of greed. I remember the first time I watched the movie that year, the pig-headed father turned his face to look back at the moment, which made me feel a chill in my back. Chihiro's parents' fate is different from that of the robbers who were buried in caves to rob the treasure, and from the stupid villagers who killed chickens and eggs, because their initial actions seemed reasonable and seemed to be nothing wrong. First got lost, got out of the car and forgot to bring food, then hunger struck, and then met the restaurant in the town, could not find the owner, had to sit down to eat first, and prepared to leave the money to be paid after eating. Every step of the development seems to be understandable, but the crux of the matter is that once they take the first bite, there is a second and a third bite, and finally a rhythm that cannot be stopped at all, until the world around them is eaten, they themselves are eaten, and only the food itself is left, so "I" becomes a "pig".
At this time, even if the pig keeper's whip is drawn on the body, it is completely unconscious, because "I" no longer exists, and nothing is more narcotic than the pleasure brought by pig food! In other words, Chihiro's parents unknowingly took the initiative to embark on the road to slavery...
In Revisiting Brave New World, Huxley notes that libertarians and theorists who are ready to rebel against dictatorship "completely ignore the endless desire for entertainment."
The faceless man, a lonely gold man, probably the second generation of the rich, or able to spell, in short, he has money. However, he is extremely lacking in love, and his loneliness stems from not being paid attention to. When Chihiro first met him on the bridge, people passed by him but didn't look at him, only Chihiro saw him. When people compliment him for his money and offer all the delicacies, he is also confused by shallow sensory stimuli, brushes a strong sense of existence in the transaction of money and desire, and also slides into the abyss of soul nothingness.
A family of three gets lost and mistakenly enters the yuya, Chihiro's father and mother turn into two pigs after stealing food from the yuya, the whole story revolves around how Chihiro rescued her parents from the yuya...
For those who are greedy for money, the eyes full of gold coins are nothing more than an illusion, and when the smoke clears, their golden treasures are all reduced to dung and turbidity. Chihiro was on the verge of being out of the crowd, and no one had escaped this fate before her. The reason why she didn't obey was because Bai Long told her not to forget her name no matter what, otherwise she would never go back to the past. Everything in the world has a name, including people.
So where exactly does the individual go? The answer is to be hidden in the group. Le Pen pointed out in The Ragtag Crowd: "Groups have no logical reasoning ability, cannot distinguish between truth and falsehood or form correct judgments about anything. "The group is always unconscious, and this is vividly reflected in the film. The Faceless Man says that the gold is only given to Xiao Qian, but Chihiro rejects the Faceless Man's kindness because she knows that money means nothing to her, and she thinks about how to rescue her parents from the yuya. The crowd flocked to the Faceless Man because he had gold, but the crowd never thought about the use of gold, and in that hellish enclosed space, money meant nothing to people who had lost their freedom.
Yuya's trip is actually Chihiro's coming-of-age ceremony. In the evolution from child to adult, everyone has to cross some calamities, whether it is real or spiritual. Because children are pure, authentic, and sincere, while the adult world is urban, dirty, full of hostility and vulgarity. When Chihiro stands in front of Tang Po in awe and asks her to release her parents, Tang Po says that there are rules in any world, and those who break the rules will have to bear the responsibility and pay the price. Knowing the rules and knowing the boundaries of behavior is the first lesson Chihiro learns as an adult. Desire is innate, and the only thing that can restrain desire is the rules.