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introduction
"Be bold with life, because we will eventually lose it." - Nietzsche
Not long ago, the Will Smith beating incident was all over the Internet, and all kinds of comments were overwhelming.
Among them, the voice of Hollywood's "king of comedy" Kim Carey is particularly interesting. He publicly denounced Will Smith for hitting people wrong.
Speaking of Kim Carey, comedy fans know everything.
In the 1990s, Kim Carey was the king of Comedy in Hollywood. The comedy films he starred in not only achieved box office miracles, but also captured the hearts of countless fans around the world. Even Zhou Xingchi is a die-hard fan of him.
Of all of Kim Carey's works, Truman's World is a peak. This movie uses a bizarre story to reveal the truth of life for us.
Everyone lives in an invisible cage.
The difference between people is that some people know that they are living in a cage, and some people do not know that they are living in a cage.
Truman in "Truman's World" did not know at first that he was living in a cage, and at the end of the movie, he not only knew that he was living in a cage, but also walked out of the cage.
This process, full of doubt, pain, patience and fearlessness, is a process from ignorance to enlightenment.
Everyone can re-understand themselves and re-understand life from Truman's story.
01 See the truth of life in order to jump out of the rules of the game
Truman is the son of the Chosen One.
From the day he was born, he became the star of "Truman Show". Ironically, everyone knew about it, and only Truman was kept in the dark.
Truman's father died early, and his mother single-handedly brought him up. When he grew up, Truman, sunny and optimistic, never doubted his life.
Until one day, two unexpected things happened that made him realize the strangeness of his life.
Early this morning, Truman went out to work. A huge searchlight fell from the sky and almost hit him.
Immediately after, his car stereo was strung on the stage. A clear male voice came out of the stereo, which said every move of Truman's next move. Just when Truman felt incredible, the sound returned to normal and the male voice disappeared.
These two events were like apocalypse, which made Truman feel the mysterious power from the universe.
From this day on, Truman gradually awoke from his slumber. He began to take a hard look at the first half of his life. Many fragments of life gradually become clear and sharp, and the truth surfaces.
After experiencing all kinds of strange things, Truman finally discovered the truth - he has been living in lies, and everyone is an actor, including himself.
His fate had long been arranged.
For 30 years, in addition to going to the toilet and sleeping, he has lived under the camera every moment, and hundreds of millions of viewers around the world have sat in front of the TV to watch the Truman Show.
"Truman Show" made Truman a world celebrity. In order to ensure the ratings of the show, everyone hid the truth from Truman.
The moment he knew the truth, Truman felt incredible.
He never thought that his 30 years of life were all illusions, and he was like a "monkey" who was being watched.
Truman deeply resented this kind of life. He wanted to escape the town, but each time it failed.
Because in the script of "Truman Show", there is no truman escape episode at all.
Hard doesn't work, just soft.
Every night, Truman pretended to sleep, and then cleverly avoided the camera and secretly dug a tunnel.
At the end of the film, he escapes from his home through a tunnel and gains true freedom.
Taoyuan Town in the movie is the epitome of the real society.
Real society has an established set of rules of the game. We live in society and are taught from an early age to play by the rules of the game. We are like the people in Taoyuan Town, everyone lives in their own role.
However, the character is the cage.
The vast majority of people are in a cage, but they are unaware of the cage's existence. Even if you are aware of its existence, you dare not change the status quo because of gains and losses.
Only Truman is the exception.
He was a spiritually awakened man, and he was not willing to live as a prisoner. Therefore, he had to desperately escape from Taoyuan Town. In the end, he succeeded.
In life, cages are everywhere. Many times, we always say that we have to "break" the cage. In fact, the cage does not need to be broken, just jumped out.
Only by jumping out of the cage can we see the truth.
A man, living in a cage, takes falsehood as true, and over time he becomes a walking dead.
For the walking dead, waking up is ten thousand times more terrifying than dying.
Because they don't dare to face their true selves.
02 Everyone who appears in your life has a meaning of existence
In Truman's life, there are five crucial people.
They are: father, first love girlfriend, mother, wife and hair.
Father symbolizes the pain of life's past.
When Truman went to sea with his father when he was a child, his father accidentally drowned, which became a shadow of Truman's childhood.
This incident made him very guilty and suffered from hydrophobia. When he grew up, he was sad when he thought of his father, and he could never walk out of the shadows.
The first love girlfriend symbolizes the call of life.
When Truman was in college, he had a first love girlfriend. His girlfriend had secretly told Truman that everyone around him was lying to him.
At that time, Truman was still very young and could not understand his girlfriend's words. When he tried to figure out the meaning of those words, his girlfriend mysteriously disappeared.
Mother, wife and hair are small, symbolizing the bondage and paralysis of reality.
Whenever Truman had doubts about real life, his mother, wife, and Fa Xiao were like a covenant, and they all persuaded him to stop thinking about it and live with peace of mind.
In their own way, they hypnotized Truman. The purpose is to let Truman not doubt life, let him go down according to the script of "Truman Show" and play his role well.
Everyone who appears in Truman's life has a meaning of existence.
Someone came to let him experience human suffering. Someone came to hypnotize his mind. Someone came to awaken his soul.
In everyone's life, they will also encounter these people. Without their help, we will not really grow, let alone awaken.
The premise of awakening is real life.
Truman desperately wanted to escape because he wanted to live a real life.
Truth is the beginning of life and the end of life.
Once the reality is lost, the person will become a prop and everything will become meaningless.
03 What is fate, and whether we should confront fate
At the end of the movie, Truman overcomes his water phobia and sails out to sea alone.
During the storm, he yelled at the camera, "You want to stop me, only kill me."
This scene is very much like the old man in "The Old Man and the Sea". Yes, man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
When Truman escaped death and was about to quit the performance of "Truman Show", the general director of the program, Keith Dou, opened a dialogue with him on the screen.
Keith advised Truman not to quit the game. Because there are fixed programs in the game, this means that Truman is safe and risk-free.
Once Truman quits the game, he will have to face the unknown world, and the risk will be greater at that time.
After listening to Kitto's admonition, Truman did not hesitate to choose to quit the game and go to the gate of the unknown world.
Because what he wants is a real life, not a puppet life.
Kistu in the film is a personified fate.
He single-handedly directed the first half of Truman's life. He also wanted to continue directing the second half of Truman's life.
However, at this time, Truman had awakened.
No matter what tigers, leopards, jackals and jackals are outside the gate, he is willing to take risks. Faced with an unknown fate, he chose to be brave to be himself.
What is destiny.
Fate is an invisible force in the universe, and everyone has their own destiny, just as each planet has its own orbit.
I've heard a classic quote about whether or not to fight fate.
"I believe in the arrangement of fate. But I don't believe in the fate that others have imposed on me. ”
Truman's story gives the best annotation to this sentence.
When Truman asked "who am I?", he had already embarked on the road to awakening and became the master of his own destiny.
Compared with Truman's awakening, how many people are still living in dreams.
They cowered on the tracks assigned to them by others, living in order every day, never thinking about why they had come to this life.
Some people live to be eighty years old, but in fact, they may not have actually lived a second.
Because they don't know who they are.
04 Entered the world with the mentality of birth, with two sets of parallel values
At the end of the movie, Chu Men walked towards his world with a smile.
We live in the world, and we may not be able to be as free as Truman and completely withdraw from the game.
However, the relationship between birth and accession to the world is not completely antagonistic.
In fact, a person can have two different sets of thoughts at the same time. One set corresponds to society, one set corresponds to the inner, and two sets are parallel.
This seems contradictory, but it is not contradictory.
This is like the fact that the universe is naturally a big world, and the interior of the human body is also a big world, and these two worlds are real, intersecting with each other, but independent of each other.
We don't give up the human body because we want the universe, and we don't give up the universe because we want the human body. These two worlds coexist at the same time without conflict.
The universe is similar to our social thought. The human body, similar to our inner thoughts.
In society, we act with social ideologies. When we face ourselves, we live with our inner thoughts.
Everyone craves freedom. But in fact, man has never been truly free. True freedom exists only in the world of the mind.
The coexistence of social thought and inner thought can keep our minds unbound. Leave a place for the soul to live true freedom.
André Moretz said: "Everything that happens in your life, only you can give it meaning, and that is where your strength lies." You are free to wield this power, choosing or deciding for yourself how events occur. All meaning is up to you. ”
Indeed it is.
What we see with the naked eye is not necessarily real. What is invisible to the naked eye does not necessarily exist.
True and false are relative. Even if everything in the world is false, we cannot deny the fact that our own life experiences are true.
Living your own life, constantly improving yourself, and accumulating energy for life is the real life.
May we all become "Truman". On the road of self-exploration, all the way forward, brave the wind and rain, and finally find your own happiness.
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