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What shocked and moved me the most at the beginning of 2023 was the 100% restoration of the original "Three-Body Problem", a drama that countless original fans have been waiting for for a long time, whether it is the restoration of the details of the novel or the Three Body game generated by modeling, it is addictive.
In the first part of the novel and the current broadcast of "The Three-Body Problem", there is an absolute protagonist, that is, Ye Wenjie.
When Wang Miao, played by Zhang Luyi, visited her again and again, chatted with her, discussed academics, and told her confusion, what he felt was that such a kind old lady, what she said made my heart peaceful, and what she did made me feel kind.
In the eyes of outsiders, Ye Wenjie is a highly respected retired university professor and a kind grandmother, she treats kindly, speaks amiably, and has no shelves; Even when Wang Miao went to her home, she saw that she would take the children to the neighbors in the community on a voluntary basis;
But turning over the surface of these hypocrisy, we know that the other side of her is the commander of the largest trisolaran organization on Earth, ETO, ready to lead the way for the Trisolarans to descend on Earth, hoping to "eliminate the tyranny of mankind".
She is the discoverer of the specular gain reflection effect of solar energy (discovered during the Red Bank Project), the founder of the Dark Forest Theory, and the driving force behind the "Three-Body Problem" series, she is the fullest and most controversial character created by the author Liu Cixin.
Looking back on Ye Wenjie's life, some people say that she is extremely bad, and thousands of people point out.
But when someone knows her experience and substitutes her perspective, they can deeply feel her pain and despair, and they can't bear to say even a word of accusation.
Because she has the shadow of many ordinary people, many behaviors are full of collision of reason and impulse, and experience the entanglement of human nature that haunts good and evil.
It can be said that Ye Wenjie is not a single person, but the epitome of human nature and the carrier of contradictions.
(1) The despair of human nature is the trigger for her to pin her hopes on the three-body problem
Where does Ye Wenjie's extreme ideas come from? It should come from the turbulent years she went through.
Her father, as an academic authority in physics, preferred not to bend, but was defeated in criticism and killed by his own students in the chaos.
As an intellectual, she was sent to the deep mountains and forests, and finally trusted a person, but she was deeply betrayed and pushed into a desperate situation.
In the end, the people who really hurt Ye Wenjie were the people close to her, and such a bizarre rebellion was a unique product of that era.
Because if you want to live, you must try to clear up the relationship, and you must spare no effort to criticize than others, produce evidence, report, in order to have a chance to live.
Therefore, the person who really hurt Ye Wenjie's father the most and criticized him the most was her mother.
This woman wears lipstick, high heels, listens to records, and lives a very petty bourgeois life, everything she has is provided by her father, but once the turmoil arises, she immediately draws a line, falls into the well, and puts him to death.
She presented a lot of evidence against her father, making him unable to plead, and even in order to clear up, she prepared a very funny set of remarks, confronted him in public, and became a killer tool for those uncultured Red Guards.
When Ye Zhetai died in the chaos, she didn't even step forward to take a look, but like many people, she screamed and left, ruthlessly and cold-blooded.
After the turmoil ended, she took the helm and fell in love with a high-ranking official who was about to be rehabilitated, and then continued to live a privileged life.
Compared with those enthusiastic youths, Ye Wenjie's mother is the real victor of this turmoil, and those impulsive children are either dead or crippled, and the rest is history.
And when Ye Wenjie was sent to the forest farm, the workers around her were actually very good to her, she was cautious and careful, suffered dark losses, and did not argue.
But just when she felt that she had found an object of sympathy, an intellectual like her, who would feel sorry for the thousand-year-old tree, a journalist who could read books in foreign languages, and someone who could write articles with clear logic, she was still betrayed.
I believe she was moved, so she lost her guard.
Because she not only noticed his trembling hands from labor, but also noticed his dirty work clothes, women only offered to wash men's clothes when they were moved, and only when they trusted someone with all their hearts would they offer to help him copy the report letter.
However, the report letter was suppressed by the superiors, and when she wanted to be held accountable, reporter Bai directly blamed her for the fault, because there was only her handwriting on it, and he just handed it over.
In the process, she witnesses betrayal, betrayal, and the sinister nature of all kinds of human hearts.
Even that Director Cheng, who came to see her in the cell on the surface and with a pleasant face, actually used her to make a false confession to crack down on political dissidents.
After Ye Wenjie refused, she poured cold water to the end, and if it weren't for Yang Weining, she would have frozen to death in that prison.
Her younger sister died in a martial fight, her father was persecuted to death in front of her eyes, her mother betrayed the family, she was framed during her reform, she was viciously rectified in prison, and she was still monitored and guarded against in the early stage of entering the Red Bank base.
With such a sensitive political identity background, she can't even be called "Comrade Ye", just Xiaoye, she is ostracized and suspected everywhere, her life is also full of ridicule and cold eyes, and she is always excluded from the normal crowd, and in this unwelcome situation, her personality becomes more and more silent, closed, cautious, and cautious.
After experiencing the struggle on the edge of life and death, she developed a disgust and despair for human society.
For Ye Wenjie, I sympathize with her circumstances in her youth, understand her desire to seek external help, admire the decisions she has made at various times, but oppose her behavior of attracting aliens.
She is alive, she has no worries in her heart, and she has no hope for the world, which is why she ignores Yang Weining's advice and only wants to stay in the Red Bank Base and become the backbone.
When the madness and fear gradually subsided, she began to face the nightmarish memory with rational eyes, but eventually found that human beings could not solve their evil side, and in the face of madness, reason was weak.
In the calm days of water, she discovered the three-body problem, the tool that she thought could transform human morality and improve human civilization.
(2) In order to achieve her new life goals, she gave everything away
Before entering the Red Bank Base, Ye Wenjie's spiritual leader was her father Ye Zhetai, who should be regarded as her first mentor in life, and this figure who existed like a beacon collapsed in front of her eyes, causing a shock that could be imagined.
After entering the base, her thoughts became to work hard, gain recognition, survive, and push herself forward with her busy life.
In fact, the turning point in her life had already appeared at that time, and since then, she is no longer the suffering Ye Wenjie, and has the right to live the life she wants.
In order to save her from fire and water, Yang Weining pretended not to know her, and used her physics skills as a reason to free her from her cell, but only arranged for her to clean and repair equipment.
Not reusing her is not distrust, but he has good intentions, because taking Ye Wenjie into the Red Bank base is just a springboard, and then he can find a reason to expel her and achieve freedom.
Even if Ye Wenjie didn't think so, he became the backbone and stayed in the Red Bank Base permanently, and Yang Weining also sacrificed his future for this love, married her, became an ordinary technical backbone together, and lived a peaceful little life.
If she hadn't received information from the Trisolaran and the external environment hadn't changed, then Ye Wenjie's life might have been spent so calmly and plainly, with a husband and a son, isolation from the world, and family harmony, which was not a good choice for repairing wounds.
After all, in the Red Bank Base, she is in contact with the most cutting-edge and advanced science and technology, her colleagues are also first-class physicists, she is also married to an excellent physicist and the chief engineer of the base, and Yang Weining also loves her deeply.
What better option than that?
In those days, for someone like her with questionable identity, love and family, coupled with a closed work environment, were not enough to warm her heart?
But she still decided to give it a go, and salvation as we understand it is not worth mentioning to her.
After discovering the three-body world, she has a new purpose in life and begins to protect that tool by any means.
For her own purposes, Ye Wenjie did not hesitate to create an "accident", "kill people and kill people" and eliminate evidence, and even lost her husband who loved her deeply.
After the end of that era, Ye Wenjie became a vested interest, and naturally became a university teacher that everyone admired.
What the times bury is a real "honest person" like Yang Weining.
But what really warmed Ye Wenjie and made her heart shake was actually the simple Qi Jiatun farmers. That should be the time when Ye Wenjie felt the most human kindness in her life, and it was also the happiest and warmest time.
Yang Weining's love for her is one-way, she failed to feel the beauty of love, so she was indifferent, purely repaying the favor.
But in front of those who have never known her life, she is respected and loved.
In the case of her postpartum weakness and helplessness, someone was willing to take her home and help her breastfeed her daughter, and the happy and uncaring way of the surrounding residents melted her heart a small piece and rekindled her hope in human morality.
Until, when she wanted to hear the confessions of the Red Guards who had killed her father by mistake, and wanted to confirm that times had changed and whether the humanity of those people had returned, she was disappointed again.
Yes, her mother was unrepentant and had no remorse for her necessary way of survival; The Red Guards who killed her father also did not repent, attributing it all to history.
In fact, Ye Wenjie didn't want much, but what she wanted was the rarest and most luxurious in the world.
She wanted the confession of a specific group of people, wanted their guilt for their crazy behavior, however, she was disappointed and completely turned around and embarked on a path of no return.
In the decades that followed, Ye Wenjie unswervingly adhered to her original intention, put it into action, and met Evans, the rich second generation of the United States, another extreme environmentalist who was disappointed with human civilization.
For this purpose, they established the Earth's three-body organization ETO and began a series of preparations for the arrival of the Trisolarans.
For example, inciting public opinion, advocating extreme environmentalism, stopping industrialization, destroying the results of physical experiments, interfering with and even assassinating top scientists and engineers in the field, and so on.
The reason why Ye Wenjie did this stemmed from the collapse of the original moral system in her heart, and in despair, she chose to use the most "evil" way to destroy all carriers of morality.
She lit the fire, but couldn't control it
When Ye Wenjie was arrested, the questions asked by the interrogators made her regret it.
Her original intention was to believe that the higher the level of science and technology of the Trisolarans, the higher the level of civilization and morality.
She is pessimistic about the future of human civilization, believing that human beings have never struggled, plundered and suppressed human nature, so she hopes that the aliens with a highly developed civilization, the three-body world, will come to Earth and save mankind.
Although the answer is "Don't answer!" But she replied, "Come here!" I will help you gain access to a world where my civilization is no longer capable of solving its own problems and needs your strength to intervene. ”
Ye Wenjie thought: "The Lord should be invited to come to the world and use its power to carry out compulsory supervision and transformation of human society to create a brand-new, bright and perfect human civilization." ”
Her comrade-in-arms Evans is even more extreme: "Humans are an evil species, and human civilization has committed heinous crimes against the earth and must be punished for it." The ultimate goal of Adventism is to ask the Lord to carry out this divine punishment: to destroy all mankind! ”
It turns out that the Trisolarans favor Evans, the extreme Adventists, who want to destroy and occupy.
In the process, she lost her daughter, the child who had healed the trauma of her years.
Some people say that Ye Wenjie is an Adventist, and some people say that she is a salvation faction, in fact, in my opinion, she is not either faction.
She did not hate the Coming Sect to the point of wanting to destroy mankind, nor did she have the piety of a believer like the Salvation Faction, worshipping the Trisolarans as a god and calling it the Lord, and even sacrificed human beings in order to save the Trisolarans from the irregular changes of the chaotic era and the eternal era, and even sacrificed human beings.
Ye Wenjie's original intention was to use the power of the Trisolarans to transform human beings, but the mainstream of the Trisolaran ETO was the extreme advent.
After all, she is a very intelligent and rational intellectual and scientist, so after learning the true purpose of the Trisolarans and the true thoughts of the Adventists, she has been reconciling such contradictions and protecting everyone, but she also wakes up, "I lit the fire, but I couldn't control it."
At the end of "Three-Body 1", the elderly Ye Wenjie climbed the radar peak again, a place that changed her fate and the fate of all mankind, and she was full of emotion.
Only the grass remains at the top of the Red Bank base, and only the rust of the base and a small tablet can prove that there was once such a secret base here.
Perhaps that feeling of 10,000 years at a glance makes us feel the desolation that past history has returned to nothingness, but everything is not over, and there is a greater disaster that is approaching mankind light years away from the universe.
In 450 years, the Trisolarans are coming!
epilogue
Let me describe her life in one sentence.
She suffered the personal suffering of the times, but because of it she betrayed all mankind.
She has also died nine times in her life, but she has infinitely magnified her own pain and frustration, treating the weakness, darkness and selfishness of a small number of people as the "inferiority" of the race, and the fault of a few people as the fault of the country, society and mankind.
Ye Wenjie's fault in his life was excessive despair for his own people, but he was full of illusions about outsiders, which finally led to being too harsh on his own people and infinitely kind to those around him.
Originally, Yang Weining and Yang Dong were the ones who warmed her and gave her healing power, but she ruthlessly sacrificed and lost them for the goal, and finally had nothing, and found that the development of things had completely lost control.
I really like Ye Wenjie, portrayed by Liu Cixin, and in her, the contradictions of intellectuals are at a glance.
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