Others walk the red carpet to sign autographs and take photos, Shen Teng takes the red carpet to send the lottery? He understands this young man
Remember Biao Zi in "The Long Season"?
At the end of the episode.
He suffered a car accident, but was arranged a beautiful and sad slow motion:
Lotteries are flying.
Yes, lottery.
At one time, lottery betting stations were a gathering place for middle-aged and elderly people, and lottery tickets were the hope of the League of the Frustrated, but now?
Some time ago, Yu Haoming finished work and met fans.
Star-chasing fans directly gave him a stack of lottery tickets.
Later, Uncle Shen Teng walked the red carpet.
Others are greeting, group photos, what is he doing?
Give lottery tickets to fans.
Lottery has become a "lifestyle" for young people.
According to data from the Ministry of Finance, from January to May 2023, a total of 225.171 billion yuan of lottery tickets were sold nationwide, an increase of 75.088 billion yuan year-on-year, an increase of 50.0%.
In China, it has been making rapid progress in the past few years.
As superstitious as "Shangxiang" to win the lottery?
Maybe.
Behind the hope, what is reflected is a more "now" mentality.
01
There was such a scene in last year's Korean dark horse movie "6/45".
A soldier guarding the inter-Korean border picked up a lottery ticket worth 5.7 billion won ($6 million), but by accident, the ticket was blown by the wind into the hands of North Korean soldiers opposite.
What to do?
For soldiers on both sides, this lottery ticket is a kind of hope.
South Korea's soon-to-be-retired soldier Commander Cheonwoo.
He wanted to set up a dairy farm with postpartum management.
Born as a student of livestock mating, he was pained to see people frequently impregnating cows in order to milk cows.
North Korean soldier Rong-ho.
He wanted to buy his parents a Swiss brace.
Thereupon.
Because of these small hopes, the originally hostile sides temporarily put aside their prejudices and cooperated: when soldiers on both sides became prisoners and mixed in with the enemy army, they were willing to risk their lives to protect the other from detection.
Money grubber?
No.
In the end, it is because they are all at the bottom, and this lottery ticket is the fastest way for them to achieve "class jump".
This is why in "There is no end", Fan Wei was punished by his boss and had a conflict with his son before he was so happy.
Because he hit the jackpot.
It made him feel like he could change everything.
This is even more why Huang Bo in "A Good Show" clings to the lottery ticket.
Hit 60 million.
Enough to change the fate of his poor haha.
Yes.
In the present, the lottery often adds a little hope to a difficult or boring life.
Frankly.
Everyone knows that the winning rate of the lottery is very low (someone has calculated that the winning rate of the lottery is 18 times lower than being struck by lightning).
Everyone suspects that winning the lottery is suspected of "cheating" (there are many similar conspiracy theories on the Internet).
But everyone still joined the lottery army without hesitation.
There are economic reasons for this.
There is also the reality of powerlessness and immutability.
Employment pressure, housing pressure, marriage pressure, when young people walk out of school and find themselves overwhelmed by the world, they tend to pin their hopes on everything, even the smallest odds.
But, is it just hope?
There is a lipstick effect in economics.
It means that whenever the economy is down, the sales of lipsticks that are not necessities of life will skyrocket.
This is because even if life is difficult, people still have the desire to consume, and lipstick, as a "cheap luxury", will play a psychological comfort role for consumers.
The same goes for lotteries.
There have been experiments in social psychology where participants can choose to buy lottery tickets for the same day or the next day. It was found that participants who liked the next day's draw were more likely to experience excitement of hope and anticipation.
Even the kind of instant scratch music.
At the moment of scratching a few dollars of lottery tickets, the dopamine secreted by the brain can also make people get short-term happiness.
Thereupon.
Buying a 20-dollar lottery ticket can make yourself happy for a day and prove that your luck is good, even if you only win a few dozens.
Even if you don't win, according to the law of conservation of energy, the good luck you don't get on the lottery will be transferred to life and work.
Why not?
02
In fact, no one wants to get rich overnight, but no one really believes that they will get rich overnight.
Those winning fantasies.
Often only active in the night when we can't sleep, once the alarm goes off, it will disappear without a trace.
So why do we still have the pleasure of buying lottery tickets?
Maybe.
It's just a consolation, just a bond between friends.
Remember a news item from the other day.
A woman in Shenzhen celebrated her birthday and received a gift from her girlfriend, which was a whole box of scratch music.
A total of 5,040 sheets worth 100,800 yuan.
Is it still "hope" that is sent?
No.
People who can give such gifts must not worry about life, but more than 5,000 lottery tickets, when she scratches and wins, she must remember that this is a gift from a friend.
This is another kind of "together" time.
What came to mind?
That's right, it's Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Deeper Than the Sea".
There are a lot of them in the movie.
A novelist who has lost his fame and talent, lives off as a private investigator, and is always obsessed with buying lottery tickets.
The son thought the lottery was hope.
As long as you win the lottery, the family can live together again.
Thereupon.
These crumpled lottery tickets, which were wet and dried on a typhoon day, were held in the palm of his son's hands, hoping that the family would get back together, filling the gap in feelings without a father.
But.
In fact, for Dad, the lottery is just a memorial.
After divorcing his wife, the father could only see his son once a month.
So when they met, he decided to take his son to buy a lottery ticket to commemorate their bond.
These little solaces and memories.
This is often the reason why modern people are keen to buy lottery tickets.
So you see.
In the mall, groups of young people will wait by the lottery booth.
Pick the numbers, scratch the lottery.
In the live broadcast room, there are more and more scenes of scratching lottery tickets.
Many people even wrap lottery tickets as gifts for friends.
This is no longer a matter of "one person".
As the passage says, young people choose incense in their motivation and work, Buddha in seeking people and themselves, and lottery tickets between buying bags and getting drunk.
Their mentality is no longer "getting rich overnight", or winning the jackpot can change what mentality to scratch the prize, but a means of treating mental internal attrition.
The lottery cannot change destiny.
It's like a girl who won 1 million in an interview with New Weekly.
She only repaid part of the mortgage, still went to work as usual, worked overtime until 11 o'clock, was scolded by the leader and did not dare to mention resignation.
But.
The existence of lotteries.
In a way, it has indeed become a kind of solace for us.
03
Remember Yu Hua's "famous quote"?
He was asked what he thought of "incense" for young people.
He said:
Shangxiang is also a kind of motivation
The reason why he went to incense is that he feels that there are still beautiful things waiting for him in his destiny, which is also a kind of self-motivation.
So what about buying lottery tickets?
Sir feels that when more and more young people are engaged in this uncertain game, it actually means that they themselves are also looking for a way to control themselves.
Of course.
We can't really study the mathematical logic behind a lottery to find loopholes and control the odds of winning like in "Jerry and Maggie's Rich Life".
What we call control is, to a greater extent, a protest against this uncertain society.
The world is changing so fast.
War, technology.
Thinking, public opinion.
……
Almost every once in a while, we refresh our three views.
And more importantly.
When we join society, employment, salary, marriage, etc., the standards measured are not at all in our own hands.
This leaves us confused about the future.
Lack of confidence in the present.
Even if people get a windfall in the small probability, they are not sure when they will squander it.
As Pew Research found in 2014, when asked "whether success in life is largely determined by forces beyond our control," 74 percent of South Koreans, 67 percent of Germans, and 66 percent of Italians agreed.
Even among Americans chasing the American Dream and believing that success depends on their own efforts, the figure is 40 percent.
The whole world is hot and cool.
So on that basis, the lottery may at least be the first step that we are willing to fight against.
Fight uncertainty with uncertainty.
At least it proves that we will still be hopeful and waiting for the day when we will regain control.
Speaking of which, Sir still wants to mention the Biaozi mentioned at the beginning.
This is an optimistic person.
Even if the world made him bruised.
Even if you can't see the way forward anymore.
But as long as you stay optimistic, it still brings hope.
You look at this shot:
Winning the lottery coincides with a car accident and stays in the last second of this world.
He was laughing.
The picture of this article comes from the Internet
Editorial assistant: Koji of the Sakamoto family