Re-watch "The Big Red Lantern Hangs High" (II): Song Lian, don't step into the man-eating Chen Mansion

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Song Lian, the main character in "The Big Red Lantern Hanging High", a female student with a university education, was blocked after the pregnancy fraud was exposed, at this time she had been married into the Chen Mansion for some time, experienced lighting, extinguishing the lamp, sealing the lamp, and saw all the sentient beings in the courtyard, she stood upstairs, looked at this closed and depressed courtyard, and sighed to the third wife——

"Lighting the lamp, turning off the lamp, sealing the lamp, I really don't need to, I just don't understand, in this courtyard, people are something, like dogs, like cats, like rats, everything is like, just not like people." 」

Song Lian's final ending is madness, which is her defense mechanism to protect her.

As a college-educated person, she had a clear mind and saw clearly what her presence posture in this yard was, wasn't it an animal that had been domesticated in captivity for the amusement of its owner? If the master is happy, you will have good wine and good food, and the master will be unhappy, and your life may be plundered.

As a college-educated person, she has some "human" things in her bones, such as dignity, value, and bottom line, so that this kind of existence that is different from animals is not allowed to exist in the zoo of Chen Fu.

Forgetting one's own human identity, pretending not to see the master's domestication and plundering of our animals, and going to the master like an animal to wag its tail and beg for food to get her own survival, this is the only way out of survival, it is the reality she faces. But she is still a person, she still has dignity, value and bottom line, how can she accept it?

This process, for Song Lian, will be the fiercest battle between heaven and man, a huge conflict, she can't do it, can't face it, can't accept it, then there is only one way to go crazy.

After going crazy, she doesn't have to face this bloody reality, which is her subconscious choice to protect her, otherwise, she can only go down the road of death, "live and suffer, die clean", as she says in the later part of the film.

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Song Lian's death-seeking heart, and ultimately her madness, reminds me of the ultimate fate of a famous psychologist in the field of psychology, Watson, and his three children.

Watson was the founder of behaviorist psychology. The following passage comes from the introduction of Sogou Encyclopedia, which covers the essence of Watson's thought -

He argued that psychology should abandon consciousness, imagery, and so on, and study only the stimuli and reactions observed and objectively measured; regardless of the intermediate links, which Watson called "black box work." He believes that human behavior is acquired, the environment determines a person's behavior patterns, whether it is normal behavior or pathological behavior is obtained through learning, but also can be changed, increased or eliminated through learning, and believes that the regular relationship between environmental stimuli and behavioral responses can be identified, and the stimulus can be predicted according to the stimulus, or the stimulus can be inferred according to the response, so as to predict and control the behavior of animals and humans. He believes that behavior is a combination of various somatic reactions that organisms use to adapt to environmental stimuli, some of which are manifested on the outside and some hidden inside, and in his eyes there is no difference between humans and animals, all following the same law. ”

This passage is simply to put it, don't care about the thought, consciousness, this kind of virtual, what kind of action a person has, it depends on how the environment stimulates him, people are like donkeys, they want donkeys to go forward, take a carrot in front of them, take a whip in the back to threaten, donkeys can eat carrots to avoid being beaten, and donkeys will move forward.

Simple and crude. It sounds like you're angry.

Yes, Watson and his people also implemented his ideas in their own children. His proud proclamation, "Give me a dozen healthy babies, and I can randomly train them into different professions, whether they be doctors, lawyers, artists, entrepreneurs, or even beggars and thieves, regardless of their talents, interests, abilities, and pedigrees." ”

The result?

All three of Watson's children have lost their enthusiasm and desire for life, his eldest son has committed suicide, his second daughter has also committed suicide many times, and the younger son has been wandering and needs Watson's help to live.

To domesticate man like a domesticated animal, in the end, man can no longer exist in the world as a vigorous man.

Watson, he put forward his theory, he himself practiced that theory, he domesticated his three children, its deep motivation, I dare not rush to say that he was out of an evil intention, it is possible that he is only because of the limitations and ignorance of his own cognition.

But for the chen mansion's set of rules for managing the wives, and also built a house of the dead to accompany it, the people who founded it in the first place, and the people who inherited it in the future, had to admit that their intentions were very sinister.

Chen Fu just wants to eat people.

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I used to wonder if being in an environment like Chen Fu, for a person with a personality like Song Lian, wouldn't he only have to take the road of either death or madness? Does she have a way to break through?

She had received some higher education, had some awakening consciousness, and when she married into the Chen Mansion, she walked into the Chen Mansion with a suitcase, and when the housekeeper took her to meet her ancestors, she also looked unmoved, and some Qinggao disdained the posture of being with the Chen Mansion world. But the good times are not long, once deep into the Chen Mansion, three times and two times she surrendered her weapons, fell into the Chen Mansion Xiao En Xiaohui Xiao Hui Xiao Qiu Chicken And Dog Fragments of the fight, spinach tofu can instantly detonate her, the sound of pounding feet next door can also instantly make her impetuous.

Song Lian's personal will is not so strong, she can see the rules clearly, but the rules do enslave her.

I saw someone comment on Song Lian, "At first I thought you were the king, then I found out that you were bronze, and in the end I knew that you were a piece of rotten iron." ”

At first, I agreed with this assessment.

But, now I don't quite agree. Especially after the recent release of the movie "First Incense", I reread Zhang Ailing's original book of the same name.

"The First Incense" tells the story of a Shanghai female student who asked for help from a rich aunt in order to study, and then was pulled into the water by her aunt as a social flower.

The aunt's means are actually not complicated, but a beautiful wardrobe of clothes, but a car to and from school, and those aunts do not have to deliberately create a rich atmosphere, such as exquisite mansions, night and night songs, all night to maintain the supply of food in the kitchen. The protagonist of the story, Ge Weilong, is almost awake the whole time, step by step falling into the extravagant and lavish material world, and then willing to sink.

This process, step by step, is the process of people interacting with the environment until they finally become one. Man is branded by the environment until he is assimilated, this is an objective law, not subject to man's personal will, unless, the will of the one in a thousand is extremely strong, the kind of person who changes the world, he can let the environment be assimilated by him, become like him, and the more ordinary majority, but just with the trend of the environment to float and sink.

Zhang Ailing's brush strokes are desolate, in the novel "The First Burning Incense", she is like a bystander, watching Ge Weilong sink from a student to a social flower, watching her step into the house, watching her vanity rise, watching her being captured by materials, watching her being aroused by lust, watching the collapse of her values, watching her struggle in the final compromise between material desires and lust, watching her step into the abyss without turning back... Look at it coldly and don't do it. She looks sharply at the darkness of human nature, observes them being affected by the environment, and then tells you the whole story without any embellishment.

Although the pen edge is cold, as a viewer, on the picture scroll presented by Zhang Ailing, you may not have to look for it so hard, you will accidentally find that a certain stroke on the picture scroll seems to be hidden on your body, this stroke has, that stroke seems to have it, so that you will involuntarily have a sigh - don't overestimate yourself.

The strokes on Wei Long's body can be found without effort, and we are all ordinary majorities.

Instead of you, into such an extravagant and lavish world, can you retreat from the whole body?

Tell me about a psychology experiment that shocked the world.

The Lufashi effect.

This experiment through a series of tests, selected physical and mental health, emotional stability of college students as subjects, they were randomly divided into two groups, a group of jailers, a group of prisoners, each wearing their specific clothing, and equipped with specific supporting equipment, so that they are in a simulated prison environment, the experiment began, they worked hard to play their established role according to the role norms, slowly, play more and more skilled, the more to the back, these college students more and more integrated with the role, to the sixth day, The students who played the jailers became brutal and unkind, while the students who played the prisoners were close to psychological breakdown, violent bloodshed occurred, the situation became more and more uncontrolled, and the two-week experiment had to be stopped in advance.

A set of uniforms, an identity, easily stirred up the corresponding situation in human nature, and people's temperament changed greatly.

When you become Ge Weilong in "The First Incense", you are faced with the mansion, the song, the costume, the all-night uninterrupted food supply and the shuttle service, can you not let them stir up your vanity, pleasure and materialism?

So, there's no need to be harsh.

There is no need to harshly accuse Ge Weilong of not being able to escape the sinking.

There is no need to harshly accuse The Lotus of not being a king.

The ordinary of Ge Weilong and Song Lian, just like you and me, we are the real ordinary people who exist in this world.

The big heroine, the temperament is out of the universal law of human nature, not shaken by the environment, all the way to upgrade the monster, invincible, and finally win the peak, become the king, change the world, such a corner, for us ordinary people, is still too far away, there is no meaning.

The kind of people who change the world, they don't belong to the world of our ordinary people, and we naturally don't have to blame ourselves by their standards.

So it is still necessary to pay attention to the world of our ordinary people and propose practical solutions from the perspective of ordinary people.

In the world of ordinary people, people float and sink with the environment, Ge Weilong can't escape the sinking, and Song Lian can't break through.

Then, the other Song Lian and Ge Weilong, ordinary you and I, for the Chen Mansion and the fallen Liang Mansion that just want to eat people, don't try to step into it.