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Schopenhauer said, "Life is a lump of desire." When desires are not satisfied, they are miserable, when desires are satisfied, they are boring, and life is like a pendulum that oscillates between pain and boredom. ”
In 1994, Zhou Xiaowen's "Second Concubine" almost perfectly interpreted Schopenhauer's words. People are accustomed to being wrapped up in desire to move forward, but they think that they should be right, and at that time, desire is also called pursuit. People are always trying to live hard, always trying to fight for something, no matter what, as long as they are better than others. At that time, it was called self-motivation.
When people's hearts and minds are better than others, they see all others and forget to look at themselves, which is a common phenomenon in our country.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > looking east, what is it looking forward to? </h1>
In "The League of Military Divisions", there is a clip that I like very much, which is the psychological game between Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang in front of the new city, and there is a dialogue that is impressive, and the play says:
Sima Yi said: Kong Ming, you are a wise man. You tell me what I'm looking at? Looking east, what he hopes is the ambition of his life; what he hopes is the glory of his life; what he hopes is the greatest achievement of his life.
Zhuge Liang said: Zhongda, fallacious! Looking east, looking at the east is to spend his whole life; looking at the east, looking at time.
Ambition, glory, achievement, it's something we've been after all our lives, we've been taught to pursue them from an early age, is there anything wrong with that? Perhaps, the movie "Second Concubine" will give you the answer.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > women who are lost in "sexuality" and "materialism."</h1>
In the film, the second concubine is a rural woman who sells twist noodles, and the whole family depends on the second concubine to support herself. The husband is the retired village chief and suffers from a serious waist disease, so the second concubine is a female character with "sexual repression". She could only fill herself with labor in one lonely night after another.
The second sister-in-law often said to her husband, ""
This sentence pierced into the heart of the husband like a knife, who always thought about how to regain the dignity of being a man, and he always said that I was not the village chief, but often took the style of the village chief. This is his only "stubbornness".
The second concubine often quarreled with the fat woman in the neighbor's house, that is, the street scolding quarrel, what pigs, dogs are thrown out of the mouth. However, adult quarrels are not about children, and the son of the second concubine often goes to the neighbor's house to watch TV, which makes the second concubine feel very faceless. She wanted to buy her own TV.
The man in the neighbor's house is called "blind", and he is very kind to the second concubine, often helping the second concubine. There is no love for no reason in the world, in fact, the blind man wants to rub some other spark with the second concubine. Therefore, he invited the second concubine to the restaurant in the county, ate a good meal that the second concubine could not eat all year round, and also found a job in the restaurant for the second concubine, and secretly gave his own money to the restaurant owner, so that he could be paid to the second concubine.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > her ignorance, materialism, "sexual repression," but she has dignity</h1>
The blind man's ulterior motives were not yet aware of it, and he was preoccupied with the idea of making money to buy a TV. On this day, the machine failure of the hotel broke the hand of an employee, and the second concubine was mobilized to donate blood. She saw such a thick needle digging into the veins, and said vigorously, I don't donate blood, I'm afraid.
When the blood donation was finished, the hospital gave a lot of money. The second concubine came back and said that she still wanted to donate blood again. The doctor said that the blood was not water and could not be donated again. The second concubine said that the woman's blood was not donated anyway. The doctor said, you know what. He sent the second concubine away.
It turned out that blood could be sold for money, and the second concubine seemed to have discovered a "business opportunity". She would drink three bowls of cold water before selling blood, saying that the blood would become thinner. This passage is very similar to the bridge section in "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood".
The blind man drove the second concubine on the way home, and under the pretext that the car was broken, he and the second concubine achieved a good wind and moon. The second concubine did not refuse, as if this was something she had been looking forward to for a long time.
In the film, the second concubine is a subject who is dominated by desire. She either fell into "materialism", or fell into "sexual desire", or fell into "vanity", and she always had to be driven by desire to move forward.
After she was with the blind man, a smile appeared on her face. It was the only smile she had in the entire film, and it hadn't been seen before or since. The blind man found out that the second concubine had gone to sell blood, and he was very angry and took out his own money, which was not a television set, and the blind man had money.
Although the second concubine is vain, she has self-respect. She does not accept the blind man's money and must earn her own money to buy a television set. She didn't want her relationship with the blind man to become a "deal." Until the second concubine found out that the hotel owner gave her an extra salary that the blind man secretly ordered the boss, her strong self-esteem could no longer tolerate it.
She invited the blind man to the original restaurant to order the same meal, and returned the extra salary to the blind man. She told the blind man that she was not so worthless. In this way, she proved her emotional nobility.
The second concubine told the blind man that if you wanted to keep me, you would divorce your wife. The blind man began to prevaricate the second concubine, and the second concubine walked away in one breath. After that, the second concubine did not take care of the blind man again. She quit her job at the restaurant and squatted on the ground again to sell twist noodles, her eyes still losing their luster, looking at the world in a daze.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > endless emptiness after desire is satisfied</h1>
Finally, she had saved enough of the money. She bought the largest 29-inch color TV in the county that even the county magistrate could not afford. That was not a small amount in those days. The TV was carried home, and the palm-sized house had no place to put the TV at all, only on the kang.
The second concubine looked at the "huge" TV and was stunned, as if she was sick and sat on the kang. Every day, her husband, who was depressed, gathered the villagers to watch TV at home and let everyone move the small bench of the school to sit and watch. People have praised that the old village chief is the old village chief. The husband closed his mouth happily, and he regained his dignity as a man.
At the end of the film, the second concubine's family sits on the kang, and her husband and son are still asleep. The TV suddenly flashed black and white snowflakes, making a "nourishing" sound. The second sister-in-law woke up from her sleep and looked at the largest television set in the county as if she had lost her soul.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > look east, and hope is to spend his whole life</h1>
This movie is not difficult to understand, but it is a rare good movie. If the movie is compared to an essay, then Zhou Xiaowen's "Second Concubine" is a "fan article", and from this movie, it can be clearly seen that dogmatic things are in it, and the lines and settings are more deliberate.
But in general, the theme is clear, the metaphor is obvious, and the setting norm, like a normative book, although there is nothing special, it is so pleasing to the eye.
The second concubine looked forward to the TV set, a rural woman, who used all her blood and sweat to buy a "nowhere to put" vanity. This is the whole of her life, she is not opportunistic, nor does she take advantage of the blind man's penny, that is, to use the simplest labor to pursue what she wants.
The second concubine is worthy of respect, but it is also very sad. What did she get after her desires were satisfied? In front of her was still an empty and boring life, and a life that could be seen at a glance. As Schopenhauer said, life oscillates between pain and boredom like a pendulum.
Schopenhauer's words are not a definition of life, but a satire of life. People living in this world should not become "a lump of desire." The ambitions, glory, and achievements of his life should not become the purpose of life, but turn them into the experiences of life.
The fifth generation of directors like to show the countryside of the old era, and the tenacity, tenacity, ignorance and dazedness of the villagers run through the entire old era. Chinese seems to live very hard, as long as the slightest slack will be doomed, we always set one goal after another, and then run to it with all our strength.
In the previous growth environment, we were used to comparing, accustomed to setting goals, like storing electricity to give meaning to our lives. We are rarely taught how to examine ourselves, how to live, how to be happy.
Children's playfulness will be said to be naughty by adults and then a fat beating, children always hear parents say that you see who is whose children are better than you, children have not experienced the pain of life has lost the childhood that should have been. The second sister-in-law grew up in such an environment, and she also educated her son in this way.
So it's a shame to go to someone's house and watch TV. If someone else has a TV, she must have it. This is the hidden pain of the whole era. From the moment people land on the ground, they are walking towards the end of life. Is it true that we come to life for the sake of reaching the end? If our eyes are full of distant goals fabricated by desire, how can we appreciate the scenery along the way? The life in front of you is not just a matter of resignation, see how the flowers bloom, how the water flows, and the poems you want and the distance may be around.
As said in "Alive", living only to live is to live for the sake of living itself, not for anything other than being alive. Looking east, looking, is to spend his whole life.
Striving for a goal is not confused, but if you forget to live and live only for the goal, you will become a slave to "desire". Just like the second concubine, a woman who does not even cherish her smile, what can she do if she buys a TV?