Yes, in the eyes of the audience, Christine's behavior of rejecting and humiliating Mrs. Ganush may not even be considered a "mistake". In today's society's moral standards, not deliberately harming others is already a good person, and Christine's work principle Sexual practices, in the field of ethics, the judgment of right and wrong is more ambiguous. I think many people in the work will not object to Christine's practice, because if you change yourself, you may not do better than Christine.
However, just such a beautiful woman who is better than most of the good people in our life, after going through hardships that seems to have endured all the hardships, she still can't escape the doom of being dragged into hell, which makes us feel chilled in the shock—— If you know that good people will go to hell, why do you work so hard to be good people?
The director's subversive happy ending has the right effect—if you're focusing on more than just the thrills of a horror movie, you can't help but cast doubt on your moral choices because of the ending. Doubt will make you re-read yourself and start interrogating layers upon layers of interrogation. During interrogation, you have to recall every detail in the movie from the beginning. After the details are highlighted, many human natures that are dark in your heart gradually become clear. In this clarity , the answers are implemented one by one.
1. In a competitive society, greed has a high-sounding face
If you pay attention to the details of the first 20 minutes of the film, you will find that Christine is a representative of all the commuters who are struggling in the city: she is hard-working, motivated, and she does not forget to practice standard spoken while driving to correct her country accent; she is restrained and restrained , used to be very fat, but successfully lost weight. Although she liked desserts, she did not buy them when she passed by a beautiful dessert shop; she was careful and considerate, knowing that her boyfriend had a hobby of collecting coins, so she carefully found a rare 1929 coin for gift. He also repaired the printer for her boyfriend; she is sensitive and independent, her boyfriend's mother from a privileged family looked down on her as a country girl on the phone, and her inner reaction was very strong. ; She is smart and a little scheming, but she is kind, she is well aware of the open and secret rivalry between her Japanese colleagues and her, she helps her colleagues and bosses bring meals, and her colleagues ask for mustard, but she deliberately brought him mayonnaise, and she In the end, the button that brought bad luck was not given to this colleague who used despicable means to deal with her.
It is difficult for such a Christine not to arouse recognition in the minds of the audience. Recognizing Christine is equal to recognizing himself, recognizing all his hard work to forget his humble origin and integrate into the city that represents the upper class. Everything that Mrs. Ganush does seems to be trivial or even reasonable, and Mrs. Ganush is so ugly and sloppy, so unpleasant, and her relentless revenge against Christine is so vicious and unreserved, the stark contrast between the two makes the audience unable to stop everything Christine's emotional inclination is directed towards Christine. Therefore, the ending of the film ends with Christine being dragged into hell. Many people are puzzled. What does the director want to explain?
According to the moral standards presented in the plot, in order not to fall into hell, you must be cautious and act according to your conscience rather than the system; you must not be greedy, and you must try your best to help those in need; you must not judge people by their appearance and treat vulnerable groups Be sincere too.
Of course, such a moral standard is not a problem in a good ideal, but it is too harsh to place in today's society.
Living in a modern city with competition as the core, everyone strives for the upper reaches. It is openly approved by the society to strive for a better position and greater interests for themselves. Climbing up is synonymous with progress, and the moral standard of means is under the pressure of competition. Down and down again, the commercial society has its own pure material morality, self-interest is hidden under the rules of the game, and greed has a high-sounding face.
In such a competitive society, Christine's fate has strong helplessness and sadness. In the powerful social machine, Christines are the last link. They can't help but adapt to the transformation of society, but they have to bear this alone. The retribution brought by the transformation, is this fair?
Society is changing, the scale of good and evil is changing, the only constant is human nature and cause and effect. When Christine refused to help Mrs. Ganush for her own future, her temporary greed had brought her into hell. Revenge has nothing to do with the thought of heaven and hell.
The power of destiny is that it will not listen to your complaints, nor negotiate conditions with you. You can’t tell if it’s fair or unfair. The causal cause and effect never break an appointment. The erosion of greed will not allow greed to prevail at the moment of choice.
It is a pity that there are many hearts blinded by greed, but innocent eyes widen in ignorance.
2. When the disaster is approaching, we still
don’t forget to deceive ourselves. After Christine was miserable by the devil, she finally found Mrs. Ganush’s granddaughter’s house to ask for forgiveness. In front of Mrs. Ganush’s granddaughter, she excused herself and attributed the rejection to Mrs. Ganush. work, but was pointed out by Mrs. Ganush's granddaughter: You lied.
Christine was indeed lying. She dared not admit that her rejection of Mrs. Ganush was instigated by greed. She was deceiving herself while deceiving others, because she couldn't truly face the greed she was hiding in the corners.
Like Christine, we often find excuses for ourselves to hide what lies deep within us, a human weakness that we refuse to admit, and which we have labelled unclean or immoral because the label carries The humiliation that comes has prevented us from having the courage to face ourselves naked, and deceiving ourselves gives us peace of mind, which brings us a shallow level of self-identity, under which we feel safe and secure.
Like Christine, we live in unreal self-deception all year round, and have made self-deception a habit of blurting out. Even when disaster strikes, we still can't be honest with ourselves. In this untransparent cunning, we always follow Sincerity is lost.
Therefore, Christine's self-deception is naturally fruitless, and the deceased Mrs. Ganush will not give her a chance to sincerely apologize, but how can we see through the insincereness of this apology itself is the bad luck What is irreversible?
The program has already been designed, character is involved in it, and destiny is fixed in our words and deeds. If we are awake, all this may be changed. Unfortunately, we have never opened the eyes of our hearts. 3. A lot of repentance
stems from fear, not inner compassion We know that before that, she was quite entangled on who to give the cursed button, and even let go of the colleague who had harmed her in the difficult choice. This kindness moved the audience, so when she digs a grave with After fighting for Mrs. Ganush's body and finally returning the curse to Mrs. Ganush, everyone felt that this was the most courageous and reasonable choice, especially since she could still sincerely repent to her boyfriend in the bright sunshine after the disaster, so, Even if Christine really had unforgivable sins, she should be given a light of self-salvation at this moment, and she should never turn her face ruthlessly and drag her into hell. How comfortable the audience would be, how happy it would be if it had a happy ending, but the film immediately becomes a mediocre and simple horror film, with a sharp decrease in depth and a lack of goodness.
Christine, who has gone through hardships, was pulled into hell when everyone was relaxed. The shock brought by the contrast of psychological expectations had to make us reconsider, what went wrong?
Half of our sympathy for Christine stems from our disgust for Mrs. Ganush. Mrs. Ganush's ugly image and vicious curse make us ignore her desperate eyes when she begs for help. She should be the most vulnerable group who deserves sympathy, right? ? Why are we so mean to her, are we really kind? Who is our sympathy for? Christine? Mrs Ganush? Or yourself?
We have never been really kind, we are easily affected by our appearance, we judge a person too shallowly and too emotionally, we take our bad luck to anger others, and if others have more reason to be condemned than ourselves, it seems You can not bear the responsibility of your own mistakes, but never think about it. The guilt of others cannot be the reason for your guilt. Even though Mrs. Ganush is vicious, Christine's greed is still the cause of the matter. The cause has no right to condemn the result. can only be assumed.
And why isn't Christine's psychology the same as ours, sympathizing and forgiving herself for Mrs. Ganush's viciousness? Did she really repent? Did she repent for causing humiliation and even death to Mrs Ganush? Or is it the fear of being haunted by demons caused by one's greed? Having just gone through the grave digging scene where the curse was returned to Mrs. Ganush, can we say that Christine is remorseful to Mrs. Ganush? Just like the confession of a murderer, is it the fear of punishment or the remorse for the harm done to the deceased, is the connotation the same?
Christine loves animals and is a vegetarian. In order to escape the entanglement of demons, she will sacrifice her pet cat to a knife. We can say that this is a last resort for survival. Christine can't bear to give the curse button to people enough to prove her kindness, yes, she is kind Yes, but this kindness is so fragile that it cannot stand the test. Our kindness is based on the scale of innocence to ourselves. Check our hearts. Have we made this point clear: our kindness is not pure, and our ego is still our center?
Director Sam Raimi hides the group ridicule of human nature in his usual wicked tactics. People who don't pay attention to details and are not good at questioning and reflection can't see the flavor. Like Christine, we live in self-righteous falsehoods, transformed by society, shaped by ourselves, burned by the fire of hell but thought it was just hot weather, the truth of fate never exists in human feeling, if the end of the movie still can't Let us wake up, the next person to be pulled into hell may be one of you and me.
Reflection:
A single mistake can lead to eternal hatred, and a single thought of greed can lead to eons of eons. Good and evil cannot cancel each other out. Once any trace of evil thoughts encounters a mature cause and condition, it is enough to cast an eternal evil.
The fate of Christine's encounter with a powerful gypsy witch is a case, but this case is hidden in countless normalities.
Don't say anything like "Since good people also go to hell, why work hard to be good people", the good and evil are clearly remembered in every stroke of the karma book, even if this life is innocent, it can't equal the old evil accumulated in the previous life. , and a single evil thought in this life may trigger an avalanche of kalpas for many lifetimes. "Do not do all evil, and pursue all kindness" is the only way to wash away and purify the catastrophe. In the face of the big rule of cause and effect, only true and humility can be undertaken, and there may be liberation. possible.
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