The two films are strikingly similar. By imagining an environment, the individual's existence is reshaped. It is no longer a free and random existence, but constructs a new layer of the individual and the environment in which they live through imagination. relation. This layer of relationship is the social structure. Authorities provide individuals with positions, so that individuals have a sense of belonging to the existence of this society, and make them submit to authority, that is, the builders of this social structure. This seemingly absurd assumption is not only not ridiculed by others, but even resonates with the audiences collectively, which more or less proves how nihilistic the individual feels about his own existence in his real society.
Ideology is a very metaphysical concept. Whenever it is mentioned, many people are discouraged, and the author is also the same. However, in another way of thinking, it may be easier to understand, that is, the individual's thoughts and the society Does it matter, and if so, how much does it matter?
Let's talk about "The Truman World" first. The character played by Jim Carrey has been shrouded in a huge fake social environment since birth, and all his social relationships are just fictional reality. The male protagonist, who doesn't know the truth, lives quite contentedly in such a social relationship. Even if he is ordinary, he still loves his life, but one day, he finds that his life is completely destroyed. Peeping, when he was made into a famous TV star without knowing it, completely deprived of his freedom, privacy and even dignity, and became a victim of the mass entertainment industry, when his own world was completely a construction of the authoritative, He can no longer obey the authority. At this time, the social structure is still the original social structure, and the social relationship is also the same. It is just because the male protagonist's thinking has changed, and everything has changed. Just imagine, if we humans are really being Raised by high-intelligence aliens, our social life is completely an experiment by aliens, but even if some of us humans find out and propose it, they will no longer succumb to the existing life and fight. But how many people will not say he is crazy?
Speaking of "City of Souls", John Murdoch woke up in an unfamiliar hotel and found that he had lost his memory and was being pursued by the police on suspicion of serial murders, as well as ruthlessly pursued by mysterious men in black. Murdoch searches for his life experience in the remaining memories, but finds that this city that is forever dark will be turned upside down every midnight. It turns out that the whole city is a space floating body controlled by aliens with superpowers. Psychiatrist Shu Burr discovered that Murdoch had super power potential, so he secretly helped Murdoch gain full super power and defeat the aliens. Finally, this dark and lonely celestial body turned to the sun for the first time, and Murdoch also found the seashell beach in memory and returned to his young and beautiful wife.
Did you find it? What is the biggest difference between the two? Why did "The Truman World" released in the same year have far more influence than "City of Souls"? Obviously, the fiction of the former is more real, and the fiction of the latter is too beautiful. If John Murdoch does not have superpowers, then just like the other discoverer of the truth in the film, he can only be regarded as a lunatic, and in the end either Really crazy, or make a self-destruction. However, in real life, who has superpowers, even with superpowers, power and money, who can change the whole world? And when you have superpowers in your hand and want to change something, you will suddenly find that this kind of terrifying thought was given to you by this society.
Now is the 21st century. If you were in China in the 1960s and 1970s, if you said that a person was very selfish, it would be an insult or even slander, because an individual must rely on social relations from the outside to the inside to exist. In the age of 2000, no individual can escape from authority and exist alone, and even if there is, it will be quickly strangled. After the 1980s, the Chinese gradually began to have a sense of individuality. The concept of "I AM I" quickly became popular, and words such as individuality and non-mainstream quickly became mainstream in Chinese culture. The Confucius culture in China for thousands of years, Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the "Quotations of Mao Zedong" in hand and the personal worship of Mao have quietly passed away, and the new social mainstream that has been brought in is a new social trend with economic value first and strong individual consciousness. And when everyone is proud of the difference between themselves and the public, individual characteristics rather than social dictates, rebellion and individuality prove the existence of self, is all this really so natural, and there is no authority behind the scenes? When everyone is pursuing individuality, when all the young people are resisting the mainstream with non-mainstream, is there any trace of individual ideological characteristics in such a social relationship? If people in the world of Truman and the city of moving souls do not have enough strength to awaken, will they really doubt out of thin air instead of thinking of their own uniqueness?
The directors of the two films are pessimistic. They poured out their talents, and all they wanted to prove was that the individual's thoughts were actually subservient to the authority of social relations. They can use the art form of film, but if they really have the courage to use political and even military forms to wake up, who can guarantee that they will not become a new round of authority, and renew in another new social relationship. Let all individuals continue to obey? Therefore, in the final analysis, individual thoughts must only be subordinate to the existence of social relations. Even if individual thoughts sometimes change social relations, it is just another round of replacement of ideological authorities. , individuals are still individuals, and they have to continue to submit.
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