helpless helplessness

Weston 2022-04-20 09:01:45

"We once wanted to change the world, but later, we realized that it was impossible"

Watching the protagonist get lost in the never-ending redemption, I can't help but feel the same way. I once wanted to be a teacher, but I watched the students humiliate their youth in ignorance and confusion, and watched them go into the abyss with great pain. , but helpless, so sad. I used to be full of longing and naive to think that I could change the world, only to find out that the world is much more complicated than we thought. So I felt like a martyr in the Middle Ages, and the pain in my heart probably surpassed the pain in my body as I watched the person whom I had so hard to save crucify me with their own hands. However, we are not martyrs after all, and my name will not be passed down to future generations. Suddenly, I felt that with the size of the world, there was nothing to block this biting cold wind. As a result, our hearts are very heavy and detached. After all, we cannot escape, we cannot save the others we want to save, and we cannot even save ourselves.

So I gave up the dream of being a teacher, just because I didn't want to see my powerlessness, I didn't want to see the children slip into hell in my own hands, and I was afraid that I would be left alone like the protagonist. Unsalvageable sin goes beyond even leading a person astray.

I once wanted to pull you out of the quagmire of pain, but now I find that I can't even reach out my hand.

So be it.

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  • Henry Barthes: I am money, I change hands like the dollar bill, that has been rubbed by a lamp; Then a genie appeared and cried loudly, with volume; But the tears were all for myself, and that's where it all went wrong

  • Henry Barthes: [In nursing home] Grampa, you doing any writing in your journal?

    [Thumbs through empty journal]

    Grampa: I don't remember much, I lost the habit. You can't think in this place, you can't make new memories.