Distance between Attachment and Detachment

Monty 2022-04-22 07:01:31

After reading it, there are a lot of ideas, let's start with the name. Detachment, the root of which comes from attachment. I think the film has a layer of meaning to tell about this kind of emotional or spiritual sustenance and relief, which is emotional attachment/detachment. The male protagonist only serves as a class teacher and only makes a short stay in each school. In fact, it is because he does not like to have any spiritual dependence and emotional fetters. This has to do with his dark childhood. Including the little girl he sent away later. His mother's suicide when he was a child made him fearful of any emotional dependence, of facing the excruciating pain of this forced separation. So, he always detaches his emotional attachment by pulling away before he has an emotional attachment to anyone.
As a teacher, he also said at the beginning that everyone always thinks that teachers will have a great influence on students, and even change their lives. However, Meredith's death told him that in fact everyone is so insignificant, who you think you can change, in fact, the depression of death is still powerless. When he faced the painful blow of death again, he went to the little girl, who could warm his heart, and their relationship was a kind of redemption for each other.
In fact, his life with the little girl was hopeless. The phone call basically told the audience that the little girl was HIV-positive. The shadow of his childhood lingered there, and he would keep changing schools. . . His self-positioning, which needs warmth and hope, and keeps a distance because of the cold, is always tossing between attachment and detachment. It is also a tug-of-war between the inner world and the real world. That's why I especially liked the passage from Camus at the beginning of the film, and it is also very relevant: and never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

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  • Daniella 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    4.5; On 2021-12-25, the score will be slightly reduced for rewatching. I still remember the pain in my heart when I watched it for the first time, and the sense of substitution is too strong. The soul hurts too much, so it regurgitates, it shrinks inwardly, it gradually shrinks and throws the world out, a self-preservation mechanism that scabs our blood and makes it soft. I must use up all my expressions and run away from the crowd; our hearts are castles, we would rather hide in the hole, every heart is so alienated and indifferent, everyone bears the edge of their own to cross; if I love you , I will leave you; if I forgive you, I will embrace death; I will not believe that all is well. Numerous close-ups are cramped, and countless flashback fragments are stitched together into a past that is unwilling to look back; the title of the film comes from Camus, and the end quotes Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", the world becomes a wasteland, it is better to get lost sink into it.

  • Johanna 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    I come to school every day to see you spoil yourself. . Do you think you can be in a band and be a model? NO, in the end you'll just be fucked and thrown away. . . It was really exciting to say this from a teacher. Why did I just keep this in my heart and dare not say it directly to the students? . If you say that, you will automatically roll up the bed and leave. .

Detachment quotes

  • Henry Barthes: A child's intelligent heart can fathom the depth of many dark places, but can it fathom the delicate moment of its own detachment?

  • Henry Barthes: How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you?

    Henry Barthes: Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false.

    Henry Barthes: Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable." Our young men today are being told that women are whores, bitches, things to be screwed, beaten, shit on, and shamed. This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty-four hours a day for the rest of our lives, the powers that be are hard at work dumbing us to death.

    Henry Barthes: So to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve our own minds.