I have seen some film reviews, and some viewers think that the director shows the evil of human nature and forgets to convey the truth, the good and the beautiful. I don't think so. The director of the film "Eden Lake" focuses on non-intervention and realism, unlike films like "The Hills Have Eyes", which focuses on satisfying the psychology of heavy taste. While both convey a message of fear: the world is not a place without danger, "Eden Lake" leaves more room for thought.
The story of the film mainly takes place in the forest and the lake. Through the lens, we can feel that the towering or dense woods and the turbid or black lake water without ripples have become accomplices to cover up the sin. The occurrence of each story has its serendipitous and particularity. Aside from these factors, let's try to find some commonalities. Because stories similar to those in the film happen all over the world, and the frequency is not low.
For the couple in the film, everyone may say: "Oh, why are you so careless? You don't bring self-defense guys when you go to that kind of place. If you don't know the place in life, you should calm down and endure things a little bit. It's better to hide away. Why is it so useless, you will admit it when you meet it" and so on... In fact, the couple in the film is as ordinary as most of us, pursuing their own happy and ordinary life . Just imagine, how many of us can be martial arts masters or Zhiduo stars? When you meet that kind of situation, you have the ability to deal with it calmly and easily? In fact, in reality, even if you don't do anything, and you are as cautious as walking on thin ice, there are times when you can't get around things and find someone. There is too much experience telling us that a single steamed bun can cause a bloody case, a piece of rock can make people crazy, primary school students are asked for no reason by their classmates, middle school male students are robbed of Nike sneakers... The whole process is pushed away, No one can effectively stop. It is worth thinking about how the tragedy happened.
In addition to the couple, there are several teenagers and several adults in the film. There is a small group among the teenagers, and the lead child is very arrogant and violent. He is a bully and leads a dog that is not friendly to strangers. Among the teenagers is an isolated teenager who is often bullied by small groups. Several adults are parents of teenagers who form small groups. And it is easy to find that, like a gang of teenagers, the bully's father is the one who has the decision-making power among several teenage parents, and everyone else is coerced into acting against their will because of fear.
Seeing this, do you find the amazing repetition of life? So, how much of the component is the ego? There are two clues here: education and genetics.
In fact, too many parents do not know why they have children. How can you set an example and educate good children responsibly if you are not good at educating yourself? We have a saying called "three years old to see old". Children's first learning is to imitate. The family environment before going to school has already formed our character habits. How many opportunities do we have to transcend the environment and form a new self after going to school? Coupled with the school environment, what if you don't meet a teacher who cares about you or a teacher who doesn't care about you? What if all the classmates and neighbors were kids who grew up in similar circumstances? The way everyone sees, thinks, thinks and deals with problems is a pattern. At this time, transcending the environment is a problem in life. Without relying on the formation of self-awareness and making reasonable judgments, it is difficult to have corresponding actions to learn to avoid tragedies. Most children are lost in the process of finding the meaning of their own existence. The meaning of existence is to be a symbol that everyone is afraid of. The reason is that his father is like that, and no one can control him. We ask ourselves, why do we choose violence? Because violence does not need to use the brain, it is simple and direct, and it is immediate. And people are impatient, short-sighted, and take pleasure in it. Our human stupidity makes ourselves blindly chasing many similar things, such as drugs. There is a saying: mistakes are not terrible in themselves, but the consequences are terrible. I think a lot of the price may be too expensive. And when he learned that the offer had been overdrawn too much, it was too late.
Just like the fate of a werewolf who lost his mind and turned into a wolf on a full moon night, are you afraid of your own blood? Are you afraid of being as incompetent and assertive as your drunken, rambunctious father? Do you dare to have children? There is a survey on crime rate in the United States, which studies a state. Many parents who said they found criminals were also criminals, and when many women chose not to have babies, the state's crime rate dropped a lot. So the state gave women the power to decide whether or not to have a fetus.
But I believe that the spontaneity of life makes everyone want to go beyond and strive for that because that is the self. But finding yourself and sticking to yourself is by no means easy. Maybe after a while, you will find it difficult to wrestle with fate, and in the end, you will be defeated and come back together with the predecessors you want to deny. Only the true brave will work hard to overcome and go on according to their own wishes. Only after constant self-test can they persevere and form. All the teens in the film have their moments of wavering, and those brief waverings are flashes of self-consciousness: the lead boy's dog dies, he's sad, you can find him in love, the moment he loses the dog He understood what was more precious, and while stroking the wounded dog he was losing, he struggled to throw out the man's car keys, shouting, "Who wants your car keys, go away!" But no one could tell him what to do Dealing with his own grief, his mind that had rarely thought about it was now filled with madness, so he repeated the pattern given to him by the environment: revenge with violence. I think this teenager has no ego because he doesn't think and really make his own choices. He also has no chance to think, because in his position he does not have to think: everyone is afraid of him. If he resisted, he was beaten and punished. There is no independent evil, everyone suffers together. Although the other children were unwilling, they did not resist the leading boy together, because the fear was just watching or even becoming an accomplice of the thugs. In fact, they condoned and harmed him in disguise. At the end, the leading teenage father wants to cover up his son, and the attitudes of the following teenage parents are the same as that of their own children. Isn't this a repetition of life? Being accountable to yourself is also being accountable to others, and vice versa.
The teenagers who follow in the film are mixed with the leading teenager, and they don't want to hurt people and kill people. They don't want to, it's not so much to have good thoughts, but to understand the taste and fear of pain. They must have been beaten, so they understand that it's not a good taste, and they think and judge and form self-awareness when asked to do the same to others. The old saying, "Suffering is a blessing", I think it means "Suffering can lead to thinking, make people feel more proportionate, and it is a blessing." But fear makes people stop thinking, they don't think of uniting to stop the leading boy, and they are not strong. To be able to adhere to and implement their own will, the inertia of the environment and experience tell them: their parents do the same. So they also repeated their lives, choosing to give in under duress and go further and further away from their original intentions until they could not turn back. "It's not..., it's...", the choice is so cruel.
But we can't "fight dad" over genetics and education as a personal excuse, and we don't have a choice. If you blame your parents for bad education, can parents blame their parents? When will it be headed? It is wrong to put all sin on any one person.
Fear, or making others fear, all stems from fear, and fear drives life impulses mad. This world ruled by fear has caused all the problems, and the human beings are so lacking in wisdom to deal with it. At this time, people always throw out the law of nature of the law of the jungle. I would rather think that human intelligence can't even save itself, let alone animals. It is shameful that people always rely on their intellectual superiority to persecute the animal environment, making nature even more unbalanced.
But the humble life is like moss, which, despite its small living space, is stubborn and spontaneous in the damp and dark crevices. Be loyal to your inner thoughts and protect your heart, because that is the soil for self-germination. The world is not peaceful, we must constantly educate ourselves and make ourselves stronger in all aspects so that we can have the opportunity to realize ourselves.
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