People who watched the movie kept asking, why is Lazaro happy, and where is his happiness?
The greatest happiness comes from love. Lazzaro is love itself.
The enslaved villagers are in a hurry, suspicious of guarding against stealing, cheating, slipping, and eating, all ignoring Lazaro when he needs to work. They joke cruel and vulgar that they don't know what love is. There is no love in that barren and exploitative village.
Even so, Lazaro loves everyone, and anyone who asks him for help is happy and willing to give to fulfill the wishes of others.
He never asks or demands anything from the world for himself. There are only three times in the whole piece that he expects what the world will give. For the first time, he hoped that Don Crady would give the group of people a treat to see him, so that the family's wish could be fulfilled. The second time, he hoped that the church would give them a few minutes of music to comfort the lost. For the third time, he hoped that the bank would give Don Crady the money so that he would no longer be in the dark.
He hardly consumes resources, and always asks people "do you need help?" He eats grass and milks. Always giving, never expecting anything in return. He is love itself. No judgment, no change, no calculation, only pay, only as you wish.
However, Ai fell to her death from a cliff in the village and was beaten to death by the city crowd.
But he is the happiest man. He has love in his heart and lives in love. He is love itself. People laugh at love, isolate love, ignore love, banish love, exploit love, kill love.
Is Lazaro stupid, can't see other people's intentions, can't tell whether he is being deceived and used. Is love stupid? Can't tell which people don't deserve love at all? God loves people not because they are lovable, but because He chooses to love them. He knows what the other person is like and still chooses to love him. Why this is done, I honestly don't understand. It can only be said that if being loved requires "qualification", no one in the world is qualified. Who in the world has never experienced cunning, selfishness, arrogance, vanity, greed, and deceit? Who deserves to be loved? good behavior? Why is it not the careful thought behind the good deeds? Since no one is qualified to be loved, is the appearance of love stupid and unworthy?
Presumably no one really understands Lazaro, just as no one really understands love. People cannot understand what they do not have.
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