"If there is still evil in the world, it is my greatest happiness to be unnoticed... Don't wake me up! Please speak lightly." (Plotino)
Maybe Alexander burned down the house because he took his hopes too high , higher than the earth, or too far away, as far as the line between the sky and the earth, where he looked. Perhaps he wished that Hope itself would come to meet him, even embrace him, like Mary in her arms. He wanted hope itself to be as accessible as the earth.
What is hope for Alexander? "Life," he said. But when the war that symbolized death came, he prayed with tears in front of the icon, "even if it means sacrificing his life." He is desperate, because hope is life, and life is hope. What is Alexander desperate for?
In The Guide, the poet speaks of one thing, the law. This thing is ruthless and impenetrable. And the world in the Ta's film is shrouded in this kind of law, like a silent room, sometimes silent, sometimes noisy. People in it appear to be an extra, unnecessary collage. And the Messiah in "The Wizard" is the penetrator of the law, a miracle. Satisfy and care for all people's hopes. Did a "miracle" happen when Alexander lit the house? Tashi said nothing. But God is always silent in The Sacrifice, and it is considered absurd that Alexander was put in a lunatic asylum. If, for the world in the film, people's desires, sorrows, and even life are just "a cry in hell", which is absurd, then for people's survival, why is the world not absurd? The nobility of life is precisely that even if it is destroyed, it knows that it is destroyed. And the world that annihilates life doesn't know, it doesn't know anything. A world in which no one cares about "goodness", a world in which the greatness of human nature is indifferent, and a world in which all demands cannot be taken care of, is even more ignorant and absurd in nature. Alexander bumped into such a world, and he was desperate.
When Alexander looked at the strong sapling, he saw "life", hope. He also saw the absurdity of the world in which he lived: in order to live, he had to sacrifice, even if he chose to die. In order to hope, he must despair. Alexander saw life in death, just like the sapling, only in the smell of the earth can he see the presence of the sky. And Alexander was in tears even though he was so desperate.
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