He Was a Quiet Man--Another Angle Fears do Seduce

Leann 2022-08-04 12:18:45

I always feel that SEDUCE is a dirty word. When you see it, you will think of a woman's snake-like figure and slightly closed eyes, making you do some good or bad things without thinking. And fear is a super resistance word, and seeing it makes you stop doing something good or bad. For example, if you are afraid of fire or a certain person, then you will never provoke fire or this person. Put the two words together and you would think I don't understand English or have a cognitive impairment.

The alopecia male protagonist in the movie has basic goodwill, is introverted and doesn't like to communicate, and has no special talent. He feels a little cowardly and ordinary. The whole main body of the movie is his fantasy before committing suicide. His fantasies are good (love, promotion), justice (heroes save beauty and bosses contradict), self-awareness (he said that the biggest problem in the company is the lack of communication between departments, so add small drinking fountains...) and so on. A colorful and realistic life, but without resistance or relief. He didn't do anything after all. He lived in his own smaller and smaller world, and the outside world was an invisible fear, like sulfuric acid flowing out of a broken test tube, seeping into the table, and you happened to be there. The next step of the experiment is the same as the concentrated reading.

In the end, you will protect yourself, either by killing everything that threatens you or by killing yourself. Of course, the protagonist executes the latter under the guidance of the former. At its root, I think it's people's own fears, whether real or imagined. People always think that fear is the moment when we see Sadako crawling out of the TV and pulling out his hair. In fact, it is more that we become vulnerable and depressed because we gradually give up and avoid them.

Therefore, the "fear" that we should be careful about is the kind of mentality that cannibalizes our true self bit by bit, lets us gradually follow into its world, and can't stop. When we are so simple that only fear is left, we can destroy ourselves (whether bloodshed or not) without external force (earthquake, car accident, etc.), without conspiracy (scandal politics or something), without organization (group fight or something). One of the principles of atomic bombs is nuclear fusion. Therefore, when we are in "fear," we can either use the pan that we used to fry eggs at home and firmly beat her back into the TV, or we can say to her with a sincere attitude and a smile: "Dig the plug, the lady is so white, use what brand of cosmetics do you have?" What are you afraid of? It's just a temptation.

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  • Cleve 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    Did not understand. I didn't expect Christian Slater to play such a role...

  • Kacie 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    A classic portrayal of "Looser". False and real, true and false, it seems like a comedy, but it is actually a tragedy. We may not be as extreme as the protagonist, but how many modern people do not have that kind of depression in the office?

He Was a Quiet Man quotes

  • Ralf Coleman: Then you tell me what you'd call a man who's stupid enough to piss off a maniac with a fucking loaded gun?

    Bob Maconel: I'd call him a maniac with his own fucking loaded gun.

  • [first lines]

    Bob Maconel: It was easier in the past. A man knew what it was to be a man. He stood up to things that were wrong, and had the right to do so. Were expected to do so. And the way you lived, the training you put yourself through, prepared you for the inevitable confrontations. Ones that could end in dismemberment or even death. Then something happened. We passed laws of decency, lawyers became our shepherds. And what was once a fairly easy thing to understand, became muddled in a bureaucracy of what we call being civilized.

    Bob Maconel: A man could no longer stand up to the wrongs that were around him. He had to go through courts and lawyers, and trudge through miles of red tape. Women demanded equality, and she got it. Not by getting everything the man had, but by the man being castrated in the form of order... I don't care what you say, that's not progress, it's not evolution. It's a disease and it needs someone who understands what's at stake. Someone who can stand up like a real man, and take action against injustice and unfairness in this world. Today. Right now. Before lunch.