Eighteen layers of hell

Dora 2022-10-21 04:32:07

I have seen a movie "Groundhog Day" before. It is about the male protagonist who wakes up every day and returns to before 24:00. Because of his "predictive power", money and beauty are at his fingertips, so he is very uncomfortable playing in the world.

At first he thought it was very interesting, but after hundreds of days, thousands of days, tens of thousands of days, millions of days... After that, he got tired of this story that was repeated every day, and he wanted to die, when he discovered in horror: Can't die! After each suicide, as soon as the eyes are opened, time returns to the original point, and this repeating story that cannot be repeated begins to repeat again.

In order to develop the plot, the movie finally freed him of course, returned to a normal life, and returned with a beautiful woman.

I think if someone really falls into this vicious cycle, the taste of it must be more painful than being in the eighteenth hell.

The "Every Day" I watched today is also about a different style of "Eighteen Layers of Hell".

No friends, no relatives, no love, no future...

Needless to say, parents, although people call you "baby" every day, they take great care of you today, become strangers tomorrow, and may even speak ill of you;

friend? Get acquainted in the morning and break up in the evening, and no one will know anyone the next day. Perhaps, friends with wine and meat are a hundred times stronger than this;

future? Do you want to go on a spring outing with friends tomorrow? Want to watch a movie with your parents? Still want to go sightseeing in the pyramids? Please, your friends and parents tomorrow are a group of strangers. Would it be interesting to go to the spring outing with them to watch a movie? Going to the pyramids for sightseeing, do you want to take a picture and send it to the circle of friends? Hehe, this body is not you, and the circle of friends is not your circle of friends. When you wake up, you find that Zhang San just took a photo in the pyramid, and it has nothing to do with you.

The protagonist in the movie can drive a luxury car, live in a luxury house, and sleep with a supermodel[Note①], but even if you sleep with Fan Bingbing, blow Abe's head, and flatten New York, no one will know that you did it. There is no way to share your happiness, your awesomeness with others.

There's a joke that one Sunday, a priest was supposed to officiate that day, but he got addicted to golf, so he pretended to be sick, asked another priest to officiate on his behalf, and then sneaked off to a remote golf course Go to the field to play. The angel who inspected the human world for God saw this and was very angry, so he reported to God what the priest had done. After hearing this, God said, "Okay, I will punish this priest properly." The angel flew back to the human world, intending to see what happened to the priest. The priest on the golf course had no idea that he had offended the angels and God, he picked up the club, swung hard, and made a hole in one! The priest was ecstatic and walked to the second hole, thanking God for the good luck that God had given him. Guess what, the second hole, the third hole, the fourth hole... One hole after another, the priest all the way through is a hole-in-one! The angel was puzzled and flew back to heaven to ask God, why should he reward the priest for such good luck? God smiled and said to the angel, "Who said this is a reward? Think about it, he has eighteen holes in a row. All hole-in-one, with such a result, who would he tell?"

I didn't understand this joke when I was a child, but now I understand, the taste of loneliness can only be experienced by older people.

When I was a child, I often wondered, are there really terrifying things like oil pans, tongue-pullers, knife mountains, and stone mills in the eighteen layers of hell?

Now it seems that age limits my imagination. The real eighteen layers of hell may be more terrifying than Daoshan oil pan. Maybe it is like "Source Code", which allows you to run endlessly in horror events; maybe It's like "Groundhog Day", despairing in the endless cycle of time; or like "Every Day", you have no friends and relatives, and you spend day after day in loneliness, year after year... …

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Note ①: The male protagonist can quickly get a lot of money by robbing a bank or other criminal activities. Anyway, the criminal is not me the next day.

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Every Day quotes

  • Rhiannon: [as A, after waking up in Rhiannon's body] Holy Shit! I promise I will try to be cool about this.

  • Nathan: I've seen Satan's Instagram account.