The world is not worth it, it decided to leave

Eldridge 2022-04-04 08:01:02

The purest and purest soul does not belong to this hypocritical crowd

In the ninth episode of "Journey to the West" , Sun Wukong and his brothers stole ginseng fruit, and the two immortal children who were guarded were spoiled endlessly.

In a fit of rage, the Great Sage's transformation smoke came out of his orifice, leaving his true body behind, and pushed the thousand-year-old ginseng fruit tree with the fairy boy on his back.

© 1986 edition of "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong couldn't bear the complaints of Fairy Child, so his soul went out of his body to destroy the ginseng fruit tree

Lazaro in [Happy Lazaro] also has such ability, but it is not as obvious as Sun Wukong.

No smoke, no doppelganger, sometimes it looks like he's in a daze.

But the heavy rain came and the music was flying. He even returned to the world through time and space after falling off the cliff.

©[Happy Lazzaro], Lazzaro comes back to life

There is also a wolf, like another carrier of his soul, who takes him around the crowd at the end of the film and leaves.

Like Sun Wukong, Lazaro once had his soul and consciousness detached from his body, and magically did some impossible things for his real body.

And this is often called: the soul out of the body .

Out-of-body experience, also known as out-of-body experience, is the behavior and experience of the soul leaving the body of the living being and moving outside the body.

Its identity is difficult to define.

Because of the strange and magical color, it was classified as a parapsychology category when the scientific method was adopted. At the same time, it maintains a few ties with theology and philosophy.

In ancient times, due to the limitations of science, out-of-body souls were often associated with ghosts and spirits. There are more listeners and fewer people. In the East, it is often found in fairy tales or fantasy novels.

In the West, it appeared earlier in Victorian spirituality literature and is known as a "spiritual insight journey" .

© Illustration from 19th century Robert Blair's poem "The Grave" depicting the story of the soul leaving the body

In 1886 by the psychological researcher Edmund Gurney, who published in his book about out-of-body visions of life. But it was cursed by scientists.

Also scolded is the British parapsychologist GNMTyrrell.

In his 1943 book Apparitions, he coined the term " out-of-body experience" ( OBE for short).

It is proposed that ghosts are hallucinations in the human subconscious, originating from the mechanism of telepathy.

However, in the eyes of the academic circles and the media at that time, the sincerity was worthy of admiration, but its arguments and opinions were nonsense.

This former mathematician, physicist, and broadcasting pioneer must have gone crazy on the road to research parapsychology.

© GNMTyrrell, British mathematician, physicist, radio engineer and parapsychologist

In 1977, however, a patient named Maria claimed to have experienced an out-of-body experience.

Her body had floated outside the hospital and she told Clark, a social service worker, that there was a tennis shoe in the north window on the third floor. Clark went to see, sure enough.

Since then, this event has also been cited by many related researchers. With the advancement of science, there are more and more scientific experiments and researches on out-of-body souls.

Some people think that it is fabricated by people themselves based on memory and imagination, it is a kind of dream, some people think that it is the manifestation of delusional psychosis, and some people think that this is the disintegration of personality and the split of cognition...

Until 2003, some experts suggested that out-of-body souls were related to brain stimulation.

© Artist's illustration of "Out of Body"

Today, Tyrrell, who coined the term OBE, has been dead for decades, and the scientific explanation for out-of-body souls remains a mystery.

But a 2013 research report stated:

The current mainstream view is that OBE occurs due to a temporary interruption of the multisensory integration process.

Neuroscientists and psychologists also generally agree that out-of-body experiences are dissociative experiences caused by different psychological and neurological factors.

In general, out-of-body souls are very complicated, and so far there is no formal scientific basis to explain it.

Before psychedelic drugs and scientific devices were invented, out-of-body experiences were spontaneous.

It is consistently associated with sleep and death, and is experienced by 5% of healthy people at some point in their lives.

Most people in life have had the experience of "ghost pressing the bed" . You feel that you are awake, but you can't get up.

At this point your consciousness seems to be able to leave the body, but it cannot control your body.

This is a type of out-of-body, caused by sleep paralysis or extreme physical exertion. To experience the out-of-body experience, work harder and sleep in the dead.

©Henry Fuseli's "Nightmare", depicting the imagination of the "ghost press"

But this is only the first stage of the experience. If you feel the soul consciousness wandering between the two selves, you have reached the second stage of out-of-body.

If you want to reach the third stage of the highest level, you need the soul to be completely separated from the body and to be able to see itself from the perspective of a bystander.

In 2002, a woman with severe epilepsy said she had reached the ultimate stage of out-of-bodyness during brain surgery.

She felt like she had floated out of her body and watched herself undergo surgery.

This kind of scene has appeared in the movie [Deadly Operation] .

Clay, who was in the middle of a heart transplant, floated out of his body, watching his friends and his wife murder him.

©[Deadly Surgery], Clay who was undergoing surgery and had an out-of-body experience

Experiments have shown that the third stage of out-of-body is prone to occur during major surgery and in situations like near-death.

However, the price of this level of experience is too high, please don't try it lightly.

And when hallucinogens and scientific instruments were invented, out-of-body experiences could be induced by the outside world.

For example, if you smoke a pound of marijuana and hit a few taels of heroin, the chemical components will paralyze your nerves and brain, and you may also experience an out-of-body experience.

Just like the scene in the movie [Trainspotting] , where you drill the toilet and swim for white powder, it is a dreamy out-of-body experience for drug addicts.

©[Trainspotting], the male protagonist who was out of his body due to taking medicine and swimming in the toilet

Not to mention scientific equipment, wear a magnetic helmet full of wires to stimulate the brain, especially the submarine cortex and the temporoparietal joint area, and let your soul go out of your body for 800 miles in minutes.

In addition, there are many more devices and experiences that stimulate you both aurally and visually.

It can be said that it is not difficult to want to get out of the body today.

Precisely because the out-of-body soul is lingering on the boundary between science and theology, in a blurred area, you can't prove it, but you can't deny it either.

About 1 in 10 people say they have experienced it.

So put it in the film, it becomes a trick that the director is happy to use, half-truth, half-truth, watching the audience melt into it, and the scalp is numb.

There are two types of movies with out-of-body plots.

A kind of thriller like [Spiritual Space] , with the elements of ghosts and ghosts to scare people.

©[Spiritual Space], the heroine who came out of the body through death

A few friends want to make up for the regrets of the past through the experience of death, and they are curious about what unknown scenes they will see in another dimension.

At first the out-of-body was a little fun for themselves, but it was later learned that it was a lesson for them to change their minds.

It's like the little seventeen from the American TV series "Stranger Things" , who is locked in a water tank and his soul goes out of his body to another world.

Seventeen, who experienced the first time, woke up full of fear, and brought with him unknown terrifying creatures and terrifying monsters.

© "Stranger Things", Little Eleven in the water tank

Another type of fantasy movie like [Doctor Strange] . As a spell, Out of Body Soul is exactly the same as that of Sun Wukong, giving the hero aura to the protagonist.

©Supreme Mage helps Doctor Strange experience the out-of-body experience

Or connect with human love in fantasy, like [The Ghost Love is Over] and [If I Stay] .

The protagonist is out of his body due to a sudden death accident, and then, like a lonely ghost, he cannot see the living people.

For them, out-of-body is a nostalgia for the living, a way of guarding their love.

©[If I stayed], Mia looked at herself in front of the hospital bed

At the same time, this experience also gives them another perspective on life. Things that cannot be seen when they are alive will become clear from such a perspective.

For Sam in [Ghost Love], it turns out that friend Carl is a bitch, while for Mia in [If I Stay], her friend is full of true love.

[Happy Lazaro] falls into the latter category, but has nothing to do with love.

What Lazaro pursues is friendship. He fell off a cliff, but transcended time and space and life and death, and came to life for Tancred.

Despite his disappointment, he went to the bank for Tancred again, trying to help him find what he had lost, not wanting to be beaten by everyone.

©Lazaro was beaten to death in the bank

Finally, his soul is no longer attached to this human body, and its out-of-body is a kind of incompatibility and mismatch.

The purest and purest soul does not belong to this hypocritical crowd.

Turn around and go with the wolf, the world is not worth it, it decided to run away.

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Author/Two years younger

The article was first published on the WeChat public account "Bao Ci Er"

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Extended Reading
  • Catalina 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    Essentially a fable about immigration in a contemporary social system, the work bursts with energy far beyond its content. A discussion of eras and civilizations, group portraits of the living conditions of the same type of people in different civilizations in the same era or in different civilizations in different eras. Lazaro looks like a saint, but when a saint has desire, he will be disappointed. In fact, after he shed tears, his soul has already lived in the wolf's body. Tancredi is the opposite of Lazaro. If Lazaro brings peace to the world, then he brings disaster to the world. And the relationship between the two of them is a righteous brother and a righteous brother, so the meaning of happiness here is very interesting. There are a few twists and turns in a few places, but there are also a few places that are full of aura and aura. The background sound of the end credits is very thoughtful, similar to "Birdman".

  • Wilbert 2022-04-24 07:01:26

    A simple, kind, shy, black-haired peasant boy meets a naughty, beautiful and suave blond aristocratic boy. Since ancient times, black and gold have produced CP? I can't believe it when they say they don't have a relationship! The Italian-style green countryside is fresh, and the 16mm film creates a unique rough picture, which is almost square and rounded like "Ghostbusters"; the unpretentious fantasy realism, the superman among ordinary people who are lucky in disguise, the saint , Angel, reminds me of Guardians of Jupiter, also from Cannes last year. Happy Lazaro, the happy legend of the Sleeping Prince, is not happy at all, not happy at all. In the end, he finally shed tears of sadness... TvT.

Happy as Lazzaro quotes

  • Marchesa Alfonsina De Luna: Human beings are like animals. Set them free and they realize they are slaves locked in their own misery. Right now, they suffer, but they don't know. I exploit them, they exploit that poor man. It's a chain reaction that can't be stopped.

  • Marchesa Alfonsina De Luna: He who knows himself well is humbled in his own presence. And the praise of other men provokes no pleasure. If I were to know everything in the universe and scorned the charity who would bring me the grace of God? Who would judge my actions? One should go beyond the thirst for knowledge that is the root of distraction and disappointment.