The first episode (translated into Chinese) "Life is impermanent", I personally don't think it is particularly appropriate. It is clearly addressing the most serious problem of Western philosophy, which Heidegger severely criticized: the forgotten history of existence—that is, the excessive expansion of human reason, that "thinking" is "existence" (Descartes, Hegel) ), do not reflect on the correctness of his own "thinking" itself, believe too much in the so-called "science", and everyday things disappear from his eyes and become tools and symbols. The scientist (father) in the film is a representative of this problem. He was born in a devout Catholic family, but since he discovered that science and reason seem to be able to solve all problems, he has gradually distanced himself from belief and believed that science is omnipotent. But in the eyes of the child, due to his instinct and the influence of his aunt, he believed in his father's scientism, and he had hazy thoughts on the areas that science could not solve-death, life and other ultimate areas. When he saw the dog in the snow, it froze to death and could no longer run and jump normally. He felt great sadness: life has passed, what's the point of studying ordinary pursuit problems? Science cannot make up for the absence of a replacement focus on humanity!
This concerns another important ideological content in this episode—religious belief. Religion itself should not constitute a serious opposition to science, they belong to two research categories, natural sciences and humanities, just like absolute scientists still cannot get rid of the needs and confusions of religion. No one can be separated from the concern on the ultimate issue. I think the most important factors leading to the subversion of religious status should be Darwin's "evolution" and Rousseau's "social original sin" theory (the latter leading to Marx's theory), the development of capitalism itself is not the root cause, Max Weber has already discussed the impact of Protestant ethics on Protestant ethics. important role in the development of capitalism. And today we rethink these critiques of our religious beliefs, which are first and foremost products of human rational thinking, and remain largely untenable. Including our belief in the "origin of life" doctrine! You can refer to "The Icon of Evolution—Science or Myth", our scientific explanations are just hypotheses for some problems, thinking does not mean existence! Thinking often forms a serious shadow over existence itself! I have always believed in philosophy, hoping to achieve the ultimate understanding through philosophy, but you can't help but say that philosophy is just a conjecture about existence! So is religion credible? do not know. When Christians educate young children, they will tell them that the Lord's apparition to Jonah in "The Adventures of Jonah" is a real story, that the burning of Sodom is a real thing, and so on. But you can't deny that in the film the child asks his aunt: "What is God?" The aunt gives him a real warm hug: "What do you feel?" - "I love you." - "This is God. "In a lonely world without eternity, who would refuse love? God loves you, how can you not be moved? That's the power of religion: unparalleled fraternity. I don't know if God exists, but blessed are those who believe in God.
The philosopher Heidegger's solution to the problem of human rational expansion is to change the perspective of the object. In the existence of existence, human beings begin to think, to know themselves by knowing the world, and to clarify the people and things in the "thrown state" through language. At the end of the film, scientists come to the church to tear down the candlesticks. Science and religion collide here. Is it a question? Is it a punishment for breaking the first commandment? Amazingly, the scientist picked up a piece of ice from the darkness and put it on his face. At this time, the ice has changed back to the ice itself, has been clarified, and is no longer the object of calculation on the computer. Here, science has not failed, and religion has not won. It is just that science has learned its due lessons, and under the concern of religion on things themselves, things are reduced to themselves.
Many people have explained the young man who appears in various forms throughout the Ten Commandments. In the first episode, the young man sits in front of the burning fire, staring at the big hole in the ice that devoured the child's life for a long time, drooping his head to wipe the tears from his cheeks, and the memory begins. This image appears repeatedly at key points in the film. The fire in front of it goes from exuberant to extinguished, symbolizing the journey of a child's life. The most worrying thing is that the night before the child's death, when he went out to check the load-bearing capacity of the ice surface, he met the young man in the fire pit, and the two stared at each other. Warning and doubting to scientists, he bears witness to human sin and punishment, sympathizes with human beings, and also looks coldly at human beings (appears later). He is religious and modern.
To sum up, the first episode is summarized as: the sin of rational expansion (it is not a sin for human beings to use science to benefit future generations, but excessive worship of reason is a sin, not God's punishment for mankind, but a punishment for the wear and tear of reason itself.) more precise.
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