Not serious film reviews. Running account.
The Gnostic believers tried their best to figure out a question: Why would a perfect heavenly Father create an imperfect human world? Their long reasoning finally points to a hypothesis that can explain everything: the world was created by the devil.
At the beginning, I was puzzled, why is there such a strange dichotomy: what is good and what is evil? Where are their respective degrees? Does the obviously eliminated dichotomy still have such a status in today's American TV dramas? This good land looks so fake...
The setting of four people is very interesting. The two couples have a reason for pairing.
Eleanor is undoubtedly the worst, she has done all kinds of bad things. But it doesn't seem to be killing or arson. Moreover, Eleanor is the awakened person who finally realized that everyone was not doing good, and was the one who improved the most during the whole process. at least she know herslef. Jason is an idiot...Tahani undoubtedly behavior is good, but not motivation... These two people are actually the medium of the film... In a sense, Chidi is the best on the surface: professor of ethics , Help eleanor unselfishly. But it is also an idiot similar to Jason, and at the same time a hypocrite similar to Tahani. Wrote a long essay on ethics, but couldn't make the most basic choice. In the end, I thought that the most wrong thing I did was almond milk, and ignored the pain my indecision caused to others. Chidi and Eleanor's judging position of good and evil is not exaggerated: Compared with Eleanor's improvement, Chidi can be said to have made no progress, always spinning in his cage, but he thinks that he knows everything.
The little devil Mike is very pitiful. On the surface, he manipulated everything, and the power of the four humans was very different. But mankind only needs to realize that this is not a good place. He needs to build a perfect heaven to cover up the fact that the four are in hell. How is this possible? How can people be suffering while thinking that they are in eternal happiness, just a bit of a bug? Ahem, it seems that the adult marriage fairy tale is like this: two human beings are destined to torture each other, but believe that each other is their own soulmate, and there will be a happy ending... But what if they realize that this is hell? What about knowing that marriage is a tomb? Isn't it restarting, or the false good place again? Isn't it the next human being, similar torture?
The film is generally very positive, because everyone is getting better, and the devil is actually powerless to change this. Because the devil can only rely on his own crude understanding to simulate heaven, in fact, the understanding is not even as good as that of humans. Just like the setting in Gnostic: the devil is jealous that humans can perceive what he cannot perceive. So he created the flesh, created the desire: in this way, trapped human beings and sealed their higher perceptions.
The little devil finally realized that his biggest mistake was to keep these four people together. This is also very positive: when these four people are alone in the world, they are all trapped in their own consciousness, unable to recognize their own evil. And when they are added together, the mysterious chemical reaction allows them to break through their limitations and fight the devil's deception together. This gave me a new sense of the meaning of companion: not the soulmate who is happy forever in the pre-determined vision, but the companion who breaks through the limitations of consciousness together. Maybe he is not perfect, nor is he a player who complements you, at least this complementation is not simply to make life easier... This kind of encounter may also be very random. Nothing is destined, there is no match made in heaven, there is no happy ending...But you are in the same team. I don’t know why, this thought made me truly feel for the first time: I’m not in a forgotten and difficult to optimize Saddle point. There is a certain connection between me and other people, a certain possibility that allows us to all go further in the infinite unknown.
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