If I live but have no freedom, what is the meaning of life?

Marian 2021-11-14 08:01:23

Is there anything more precious than freedom in this world?

If I live, but I have to be imprisoned on a deserted and dark island all my life, but cannot live the life I want, then what is the meaning of life? I want to take back my freedom, I want to take back my freedom! ! Even if someone tells me that being alive is a gift, even if someone tells me that the road to the outside world is blocked, even if I will die tomorrow, and even if I will fail this time, it will not stop my crazily desire for freedom.

Papillon planned to escape multiple times. After each failure, he was imprisoned or beaten with reduced food. One time, he was detained and beaten with reduced food and almost died. After more than ten years, he and his cellmates had gray hair, and finally obtained a humble "freedom" on the island. Although they could not leave the island, they could raise them, and they also had their own independent cabins. But how can these compare with the great and precious freedom? The inmates who shared with him no longer hold any hope for freedom, and Papillon, with a thirst for freedom, bravely swam across the boundless sea on the coconut shell, finally enjoying the freedom of the last four years of his life.

Once a person cherishes a certain belief and persists in madness, there will eventually be results. So there is nothing incredible or impossible, as long as you dare.

Believe me, this is more shocking and profound than "Prison Break",

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Extended Reading
  • Keith 2022-04-23 07:01:41

    McQueen's Papillon looks exactly like what his "The Great Escape" character had in mind a decade ago, thinking only of escape from the moment he was caught in jail. It's just that Papillon's escape motive is less just than other prison escape movies. After all, he is not without blemishes, and where did his accomplice Hoffman hide so much money, it always makes no sense to scrutinize. More appropriate as an adventure theme.

  • Wellington 2022-04-21 09:01:45

    Good movie, better in thought than Shawshank

Papillon quotes

  • Toussaint: We do a lot of smuggling here. We raid the mainland. We steal boats. When an outsider comes in we generally kill him, as a security measure.

    Papillon: That makes sense.

    Toussaint: Well... a man of Christian understanding.

  • Warden Barrot: [last lines - voice over] Papillon made it to freedom. And for the remaining years of his life, he lived a free man. This, the infamous penal system in French Guiana, did not survive him.