Chislowski, in "Red" in his "Red, White and Blue" trilogy, gives us such hope.
The distinction
between right and wrong "The only distinction between right and wrong is between a single thought." The old judge recounted his experience when he was young. In court he once released a sailor, but he later found out that the sailor was not innocent. The misplaced sailor returns to "justice" and has since changed his mind and lived a happy life. The wrong judgment of the law has caused the happiness of the world. In our imagination, we can assume that the sailor was not released, and that in prison he grew darker and darker before committing even greater crimes. This possibility may be a void in the mind, but it can happen. In "Multiple Worlds," perhaps the sailor's life has ended in sin, never to be redeemed. "Choice" thus becomes sacred and dangerous.
Between the "abstractness of jurisprudence" and the "concreteness of personal temperament", a judge is forced into a corner. As a mortal, he can understand the deep personal experience behind crimes, and as a judge, he can understand the clear legal requirement of punishing evil and promoting good. When he legally convicted his rival, he couldn't get rid of his hatred for his rival. He could not stop the role of personal emotions in the trial. Unable to bear the burden of "choice", he retired.
In our real life, we can only live in an erratic falsehood, and the only reality we can touch may only be when we sincerely analyze ourselves - but who can guarantee that all people can be themselves What about profiling? Who can be sure that they can truly know themselves? The seemingly peaceful and beautiful world we see every day is the tip of the iceberg above a larger reality. The huge reality below the sea is something we cannot see intuitively.
When the old judge tapped the phone, he was only sneaking into the shallows of reality. But the thin layer that he had eavesdropped on and peeped at was already incompatible with what was on the surface. Who would have thought that a man next door with a benevolent wife and lovely daughter could actually be a homosexual? A daughter who stopped believing her mother because she was always cheating on her seems to be the mother's fault. But in fact she just wanted to get her daughter's love. A lot of times we can't stand up to our own suffering, isn't it just because we're always convinced that we live in an intuitive, deterministic world?
The real thing is always heavy, and in order to avoid the heavy burden on us, we unknowingly reject it or even deny it. So the morality of the whole people came into being, the code of conduct came into being, and the law came into being - "right" came into being. But when we are enjoying this feast that makes the world simple and simple, the falseness and deceit of the feast itself sometimes make people miserable when making decisions. People still can't forget the deep truth. When making a decision, contradictions collide between "law" and "emotion".
For Chislowski, the pre-law world may have things that humans should not abandon. But "secularization" and "rationalization" have robbed the once profound, although its banner is "freedom for all mankind".
The Redeemer
"Red" is a solemn film, its solemnity lies not only in its theme "fraternity", but also in the issues it discusses that trouble the world. Are there answers to these questions? Maybe not. But when the room that was hidden in the shadows suddenly burst into a beam of warm sunlight, when the old judge replaced the broken light bulb and the warm light illuminated their faces again, it was a kind of hopelessness. The expression of redemption in the dark.
"If I am tried, are there any judges like you nowadays?"
"You will not be tried. The court does not accept innocent people."
As soon as the voice fell, a stone broke the glass of the house and flew in, as if to refute and ridicule this sentence. It is not the law that can truly save mankind from such contradictory suffering, but the human warmth that supports and assists each other in suffering. Towards the end of the film, the young lawyer suffers from witnessing his beloved girlfriend with another man. He put his pet, a black puppy, on the road by the sea and drove away. Maybe it means his farewell to the happy life of the past, or maybe it means that he has fallen in pain and decided to exile himself alone. However, when he embarked on the long voyage ship, he still held his puppy in his arms, the only faithful companion who could accompany him in suffering.
On the eve of her voyage, Valentina, a girl who had experienced conflict and pain, saw an aging female beggar struggling to stuff a bottle into the trash can. She stepped forward and helped her.
Forsaken or not, help or not, these choices seem to be in one thought, but the results of "choice" are worlds apart. The shipwreck at the end of the film is deeply symbolic. This is a collective fall of human morality, "redemption", in the turbulent sea, it seems unlikely, but the possibility still exists. Among the 7 people who were saved, the young lawyer and Valentina were in the category of being saved. What saved them was an affirmation of humanity, an affirmation of the heavy real world—people living in the reality of suffering, and people need to love and accompany each other.
Multiple Worlds
From the structure of the film, the narration of the young lawyer is the care of the old judge in his life. The young lawyer under the lens of Chislowski is another ending for the old judge in the multiple worlds. They broke the regular pattern of time and space and were redeemed at the right time, so as to obtain real happiness in the world. Is this a beautiful fantasy of Chislowski's misery? The old judge had a happy dream: Valentina was in her fifties, and beside her was a young man in his twenties. He dared not say anything more specific, but we felt that the lad was the old judge himself. He wished he could have been redeemed earlier, when life was flourishing. This is a dream about happiness in life. Perhaps this dream is not only a blessing to the pure Valentina, but also a blessing to all "reincarnated beings" who seek the secret recipe for redemption before the fall.
Whether multiple worlds are the best explanation for Schrödinger's cat experiment seems irrelevant for now. But it leaves people with complicated thinking. When we are faced with the "coercion" of multiple choices, it is almost impossible to choose "exactly right". "Right" does not exist, just as "wrong" does not exist accordingly. We always use a "judgment" of the future to determine what happened in the past. It sounds absurd, but on a certain level it is. "History does not exist exactly unless it has been recorded."
Multiple worlds are scenarios in a "superposition", and when human consciousness intervenes, a "collapse" occurs, and a fact arises: either one or the other , must be one. The idealism of conscious determinism appears exceptionally strong at this moment. But can we say what is right and what is wrong? Why do materialists who talk about objective truth all day always turn a blind eye to reality—the "heavy truth"? People who live in heavy suffering have to spend their lives blindly in grand celebrations. National morality, code of conduct, laws... Will all of these bring people happiness?
Possibilities are infinite, and authenticity is complex. This is not only the answer left by "multiple worlds", but also the most profound experience I have gained from the film "Red".
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