Today, taking advantage of the rare free time on Thursday, I finished watching "The Enemy: Betty and Joan", which I had watched the beginning a long time ago, but had been idle for a long time. With the end of the plot, I have a very different view of the term "enemy" than before. There is this description in the film that I think is very appropriate: Feuds are never about hate. Feuds are about pain.
Pain is the origin of hatred, and an old enemy is a pair of lonely souls who also grit their teeth. They hate each other not because of the huge difference in values between the two sides, but because they have similar souls. And hatred is just a way of venting the pain and injustice that one has suffered.
They cannot be friends, precisely because they are also women with ideals and abilities, and the times have given such women more helplessness and sadness.
Schopenhauer said either vulgarity or loneliness.
Betty and Joan both chose the latter on the road to self-realization, and there are no friends on this road, only old enemies.
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