For a long time, as long as the works of the Coen brothers, it is basically necessary to read.
The Ballad of Buster, I read it for the first time, I didn't think there was anything outstanding, because the Coen brothers have always been existentialist and dark humorous.
The second time, I felt that the fifth story was really good, suitable for my mental state of depression.
I used to be stupid and didn't understand psychology. Since I have been in a state of depression and anxiety for a year, I have been reflecting on it, and I have gained something: that is, everyone has complete behavioral capacity, but under certain conditions Being influenced by one's own mental state, it becomes like he has lost all his ability to act, expecting everything to be pessimistic, negative, and not worth taking action, so he doesn't eat or drink and wait for death.
Without further ado, let's analyze why I think I am that Miss Longberg.
At the beginning of the story, the Langberg brothers and sisters set off for the west with the landlord and their neighbors for their last dinner. After the business failed, Mr. Longberg once again took a gamble. This time, the bet was his sister's marriage. Other people's lines imply that this marriage is just Mr. Longborg's wishful thinking. Miss Longborg is basically controlled since childhood, unable to think or act independently. Every major change in life (actually someone else's) leading) are full of expectations, but she is always undecided. She doesn't know what the outcome of this trip to the west will be, what kind of person that Mr. Wayne is, and she begins to have expectations for marriage: there are good, It's not good, in short, there are already fantasies in my mind.
Marriage has "anchored" in her mind. The so-called anchoring, I think, is some kind of strong hint given by the outside world. All your thoughts and future actions will involuntarily be based on this anchor. After the big event in Miss Longborg's future life, after her brother said that she was getting married, it was almost the result of marriage, and the other issues were who to marry and when, which was very sad.
When buying a house, if you are influenced by an intermediary, they will first put forward a price, no matter whether the price is reasonable or not, you can only negotiate with the other party based on this price. As everyone knows, the so-called floating percentage in your mind Fifteenth, in fact, it is within the profit range of the intermediary. As long as you do not deviate from the initial price, you will eventually fall into the trap of the intermediary, and you will contract and pay. The advice given by psychologists is to get rid of this price anchor immediately, destroy the negotiation by making a fuss, rethink, and come up with a price yourself.
Returning to Miss Longberg's predicament, her brother died as soon as the road to the west began. Of course, she didn't know what to do. Even when the escort duo asked her whether she should go back or continue, she didn't know how to answer. She had to be dealt with by others. She didn't know how to do it?
For example, Mr. Longberg's death.
At the beginning, the landlord clearly told others that his brother's cough was not a contagious cough, but a nervous one. On the night of his death, although he coughed outside for a long time, there was no scene of falling down or coughing up blood. He died violently the next morning. The old leader, Mr. Arthur, said cholera was terrible. Everyone knows that cholera causes diarrhea and vomiting, but Mr. Longberg apparently has no symptoms in this regard. Arthur hinted at this because he wanted to shirk his responsibility. After all, he and Kemp were bodyguards and received protection fees for the entire migration team. Legally, I think he is also responsible for the safety of the life and property of the entire team. He implied that Longberg Natural death, just do not want to be responsible. Unexpectedly, Miss Longborg didn't even say a word of irony, neither did he say that his brother had a history of coughing, nor did he think about whether it was murder, some people were responsible, and even one sentence: My brother did not There is no such thing as cholera to preserve the dignity of the dead. She didn't even know where the money was. She didn't remember if the money was in her brother's pocket until the younger brother who was fighting was asking her for wages. At this time, it was half a day's journey away from the burial place. At that time, Kemp asked her for Don't set up a sign, such as a tombstone or something. She also didn't say a word. Of course, Camp didn't want to bother to get a tombstone for a stranger, so he said that Indians eat carrion, Rambeau Miss Greg accepted it in full.
At this time, I had to make some dark guesses. Will Camp know that the money was on the body, and secretly run back to dig up the body to get the money, and then run back to propose to Miss Longberg? If this is the case, human nature is too evil to use the money of the Longberg family to buy Miss Longberg. Thankfully, there's no hint in the movie, or that old cowboy Arthur ever did. However, Camp's ability is not enough. He also has a confused face when encountering emergencies. He can't solve the problem of driving the cow. He can't even kill a dog. He fired three shots and complained that Arthur should do it. This kind of thing, he is a sharpshooter Yunyun...
Camp's proposal.
Now that Miss Longborg has shown a devoid of personality boundaries and an obedient style of behavior, the opportunity for the outside world to covet her has come. Camp's marriage proposal lines were not emotional at all. They were completely selfish. He had worked as a bodyguard for fifteen years. Arthur was old and had no future in this industry. I have also reached the age of marriage, and I need to give birth to children to take care of my old self. The 1872 decree stipulates that one person will give 320 acres of land, and two people will be 640 acres. In any case, none of them were directly in the favor of Miss Longberg, and they did not even praise her appearance, dress, and conversation. I just said, if you agree, then I will be responsible for your debts, and I will pay the cattle driver at the destination. Who knows where that money came from, maybe it actually went to dig up the body. Since Longborg can afford $400, he must have more than $400.
Miss Longberg hesitated.
No matter what the purpose of Kemp's marriage proposal is, at least it can immediately change Miss Longberg's current predicament. There is no one to take care of and no one to rely on. Promise good morning, after you have a husband, you don't need to look at the face of the young ox, but Miss Longberg didn't agree immediately, and suddenly fell into the sweet fantasy of the girl being pursued, fantasizing that she already has a certain girl. Some good things, going out to find the dog is a sign that she didn't like the dog at all, made it clear that the dog was not her property, and was willing to let Kemp execute it. After getting a marriage proposal, I couldn't help but start fantasizing about whether things that were bad in the past could be changed for the better?
absolutely not.
Her suicide simply fell into another psychological anchor.
Whether Mr. Arthur was happy or unhappy about Kemp getting married, there was no hard evidence. I speculate that Arthur should be reluctant. There is speculation that Arthur was indirectly responsible for Miss Longberg's death. It can also be said that, because he has come along the way, it is easy to judge that Miss Longberg is easy to accept other people's suggestions, but he does not necessarily have to actively kill this person from his own behavior. When there is an opportunity, he will start psychologically. When attacked by the Indians, he gave Miss Longberg a pistol, told her the terrible consequences of being captured, and then told her how to commit suicide. . . So Miss Longberg can only swing between suicide and not suicide in action, just as she has been swinging between marriage and not marrying in the first half of the story. Eventually the situation worsened and she had to commit suicide.
In life, even in the western part of that era, there are two options besides getting married or committing suicide, why not think independently? Why set such firm limits on yourself under the cues of others?
If a depressed person has the ability to predict the future, then everything will go bad, and the truth is that nothing is as bad as you think it will be unbearable.
If optimistic people have the ability to predict the future, then everything will be good and it will come true, the truth is that everything is not as good as they think.
So predicting the future is simply a waste of time. The logic of predicting the future is that if I straighten out the cause and effect of every major event that happened in the past, then if I make the cause happen or not, then the good will happen and the bad will not. Does causality exist? does not exist. The law of causality only exists in the associations of the human brain, and it is implemented in stories like Jin Yong's novels.
The recent predicament is that I have a lot of free time. I want to do something, and I always want to find a reason for myself. For example, once a certain thing starts, it must not be stopped, so from the beginning, you must think about whether it is worth doing and whether it is good or not. returns and results. Wouldn't it be a waste of time and energy if there are no good returns and results?
Don't be stupid, I live to this day, which thing is not done after thinking about the meaning, and in the end, I still stay in place like an idiot. It can be said that most of the time and energy is wasted, if calculated purely from the input-output ratio.
So, in the future, give up predicting the future, and don’t trust all kinds of anchors easily.
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