Do people have agency?

Danny 2022-03-26 09:01:06

I suddenly realized several points of view from the "Hannibal" series of movies: (1) People cannibalize people, and people create wars and history. When the strong destroy the weak, those in power have the right to wage war to destroy the weak? Natural selection of the survival of the fittest, natural selection of the fittest to survive, selfishness, cruelty, indifference, violence, war, property rights and other desires... What is the difference between human beings' natural desire to harm the same kind and animals? How to guarantee the right to life, one of the human rights? What about the agency of human nature? (2) There are distinct social strata. The society creates a series of rules and regulations. On the one hand, it is developed to protect the interests of the established groups. The geographical environment of origin and education has created stratification. The female policeman in the film is from a rural area and works as a female character. People are repeatedly discriminated against in promotions, and human nature is fully revealed in the social class. How to protect the right to development, one of the human rights? What about the agency of human society? (3) In the process of investigating the perverted murderer Hannibal, the policewoman finally developed a love interest with the murderer, because Hannibal, a doctor of psychology of the murderer, understood the childhood experience of the policewoman and the experience of being discriminated against at work. Nibal and policewomen have similar childhood shadow experiences, and the sympathy of such experiences makes these two characters, who are both police and murderers, have love and sympathy, so only two individuals who have the same experiences and feelings can Will there be true love? That is to say, what kind of person are you and your love will be judged. Your background, experience, education class determines your love, but what about the dynamism of human love? I feel that I have the same pessimistic attitude towards human beings as the author of this movie. The movie modifies the final plot of the original novel. At the end of the novel, Hannibal and the policewoman have gone away. This is similar to the other movie "Transcending", although He is pessimistic about human nature and society, but the protagonists have completed their own redemption in the end. So, what about my self-salvation?

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Hannibal Rising quotes

  • Hannibal Lecter: I love you.

    Lady Murasaki: What is left in you to love?

  • Hannibal Lecter: Rudeness is an epidemic.