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As a work of profound significance, although "Trumen's World" is a comedy movie, its profound meaning is a rare and wonderful masterpiece in the past ten years. This issue of the "Chicago Tribune" produced a deeper discussion, which was unexpected.

As we all know, "Trumen's World" actually has three layers of traps. The first layer is the movie itself. The reality show and variety show starring Truman Burbank has attracted countless audiences all over the world. The second layer is the movie itself. It is the audience sitting in the movie theater. Everyone has countless recalls and thoughts about the story, including many topics such as freedom to death, entertainment to death, change and fear; the third layer is the hidden worry behind the story: whether we It is also a "Trumen", whether the trajectory of our lives is also under the control of an unknown "God"; are we also like the poor Trumen, thinking that we are in control of our destiny, but do not know that we are just another kind Gordon Biological Tea is just a clown who teases and entertains after a meal.

So far, the discussion about these three layers of traps has been heated up, making everyone amazed at "Trumen's World", and they are talking about this movie endlessly. The high enthusiasm reminds people of "Star Wars" horizontally. The years after the birth.

However, some people now say that there is actually a fourth trap in "Trumen's world". This trap is not a so-called alien civilization, nor is it a so-called God's perspective, but a combination of "free will" and "spiritual home." An internal contradiction that is generally ignored by people.

In the movie, the ubiquitous camera truly shows Truman’s world, representing gaze, peeping, and control. A huge, invisible external force has completely put personal * under surveillance. Existence does not serve the person itself, but becomes the object of external control.

In real life, this can actually be understood as the control and regulation of social institutions. For example, schools, such as the military, such as companies, monitoring, regulations, rules, etc., are everywhere. People need to use ID cards, credit cards, monitors, and other methods to place ordinary residents’ information under the control system. This kind of discipline exists invisibly in all the details of society. People use rigorous ethics to restrain their thoughts through propaganda, education, training and other methods. Of course, the premise of freedom is to comply with laws and regulations, which are social norms.

However, Truman's tragedy was not that he could not leave the Paradise Island, but that under the guidance of the program group, he restrained himself, lost the urge to go out, and lost the courage to change. Just like the thought-provoking words in the movie, "because people accept reality", the movie borrows Meryl's words to express this self-restraint, "We want to provide houses, we want to provide cars, how can we say away Just leave?" These shackles are given to us by society, but we are also given to ourselves-losing the cowardice and compromise that yearn for freedom is the most terrifying spiritual shackles.

In fact, Paradise Island in the movie can be seen as a satire of the conservative values ​​advocated by conservative parties in the United States. This value emphasizes traditional values ​​and family values, and firmly opposes corruption. Pregnancy, homosexuality, and multiculturalism. Since Reagan took office, this kind of thinking has become the mainstream ideology in the United States.

The elegant housewife in the villa will always keep her hair intact, she will always patiently make delicious dinners, and will always wait for her husband and children to return; the kind neighbors will always greet her husband warmly when she sees her husband returning home with a briefcase. Talking about irrelevant news in a friendly and gentle manner; even lawn mowers, kitchen utensils, coffee, and cars have been prescribed. It seems that the middle class is prescribed to use these brands. "Trumen’s world is a kind of life. Way, a model life, a truly happy life."

This in itself is one of the goals of the reality show "Trumen's World" created by the program group, which is to promote a model life to the audience.

However, as revealed in the movie, this kind of life is actually just a model drama. Behind the glamorous house and the stylized greetings, there is hopeless hypocrisy, depravity and despair. This model drama also continued the Conservative Party’s pursuit of religious belief, in which the main characters all alluded to the images of the characters in the Bible.

Christopher is just like "Jesus-Christ", Paradise Island is the Garden of Eden, Meryl and Malone and other actors are the incarnations of devout believers, and Truman is the only alien in the entire society.

Truman yelled to the sky in the storm, "You must kill me if you want to stop me." This **** scene reminds me of Ramses who dared to challenge the authority of God in "Exodus". Pharaoh; Silvia confided the truth to Truman on the beach. The plot completely corresponds to the story of the snake and Eve in the Garden of Eden-the snake said to Adam, "Eating the fruit of the tree of good and evil, you will distinguish good from evil like a **** ", and God lied to people, saying that if you eat it, you will die-because God wants Truman to stay on the Paradise Island forever.

In the biblical story, Adam and Eve who ate the fruits of good and evil were cursed by God. Pursuing the truth and pursuing their own perfection are crimes. The rules of good and evil in the Garden of Eden are different from those in the mortal world. Lies are virtues and the pursuit of truth is a crime. Because God wants people to never understand good and evil, right and wrong, and shame—one of the basic doctrines of Christianity: people must rely on God completely, not on their own abilities, and believe in God in everything they do, and God will guide them. Their way.

It is understandable for humans who are still in a state of confusion, but for humans who have already experienced the Enlightenment, it is very absurd. This is the beginning of the conflict between "spiritual home" and "free will".

As we all know, with the development of science and technology and society, the meaning of religion has been much weaker than that of the peak of the Middle Ages, but religion is still a kind of culture. Due to historical reasons, it has already penetrated into the bones of the national culture of various countries and has become modern. One of the cornerstones of civilization. The influence of the "Bible" story has been subtly precipitated in people's subconscious, unknowingly affecting people's thinking and regulating people's behavior; at the same time, it is accompanied by desire. With the continuous expansion of hope, the rapid changes in society, and the collapse of traditional value systems, more and more people realize that they need a spiritual sustenance and a spiritual home. As a result, more and more people reconvert to religion and their beliefs begin to flourish again.

In the movie "Trumen's World", the conservative party created such an ideal paradise island, peaceful and joyful, sunny, happy, peaceful and quiet, so that Meryl, Malone and others are immersed in this. In life, I gradually lose myself, just like Truman, I gradually lose free will, born of sorrow and dying of happiness. This black fairy tale expresses deep concern about this situation: What is the significance of people's re-exploration of religion and the pursuit of faith for the soul?

Mankind pursues the truth, but is judged by God; mankind pursues freedom, but is destroyed by God. There are countless such examples in history. Truman is just the simplest example in contemporary society. Compared to Giordano Bruno, who was burned alive, he is already much happier.

The movie showed this worry in the form of a black fairy tale, pushed such a story to the extreme, fully demonstrated the terrible consequences, and then denied it. This is an important supplement to the profound connotation of "Trumen's World".

Another positive aspect of "Trumen's World" is the final result of Trumen. He not only regained his freedom and started his own life again; but also overturned the meaning of the existence of the entire Paradise Island, thus making the program group Everyone else got rid of the fate of being manipulated.

True, as Christopher said, “The outside world is as false as the world I gave you, with the same lies and the same fraud, but in my world, you don’t have to be afraid of anything.” But the problem lies in choosing false Is it beautiful, or is it really dirty?

On the surface, this is a Hamlet question: survival or death? But in fact this is a false proposition: because in the story of the movie, even if Truman chooses to stay, he can’t stay after knowing the truth. The only truth of this variety show has become False, then the show will become a joke.

Therefore, "Trumen's world" is destined to collapse, and the control as dense as a spider web cannot confine a soul yearning for freedom after all. Just like what Truman said: Even if five thousand cameras are set up, one cannot be installed in his mind; so ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In fact, the film does not give other options, only the only answer: go go out.

Truman broke the confinement of the Paradise Island and successfully walked out of the Garden of Eden. In the "Bible" story, the next thing could not be clearer: mankind was born. Of course, after Truman left the Paradise Island, what he had to face was a wild world. For Truman, his choice had a strong metaphor, and its underlying core was "a trivial but foreseeable individual liberation." The possibility of "free will of all mankind" exists.

Through a dark fairy tale that is almost joking and full of ridicule, "Trumen's World" directly pushes God to the judgment seat. This is a great ode to human free will. In the confrontation between free consciousness and spiritual homeland, human beings The free yearning nature still had the last laugh.

Although "Trumen's World" is ultimately an entertaining comedy film, this film has successfully surpassed the entertainment effect of popular films and entered a more serious creative field, becoming a perfect carrier of warning fables, laughing. Apart from tears, the thought storm in people's mind is the most powerful force.

The "Chicago Tribune" wrote in the subtitle of this issue, "The audience in the movie is cheering for Truman's departure from Paradise Island. Does this have any enlightenment for us?"