There is a saying that "when you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you", which is a very vivid illustration of the two sides of things, when we are in this world, what we see is the universal rule of the world in which we live, under which we do something and become part of the people. But what about when this rule is no longer there, or when the world we live in is not the world we see in front of us? Life may change differently, and this change may be fatal. Because no one can foresee another life from the opposite side.
If everything in reality is absurd, is there any connection between existence in the absurd and reality? Again, this is a question, and there still seems to be no answer to this question. Today's recommended film with you discusses such a question, how a question without an answer is presented to everyone through the form of images, and "Orpheus's Will" gives a possibility.
This film is about an eighteenth-century poet who traveled elsewhere through the time tunnel, why he was able to discover the time tunnel, no one can explain clearly, why he can travel elsewhere through the time tunnel, no one can tell clearly, but the topic discussed in this film does not seem to have much to do with such a question, more often, what we see is a kind of reflection of existence. As the poet weaves through the tunnel of time, what he sees and hears intertwines, making everything in front of him seem absurd. The basis of all this comes from a space in which the poet himself is located, but what is reflected is another space that the poet sees after crossing. The two spaces exist independently of each other, and when the poet sees and feels the interweaving and collision, we as the audience are inevitably confused.
However, the film is intended to explain a certain connection between this confusion and non-confusion. If one looks at it from the poet's point of view alone, a person within a normal space somehow comes to another time space, which is absurd in itself and at the same time fresh. The absurdity is that we have already accepted a theory of a comforting nature to construct our real world, and we cannot accept another value that hovers back and forth on the basis of existing values. What this film brings to the audience is this feeling, which is a very bad feeling, which will largely confuse the audience, because the audience has formed an established value to judge the surrounding environment and existence, and they cannot let another environment and existence continue. Therefore, this is one of the reasons for the absurdity of this film.
However, there is another side to this film, precisely because it seems absurd in the eyes of ordinary people, so there is another unknown side of this film, that is, non-absurdity, which is just the result of the existence of a different aspect. The non-absurd side can be produced by the audience's acceptance of the idea that the absurd is the reality in the film.
Looking at the absurd world in the film from the poet's point of view, the whole world is upside down, that is because the poet himself thinks that his world is correct, so after seeing the world that contradicts the right world, he thinks that such a world is upside down. But when it's all the other way around? What if we look at the poet from the perspective of this upside-down world? Then all this may become reasonable, and all this change comes from our existing value judgments. This judgment is preconceived.
The poet previously sought death because he could freely travel through time and space without restriction, but when this shuttle became the norm, this unrestricted became a kind of "restriction.". The poet cannot return to reality, nor can he see the normal order, so the original attitude of pursuing death takes a turn and finally chooses to pursue survival. However, when this idea is contrary to the previous one, just as the poet's environment is contrary to the previous one, everything is completely subverted. When the poet is afraid of death, he has experienced the attack of death, and even he has died completely. However, everything in reality, while declaring the poet dead, everything that contradicts it saves the poet's life in another way. If this is a kind of reincarnation, then what is the difference between death and survival?
The world we live in requires us to use an established logical value to calculate the occurrence and annihilation of everything. But even so, the world has many mysteries that cannot be solved. An existing ecological environment cannot explain everything with a regular value, and the film "Orpheus's Will" explains such a truth for us. All existing value judgments are based on a certain kind of fact, but are such seemingly objective facts really facts?
When we use one logic to overthrow another, it is another question whether everything that exists in human society will stagnate. Is everything we expect, everything we see, everything we rely on really unbreakable? Are the rules multifaceted?
Rules are pluralistic, and when we rely on one rule to explain everything, we naturally inevitably put ourselves in a situation like a poet, but when we change our way of thinking, another way of thinking that can accept everything, to look at what is happening in front of us, to live or die? There is no real obstacle between them, and we are more able to experience different existences. As stated in the opening chapter, when you gaze, is the "he" who is being gazed at also staring at you?
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