On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, I watched a blockbuster film "King Kong" shot 20 years ago, and I couldn't calm down for a long time, so I listened to the overture of Schumann's "Spring Symphony" and walked into Jiachen Year in my dream.
In the early morning, the morning glow was brilliant, the wind and the sun were beautiful, and along the road with few cars and few people, I walked towards Yangshan Lake.
On the side of the road, the evergreen vegetation in all seasons makes you hear the footsteps of spring in the ice and snow melt a few days ago, and you don't feel the chill of winter at all.
Looking from afar, the ten thousand cherry blossom trees on the side of the Jiuxiang River began to be suspected of having bones, the jagged spring plum blossoms are about to bloom, it seems to realize that the Jinling scenery of early spring and early moon has come, and the plum blossom mountain under the foot of the Zhongshan Mausoleum must be the season when tourists are weaving again.
Passing through the wide Xianlin Avenue, the subway and the ring road above the head make a rumbling noise, so that you can't help yourself in the irritability of industrial civilization, the most ironic thing is that more than 200 meters to the west, on both sides of the Jiuxiang River Bridge of the ten-mile long river, there are three sculptures of Dutch windmills that symbolize agricultural civilization, with a deep attachment, becoming the bridge scenery of the two civilizations, and also becoming a landmark building that is about to arrive at Nanjing University, no wonder some people jokingly call Nanjing University "Jiuxianghe College of Arts and Sciences".
I looked under the bridge to see if the wintering crane had returned, and every three seasons, it stood guard like a sentinel in the flowing waters. In the river from south to north, the spring water has already rippled, but unfortunately, there is no white crane to be seen.
Suddenly, a flock of twenty or so white-necked black ducks swimming in the river appeared in my field of vision, they ignored the roar of the noisy machines in the air, and the leisurely swimming style calmed my mood, they were paddling a pool of spring water of the duck prophet. I think they are probably the first animals in wild animals to live in harmony with humans, although they are wild, but they have been accustomed to the troubles brought by industrial civilization, and the natural laws of survival make these weak animals, in the historical process of civilization evolution, not lie down, but helplessly live. Is this a tragedy, or is it a comedy?
Walking into Yangshan Lake, I finally saw a few white cranes passing by the lake, when you approached it, they were standing in the grass by the lake, and flew away from you, these white cranes who like to walk alone, are they the same kind of Thoreau who live alone in Walden Lake, they are all thinking about the philosophical question of how humans and birds survive in nature?
The willows surrounding the lake are beginning to report spring, and the bones blooming on the tender yellow branches are not the news of flowers, but they are also the womb where willow leaves are born. At this time, I remembered what the famous essayist Feng Zikai said, "The joy of Oriental people is in the New Year ...... of 'green willows are yellow and half uneven'."But it is most pleasant to observe the budding of flowers and willows and to observe the rejuvenation of heaven and earth in silence."
Spring is really coming, but I'm not happy. Because I still can't forget the stars of last night—between humans and animals, between the clash of civilizations, and in the process of historical evolution, from what standpoint do we stand on to examine the relationship between man and nature?
The old movie "King Kong" I watched last night made me fall into the contemplation of the rebellion of human duality that I can't extricate myself from. Undoubtedly, this is a sci-fi film about Skull Island set in 1933, but the main characters are made up of people and fictional giant animals gorillas, and of course, there are vicious indigenous people in the pristine ecological environment as supporting characters. The film's choreographer used love as the main ingredient of this film, staging a tragic battle between humans and beasts. Because I never liked watching science fiction films, twenty or thirty years ago, when I was involved in the "anthropocentrism" and "zoocentrism" debate, I missed this best example when I wrote, and when the bell rang at the end of the year, I made a new judgment on the relationship between humans and animals through this film.
This is known as a romantic horror action science fiction film, the highlight of horror is not the storyline of the giant ape snatching relatives, and the bloody ** alien scenes in those primitive tribes, but the horror of the slaughter and play in the palm of the giant ape's brutal snatching of relatives, transformed into the bravest and most sincere romantic love story. Is this progress in the historical process of civilization, or is it a kind of historical regression?
After watching this movie on Chinese New Year's Eve, I felt emotional, and I deeply thought about why this animalistic supremacy film under the banner of zoocentrism was obviously fed to the audience *** but would move many audiences, and even, the heroine "An"'s dumping and love for the giant ape prompted the tears of many audiences? Although the beautiful protagonist Ann obtained a sick "love" in the process of constant abuse, after the abuse, the stimulation of pain and happiness deeply infected the audience, and this hidden morbid theme expression made me angry in the transposition of the spring overture.
Obviously, the love between the heroine Ann and the giant ape is absurd, but the main tone that the film wants to tell us is: human beings are absurd and irretrievable, and they are incurable, so the destruction of human beings, including the destruction of the concept of love that human beings have established over thousands of years, is a matter of course. Only by satisfying the animal's desires and making the heroine a sacrifice and a sacrificer can the world be at peace. The protagonist Ann's inexplicable spiritual intercourse with Vajramon made her and it complete the salvation of human souls and love together, are they the saviors of mankind? When the giant gorilla King Kong finally died heroically in the great battle against humanity, he became a hero who came to this human world, was it Jesus who went to the cross?
The denial of human civilization in this way may be the law of animal protectionism, but where do they lead humanity? There is no doubt that this human world is full of bestiality, and human beings have many terrible human weaknesses, but I don't believe that primitive beastliness can save humanity and the world! I don't even believe that the mission that man is inferior to beast, the reversal of the wheel of history, and the regression of civilization and history are the dead end for mankind to destroy itself! Only by reflecting on the historical process of civilization and constantly overcoming the weaknesses of human nature can mankind achieve the progress of its world outlook, and any retrogression will be an act of destroying itself.
Is that invulnerable behemoth a true stoic hero? Returning to the primitive law of the jungle, is the love of man and beast the greatest love? What does the tragic sacrifice of the giant gorilla show to mankind? What kind of theme does the supporting character who plays the director, standing in front of the corpse of a giant ape used to make money on the stage of industrial civilization, utter the line "It was a beautiful woman who killed the beast"? Will bestiality make us all viewers wear the mask of personality?
As the bell was about to ring in the New Year, I wrote the last paragraph of the New Year. I was afraid of insomnia, so I took sleeping pills and chose to listen to Schumann's "Spring No. 1" in B-flat major conducted by Mendelssohn, because it is a historical testimony of the romantic and sincere love between the composer Schumann and his lover Clara in the progress of human civilization.
On the way home, I stood on the Jiuxiang River Bridge again, and saw that the wild ducks were still swimming in the river, and my eyes lit up, and the white crane guarding the mouth of the turbulent river finally flew back again, I looked down for a long time, and thought, I have met it for a few years, am I waiting for it, or is it waiting for me? Humans and animals live in harmony, and as long as they don't hurt each other, that's the peace of the world.
Approaching the cherry orchard, I came forward to observe that the buds of the cherry blossoms were already full, and the plum blossoms were already sparsely blooming.
On February 10, 2024, the first day of the Lunar New Year will be at the foot of Guishan Mountain
Author: Ding Fan.
Text: Ding Fan Editor: Wu Dongkun Editor: Shu Ming.
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