Chapter 1301 1301 Entertainment to death
After Nicholas' biggest question in his mind was answered, his inner shock could not stop for a long time. What shocked him was not only Hugo's efforts and persistence for the work "Seven Deadly Sins", but these efforts and persistence were distorted with different meanings under the interpretation of the media, which also made the media's reflection in recent times more ridiculous; it was also because the profound meaning of the "Seven Deadly Sins" reflected from Hugo.
What is certain is that Hugo's choice of "Seven Deadly Sins" has no direct connection with what has happened in recent months, and Andrew Kevin Walker was even more unlikely to foresee the earth-shaking changes that have taken place in the entire press since this year when he created the script "Seven Deadly Sins".
However, the social reality reflected in the movie "Seven Deadly Sins" has inadvertently echoed each other with the experiences that happened to Hugo in the past few months, and then burst out with the stormy waves in my mind, which made Nicholas fall into deep thought, and then gave birth to the professional film review of the famous article "Reading the 'Seven Deadly Sins' from Hugo Lancaster" in the "Los Angeles Times" that had the subsequent impact on the stormy waves.
"Hugo Lancaster once again became the focus of the media. Although he has always been the focus, this time he launched a long-planned revolution, which made the entire society begin to review itself.
Hugo's experience in the past few months clearly reflects the concept of "entertainment to death". Neil Postman's concept of entertainment to death actually refers to the fact that all public discourses in real society are increasingly appearing in the form of entertainment and becoming a cultural spirit. All politics, religion, news, sports, education and business are willing to become vassals of entertainment.
In the writing of the Uncrowned King, no matter how cruel the murder, how terrifying the earthquake, or how absurd political scandal is, it can become the object of their profits, the carrier of social entertainment, and even the medium for people to chat and laugh after dinner. The value of news only depends on how much laughter or boo it can bring, and how much attention or talk. Failure has become a culture, and even sadness, pain, and death have become one of the factors in the value measurement system.
This is true for Hugo. From the absence of the opening ceremony of the "Seven Deadly Sins" to the rejection of interviews during the filming of the movie, to the recent absurd and bizarre second witch trial incident during the filming of the "Death Prisoner Walk", Hugo has always fulfilled his obligation as an actor, showing his professional attitude, and even put himself in a dangerous situation for the sake of the movie. However, his professional attitude has become a carrier for media to tease entertainment and gain attention, and has become a typical case of entertainment until death.
This is the cruelty of society and the sorrow of society.
The entire pathological society has brought entertainment to the extreme to death, and people rewarded those who are the most superficial, stupid, mean, and swagger. People do not know what morality is, they are shameless, and they do not distinguish between right and wrong. The darkest side of human nature has received admiration and praise. It doesn’t matter whether it is a big lie or spreading fear, because it is profitable!
When the news media treats all public objects, including Hugo as consumer objects in order to cater to the market economy and sales for the benefit of profit, and infringes on the basic rights of public figures endlessly and without limits, the public not only does not find it strange at all, but also takes it for granted, ‘because they are public figures’.
This society has begun to become distorted. Why? It is obviously not easy to discuss the fundamental reasons for the birth of entertainment until death, but it is certain that people's indifference must be one of many reasons. Because of busyness, it becomes alienated, because of alienation, and because of indifference.
People gave up the most primitive and classical communication methods, gave up the way of emotional communication with relatives and friends, gave up resistance and complaining about life, armed themselves with indifference, avoided themselves being hurt, avoided themselves being contaminated with trouble, and avoided themselves showing fragility. Therefore, people began to build their happiness on the pain of others, talk about the misery of others to set off their happiness, laugh at the stupidity of others to set off their intelligence, and sympathize with others to comfort their happiness...
Against the background of the gradual indifference of society, public figures have not only become objects of entertainment, but also objects of venting. People put their anger, sadness, regret, bitterness, and pain on public figures.
The Hugo incident reflects not only the news media's entertainment to death or profit-seeking, but also the news media's indifference and indifference. From Rodney King to Michael Jackson, to Hugo recently, these "witches" created by the indifference and cruelty of society have left the category of the news media and reflects the indifference and indifference of the entire society.
Behind the entertainment to death, what we see is the beginning of social decay, the coldness and bloodiness of social indifference. All of this is the breeding ground for the birth of the mystery of the "Seven Deadly Sins". What the whole movie reflects is the cold society that has been armed by indifference.
Friedrich William Nietzsche once shouted, "God is dead." From that moment on, our classical society was sentenced to end and society officially entered modernism. With the rapid development of modern society, the distance between the world is gradually narrowing, but the distance between people has not narrowed. On the contrary, cold barriers have gradually been established, and alienation and indifference have become the most accurate definition of the relationship between people.
Behind the indifferent life, people gradually no longer care about the people around them, no longer care about their loved ones, no longer care about social morality and justice, lack of communication and communication, lack of sustenance and support, lack of care and friendship, behind the indifference, people's inner emptiness has nowhere to vent. Therefore, the gossip and excitement of public figures, the desire to make a name for themselves, and the cruel and cold-blooded biting of the strong has become their greatest spiritual sustenance.
The so-called Seven Deadly Sins are no longer classical traditional definitions, but are labeled as modern. Everyone walks on their own path to manage their own lives. The busyness and indifference make them lose their perception of life, so there are several understatement cases in the movie "Seven Deadly Sins": the robber blinds a person's eyes to steal some change and a watch; when a woman is violated, she can only shout for help; the landlord deceives the Mills and rents the house to them, which is tortured by the subway noise; and the other landlord regards the victims tortured as living dead as the best tenant, just because he will receive rent in the mailbox regularly.
In the real life of leaving the movie, Hugo, as an actor, devoted himself to the danger of mental illness, but this became a means of media profiteering and became the focus of people after dinner. There was no sympathy, no care, no respect, and only indifferent talk and jokes that didn't matter.
This is undoubtedly the cruelest violence. It is this cold violence that gave birth to the seven modern sins: arrogance, jealousy, rage, laziness, gluttony, greed, lust, lust.
People abandon friendship and choose indifferent arrogance; people abandon understanding and appreciation and choose jealousy and anger; people abandon health and future and choose laziness and gluttony; people abandon morality and choose dirty greed; people abandon love that stays with each other and choose short-term lust and desire.
It is these seven deadly sins that gave birth to this movie, a great thriller and suspense work, and a warning record that alerts the world.
As the murderer said, this is a work for the warning world. Just like the murderer chose the means of crime, each one is arranged properly and full of metaphors, which is suitable for the classical sentiment that runs contrary to this modern world. He uses food to hold the fat man who is overeating to death, uses bed to trap the lazy addict to death, punishes the greedy lawyer to death with fairness, and uses joy props to enjoy lust. Both parties of desire are scared to death, stifle their hope of survival with arrogance, and finally destroys everything with an out-of-control rage.
The murderer possessed a modern tool pistol. He could have easily ended every life, but he did not allow the quickness and short-term replacement of the lost elegant classicism. He taught a lesson for the cruel and cold modernity. Through each victim, he reflected the seven deadly sins of modernity, and was the most direct and bloody condemnation of the indifference and cruelty of society. But all these methods and methods came from modern inspiration, just as the movie said, 'We are facing daily life'.
Entertainment to death is one of the seven deadly sins. It is arrogance, jealousy, rage, greed, lust... The seven deadly sins that breed under the indifference of modern society destroy the souls of countless people. The three protagonists in the movie are all victims, and Hugo in real life is also one of the victims, including those who are hurt by people's indifference and irresponsibility in life, and even lose their lives. They are all victims.
Faced with the indifference and cruelty of society, Hugo chose his way to fight. The witch trial two years ago was thought-provoking. Michael Jackson's clearance of grievances in April this year proved that Hugo was correct; last month's "nervous" remarks were silent with the right, and the truth proved that Hugo's non-violent non-cooperation resistance was wise.
As the murderer in the "Seven Deadly Sins" said, "It is not enough to want someone to listen to you, patting his shoulders. He must be shocked so that others will listen carefully to you." The resistance on August 5 shocked the entire society, but it is not yet certain whether Hugo has succeeded. Society's reflection on entertainment until death continues; but it is certain that in the movie, the murderer has succeeded.
The story of the "Seven Deadly Sins" tells the story of Shamosey, Mills and the murderer, who use their own ways to fight against the Seven Deadly Sins of society, against the indifference and cruelty of society. This is exactly the core idea of the whole movie and the most deafening response!"
Chapter completed!