Chapter 36 worldly web

In Eileen Chang’s novel, the protagonist Jiuli has murderous intentions towards Shao Zhiyong: “In the kitchen there is a knife for chopping meat, which is too heavy. There is also a long knife for cutting watermelon, which is relatively subdued. Aim at the narrow A slash in the golden back. He is now an outlaw, dragged down the stairs and thrown into the street." What makes the weak woman dare to imagine murder is not only the harm he caused to her by not loving her, but also his status as an "outsider of the law". "Outlaws" are people whose interpersonal relationships have been broken, people who have no past, and people who have broken free from the net of the secular world.If it is lost, no one will intervene; if it is killed, no one will report it to the government; if it has entered the legal process, no one will manage and pursue it; no matter what, it is no match for those who have the backing of the secular net. The identity of an "outsider of the law" is a serious gap in the virtual security network that a person carries with him, allowing the most vulnerable people to dare to imagine the possibility of inflicting infringement.

The serial killers in the movies are all aiming at this kind of "outsiders" who have no protective net. The massacres of the former Soviet Union in "X Citizen" aimed at children wandering in the train station; the criminals of the transnational human trafficking group in "Children in the Dark" targeted vagrants and children in slums; The middle-class murderer in "The Patient" would also target the homeless on the street.In the dark night, he walked to the body curled up in the corner and stabbed him.What is more common in reality are those who have lost their hometown in Jia Zhangke's films.Their homeland fell, they lost their past, and they were thrown into the world to be disposed of. Their dignity and life safety were not guaranteed.Therefore, as long as a person occupies any of the items of "poverty" and "displacement", he will completely become what Agamben (Giorgio Agamben) called a "naked person", with a kind of "naked suspension, nowhere in body and mind". Settlement" form exists.They wanted the net, but they couldn't afford to run it.

Even under normal circumstances, we need a worldly net to protect ourselves during those moments of inner struggle, so as to ensure that we will not go off the rails.When Haizi passed away that year, Xi Chuan wrote a thought-provoking passage in his mourning article for Haizi: "Haizi's death made me feel a lot about people's way of life. Perhaps everyone needs to be covered by a net, and this net is The network of social relations.... Whether it is blood relationship, marriage relationship, or social relationship, it will be like a hand firmly grasping your shoulders; even if you want to leave, it is not easy, because these hands will hold you firmly. Hold it down. But when Haizi committed suicide, he obviously didn't have a strong hand to hold down his shoulder."

It is this net that prevents the party's worldly thoughts at critical moments.Cecilia Cheung was interviewed on TV a while ago, and she talked about her reaction when the pornographic photos came out: "I was so shocked, I immediately went into the baby's room, he was only seven or eight months old at the time, and when I picked him up, I was so shocked that my feet went limp , almost fell down." "It's like my mother-in-law, it's hard to tell the truth about such an embarrassing thing, she just gave me a doll, two dolls are carrying a lotus leaf, engraved with the words 'We are on the same road together'" One word." She was stopped by this secular net, and she could continue to live.

It is this net that makes people precious.If a person has a position, it is just the coordinates of the person in the net.We all have to work hard to manage this net, and keep ourselves firmly in place when all external and internal forces make us turbulent.