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Who has the sin? – Thought from the movie "seven"

“Ernest Hemingway once wrote’The world is a fine place and worth fighting for’, I agree with the second part.”, said by William Somerset.

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There was a strong feeling of desperation when I finish watching this movie. Who has the sin? The whole story was about tracing the killer of a series murder- a tracing of “justice”. But where the justice actually lies? The “victim”, the obese man, a disgusting man who could barely stand up, can we tell he is innocent? The woman, who treasured only the outside beauty and even can not live without it, getting proud for this and ignoring her own ugly inside, can we say she is innocent? And even the tracer himself, David, whose position is the represent of “justice”, turn out to lost control in facing of wrath, which is part of the sins the killer wants to alert people, can we say he is innocent?

Gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, pride, lust and envy, which can be treated as the seven deadly sins of Catholicism, seem have been out of the mind of our society for long. In such a world where laws play its role efficiently, protecting the one should be protected and punishing the one should be punished, people just living under the regulation of laws and lead their own life. Seldom has they thought of the original sins, which are so commonly existed in our society, or even some of them did come up with the idea that it is “bad”, they just choice to see it blind. For people has get used to the way they originally lived, they just living under the default pattern of life and close his or her eyes to those dirty dot.
Is that one tend to live a happier life choosing to be numb as well in facing of the whole numbly world? Just as the famous Chinese writer Lu Xun argued in one of his article, it is kind of mercy not to wake up sleeping citizens in facing of destruction, which is a metaphor of the loneliness and pains people suffered when conscious to the darkness of society but fall to find ways to change. The situation is just like the killer in the movie. The awareness of the dirty dots and numbly society make him desperate, and feel unendurable to keep living. Instead of being unconcerned and compromising to those “sins”, he managed to awake people, although in the wrong way- to punish.
Although we can not deny that the way the killer choosed is too extreme, we can not just casting him aside without thinking anything. Just as the words said by William Somerset at the end of the movie: “The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for”, and he is right when saying “I only agree with the second part”. The world is

 far from perfect, but the only thing we can do is to fight for the best of it. Perhaps when each of us act in this way, the sins would eventually disappear and the world would become as fine as it originally is.

Critical Analyze of the novel-"The metamorphosis"

  Have you ever imagined that waking up the other day morning, only to find yourself changing into a weird animal? Things happened in Franz Kalka’s famous novel “The Metamorphosis”, which tells a story about travelling salesman named Gregor Samsa, and his experience of transforming into a horrible vermin. Samsa used to be the economic backbone of the family and they used to living peacefully and happily. After the transformed, his mom and sister change the attitude gradually and treating Samsa as a burden. At the end of the story, Samsa dead in desperate, still loving and concerning his family.

  The story is ridiculous but the meaning behind words is quite thoughtful. For it was written during the depression and unrest period after world war Ι, when many people are becoming lose faith about capitalism society. The story is a true reflection of the darkness of the society and the indifferent relationship between individuals. Just as the novel describes, the attitude towards Samsa has been converted from sympathy, concerned of the beginning to bored, and eventually disguised, from which we could see the whole world of coldness-even between family. It seems that all relationship between individual are built on benefit, no matter how close they look, nothing could left without a profit.
  Plenty of physiological portrayal is used in this novel, in expressing of the loneliness and panic of Samsa after his transform. Keeping recalling his past and thinking about future, the gap between expectation and reality make him feel desperate and painful, which is also the common phenomenon exist in society. It can be said that the world the novel described is both “real” and “ridiculous”. To say it is“real”, the inner world description is vivid and it is a true reflection of normal people’s thought, while on the other hand, the whole structure of story is base on emblem and are “mythic”. However, the point is not the fact that people could transform to a vermin, it is to understand the mood and spirit transcending the story itself, which is the real thing the author want to express.

The popularity of talent show- a reflection of social fickleness

  Everyone has a dream of becoming super star, but how can we be that just as ordinary people? A new talent show called “super girl”, which intends to help ordinary but talent people achieve their dreams, was introduced to China and becoming the rage throughout the year 2005 to 2007.

 It has been the heatest topic in one’s leisure at one time, it can be seen almost everywhere that people gathered, discussing who will win in the next show, whether the rater is fair, or anyting gossip related to the show. The profit has been huge, for millions of people vote by chargeable massage for their support player and advertisement profit was rather considerable.
  How could this show be so successful? People crying for the lose of their support player and yelling for their victory, it seems that the show has produces so many super stars successfully over the night. The tend of this kind of show has been booming ever since, for billion of teenagers and youth lining in the competitive selection spot and waiting for project themselves. However, to trace the sourcs of this phenomenon, I would say that it may due to fickleness of our society, which reflected by the ethos of pursuing rapid success and the willingness of rape without sown.

  The show also engage profound negative impact among teenagers. For there is a survey argued that when asking a group of children what they what to do in the future, half of them said “a singer”, or “a dancer”. While experts were confused by the result, one teacher explain in worry that children watch those talent shows and it has become the heated topic they talk about. Many of them want to become famous over night as well, just like the player did in the talent show. The situation may give rise to sever impact, since students may not concentrate on they academic study any more, as they thought they could be success as well in a far easier way.

However, As every success of a popular show or a best seller must have closely correspond to the public interest, they can also be the reflection of the public thought in certain period. And from the popularity of the “super girl”, we could see the strong sense of fickleness, which can be treated as an illness existed in our society.