自卫

9张漫画风格长图带你看懂《自卫的艺术》。

这部电影漫画感极强，而且摄影非常出色，调皮了一下，利用电影剧照制作了9张长图篇幅的漫画。

对白没有完全忠实原片，但是巨对是原本对白内容的高度提炼，满满的精华。

也许你已经注意到，凯西的扮演者就是杰西·艾森伯格，《蝙蝠侠大战超人：正义黎明》中的反派莱克斯·卢瑟的扮演者。

不知道大家是否还记得2009年的《僵尸之地》，丹尼尔在其中扮演末日中幸存的计划通宅男哥伦布，正是这部不起眼的丧尸电影使得怀才不遇的杰西·艾森伯格声名大噪。

此次推荐的2019年新片《自卫的艺术》则是杰西·艾森伯格在黑色喜剧方面开拓戏路的一次大胆尝试。

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2019《小丑》现象级热度成因解析⬇️

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1、凯西说要变成他害怕的东西（become what I fear）森老师承诺来了夜校就可以，结果凯西真的变成了他害怕的东西：摩托车蒙面杀手

2、拿了同事的成人杂志，复印下来自撸的时候，mimi有5个类型，他选择了尺寸最小的5号mimi，还把其他的用书遮住了(我真的没有盯着看)，另外一幕凯西爷们起来后学德语的时候，电脑屏幕上也是一对mimi，但此时mimi明显大了很多，感觉是4号（重申没有盯着看）

3、凯西第一次上夜校，上完后放松有两个诡异的地方，第一个自然是其他男学员奔放的全脱，此处的解读我不太赞同“上青天”写的同性恋倾向解读，我的解读是编剧深谙中国南北文化差异，此处是讽刺我国南方人第一次进北方澡堂的羞涩与尴尬。

有隔间吗？

4、另外一幕是森老师带凯西去找女主按摩，无比诡异，如果你注意细节的话，老师带着凯西走过华丽酒店走廊布置的通道，墙壁幽暗的灯，五彩斑斓的地毯，说着“每个人总有一天会做这个”

这是通往杂物间的路？

然后打开了一扇门，里面的女主完全不惊讶，正襟危坐等待着，好像知道他们要到来。

先生晚上好，我是5号技师

以及凯西不知所措的表情...

咱这能换技师不？

那啥，我真的没有瞎说，因为这个场景确实就是在说massage....如果大家有兴趣的话，按照这个思路，整个服务过程的对话也非常有意思，在这里不便过多解读，各位自便。

答案就是暴力、重金属音乐洗脑和栽赃陷害。

中国人是最恨迂腐和陈腔滥调的，对那些古旧的规矩尤其痛恨。因为我们在两千多年前就喊出了“王侯将相宁有种乎”，等级和规矩从来就不是天生存在的！所以，当森sei利用空手道的规矩和礼仪建立起他个人在道场里的权威时，这让我由衷地膈应他。尤其是用一个什么等级晋升制控制各位学员，就更是让人觉的这种行为的荒诞——不就一根破带色的绳子，有啥可羡慕的呢？

然而，这恰恰象征了人类社会的毒瘤——法西斯控制人群的手段，给一个并不重要的东西人为赋予高大上的设定，让人们舍命去追。

片中森sei控制人的手段很有意思，等级晋升制、暴力胁迫、重金属音乐洗脑、拍下犯罪证据、暴力宣泄的快感……成体系使用，从而达到全面控制人心的目的，想想真是不寒而栗。更令人出冷汗的是，森sei竟然在道场里安了一个焚化炉，尼玛谁家正常人会在家里安装这玩意儿，很难不让人想起纳粹德国的暴行。

森sei把人变成法西斯的手段是有效的，曾经文弱不堪的凯西竟然当街打死了一个持枪的便衣警察，不能不让人感慨法西斯的恐怖——法西斯把人变成鬼。

当然，对付法西斯自然不能按照法西斯的规矩来，尤其是徒手搏命格斗，鬼才跟你打嘞！一发来自工业文明的子弹是摧毁封建武士统治暴力的最好手段，所有的破规矩都随着森sei的脑浆一起迸裂。

只有破除迷信、消灭法西斯，空手道才能真正恢复它本来的面目——强身健体，授业解惑。只有破除迷信、消灭法西斯，人类社会才能真正走向文明和健康！警惕法西斯死灰复燃，是我们永恒的任务！

ps：当然，这又是一部宣传卖枪的政治电影，可能这才是这部电影的本意，可以查查投资方🙂

据说这个电影的投资方是卖枪的资本家。

如果是真的，那逻辑上就很清楚了。

主角凯西是个弱逼，孤独，被人抢劫，要自卫。本来是要买枪的，空手道馆的宣传给吸引了。

背后的寓意是隔绝的个体和看似强大的国家。美国宪法说，人民有获得武器保护自己的权力。凯西本来只是想自卫，但是他却加入了一个别有用心的团体，让渡自己判断的权力，想获得保护。结果呢，结果他伤害了无辜的醉鬼，杀掉了一个无辜的警察。最终才想明白了自卫和国家是两回事。最终他用武器干掉了暴力的制造者，干掉了伤害自己的人。然后让空手道馆也就是国家恢复正常。

空手道馆的运行，必须靠等级制度，必须靠神话，必须靠信仰，这就是它运行的内在逻辑。但是人的自卫不需要，不需要什么特别技能，也不需要扩大打击面，就是简简单单的自卫就可以了。

枪支资本家的用意也在于此，空手道馆的人为了招生，为了锻炼学员，去伤害无辜的人，随意侵犯一个人的人身权利（企图强奸女学员）和财产权（杀死凯西的狗），还性别歧视。人民当然有权利拿起武器自卫，不扯那些复杂的东西。

凯西的狗被打死了，医生怎么说的 ，这个狗身上的伤是脚踢的，但是是被拳头打死的。那个亚裔面孔的空手道黑带一定用脚踢虐狗，狗狗为了自卫，咬到了他的手，他一怒之下，打死了狗。这就是自卫，而上升到艺术，就是没有规则。

电影有个桥段看不懂，为什么他要复印那个男性杂志，还反复看。自己买一本不行？偷走不行？还有撸管的对象是最小号的胸部？大的遮住？大号的吼不住？

哈哈哈哈，笑死我了。

你今天的拳脚缺乏信心

Your kicks and punches lacked conviction today.

也许是我错了

Maybe I was wrong.

也许你还不够黄带的资格

Maybe you weren't ready to be a yellow belt.

不

你不该这么做你该维护自己

No. You're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to stand up for yourself.

可你说得对我今天一个板都没打破

But you're right though. I wasn't able to break a single board today.

为什么你就因此不再是黄带了呢

And that stops you from being a yellow belt how?

如果熊的森林着火了熊依然是熊

If a bear's forest catches on fire, the bear is still a bear.

即使一条船在海浪中倾覆

Even if a boat capsizes in rough seas

沉到了海底

and sinks to the bottom of the ocean

无人生还

with no survivors.

它也还是一条船

it is still a boat.

你至死都会是个黄带

You will be a yellow belt until you die,

除非你升为了绿带

or until you're a green belt.

那么你会

直是绿带直到你成为蓝带

And you'l be a green belt until you're a blue belt.

以此类推

And so on.

你知道我也教夜校

As you know, | teach a night class.

这是给你的邀请

This is your invitation.

我从不让黄带上这个课

I've never opened this class up to yellow belts before

但我给你破个例

but I'm gonna make an exception for you.

一是几点的课?-是在夜晚是夜校

-What time is the class? -It's at night. It's a night class.

我来不了

| don't think I can.

我不会逼你做什么但就像你的黄带一样

I won't make you do anything, but like the color of the belt,

这黑条纹是你应得的

you've earned this stripe.

这邀请将永远都是你的

This invitation, it will be yours forever.

你无视它不等于它就不存在

Just because you ignore it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

最近我想了很多

I've been thinking a lot lately,

关于在杀了你之后要对你说什么

about what I would say to you after I killed you.

我也不想以后再后悔我的选择

and | don't want to second-guess my choice later on,

我就把两句话都说了

So I'm going to say both.

第一句话你会说用枪会使我软弱

First, you would say that using this makes me a weak man,

的确如此

and without question, it does.

但我活着你却死了

But | am alive and you are dead,

所以我会说这使你软弱

so | would argue it makes you the weaker man.

第二句话是来自我曾看过的一部电影

The second thing I came up with is from a film I saw once.

我不按规矩来

I didn't play by the rules,

但从来都没什么规矩

but there never were any rules.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? -- Nietzsche, The Gay Science

The film starts with our martyr whose name is Casey. Casey has been carpentering for a company diligently for 10 long years as a sensible accountant. But since he is in a surrealistic film, his coworkers deny him of everything. He is biologically alive but devoid of being-in-this-world. Even the narrator bullies him by expose to us his most private moment of musterbation. He is a slave, living in the antithesis, the denial of his own being-aliveness. Unable to act for himself, voluntarily disavowing all of his own liveliness. He lives his life as if his alivneess itself is a sin and a torment. And which is possibly due to an ancestor or his being tricked to bite a fruit.

He was crucified by four gangsters from Motorbike Ville. Life instinct kicks in. Resurrected on a hospital bed. He is reincarnated with the superpower of affirmation. Immediately he affirms his own life. He wants to be alive. He wants to protect himself. He doesn’t know how. The teller told him a hand-gun will do. Yes. The ultimate phallic signifier.

Affirming is, however, not easy. He bumped into a contender of his will of “to own a handgun” — it was the rule number 11 of the Karate Academy — “Guns are for the weak.” He acted like an orange peremptory bady. He stopped affirming his own life and began to affirm the reactive thought of “I am not weak.” He found himself a new passion. Yes, the Karate Academy will save him.

His protagonist sized life instinct propels him forward. After only two months of training, as a yellow belt, he defeated his brown-belt classmate. He is now ceremonially a real karate man.

But an antithesis can not exist by itself. It logically presupposes a thesis. And in our case the thesis is “Karate is for the strong” and it in turn presupposes the Karate Academy’s(the slogan giver’s) existence. His yellow belt is an amulet signifying the Academy. It empowers him. He can not affirm himself without it. He needs the academic affirmation to be a phallic-owning real man.

The Academy reels in, all of this is but the Sensei’s trap. The Sensei now demands our protagonist to serve him. Whatever Casey feels, whatever he wills, the Sensei overpowers him. He is again being bullied. Only this time with blood dripping down from his hand. He ceases to be a man, he is a tool willed by Sensei. He eventually ceases to be a human. The cost to be a real karate man is to give up his own life.

The acute memory of the Motorbike Ville woke him up. He wills again to be alive. He has learned his lesson. Using a pistol he killed the Sensei, took over the myth of the “index finger technique” which is the local phallic signifier in the academy and became the crowned king of a new dynasty.

The film ends here, and Nietzsche can only guide this far. There is no guarantee of a happily ever after. It's up to Casey to decide what to do next, and we have all seen how easy it was to fall into a trap. Our society is a web of traps weaved by those powerful but insecure people. “只能說當超人真的好難” said Jay.

Epilogue: Nietzsche the Nihilist. Nihilist, noun, “a person who believes that life is meaningless and rejects all religious and moral principles.” This can not be any further from the truth. The “nihilism” of Nietzsche is a two-fold formation. At its very core it a radical affirmation of one’s own life, of one’s own vitality, and of one’s own will to create personal values and to live by those values. It is in comparison to this stronger inner will to live that the outside laws seem afloat, hence can be rejected. This film is an excellent demonstration of the destructive potential of letting a social construct to take prior position over one’s own existence(Crusade, Fascism, Isis, to name a few in real life). And because of this rejection of all outside influences, this rejection of all fundamental law that can be used to judge one’s life, one’s life is then reciprocally said to be “meaningless.” The phrase “God is dead” should be followed by “long live the gods within.”