Albert Camus | The Stranger

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-ChQ33SII4

I was looking around for the movie to the book and I found this. This movie brings up interesting themes about social character and how we are judged in society. After the main character kills a man in the heat of the moment, he is asked to justify his actions, but his view of life is very short-term compared to everyone else who judges him. They bring up his lack of emotion toward his mothers' death and various irrelevant subjects that have no bearing on the murder he commited and then priests begin to offer further assuarance of punishment or salvation in an after-life, yet he is atheist. He come to terms with death by recognising the indifference of the Universe.

Another interesting theme is he is a kind of Socrates-type character, he has commited acts that are against what the state has in mind and is executed for it, but instead of cherishing another world of forms, he prefers the material world and sees nothing beyond it, if his own mothers' death didn't bother him, why would an after-life?

[Socrates]

I already mentioned earlier that indifference here still implies the effect of narcissism in human beings - we still look outwards for our inner principles, believing an echo will return to us as we seek for knowledge.

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@"kFoyauextlH"

Thought you might find this interesting.

[kFoyauextlH]

This is going to be great! Thank you so much!