``Lucky'' What the appearance of 90-year-old famous actor Harry Dean Stanton tells us

〈nothing〉=empty

Lucky is an old man who repeats the same routine every day for ten years. One day, a dramatic change comes to him. When he gets Vertigo and suddenly collapses, death suddenly becomes an imminent reality. I might die in a month, or even in a few days...

"Can you tell me my secret? Please don't tell anyone. I'm scared." In the movie, Lucky tells the waitress at the cafe he frequents.

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The story of ``Lucky'' is about the confusion and fear of death, and the week it takes to come to terms with it. He tries to shake off the fear of death, but he can't. His frustration increases, and he picks a fight with a lawyer who is older than his grandson, and desperately tries to smoke a cigarette, which is prohibited at a bar. Lucky then declares to his friends:

``Everything will be gone. You, you, you, me, cigarettes, everything, and everything will go away, into the pitch black sky.'' There are no administrators. There is nothing but nothing. It's empty. There is only nothing. ”

When you hear this, it sounds like the whining of a very pessimistic and pessimistic nihilist. However, when his friend asks him, ``What are you going to do?'' Lucky kindly replies, ``Just smile.'' This is a Buddhist philosophy to which Stanton himself is deeply committed. ``Ku'', one of the most important concepts in Buddhism, is probably the ``nothing'' that Stanton refers to. There is a famous saying in the Heart Sutra, ``Shikisokuzeku Kusokuzeshiki''. This can be translated into modern language as follows.

“Things that have form are empty, and it is because they are empty that they create form. Existence that has form is without substance, and it is because there is no substance that it becomes a form.”

What was Stanton's intention when he used the word ``nothing'' as a greeting? I can imagine it. As people grow older, they eventually return to nothingness (death), but something is born from that nothingness. Existence and non-existence = life and death are two sides of the same coin. There is no point in resisting death. Let's just smile, accept everything, and live our lives as ``nothing'' = ``bastards.'' That's what Stanton seems to be saying.

So, should people just sit and wait for death? Of course not. Stanton also points us to the answer in this work. It means "walking."