In Li Xinpin's new book, I saw a recommendation for this movie, and I looked for it out of curiosity. After reading it, I was amazed at the screenwriter's magical brain hole, and I couldn't help but fall into contemplation. Every writer, especially those who dream of novels, should watch this movie. What you gain is not only the understanding of the plot and characters, but also the exploration of human nature. This film has been translated into many different names, but my favorite is the four words "Survival under the Pen", which summarizes the plot of the film in a concise and comprehensive way. Here are four things to think about. 01 If your life is actually a story written by others, how would you do it? The protagonist Harold was originally a well-behaved IRS auditor who worked with numbers every day and calculated every single thing in his life with precision. For example, it took 5 minutes to put on a tie in the morning and 67 steps from home to the bus stop. ...... If the result of meticulous quantification is infinite repetition, every day is a copy of yesterday, and the day is smooth and straightforward. One morning, an accident happened. When Harold was brushing his teeth, he inadvertently heard a voice hovering in his ear, continuing to describe his words and deeds. This voice made him dazed and absent-minded at work, so he took the initiative to seek help from a doctor, but was defined as " schizophrenia", he naturally rejected the diagnosis and turned to literature professors to find out who the "author" was. 02 If you became the screenwriter of your own life, how would you write it? We often hear a sentence: to live yourself into a story, you are the director with the most say in your own life. Indeed, every year, every month, every morning, different living methods will bring different results. It is precisely our different choices that compose a different life. To give the simplest example, every morning, if you choose to swipe your phone as soon as you open your eyes, an hour will pass in a flash. If you choose to write, in that year, you will have 365 more creative time periods than others. If you choose to sleep in, you don't even realize there is an "early morning" time, your day starts at noon. 03 If your life was about to end, how would you live it? 04 If you were a writer with the power of life and death, how would you treat the characters you created?
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