Unknown connection | What is Musubi (spirit/knot)

Holden 2022-04-19 09:01:41

Note: This is an old article written in 13 years. At that time, I was impressed by Xing Haicheng's work. It can be used to explain what "Musubi (generating spirit/knot)" is what grandma told Sanye in "Your Name". .

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"Waiting is its own purpose. You don't have to wait for anything, as long as you wait, the connection will be there."

I watched Liang Wendao's "Ego" a few days ago, and I remember one of the short stories "Light Years" deeply. It mentioned Makoto Shinkai's masterpiece "Voice of the Stars", a story about the future: a pair of young lovers had to be separated because a girl was sent to explore the edge of the universe, but fortunately they could contact by text message. But as the heroine gets farther and farther from the earth, the time they have to wait for each text message to communicate becomes longer and longer. So later, after waiting for several years, the poor actor received this text message: "To the twenty-four-year-old Sheng
, I am fifteen-year-old Mikako, and I still love you."

On, the only thing that connects them is waiting.

This reminds me of this year's Mid-Autumn Festival. At that time, she was in Taiwan, and I was in Nanjing, and I couldn't meet each other in different places, so I had to make an appointment to watch the moon at the same time. In fact, this originates from a very common film segment: a long-range lens facing the city, starts to slowly lift up to the sky, and then slowly falls. Between this rise and fall, the picture magically becomes another City. In this way, the director conveys the implied meaning of a certain connection. Therefore, looking at the same moon becomes a kind of connection, as if as long as this is the case, we are still tied together by an invisible filament: the body is like a floating cloud, the heart is like a flying catkin, and the breath is like a gossamer, passing through the moon. , we communicate this shared feeling to each other.

Different people are connected by something the same. For example, when I watch a movie on the computer, I wonder if other people are doing the same thing, and even through the movie in front of me, I seem to be able to find its author, and imagine him thinking carefully in front of the work. : What kind of picture should I use, what kind of music should I use? When writing, I would imagine that my article was bumped into by some unfamiliar readers, and then I was fortunate to have small ripples in their hearts; when reading, the words on the paper It seems that they all have their own unique temperament, like small holes in the dark wall with bright lights, close to and careful prying, as if they can see the mysterious world on the other side. Another example is some old toys, the house I lived in, the photos I took, the unforgettable food I ate... Each one is like the entrance of a time tunnel, connecting several different time and space. Through them, we are connected to each other.

This feeling is somewhat familiar to Déjà vu, and it is difficult to tell clearly. Perhaps it can be expressed by borrowing the concept of "karma" in Buddhism. What is "industry"? Liang Qichao has a very interesting analogy: it is like the tea essence left on the wall of the teapot after the tea is brewed. Every time the tea is brewed, more tea essence is left on the wall. After a long time, the brewed tea will taste more mellow. :
"Karma" is the shadow of the soul left on the body after everything in the world passes through us.

If we go back to Shanghai three months ago, at that time, Xiaomin and I, who met for the first time, sat on the lawn in front of the Guanghua Building in Fudan and had a long talk all night, exchanging our stories and some strange thoughts. Although I have only just met, I already fell in love with this girl. During the conversation, I felt that she was so familiar, or that the whole scene seemed familiar, and I couldn't remember it. Until she said that she liked "One Hundred Years of Solitude". At that moment, the title of the book seemed to suddenly release a light in the long dark night, pulling me back to the train on the Dianchuan line half a year ago. That night, Yu Fei pulled me and yelled like this: "" One Hundred Years of Solitude is great! marvelous!
So, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" stayed on Yu Fei and Xiaomin, and they, along with García Márquez and Jose Arcadio, stayed in "One Hundred Years of Solitude", of course. , there are thousands of people who have taken pictures here and different time and space like them, although I don't know who they are, but I know they will all say: "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is great! marvelous!

Someone once asked me what a friend is, and my answer is: someone who has gone through similar things and made the same choices. Maybe he's been by my side all the year round, maybe he's never met me, but nonetheless, I can always feel his presence. If he can also feel my presence, it will be my best solace in loneliness:
because of this, I am connected to him or her.



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Your Name. quotes

  • Mitsuha Miyamizu: [Taki finds himself in Mitsuha's body yet again. His/her hands move toward her breasts, but pauses] I shouldn't for her sake.

    Yotsuha Miyamizu: [comes down the hall, opens the door, notices her sister massaging her breasts] You sure do like your own boobies.

    [shouting]

    Yotsuha Miyamizu: TIME TO GO! GET READY!

  • Mitsuha Miyamizu: [while they are exchanging messages] Guys will stare, so watch the skirt! These are basics for a girl!

    Taki Tachibana: Yeah... Whatever... Will you stop blowing my money on sweets?

    Mitsuha Miyamizu: It's going in your body! Besides, your job is such a pain... Lemme' celebrate!

    Taki Tachibana: Celebrate what? You got the easy crap! Braiding cords is impossible! All you gotta do is wait tables!

    Mitsuha Miyamizu: But you work waay too many shifts...

    Taki Tachibana: Because you keep wasting my money!

    Mitsuha Miyamizu: Went for coffee with Ms. Okudera on the way home! You two have a good thing goin'!

    Taki Tachibana: Mitsuha... Quit messing with my love life!

    Mitsuha Miyamizu: Look who's talking! I was on the way to school with Tessie and Saya the other day... And you know what happened? A girl came up and confessed to me!

    Taki Tachibana: It's not my fault... I can't help it! Besides, you're more popular when I'm you.

    Mitsuha Miyamizu: Ooh, look at you, Mr. Ladies Man! If you're so popular, why am I the one chatting up girls for you?

    Taki Tachibana: I never asked for your help! And if you're so confident in your matchmaking skills, get yourself a boyfriend, why don'tcha!

    Mitsuha Miyamizu: [while writing a word on her face] I told you...

    Taki Tachibana: [while writing a word on his face] I told you.

    Taki TachibanaMitsuha Miyamizu: I'm single because I wanna be!