" Mind Station", also known as "Next Stop, Happiness", this is a plain, delicate and warm film, and the details can always be touched gently Touching the heartstrings, I want to cry in pain.
The film tells about the dwarf-shaped Fen, the tall and handsome Joe, the eloquent voice, and the beautiful and kind-hearted female painter Olivia suffering from the pain of losing a child, deep in depression, and the three come together because of their own pain. A story of mutual companionship.
Inferiority complex:
Fen refuses to deal with the outside world because of his dwarf body. He chooses all the lifestyles that don’t need to cooperate and communicate with others. He works, lives, and does shopping. He walks by himself with his chest and head held high. However, he still Hidden, he chose to close everything, close his ears, and his heart, letting their ridicule and sarcasm, stay away from contact with people as much as possible. He used these actions to tell everyone who approached him: Don't pay attention to me, please ignore my existence, please don't hurt me... begging like this. At the same time, he built a high wall again, carefully guarding against any harm that comes at any time-passively protecting himself. Finn sternly and stiffly, like a robot, carefully walked past people. He carries a pocket watch all the time. Some people say that he is in control. The sense of control often comes from the lack of inner security. The controllable life makes Fen feel that he is not just a poor bug being bullied and ridiculed, he can still dominate and arrange his own life. Fen, like a pocket watch, controls his life and controls himself precisely. For Fen, from this sense of control, he gains a sense of self-fulfillment, security, and comfort.
In a scene of a railroad track, Fen, who was walking along the railroad track, found a timid little black girl behind him. He turned around and said unsuspectingly and passionately: hey~, the little black girl flees shyly. Through this scene, we can see that Fen’s heart is actually eager to communicate with people, but because of his inner fear, fear of being hurt, and distrust of people, he wraps himself in a copper wall and iron wall. This reminds me of a fairy tale "The Man from the Iron Furnace". It is about a person who is afraid of being hurt, or has lost trust in others because of being hurt. He enclosed himself in an iron sheet and pretended to be cold. Refusing people to approach him. Similarly, this is also a person full of control. When it comes to control, we can’t kill with one stick: everyone who controls has a sense of lack of security... There are also two types of control, one is those who desire to control, and the other refers to those who have the ability to do things. people. A person with a desire for control does not necessarily have good control over things, and a person with the ability to do things may not necessarily be a person with a desire for control. Returning to the topic of Fern, Fern’s inner desire to communicate will show up when he meets a weaker person, or when he is sure that this person will not harm him and that he feels safe, he will open his heart and open his mind. Own. For example, the old black man in the supermarket who had a tacit understanding and acquaintance with him, and later Joe and Olivia.
Because of his short stature, Fern suffered malicious or unintentional injuries. For Fern, his low self-esteem would make him more sensitive. Even an unintentional injury would set off a vast storm in his heart. So, Fen-control! He must use control methods to control his injured and fragile heart. Maybe it often hides in a corner and trembles, but he completely shows the appearance of a "iron man", pretending to be invulnerable. He must use control methods to suppress his feelings of anger and grievance after being hurt. His timidity and weakness prevented him from venting because he was not sure whether the consequences of venting would be a greater and more fearful injury. Therefore, he must "control"!
However, emotion is a kind of energy, and it will not disappear due to your control. Repression is just concealing but not coming out, just accumulating continuously. There is a way for Fern to vent his emotions, and that is the train. Fen, love trains. In psychology, what is the symbol of the train? The train is probably the most powerful and largest means of transportation. Therefore, it is not difficult for us to imagine that this is a kind of "compensation" psychology for the short body of Fern. Fern projects his psychological needs onto the train to obtain a kind of satisfaction with a strong appearance. Not only that, the train is very powerful, and it runs and screams, very magnificent. For Fen, whose emotions are always depressed, the momentum of the train will bring him a strong sense of pleasure and depressed emotions, which are released and expressed by the train-instead of catharsis of emotions, the "voicing" of emotions. The little black girl also loves trains and often plays on the train alone. What kind of emotions does this lonely girl have in her heart? The means of transportation symbolize the voice of emotions. This is very common in our sandbox games. For a period of time, people who have relatively large emotions often choose trains, airplanes, rockets, racing cars and other means of transportation when they are doing box gardens. These small toys that are unconsciously selected symbolically express his inner volatility.
Fern's emotions reached a climax when he stood on the bar and yelled loudly after he was drunk. Being drunk means losing control, control has reached its limit, and emotions have broken through control. He stood on the bar and yelled, "You all come and see, see, this is me, ugly body..." At this moment, he gave up pretending, gave up dodge, look, look, this is me! He began to face himself, and acceptance of himself started from this. As a result, the control broke-the pocket watch was crushed to pieces by the track. He dared to accept the invitation of the little black girl and stepped onto the podium. When asked about his height, he calmly told the truth, he was no longer afraid of being rejected, and still insisted on caring about Olivia... the strength of his heart comes from accepting himself, not concealing, pretending, not going. Chasing to be the outstanding others.
Briefly talk about the two roles of Joe and Olivia.
The director uses Joe, a tall and handsome image to interpret another kind of people. If we say that the short stature of Fen has an inferiority complex, in our opinion, it is natural. So, Joe, who has a tall and handsome appearance, must have a unique sense of superiority and self-confidence. He is the lucky one of God, right? Joe, use his story to tell us that everyone has his own pain. Joe appeared on the phone. Every time Joe appeared, he was always talking, talking non-stop. Fern uses trains to express and release his emotions, while Joe uses words to express and release his anxiety and anxiety. What Hefen’s method is not: The person who talks non-stop is full of fear, anxiety, and anxiety. He tries to conceal, conceal, and avoid these emotions by talking and using busy communication with people. If it is said, Fen avoids external harm. On the other hand, Joe is avoiding the fear in his heart. He uses "busy" to paralyze himself, not talking, talking on the phone, or cooking...Olivia and Fen have an adult-like conversation. Joe, just shook his head helplessly like a child. Joe, who is tall and handsome, does not have any sex scenes of men in the film. Joe has always been like a big boy, not a man. Playing tricks, amusing, and bringing everyone happiness, looking deep, this is actually a kind of flattering behavior he used to be good with people-to make everyone like him, so that when he is in the crowd, he doesn't need to be afraid .
Imagine Joe’s family. There are not many plots mentioned in the film: Father is ill, he comes to substitute, and goes to the bar with his father. His father’s sudden illness will make him panic and scared to death... between father and son. This kind of excessive entanglement seems to indicate that Joe lives in a single-parent family, his parents divorced early, or his mother passed away in his early years. The father loved this son so much, and Joe was over-reliant on his father, so that when he was an adult, he was still a child, and he didn't even work to earn money ("Father is sick, he came to work" seems to indicate that Joe has never worked. ), this is called "anxiety anxiety" in psychoanalysis, dependence on the father, and fear of threatening the authority of his father as an adult, so he still pretends to be a child to please his father and also to please be take care of.
Let's take a look at the role of Olivia, a lost and divorced mother who closed herself up and immersed herself in great pain. Her vocal expression is painting. When Qiao and Fern came to her home for the first time, they both showed amazement at her paintings: those paintings were dark and gloomy and depressing, and the expressions of the characters were distorted or crazy. This is her inner expression.
Compensation and transcendence:
No matter what aspect of life's growth, it must return to the relationship, repair in the relationship, and complete the harmony of life through the relationship. The three people were attracted to come together because of different pains. The three lack of different emotions were unconsciously compensated and satisfied in the relationship.
Joe is an outgoing person. He is warm and kind to please everyone around him. This makes it impossible for Finn, who has blocked her, to refuse this enthusiasm that has no intention of harm. Fen's heart has always been eager to communicate with people, but his distrust of people and years of harm made him afraid to open himself. However, under Joe's constant enthusiasm attack, Fern began to associate with him somewhat far-fetched and reluctantly. Fern’s Iron Man mask began to have cracks, and then in the constant interaction with Joe and Olivia, it was melted a little... Joe had to learn to be quiet. With Fen's company, Joe began to quiet down, quietly share lunch together, watch the train quietly, and walk quietly along the railroad tracks. Divine silence, silence can often quiet our hearts, become pure and wise. This quiet, calm down, is a rare moment of spiritual rest for Joe-Joe's heart began to stop begging outside in a panic. The name of the film "Mind Post" has a profound meaning: post, a small stop of the train, and a resting place. When the train stops and runs, when the emotions, calm down. When we put aside the struggle and turmoil, are not trapped by fear and anxiety, and our hearts are truly calm, wisdom rises in our hearts. Only when we can see the truth clearly and freely can we hear the truth from the depths of our hearts. the sound of. To stop and be quiet is a prerequisite for freedom of mind.
Interpersonal relationships always go back to our original family-the relationship with father and mother. In the film, the relationship between Fen and Joe is far from enough. The relationship between Fen and Joe is more to satisfy their father-son relationship and partnership. The independence and harmony of the mind also needs a woman, a mother role. The beautiful and kind Olivia is immersed in the pain of losing her son and divorce. This sadness cannot be resolved. She refuses to use her mobile phone and refuses to communicate with the outside world. She shut herself in pain and wept on her own until she met Fen. Fen's appearance defect, this lonely, fragile, pretending to be strong soul, made the kind-hearted Olivia a motherly love and compassion. She began to take the initiative to care about Fen and to warm him. This love transcends the desires of human nature, holy and pure. If it is said that Joe broke through Fen's defense line with enthusiasm, Olivia is full of warm and soft love, just like her mother's embrace, completely safe, relaxed, harmless, without rejection and defense, leaving Fen's heart for many years. The hard fortress built began to dissolve and melt.
For Joe, Fern and Olivia are more of his parental roles. This big boy who lacked maternal love in his early years, in the relationship with Fen and Olivia, once again returned to the relationship between his father and mother, he compensated and satisfied the panic that came from the depth of his life. The film doesn’t talk too much about it. If we guess, Joe will be beside such a loving mother, beside his father who is silent, calm, accepting self-deficiencies, and no longer in control, shedding milk, growing up, and realizing his soul. Independence.
Olivia, like a goddess, beautiful, kind, and holy. I have strong feelings for her and love her passionately. Such an empathy, I think, not only comes from my inner projection, but the director's moral may lie in this. Fern and Joe must also love this woman with passionate emotions. She gave the pain of losing her son and the love for her son more to those who need love, instead of just narrowly, her own son. Completed a process of transformation from human love to divine love.
Let's look back at the relationship between the three people, having lunch in silence, madly racing with trains, walking along the railroad tracks, and chatting at night, accompany each other with subtle warmth to accompany each other and their own pain. In such a faint, slowly approaching love, touching hearts, knowing, loving, and warming each other, life began to no longer avoid avoidance, and began to have the power to dare to face those pains. After experiencing pain, wind and rain, life has begun a new journey-the next stop, happiness!
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