Barry came out of the upstairs right bedroom with a thick leather notebook in his hand and knocked on the left bedroom door.
Barry: Millie, how are you?
Millie (Voiceover): What's the matter, James?
Barry: I'm going for a walk in the park, are you going? It's a beautiful morning.
Millie (voice over): You go to work, right?
Barry: Maybe, yes.
Millie (voice over): Then you go to work!
Barry came downstairs helplessly and took the big dog Poso for a walk.
I can't find the Chinese script of "Looking for Neverland" on the Internet, only this fragment, but in fact this fragment is the real beginning of the story. It was on this beautiful morning that writer Barry began his new journey of intertwining reality and fantasy. It was on the park bench that Barry stepped on Peter's sleeve, but Peter told Barry seriously that he was being held captive by the little prince.
Although this is a child's fantasy, in our opinion, such language is just random. Then the plot slowly spreads, and we can find out that the Peter family has indeed been imprisoned. Peter's mother, the widow, Mrs. Davis, had four children, and outside of them, three things surrounded it: first, poverty; second, morality; and third, the adult world. A woman, with her four children, can only accept the aid of her mother; she must morally follow all the constraints of the world before she can find a stepfather for the children. In order to make up for the lack of this family, she must At the cost of freedom; "Every day a child grows up, he is less happy by one day." The adult world is slowly compressing the paradise that the child has built himself, until the child becomes an adult - but the child must be become an adult. It's a set of perpetual conflicts, like Peter tearing up the script, like George finally getting his mother in therapy as an adult.
So on the park bench, this morning, Barry is playing the role of a savior, which means he's about to pay the price - at this point, he's just a down-and-out playwright who doesn't have enough energy to save A family in dire straits, he can watch from a distance and feel the joy and imagination of the children, but he cannot save it. If he goes, it means sacrifice. As a result, Barry sacrificed his family. I don't know if the trade-in was worth it, but when Barry's wife hid behind the curtain and said to him, "I've never missed a single of your debuts," I felt bad. In fact, as Barry's wife, she used to be a dream seeker. "How I wish to see your inspiration emerge like autumn leaves." Unlike Mrs. Davis, she is not a way of cultivating dreams to seek dreams. But in a very serious and realistic way to silently wait for the dream. Obviously, in her world, dreams are not in the boundless poetic world, but in each of Barry's premieres. There's no reason why we shouldn't be saddened by the woman's misdirection, which she said to Barry after a delightful dinner was embarrassing to me. Because of this, this woman eventually lost her rightful place in her husband's heart - however, how many people are willing to expel their "lover" for the world in their hearts, we are more to accommodate , the next best thing is to find a person who can live a stable life. It can be said that from the beginning of accommodation, we have lost faith in love.
For Barry and the Peters, Neverland is actually more of a belief, while on the other side, with Mrs. Davis' mother and Barry's wife, they must first acquire moral, dogmatic, routine normality after , in order to free her hand to receive Poetry, and at this time, everything has gone away. Barry and Mrs. Davis kept telling the children about faith. "That's not a lie, that's a wish," said Peter, in tears, that his mother had cheated on him, "she told my father that he would take me fishing, but when dead," Barry told Peter, it was a wish, it was a belief, not a deception.
A true faith, a true poetry, should be beyond death.
Maybe just like the rules of Neverland, every day a person grows up, he gets a little heavier, until he can never fly. Everyone lives in their own real world, and we have to admit that when dreams meet reality, we always feel powerless, how can we have the courage to resist? As adults, we are too utilitarian and purposeful. Eating a meal should be serious, going to bed on time should be serious, cleaning up the room should be serious. Many times we live not for the meaning of our own life, but for many other frameworks that are not originally ours, and endure the repetition of life every day. For us, Neverland has long since been lost, and the unacceptable weight of life has overwhelmed us. Boring is only serious until its old age, so putting a spoon to the nose is met with resistance and embarrassment. We can't fly, what can we use to find Neverland? Even if the film wants to tell us time and time again, Neverland was actually born around everyone, surrounded by the pressure of life.
After watching this film, I thought of Jimmy's comics, and also thought of another film "Dancer in the Darkness". It can be easily seen that "Finding Neverland" and "Dancer in the Darkness" have the same formal expression, and even more the same is that the protagonists in the film have taught us how to love and how to resist life. How can we find our true life, how can Neverland be born around us. Once joy and freedom are aroused, nothing can stop them. Just like that kite, it will eventually spread its wings and fly into the boundless blue sky.
Today is my birthday in the lunar calendar. After watching this film, and with a very kind wish, I pray that all adults and children in the world can find their own Neverland, even if the years will eventually make us lie in our graves , while the pursuit of dreams and poetry is eternal.
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