"Give yourself 20 seconds of courage!"
This is the most classic dialogue in the movie. Although it is talking to himself, the person who wants to tell the other party is himself, but just one sentence, just like Benjamin in the movie, changed his own life. When your boss leaves a big project at the conference table, do you have the courage to undertake and challenge it? When you happen to meet a thief stealing the passenger's wallet on the bus, do you have the courage to step forward to stop it? Or do you have the courage to strike up a conversation when you are on your way home from get off work and meet someone you think will spend the rest of your life with you? I don't believe that you will not be in such a dilemma in your long life. At this time, if you have watched "My Family Bought a Zoo", you will think of this sentence that changes the hero's life: give yourself 20 seconds of courage !
Benjamin, who is strong by nature, is played by Matt Damon. Such a well-known figure sounds familiar and unfamiliar to people who often watch movies but don't like to pay attention to the characters behind them. If you know that he is the male protagonist of "Naruto Rescue", "The Bourne" and "Good Will Hunting", you will suddenly realize that it is him, who also starred in "Eleven Arhats" and "Saving Private Ryan". Is it because of such a name, that you can't wait to watch this warm and inspirational movie?
The protagonist of the story, Benjamin, works for a newspaper and is a columnist. This is obviously the kind of rare job that is about to be eliminated from society. He writes novels, is keen on adventure, and likes immersive interviews. His wife's misfortune befalls this strong man at the same time. To make matters worse, his eldest son, who had just turned fourteen with a dark temperament, and his seven-year-old daughter who believed in the Easter myth, in every way, Benjamin had reached a low point in his life, which was indeed extremely miserable. Entering middle age, facing the pain of unemployment and the loss of a wife, who can easily pretend that nothing happened?
He was expelled from school for a series of thefts due to his son's eccentric character due to the loss of his mother at a young age. This made Benjamin discover that there is a problem in his family that cannot be ignored, that is, the lack of communication and understanding between father and son, as well as the family's longing and reluctance for the virtuous and gentle mother. Benjamin's brother repeatedly advised him to go out and let him accept a new object, but he couldn't let go of everything he saw at home and the cafe where he had met his wife while walking on the street. So, he finally decided to change to a new living environment. When buying a house, Benjamin and his daughter inadvertently valued an idyllic house. The house is far from the city and it takes 9.2 miles one way to drive to the nearest supermarket, but that's not the biggest hurdle to buying this house, the hardest hurdle is buying the house at the same time as buying the entire zoo next to the house . Yes, this is indeed a mess. In the face of a pile of bills and those menacing tigers and lions, who wants to be so stupid to accept this ungoverned quagmire. However, just when Benjamin was about to leave, he found that his daughter had disappeared in this extremely poorly protected zoo, and an unexpected thrill came to the man again, but luckily enough, his daughter Rosie was only in one place. Feed the pretty peacocks in the corner. Seeing that his daughter loves such a paradise so much, Benjamin decided to give up his previous easy life and work hard to find a new way out with his own hands.
I just introduced the beginning of this movie. The story behind is both ordinary and tortuous. I won't tell it here. After all, a good storyline needs to be reserved for those who watch it for the first time. Motivation and fun. So, let's talk about what the film says about things that the camera doesn't.
Do you have the courage to escape from the impetuous urban life? This question often troubles me, and I believe it also troubles many people who want to live a slow life. Is there a life you want in small towns and villages? Will it be like Benjamin, close to nature, completely give up everything, and really get in touch with some manual labor? One of the most direct and realistic questions, what do you do for a living when you go back to that way of life? You don't need to write any code there, you don't need to sell dispensable products there, and there is no high-quality life you demand, unlike you are now trapped in a gold-encrusted birdcage, relying on it all day. A computer to make up for all the happiness in life, or rely on the mode of spending money to tell the world that it exists. There is a real food processing factory, from the germination of a seed to the fruit, you need to cultivate and take care of it yourself. I think many people do not have such courage, let alone such a quiet and even a bit boring life. The Chinese people like to say one thing and do another the most, so it is impossible to escape the fate that the times have created for themselves. Even if he sees the bottom line at a glance, he is still the kind of person who refuses to change.
Therefore, you can only watch this movie and see how other people's dreams are created step by step after going through hardships, and you will always be the one who sits in the movie theater and ridicules life and sighs with emotion. Many people like to use reality to prevaricate their incompetence, and I do too. This is human nature. It seems that what you do is reasonable. It is reasonable to be a humble person and accept the fate that has shaped you. So ordinary. I don't know, the answer to all this lies not in how you choose, but in how you act. Which direction do you go, and what kind of scenery will you encounter? Most people's ordinaryness is caused by themselves, and those who dare to be different and choose a lonely but profound path are very few. Maybe in you You can't see such a group of friends in the circle of friends, and you are regarded as a monster like an "alien". In fact, we are the people who live in the fish tank, looking at the scenery and curious things outside, sighing and talking about their difference, and we will not find out that we are being raised in the fish tank by others on the day of death, which is extremely sad. !
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