all the time is life

Angel 2022-04-19 09:01:44

Every moment, we are living, but we are running away from life. The people in the movie live elsewhere. Virginia Woolf turns a blind eye to her husband's love. Housewives with family husbands and children are always gloomy with Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" in their hands. The female editor played by Maitrepp gave her whole heart, but she still couldn't save the death of her first love, the AIDS poet. Those people, they all live elsewhere.
After watching the movie again after a long time, I realized that the movie seems to be about living in the present moment. There is a story about a man who believed in God very much. When there was a flood, he believed that God would come to save him. The first man in the boat came, he said I would wait for God to save me, and the second one came, but he still refused, so three times, and finally died. When he came to God, he questioned God. God said, I have come to save you three times? Life is like this, we are always pursuing unrealistic things, but ignoring the beauty around us. We are always yearning for a better future and a dream life, but we don't know that the key to the future is always in our hands.
In fact, these tragic characters have common characteristics and are fortunate. No matter how weird and unreasonable they are, they all have an angel watching over them. Angels are their closest people. They are so grateful to those who love them, but they betray without exception. Either commit suicide, or leave. And bring harm to those who have been taking good care of them.
They have been living in an illusion, giving their lives to the people around them who have been anxious and paid for them and have really lived.
In fact, the answers they were looking for were always by their side. To give is to have. Losing is also willing to let go.
Those bits and pieces interlaced in the movie, the moment when the door is opened, the fresh air in the morning, the bright light from the curtains, the beautiful and fragrant flowers. After such a long time, it is still the cheering FLOWERS when Streep walked into the flower shop again! Wake up deeply. In fact, no matter how long it is, there are always some moments in life that we treasure, and we can't forget them without remembering them. Those moments are where the real life lies.
Poets want to record those beautiful moments that awaken the soul. But his wounded heart can never be recovered. Has he lived? When his mother, who was always immersed in Mrs. Dalloway's world, left him, he could no longer believe that he was loved and worthy of love. After his mother left, did he ever live a real life? She smiled and jumped out the window, but it seemed that she was finally relaxed.
Many souls who have been hurt choose to escape in all kinds of things. Some are fatalistic, some are overly sensitive, and some are incomprehensible. Virginia's sister told her daughter that her aunt was lucky to live in two worlds, one real and one she created. In the face of Virginia who is always distracted, her sister's words are not without ridicule. When you face it, you face it with all your heart. When her sister and the others left, Virginia seemed to wake up and kissed her sister to say goodbye. Just miss it again and again, right? She was always absent-minded when people were around her. Including her last letter to her husband, no matter how grateful she was for the love he gave her. That's why her husband yelled at her at the station. But the angels never woke them up. They have an irreversible obsession with other worlds.
They have also made various efforts, but in the end they have all failed. Life is the most precious, but they just want to escape. is not that right. Many people spend their whole lives without understanding why they live and just go with the flow. And those who want to figure it out have gone too far, ignoring the fact that life is all around them. in every moment.

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The Hours quotes

  • Richard Brown: Oh, Mrs. Dalloway... Always giving parties to cover the silence.

  • Laura Brown: Obviously, you... feel unworthy. Gives you feelings of unworthiness. You survive and they don't.