When Micheal Bond published the first story book with Paddington as the protagonist in 1958, he would not have imagined that, nearly a century later, London is really full of Paddington bears from all over the world—they Full of curiosity and confusion, eager to try everything, overwhelmed by the colorful lights of London.
This Peruvian bear wearing a horned coat and carrying a small suitcase is enthusiastic and polite. He has to raise his red wide-brimmed hat to say hello to everyone. It is a pity that this is Paddington station where everyone is busy and exhausted. No one noticed him, so he sat on the box a little lost. The lost and found office behind it lit up the "LOST" sign until the Browns found out. After him, the light board completely lit up "LOST AND FOUND".
I landed at Heathrow Airport three months ago. I was pushing two large boxes and carrying a backpack. I had to take Express to another terminal, but I went to the National Express by mistake. The driver may have encountered too many of these. The confused people, the attitude is not so good, tell me the difference between the bus and the light rail. I dragged two boxes and walked half of the airport to transfer to the light rail. I was a bit discouraged. But until I met a conductor who took the trouble to show me the way, the school volunteered to help me carry a box of dozens of kilograms upstairs. The undergraduate girl who didn't let me do anything at all, took me out to find the way to buy things. Roommate, I seem to understand that I am not so alone.
For the first time, a bear from deep in the forest saw the thoughtful London, the blue steel cable tower bridge, the huge silent London Eye, the brilliant and immortal lights on both sides of the Thames, and the black beetle-like taxis, dumbfounded. Stupid flocks of pigeons, and some annoying rain. He opened his mouth and exclaimed silently. This is London, London with Big Ben and the red bus in the crystal ball.
Like the little bear who has never seen anything in the world but still pretends to be calm, I always retain the slightest doubt: have I really walked in such a landscape? Flashing traffic lights and winding alleys and streets, red double-decker buses shuttle on the road, ringing the bells in the city center on the hour, and street performers sing nice songs.
In "The Great Gatsby", Fitzgerald repeatedly expressed his feelings about New York, which is drunk and fanciful. He said: I'm within and without. London is a city that always reminds you of this sentence. It may be more stable. Even more orderly, with the calmness and majesty of the pioneers of the old industrial revolution, but it is growing and declining just as quickly, and it is still like a bamboo shoot after the rain, it is changing and changing every day-every time you think you have understood London, it It can always surprise you, maybe it's a graffiti at the end of an alley, maybe it's a new art exhibition, maybe it's a hidden tavern. To use a vulgar metaphor, London is indeed like a kaleidoscope, every rotation and every change of light can present the beauty of different edges and corners.
Little Bear encountered a lot of things later. Sometimes London was not as beautiful as it looked. It was so perfect that it was a bit cold. But just as the homeless Paddington was hiding in the guard box of Buckingham Palace on a cold rainy night, the guard handed him a sandwich blankly, London will touch your head with a serious expression when you are discouraged and disappointed, so You know the world is big, you have to move forward. And we are all curious Paddington Cubs with wide-eyed eyes, always messing things up, always having bad ideas, and always building up confidence after losing, firmly believe in the power of love and sincerity.
I really like the ending. Paddington stayed in the big house of the Browns family. He wrote to his family in Peru, saying: This is London, everyone is different, that means everyone can fit in.
So finally he did not hold back and shed tears in the dark cinema.
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