childhood fantasy

Christian 2022-09-09 19:27:57

Beneath the floor and above the ceiling, in fact, there lived little people who looked exactly like us but were completely miniature versions, and those unexplainable noises at night were evidence of their activity. The idea came from a movie "The Borrowers" (the name I just found out today) that I watched in kindergarten or elementary school. Some villains in it lived under the wooden floor of a certain family. Cooking rice and tea, doing laundry and mopping the floor, arguing and bickering, and falling in love with each other, the life of a villain seems to be the same as ours, except that it is "undiscovered by adults".

The dolls on the shelf move around when I'm not in the house, open the closet where I keep their clothes, change clothes, sit on the chairs I've added for them, drink tea and chat, and they may also secretly look at what I make for them. The little book, laughing at me, only wrote one word per page. But these activities would come to an abrupt end the moment I entered the house, and everything would return to its original position in an instant. This idea should be received in "The Little Princess", in which Sarah's love for her baby Amy made her have such a fantasy.

The book I'm reading actually has a world going on in it while I'm reading it. And I, too, might be a character in a book someone else is reading. This is a meal one day when I was a child, and I was thinking about the problem while watching the comic strip of the gourd baby. Later, the comics became "Grimm's Fairy Tales" and "Andersen's Fairy Tales", and this fantasy has always stayed in my mind.

This is all a fantasy of my childhood. When I watched "Arietty, the Little Man Who Borrowed Things", it was like a lamp that was suddenly turned on, emitting light in the depths of my memory. When I watched the little man drink water from those delicate little teapots and cups, I recalled the small phenomenon of "water tension" I observed when pouring tea for the dolls, and I couldn't help smiling.

There must be a lot of associations that this cartoon can trigger. For me, it is to remind me that those fantasies, although they rarely come up again, are actually quietly moving under a certain floor and ceiling, waiting for me to remember them again someday. Get up, turn it over and savor it again. I haven't forgotten them, I just don't remember them sometimes.

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The Secret World of Arrietty quotes

  • Arietty: I have to go. When is your operation?

    Shô: The day after tomorrow. I'm going to be okay. You gave me the courage to live.

    Arietty: [Unclipping the pin from her hair & giving it to Shawn] For luck.

    Shô: Thanks.

    Arietty: [Now crying] You protected me after all.

    Shô: Arrietty...

    Arietty: I hope you have the best life ever. Goodbye.

    Shô: Arrietty, you're a part of me now. I'll never forget you, ever.

  • [last lines]

    [North American version]

    Shawn: I never saw her again. But the following summer I returned and was happy to hear the people in the house down the road talking about how many things in their home had gone missing.