Time flies, but we're not pilots

Ali 2022-09-12 12:46:51

If it wasn't for Tilapia's classmates suffering from a nervous headache, then this weekend, I will watch "Yong Qingwen's Disease Make Up for Peacock Fur" as planned. Of course, the result was the opposite of "if". She felt that "A Dream of Red Mansions" was sad, and she didn't want to read the paper book. As a result, we decided to use the remaining power of the laptop to watch "Sleepless in the Supermarket" for two hours.

There is no doubt that the film is great, so good that people can't sleep happily. After watching it, the two recalled the details of the movie in the dark, as if it were still playing in another way. Always a pity: We took the bass almost from start to finish for the little one's sleep. When it was placed on HIGH, the people inside burst into laughter, so we quickly lowered the volume to the lowest level.

What kind of film is it? "Ben", a student of the Art Institute, lost sleep all night because of his lovelorn. He found a night job in a supermarket to pass the boring insomnia. While most people are asleep, awake people have unique ways of working. Ben imagined that time would suddenly stop into the wonderful static world, cruising among the pretty women in the supermarket.

The most interesting part of the film is that the world stops between the last second and the next second. Everyone's actions are frozen in an instant, and only oneself can come and go freely and do whatever they want. When Ben's hands clasped together, his knuckles rattled, and the world returned to its original state. In an hour and forty minutes, there is very little reality, and more of this wonderful imaginary world is presented in the light and shadow. This also makes people and Ben think about the relationship between time and love: if people are unwilling to stop for even a second, then people may miss more time and cause countless unnecessary troubles. What does the ex-girlfriend Su Zi's regret show? Sharon, the prospective girlfriend, is furious when she sees Su Zi kissing Ben. What does this show? The incompleteness of time constitutes the incompleteness of the plot. Fragments often deceive the eyes, and seeing is not necessarily believing. The time it takes for men and women to eat and drink is often not an eternity, but only "one second".

Several of Ben's colleagues are very good at "doing". They are not suitable for children in mainland China, but they also reflect the reality of life: sex toys, sexual obscenity, narcissism, hormones, and the loud farts of naked female models. . "Reality" is also closely related to the environment in which one grows up. For example, when I was 7 years old, I saw a naked Swedish woman, and since then I have developed a sense of "beauty" about the female body. The teenage girl next door secretly stripped for 50p from her partner, and grew up to show up at Ben's immediate boss's private birthday party as a professional stripper for a high price.

Ben's dream is to become a painter and have his own exhibition in an art gallery. Cashier Sharon has worked in supermarkets for two and a half years, and her dream is to learn Spanish, work in a travel agency or teach English at school, and be somewhere in South America. With 12 minutes left, I could have a hunch about how good things were between these two, hoping it would stop, reluctant to part with a movie for more than an hour, smiling and pursed lips to continue.

The most dramatic scene appeared: two colleagues were about to make a joke and called Ben at school, saying that they were the curator of the art museum, had seen his works, and hoped to hold an exhibition. Ben was too happy to speak. Ben found that art museum, the curator was very surprised, there is no such thing! Ben was puzzled. The curator said: Since you are here, show me your painting. Then, Ben's painting was affirmed, and then he had a solo exhibition.

Then, Sharon was invited to the art gallery. The woman in the painting is Sharon, and love hangs on the painting. Ben's paintings have received more recognition, and he has made an appointment to exhibit at the university.

It was still a magic of time: snowflakes fluttered outside the window, and Ben made time freeze. Except for him and her, everyone remained motionless for a split second. When time stopped, he and she ran out in "slow motion". Outside the house was affectionate blue and tender white, suitable for the final confession of love.

I deliberately remembered Ben's narration from insomnia: the good news is that time flies, the bad news is that we are not pilots.

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Cashback quotes

  • Ben Willis: You see, I've always wanted to be a painter, and like many artists before me, the female form has always been a great source of fascination. I've always been in awe of the power they posses.

  • Ben Willis: I read once about a woman whose secret fantasy was to have an affair with an artist. She thought he would really see her. He would see every curve, every line, every indentation and love them because they were part of the beauty that made her unique.