As a child, I thought I would grow up to be a writer

Halle 2022-04-21 09:02:50





When I realize that I really don't have a relationship with a writer, I can let go of all my emotions. This movie fits right in with an idea I had as a kid, that being a good writer everything will be fine. The film review of this movie can draw on the article "Three Writers and Three Dilemmas" written by someone on the Internet. I just feel the movie, and I feel that I am a childhood dream.

There is a word in the film that is used by almost many film critics, and that is "choice". Regarding choices, there are many directions. There is such a saying, "A child is afraid of entering the wrong profession, and a woman is afraid of marrying the wrong man", which vividly illustrates a problem, that is, a person's general direction of choice. For men, career is very important; for women, family is very important, which is almost the basic tradition of human beings in the world. Although, nowadays "occupation" has spread to even men, women and children, it is also very important for women to choose a career. As far as I am concerned, being a writer is not my career dream, my career dream is like being a cop.

Showing writers in the film can be regarded as a profession, but it is not the only one. If he really becomes a pure famous writer and enjoys more than the life of a movie star, at this time, the writer will completely become a common man who truly integrates into the society. Generally speaking, the real writer is like the title of the novel "The Baron on the Tree" by the famous Italian writer Calvino. Living in a tree shows that he is unwilling to live on the land where human beings generally live. He has a secret idea of ​​being isolated from the outside world, but his identity is a baron, with a relatively noble bloodline, and he is the same as people. What I mean by this is very clear. Writers are also human beings, but their ideas go beyond ordinary people. Such people can be called writers.

When I was young, the wish of quite a writer was actually that I knew very little about writers, thinking that when a book was written and published, the author was this person, and this person was the writer. How naive I was, so I started trying to write. Now, looking back at what I have written, should I reject it or cherish it? My contradictions are clear to me. Those naive words and whimsical thinking cannot escape the confinement of simple logic. The only thing I'm glad about is that it still exists, unlike the old man in the film, who wrote a masterpiece written by sleepless nights and lost it in an accident. I don't know if I will have the opportunity in the future, or if I have the mood to continue my many unfinished stories, such as the stories I conceived on "Earth Island", the stories of college boys, or the bad stories of college students, maybe these incomplete stories Language will be silent since then. The film tells us a shocking truth that once a person chooses a life, the difficulty is that the life he chooses must continue. This proxy doesn't seem to be invaluable because it doesn't even articulate a problem, let alone guide us. However, it can give us a sense of how life is going with the flow after continuing to choose (there is no other choice), and only by going with the flow can it not hinder the filtering and dissipation of troubles.

Now, the dream of being a writer still lingers in my mind, and from time to time evokes dormant desires and fantasies. I will cherish this choice, no matter how unforgettable pain this choice will attract, moral pressure or oppression by the forces of public opinion, I have no regrets. There is no regret medicine in the world. The dream of being a police officer seems to have been completely lost, but there is still a chance for a writer, because I think that even being a writer is a matter of probability. It is true that my efforts are less, this is a very serious ego factor, I need to reflect, and I need to live well.

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The Words quotes

  • The Old Man: He should've been somebody everyone knows.

    Rory Jansen: Yeah... but what happened?

    The Old Man: Life.

  • The Old Man: You choose the words, you choose the pain.