surreal, really surreal

Rhea 2022-04-23 07:03:07

This book can be regarded as my pillow book, an outlet of my heart when I was most withdrawn. It's very thin, and the plot is very simple, and there doesn't seem to be even a single sentence in it.

I've always thought it was a very magical book, and what it said was fantastic.

Now it has been adapted into a movie, and the method is very surreal: I met an old pilot, a moving fox puppet, and a plane can go to the universe... But what I said is more realistic: when we were young, we were like the little prince In the same way, understand the most important truth and know what you want. When we grow up, we forget everything and do things we would never have done as children: we only see work, we plan every day, we want to be "successful" people, we want to be respected by others, we want power. ...

Even the little prince himself became the most ordinary adult when he grew up.

There is a metaphor here. The childhood self is the inner self, just like a child who sometimes mumbles to himself and is content. After adults, people seek happiness and happiness from the outside, many things are relative, people learn to compare.

Then, the real world of adults is like this. At work, he pursues all indicators and indicators. If he fails to achieve them, he will be as anxious and irritable as Mr. Wang, and doubt his own value. Work has become a terrible word for me. If poverty made Fantine sell her hair and even her teeth, then work made me not sleep well and lose my hair and feel bad.

When I was young, I had a lot of time to squander, because I wouldn't divide things into "useful" and "useless" in my mind. At that time, I would read books and wander aimlessly, and I would not be troubled by myself because of nothing. When I grew up, I more or less accepted the concept of adults and catered to adults. Maybe a few years later, I talked with my female colleagues about houses, cars, children and brand-name bags.

Maybe you really should slow down and look inward.
The little prince has resigned, what about me?

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Extended Reading

The Little Prince quotes

  • Mr. Prince: [telling The Conceited Man when he was bringing The Little Girl back to the classroom] Stop!

    [the Conceited Man stops and looks at Mr. Prince with The Little Girl was held by him]

    Mr. Prince: Take your hands off her.

    The Businessman: What? Stop?

    Mr. Prince: I-I'm not a failure.

    The Businessman: [questioned] Oh?

    Mr. Prince: ...I'm The Little Prince.

    The Businessman: [surprised] What?... He thinks he's little! And a prince!

    [he and his associates laugh; mocks]

    The Businessman: Look at me! I'm a bumblebee!

    [to one of his men]

    The Businessman: What are you? A duck?

    [the Businessman and his associates continue laughing hard]

    The Businessman: [darkly] He's hopeless.

    Mr. Prince: ...I'm not hopeless.

    [the Businessman continues laughing with his associates, and Mr. Prince then smiles]

    Mr. Prince: I'm hopeful. That's right, I'm full of hope! And I love a rose!

    [the Businessman and his men laughed hard]

    Mr. Prince: And she loves me, and she's waiting for me! So... I don't think I wanna work for you anymore.

    [the Businessman and his men ignored and still laughed]

    Mr. Prince: And um...

    [Mr. Prince removes his card from his shirt]

    Mr. Prince: ... I quit.

    [the Businessman and his associates stop laughing, causing The Little Girl to laugh]

    Mr. Prince: [laughs] I quit!

    [steps on his business card, while The Little Girl then steps on The Conceited Man's foot, freeing her, and the stuffed Fox steps on another man's foot gently, before the three start escaping]

  • The Businessman: [after using one of the stars as example for powering his planet] There, you see? The inessential has become perfectly essential.

    [to the Little Girl, angry]

    The Businessman: How it should be for all things.

    [ordering The Conceited Man and pointing to the classroom]

    The Businessman: Take her back to the classroom. Make sure no one interferes.

    [the Conceited Man grabs The Little Girl's arm as he was about to get her to the classroom, as the latter was trying to break free of The Conceited Man's grip]

    The Little Girl: No! Let me go, I can't...

    The Conceited Man: [to the Little Girl] Stop!

    The Little Girl: Don't let them do this to me!

    The Conceited Man: [to the Little Girl] I said stop!

    Mr. Prince: [to the Businessman] ... Wait.

    The Businessman: [to Mr. Prince] Wait? I've given you 371 jobs, and you have been fired from 370 of them. I think it's time you go back to work, my little failure.