The moment I dived into the dark and quiet water , I held my breath
, suddenly there was no fear
, and the sight was full of splendid and moving beauty
. The moment I turned into a drop of water
, and suddenly the light overflowed
.
Deeply know that
only love, only you
are the oxygen for my life to continue
——Written to the movie "The Cave"
Yang Liping, who was over 50 years old but left no trace of time and was still amazed on the stage, said: "Some people's lives Some are for enjoyment, some are for experience, some are for watching. I am a bystander of life, and I came to this world to see how a tree grows, how the river flows, how the white clouds float, and how the nectar condenses."
For those For avid explorers, the mission may be the same. Heaven and earth have great beauty but do not speak, Haize has heaven and earth without proclaiming. Therefore, they found that they were intoxicated, they went to heaven and earth, they died willingly, and they presented their gains to the entire human race. In the film, some of Frank's lines are deeply interesting, "Since the world was created, no human has ever witnessed this." "Think about who can be the first person to illuminate a place where no one has been before. "
Since ancient times, human beings have never stopped exploring and unmasking the unknown world around them. In this process of unmasking, human beings experience life again and again, and test human nature again and again.
Watching the whole film "The Cave" has a suffocating feeling from beginning to end, watching the movie is like diving. Only at the end did the viewer's lungs expand with the big inhalation of the protagonist Josh rising to the surface. For claustrophobic patients, this film is definitely not a healing movie. It tells us in an extreme and even cruel way: without experiencing suffocation, we will never know the comfort and value of breathing. Only after a fierce struggle with death will one be ecstatic and cry bitterly for the existence of life. Only through the narrow and cramped gap full of oppression can we lead to the vast and infinite free space.
I remember when I was in high school, I sneaked into the Fu River in my hometown to swim alone, and planned to complete a feat of crossing the other side. When he was about to reach the other side with great difficulty, he unexpectedly found that there were piles of garbage and water plants, and he could not go ashore at all, so he could only turn back from the wide river. Another accident was a sudden calf cramp on the way.
I will always remember the scene at that time, there was no one around, only the vast water surface and my heavy breathing, accompanied by inexplicable panic. I was exhausted, sinking again and again, choking on the water, struggling to straighten my calf again and again in the water, and then floating up again, struggling to continue swimming. What a long and arduous distance. When I tried my last bit of strength to swim to the shore, and I fell down on the sand, I couldn't help crying. I didn't even know what was going on at the time or why I was crying. Later, I gradually realized that it was a kind of uncontrollable vent, which included the joy of the rest of the life, the reverence for life, the gratitude for the sun, the air and the land, and some sadness for the disappointment of the other side. And all of this, I was unaware of it before, one experience made me suddenly increase those insights. Watching this movie is like experiencing a rich and shocking experience in person. Although there are other people's stories in the movie, people who watch the movie will inevitably put themselves in the role.
Frank said the first rule of diving, never hold your breath. This sentence made me think for a long time, so that when I went to the swimming pool and hot spring pool, I deliberately dived underwater, trying to get along with the surrounding water in a state of integration rather than resistance. As a result, the diving time was significantly longer than before. extended. In fact, everyone has some degree of claustrophobia, and only when the resistance slowly eases, accepting and reconciling with the object you are resisting, the fear will naturally disappear.
Sometimes I think about how our life is like a long cave diving, an extreme sport that seems bland but is actually extremely thrilling. Now that we jumped off and started this adventure, we were already doomed to never go back to where we started. The water level under your feet is always rising unknowingly, and staying in place will only be submerged. Only by diving, entering the bottom of the water, choosing a dark passage from the labyrinth-like crevices of rocks, groping, trying, and praying, is it possible to survive. But whether it leads to another dark dead corner or to the bright ground, no one knows. We have no choice but to swim forward. The other side may be picturesque or dangerous. Perhaps this is fate's arrangement. In the face of fate, all resistance is futile. The most abundant financial support and the best outdoor adventure equipment are not enough for an unexpected storm. The richest adventure experience and the most daring and persevering top donkey can't bear the darkness of human nature behind him.
And in the entire expedition, the number of times we are allowed to make mistakes is extremely limited, otherwise it will be game over and lead directly to the end of death. The female lead Victoria in the film made three mistakes: she chose to go to this cave because she was inexperienced, she chose to dive but she was determined not to wear the cold clothes stripped from the corpse, she chose to use a knife to cut the hanged Hair and main rope. Her own wrong choice ultimately led to her death.
Before her, Liz died, struggling to die beside Frank. Because she chose not to carry a spare tank during a deep dive. After Frank and her exchanged oxygen masks, it still didn't help, so he pushed her away decisively. No one else can blame her for her death. But Josh stubbornly believed that his father killed her, and he didn't really understand his father until he finally completed his father's funeral in the water with his own hands.
Luke is dead, at the hands of Frank. When he was climbing up, he was washed down the main rope by the rushing water, and his whole body was fractured. Either passively suffer to death in pain, or take the initiative to die decently, he chose the latter. Frank helped him out with a common practice. His struggling arm brought a great shock and shock.
Qiao Zhi died, died in a silent suicide. Suffering from severe decompression sickness, he took the initiative to beg for death in order not to drag others down. He silently hid in a crevice of the rock, listening to the shouts of his companions, letting the tears flow silently.
In the end, Frank died too, in the arms of his son in the same way Luke did. In order to fight for the oxygen cylinder to survive, Carl suddenly plots against Frank. Frank suffered a severe back injury during the fight, and he begged his son to press his head into the water with his own hands and die with dignity. I couldn't hold back my tears when my son dipped his father's head in the water, fighting back his grief.
Carl, as a representative of the dark side of human nature, shows selfishness and viciousness at a critical moment. Naturally, he could not escape the fate of death, drowning in the bottom of the cave without oxygen.
Although they are all dead, the way they choose to die is different, reflecting different human nature: they are either lucky, or self-righteous, or weak, or brave, or deceitful, or simple, or irritable, or Calm and calm, or despair, or never give up. . .
What are we left with under the shadow of death? Fortunately, we still have love, the noble character of altruism, and the longing for beauty and life. This is the reason why humans have survived to this day.
Adventure to survive is a bright line in the film, and the dark line is the love between father and son. At first, the son did not understand his father, and even teased and laughed, deliberately rebelled, angered his father several times, and made his teammates look down on him. But in the more and more critical process of survival, the son gradually felt that the father's love was slowly and surely released like oxygen in a compressed bottle, providing himself with the breath of life from the spirit to the body. When he no longer resisted, chose to reconcile with his father, and fully understood his father, he had to face a more difficult choice - to drown his father with his own hands. I'm afraid Josh didn't expect that the gift his father gave him, the torch made of wild boar teeth, the small object that he almost tore down and threw away in his anger, the handicraft that his father polished the spoils of war, finally illuminated him. The road to escape.
In the film, the verses recited repeatedly through Frank's mouth are also a metaphor. It reveals the inner world of the extreme explorer - the yearning for the beautiful scene of the paradise. They are always looking for the unknown, looking for Xanadu to the other side. Frank said, "Look at them, it's like a cathedral." "It's like my church, I can hold a mirror and say out loud, this is me." Yes, this is his belief, his church.
The poems are beautiful and add a lot of color to the film. I googled it and found the ins and outs of this poem. The 18th-century British romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who is said to have had a lot of thoughts while he was wandering after smoking opium, wrote this song called "Kubla Khan Summer Capital". ), known as "the most fascinating new poetry in the English-speaking world".
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan come to Shangdu, Kublai Khan called the Great Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree Changle Dome Palace, its grandeur overflows with edicts
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Where Alph, the sacred river, ran The river
Through caverns measureless to man Diving into the giant cave, its depth is beyond the reach of the son of man (chān)
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground Five miles, with walls and towers were girdled
round, with walls and towers were girdled round
Through a series of powerful visual and auditory images, the poem depicts a splendid and splendid oriental scene, expressing the poet's infinite longing for the "other world" that he yearns for. Xanadu (transliterated as Xanadu) originally referred to the beautiful palace Xiadu located in Kublai Khan, Inner Mongolia, and later extended to the meaning of "Xanadu", which is just right in the film.
Who does not miss life? Who doesn't look forward to beauty? Who doesn't look forward to crossing this shore and arriving at Xanadu on the other side?
It's just that everyone's choices and directions are different.
However, we need to remember: to reach the realm of light, we must pass through the place of darkness. If you want to go to a wide place, you must pass through a narrow place.
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