This article is the second time I watched "San Junipero" and wrote prose.
Now I realize that "there are a hundred Hamlets in a hundred people" means that people with different experiences will interpret the same work differently - even in me at different ages, this sentence has also been tested.
For many years, "San Junipero" is one of the rare happy ending episodes in the "Black Mirror" series. But about the characters and the storyline, it was completely incomprehensible or felt based on my life experiences at the time. And today, when I came to "San Junipero" again, because of the separation of life and death that I have experienced over the years, I finally realized her profound meaning.
It’s still a simple love story: two heroines who will die soon, use some futuristic high-tech means to separate their consciousness from their bodies, so that their own consciousness comes to the “San Junipero” program world where they will stay young forever. , meet, fall in love and finally know each other. This feeling also crossed the virtual world, and in the real world, they touched each other with trembling hands.
One has been paralyzed since the age of 21, and has never been loved or loved; the other has a daughter who died young with her husband who has been with her for 49 years. meet in heaven.
The contradiction arises when the former escapes to "San Junipero", while the latter is hesitant to "live" forever because of the agreement with his family before his life.
If many years ago, I was only happy to know that two people will be "happy together forever" after physical death, then now, what I realize is "how should I live" today.
Come to "San Junipero", some for fun, some for activities that the flesh can't do. Both women have done things in "San Junipero" that their youthful self and the fleshly self have never dared to do. They were all young, but they also hesitated and hesitated because of their youth, leaving many regrets.
No confession to the person you love. Not following your inner thoughts firmly.
Probably every elderly person on the sickbed will have to review everything that he has not had time to realize when he cannot move! When the body is imprisoned by aging, the consciousness can be forever young, and some people who dared not do it before and thought they could not do it will visit again when they are so helpless. If everyone can do it again, they will surely accomplish all kinds of things that they once dared not do and thought they could not do.
So why not be brave now?
If all the denial of our own thoughts turns into regrets that are vividly felt years later when we are on the verge of life and death, why not grit our teeth and dig out our innate cowardice now and give it a go? It's like we're all in a slowly dim house with a door. If you don't open it, you'll never know if there's that brave new world behind the door that you've been looking for. Therefore, no matter the result is good or bad, every door that you have opened has made you progress, and it will definitely not be in vain.
It was also when I witnessed how many regrets in this life "should be done" before the sickbed of an old man who was imprisoned by aging, that the profound meaning of "San Junipero" became exceptionally bright, and I realized that I must not. Because of the constraints of their own thoughts, create any regrets for their own lives. It can't be because of any factors in reality, it may be poverty, laziness, or self-defeating, but suppression is actually enough to make one realize the power of one's own unique life.
And this road, the more you go, the more courage and self-confidence you have.
Even if I have nothing now, but sixty years from now, if the technology of the future can take me to "San Junipero" - perhaps "Holy Monkey Nippello", "Saint Tiger Nippello" ——I will also choose to be a tourist again, but I will not choose to exceed, just to experience the feeling of youth again. Then, leave this world full of heart and content. And at my funeral, in addition to the song "Wrong Club", this song "Heaven is A Place on Earth" was played --
Because heaven is a world where ideas can always be turned into reality.
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