A naive dream about a little kid

Conrad 2022-11-25 20:50:11

When watching foreign movies, I can't remember who is who, and I often get confused so much that I thought the protagonist of 2010 was called Paine. And after seeing it, I forgot almost all the character names. This pains me a lot. But in this way, there is an advantage: every time you watch a movie, there will be a new feeling, because everyone is a new face. Of course, I remember Nicolas Cage, because he looks too individual; I also remember Stallone's face that has remained unchanged for thousands of years; and Comrade Mayor Schwarzenegger, black buddy Denzel Washington. This is because they have a face that is instantly recognizable even if their heads are cut off and thrown into a mass grave. For handsome and beautiful, even Hilton, Angelina Juliet, Tom Cruise, I don't recognize.

This time I looked at Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and it was like that - I was very kind to the little girl who appeared in Kick-bian King, but also couldn't name it, which made me extremely annoyed. I always thought this girl should be Avril's sister, or Avril's daughter. Because the two have a face that is too similar, and later Baidu found out that her name was Chloe Grace Moretz, not a relative of VV - the name is too long, no wonder I can't remember it.


The little girl seems to have grown up this time (during the movie, Zhou Zhou swears by her side that she has grown up and taller), and has become a little reporter. This reminds me of when I was a child, when I was a little reporter, but it was an honorary title. When my children became little reporters, my parents had light on their faces.

Of course, this little girl is not the protagonist in Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The protagonist is a short boy who has just risen from elementary school to junior high school. He is full of ambition and wants to show his skills and make a bright mark on the classmates record. He also has a classmate and friend who was promoted from elementary school together, a little fat man.

The word that kept circling in my head as I watched this movie: stupid people have stupid blessings. It seems that the ancients did not deceive me, and it is not bad to be stupid. Little Fatty never wanted to be famous, but he was pushed to the center of the stage of history by the torrent of fate and became the most famous figure in the whole junior high school. The poor protagonist classmate, but after trying hard to be noticed again and again, became the most excluded child in the whole school.

In fact, we've all been through this time. When I was in junior high school, I saw that someone became famous at 16, so I made it my goal, and I thought, if he became famous at 16, I will wait until he is 16. When I was 16 years old, I suddenly looked back and found that I was still an unknown junior. Looking up again, there was a guy who didn't really become famous until he was 18, and I could make that a goal, and it's not a bad idea to be famous at 18. At the age of 18, I am still penniless. Then 20, 22, 24, 25 I kept looking ahead, someone became famous at that age, I wait, wait until I become an old young man, and still do nothing. This is the regret of the first half of my life.

The little boy has not yet grown into an old boy, so he has infinite fantasies and infinite imagination. He can skip classes, walk a few kilometers to beg for candy, betray friends because of vanity, and treat female classmates indiscriminately. Think about it, anything is possible. Nothing can be accomplished, anything can come again. At the end of the movie, the little girl said to an ugly and unruly princess that after junior high school there is high school, and after high school there is society, and then you will find that everything you value now is shit at that time. Although it is very boring, it makes me feel inexplicably sad. When I was in school, I thought that everything in the school was not important, so after I left the society, I found that there were too many regrets left. When I was studying, I didn’t study hard, I didn’t go to the library, I didn’t play football, I didn’t fall in love, I didn’t get a scholarship, I got into a fight, I didn’t know anything... I am a person who lives in a dormitory and goes out at night, although It was okay after work, but left a lot of regrets in college, and it was completely irreparable. Instead of spending short long nights and shorter long days in games, novels, and words, I should be doing what a university is supposed to do in college.

The little kid hasn't grown up yet, he has too many fantasies. I also had these fantasies when I was a child. For example, I wanted to be a blockbuster in school, so I participated in many activities, but none of them came to an end.

As I watched this film, I kept thinking about my childhood, my teenage years, and my youth. Just like when I watched "McDull", I could always find the shadow of my past. Many ambitions, after the passage of time, all that remains is a puddle of saliva left on the table.

I don't want my childhood to be like this little brat, nothing new. The little kid is painting. Draw his life, his dreams and his dissatisfaction with school and classmates. I have been thinking, will the little kid become the big kid in the end, and the talent of painting will finally be appreciated by everyone, so it finally soars into the sky? What a beautiful dream, just like I did when I was a kid.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid quotes

  • Greg Heffley: [smugly] You're way too smart for me Patty Ferrell...

  • Greg Heffley: We'll hide here for the rest of class because I'm not playing that game! It's not fair. He's got all the neanderthals on the same team. It's barbaric!

    Angie Steadman: It's completely barbaric. This place is an intellectual wasteland. But it's nice to meet a person more interested in his mind than his body.

    Rowley Jefferson: You girls get to jump rope. What are you doing hiding?

    Angie Steadman: Avoiding the pain. It all starts in middle school, you know? You're not a kid anymore. The coddling has stopped. Kids are now separated by intelligence. The weak are picked on and girls that you've known since kindergarten won't even talk to you anymore.

    Greg Heffley: Well, it sounds like you've got it all figured out so go back to your book.

    [laughs]

    Angie Steadman: This place is a glorified holding pen. It's where adults put you as you make that awkward transition between child and teenager so they don't even have to look at you.

    [pauses]

    Angie Steadman: Hi. I'm Angie.

    Greg Heffley: [Pulls Rowley's hand away] Great Story! We're going to go now.

    Rowley Jefferson: Why? This is a good spot.

    Angie Steadman: It's a perfect spot. I survived all of the sixth grade here and I would enjoy some like-minded company to get me through the seventh.

    Greg Heffley: Is that the whistle? I think I hear the whistle.

    [laughs]

    Greg Heffley: We need to go!