There is nothing new under the sun. It's just a farewell after another.
I have been following a photographer named Yanzi on Weibo. She likes to take photos of young girls with the smell of sunshine, bright and wanton, and has many loyal fans. A few years ago, she disappeared for a long time, and her new works and dynamics were not seen on the Internet. Many people were asking where she went.
Later, when she published an article, people learned that at that moment, her daughter, Orange, who was just a few months old, died. I remember that from her pregnancy to the birth of the little orange, Yanzi, like every ordinary mother, used a camera to record the baby's changes bit by bit. The little creamy-white clothes were put on the child, especially ironed, as if she was an angel who came to the world. But good luck makes her, destiny forced her to endure such a parting in such a desperate way. She wrote in the article that she was once depressed, in a trance, and even rubbed shoulders with death. Her husband knelt down and begged her to live.
You see, in the face of such a heavy topic of death, no matter how positive and optimistic you have been, how popular you are, you will still be defeated by it. Connor, the young boy in "When the Monster Comes Knock on the Door," also faces a similar situation. The little boy has been having the same nightmare ever since his mother had undergone chemotherapy. His dreams were always dark and gloomy, with strong winds, screams and hands that could not be clenched no matter how hard he tried, torment him. He can clearly feel his mother's decay step by step, and witnessing the threat of his mother's death makes his life extremely gloomy.
Until one day an uninvited guest came to the house, the tree spirit monster with ancient aura told the boy that it was summoned by him, and it wanted to exchange three stories for Connor's own true story. Connor is not afraid of monsters, because at the moment, mother's illness is obviously more terrifying than monsters. The three stories are presented by animation, just like the dark fairy tale, the story always has a subversive turn and end. In the watercolor-enriched story, each story can make people interpret the complex situation-whether the prince who sacrificed his lover will cry on his own, will the priest who renounce his faith hate God, and whether the neglected invisible person will be light Sigh lightly.
Yanzi later described how she got out of bereavement depression in her article. Her mother told her that it took me two years to get used to seeing an old lady who was like her grandma on the road. sad. We always have to get out of the gloom of the old days and start a new life again. Time is a good medicine. It is already very difficult for adults to get out of the pain itself, let alone for a child. So there is such a story, such a tree spirit monster.
The film is adapted from the children's fantasy novel "The Devil Calls" by the famous American writer Patrick Nice. The director is Juan Antonio Bayana from Spain. His first two works, "Lonely Castle" is also a children's suspense theme, "Tsunami Miracle" focuses on the family after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 Post-disaster psychological reconstruction. It can be said that "When a Monster Comes Knock on the Door" also upholds the two elements of children and disasters that he was good at before, wraps a warm story with fantasy and presents a typical case of children's PSTD.
The topic of the latest issue of "Wonderful Flowers" is "Is the crit in life worthy of gratitude?" When Zhang Quanling refuted the opponent's point of view, he said bluntly, "PTSD cannot be treated with gratitude."
The so-called PTSD refers to post-traumatic stress disorder, which refers to an individual experiencing, witnessing or encountering one or more actual deaths involving himself or others, or threatened with death, or serious injury, or threatened physical integrity , The delayed appearance and persistence of mental disorders caused by individuals. Children’s traumatic re-experience symptoms can be manifested as nightmares, excessive startle reactions, high vigilance, attention disorders, irritability or anger, difficulty falling asleep, and so on.
Connor, the boy in the movie, is such a typical child with PTSD. And this kind of trauma is not uncommon in life. Zhang Quanling mentioned that he had personally visited the Wenchuan earthquake for interviews. Facing the hell on earth, that kind of blow to the soul was like a rotten wound, the more it was torn, the more painful it was. So the doctor taught her a simple and easy way of psychotherapy-imagine a box in your heart, slowly solidify the most uncomfortable scene in your heart into a photo, put it in the box, and lock it. Connor’s method was to phantom the tree spirit monster, which appeared at 0:07 on time and told him three stories in exchange for the boy’s nightmare. In this way, it is nothing more than to make the boy more courageous to face his fears.
At the end of the show, Zhang Quanling taught everyone how to fight the crit of life. "The first step is to accept it and know that there is always a crit in life; the second step, if we can fight, whether we are weak or strong, we must fight; but the third step is the most important, let go and start again." So Connor, accompanied by the monster's induction, smashed grandma's living room furniture in a vented manner, and severely knocked down the classmates who had been bullying him, all of them were undergoing a traumatic stress treatment. And the last way is to watch the mother who is about to fall into the abyss and choose to let go. Only in this way can I let my own way out and start a new life.
One of the most embarrassing and distressing scenes in the movie is that the boy can finally face the fear that troubles him. Then, slowly said "I should be punished, the heaviest punishment." It was clearly not his fault, but he added this source of pain to himself. He instinctively refused to face the fact that his mother was about to leave. The boy was afraid to bear the loneliness of losing his mother, but also hoped to end this pain, so he felt a deep sense of guilt.
In fact, we may all have had this experience. On the one hand, we want to escape from the pain, and on the other hand, we feel that our escape is ashamed of the pain itself. The tree spirit told him that it is not shameful to end the pain, and we don't have to bear heavy emotional shackles, because this is the most primitive wish of mankind.
Choosing to let go is not timid, cowardly, nor sinful. Letting go is a kind of salvation.
How could a prince be both a murderer and beloved by others? How could a medicine doctor have both bad temper and correct judgment? Why would an invisible man become more lonely when seen by the public? I believe that the tree spirit who is fantasised by romance is not a boy's conjecture, it is very likely that it comes from the mother who has few words in the film. My mother made a picture book and picture book and told the boy the stories in the picture book.
The mother uses these stories to give the child the final psychological treatment and teach the boy that before he grows into a teenager, the first lesson in life is to learn to distinguish between good and evil, not to easily define good and bad, and know how to let go.
The actor Li in "Manchester by the Sea" will never get out of the shadows of the old days. He allows everyone to go to spring, but leaves himself in the endless mud of sadness, stubbornly unable to get out. "When a Monster Comes Knock at the Door" gives children, and also includes all adults, another possibility to face trauma-bravely face your pain, rely on time to heal like a swallow, seal off the pain like Zhang Quanling, or like Connor pulled out his mother's picture book, and then slowly raised his head, just like the end of "Birdman." Finally, bid farewell to the past.
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