The movie "Central Station" has touched me too much, although he has no Hollywood-style big scenes, no disasters, no heroic rescue, in the peaceful and peaceful, even slightly procrastinating plot, I saw Pure humanity, the revival of humanity, how the worldly repressed mind can achieve self-redemption. That's it.
Perhaps the best film I've seen so far sums up the plot: the story of an old woman and a young boy looking for a father. It's that simple. Beneath the simple and surprising plot, all kinds of human nature are shown naked in front of us metaphorically. Indifference, numbness, selfishness and hypocrisy, surly and cunning... Perhaps the film deliberately opened the curtain in such a scene, to show a process of religious redemption: hell, purgatory, heaven. So the protagonists of our story - the old woman Dora and the little boy Joshua - met at such a hellish train station, one living in numbness and indifference, one eager to find, and unable to find a share of his own. Definite affection. So they hit the road, and what Dora, the old woman at this time, longed for was to redeem herself for the crime she had committed—buying Joshua to a human trafficker just to buy a second-hand TV. Such a journey is full of hardships—two people are penniless due to a moment of negligence; hitchhiking, but the driver leaves because of the sudden germination of their love; I thought the trip was over, but was told The person who needs to be looked for is still far away...I can't help but say that this is a purgatory deliberately arranged by the director, in which the lost humanity can be redeemed. However, it is the bits and pieces in this purgatory-like journey that truly touch every audience. Love, family affection, from mutual suspicion and hostility to the final tears of consonance, it is this purgatory that allows us to retrieve the emotions hidden in our human nature, and allows us to repair our missing emotions and sensitive nerves that were once numb. . Until the last moment - Dora actually wrote a letter to Joshua: If you feel lonely, just look at our photo... At least I don't want you to forget me one day... Then she flows In tears, I found the group photo of them in front of the statue of Jesus from the schoolbag - I seemed to smell the holy smell floating above every mortal. There is no heaven here, the brilliance of humanity illuminates the hearts of every mortal of us. Some people commented: This is a journey to cleanse the soul.
Finding is another theme of the film. As the advertisement for the film Grand Central reads: "A child is looking for his home, a woman is looking for her heart, this country is looking for its roots." Dora's life is empty, she Living in the noisy and bustling city center station every day, and seeing everything in the world, her heart is desolate and indifferent. She is eager to find, but she is always abandoning, abandoning her own conscience, abandoning the trust of others, abandoning the right to love and be loved. She lives alone and indifferently. Without Joshua's presence, her life would be as meaningless as a dead body. She took Joshua to find her father, in fact, to find the meaning of her life and her lost soul. Along the way, her wounded heart opens, and her pale, tedious life comes to life with a series of dramatic events. So, she finally boldly said what she wanted to say most like a truck driver: Can you stay forever? Although her love ended in vain, it seemed like a tragedy, but from another angle, it was such a tragic love that made her humanity no longer incomplete: at least, she had truly loved and experienced a sincere feeling. Broken unforgettable. She found the lack of her own humanity. The moment she put on lipstick, she became a truly perfect woman. Joshua is also looking. He is looking for a father he has never met, and he is looking for a true spiritual home. The rushing car took away not only his mother's life, but also the Garden of Eden in his heart. So he will resolutely be like Dora wanting to return the letter his mother wrote to his father, so he will desperately want to find his father. We often say that home is where the parents are. This sentence applies not only to Chinese people with strong family values, but also to every flesh-and-blood soul. So we see Joshua running eagerly as he steps over that fence gate. There is the spiritual destination that has appeared in his mind countless times. But the reality is so cruel: When told that his father had moved out, he turned away without saying a word. It was just such a turn around that I saw the trajectory of a teenager's transformation: life always mocks us like this, and we can only truly get the redemption we long for by stepping on the next unknown journey stronger. We always say that a life without setbacks is not a perfect life. That's it. Setbacks make people mature and make people understand that our life process is a process of pursuit. Now that the outcome of life has been decided, let's hit the road! Only those who are on the road are the real meaning existence on. We are all searching, searching for the full meaning of who we are as a real being. When the last shot, Joshua's tearful smile shining in the sun, was, I think, the moment to find the perfect expression: we, on the road.
Maybe each of us is Dora, maybe each of us is Joshua. We live in a hurry in this world, what are we looking for and what are we giving up. The life of each of us is not like this bustling train platform, constantly leaving, constantly returning, starting again and again, looking for and longing again and again. We cannot predict the road ahead, but we are soberly aware that in this rumbling forward, we grow up, mature, and grow old, until one day, looking back on the past, we find a path of self-redemption, or a path to seek. . The sun is shining brightly, illuminating all the twists and turns of gloom in our minds. Perhaps there is also a feeling: life is to pursue and long for on the road.
We are on the way.
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