In the world of life, suddenly like a traveler

Chanelle 2022-10-16 22:54:56

I thought it was just a beautiful fairy tale, but after reading it, I felt a lot of melancholy and sadness. I still love to watch Mr. Hayao Miyazaki's films. Maybe I have a similar complex with him, and both have indelible and indelible nostalgia for some good things that happened in the past years. Some regrets.

As Ms. Taeko who has been growing up in a big city, her biggest dream when she was in elementary school was to go to a relative's house in the countryside during her long vacation. The funny thing is that as a child, I was born in the countryside, but my biggest dream when I was a child was to spend some time with my relatives in the city during the long vacation. Young children are always full of curiosity and yearning for the strange world in the distance. It is a pity that she never realized this wish when she was a child. This regret can only be buried deep in her childhood heart until she becomes an adult. Wish. When I was a child, although I couldn’t go to my relatives’ house in the city every holiday, I went there a lot. Every time I was about to close my holiday, I was still reluctant to go back to the countryside. I wanted to be able to live in the city forever. . When I was in elementary school, my grades were always among the best in rural schools. My parents had discussed many times to buy me a city hukou to study in the best junior high school in the city. I went to a junior high school in the countryside, and then I went to the only provincial key high school in the city when I took the college entrance examination. Because my family was far away, I lived on campus, and this was the beginning of my life in the city. At that time, most of the classes were urban children. , the economic situation is naturally much better than mine, I will be sensitive, so I don’t talk much, I don’t go out to play, I just study, if I don’t want to study, I just listen to music and read books by myself, but occasionally I want to shrink. When I go back to the countryside, I live the kind of rural life that returns to the basics. Every Friday after school, I take the mountain road to go home and see the mountains, forests and paddy fields beside the road, and I feel very happy watching the birds park on the backs of cows. If Taeko's wish to go to the countryside when she was a child had been fulfilled at that time, I am afraid that after working as an adult, she might not want to go to the countryside so much, and even took a long vacation to go to the countryside to harvest rice and safflower as a vacation. A large part of this is because she was a child. What is missing, I want to make up for it when I am an adult.

Children also like all kinds of interesting things, girls with bright bags and beautiful puma shoes, and boys with toy gun remote control cars. They are all so attractive. Heartfelt resentment cried all night long. When I think about it now, of course I can understand the difficulty of being a parent and the difficulty of raising a family, and if a child buys what he wants from childhood, it is definitely not a good education. However, the grievances and losses in my young heart were still very strong, so today, as an adult, when I saw Xiao Miaozi who was slapped by his father and cried to the ground, I felt the same way, and my parents taught me even more Severe, my growth path is so much more unbearable to look back on.

At school, Taeko's arithmetic is not good. This has always been her weakness. Mom doesn't want to say that her brain is not good, but I'm afraid she really admits it, but I'm afraid it hurts her self-esteem and can't say it. And the "hateful" second sister often embarrassed Taeko. After seeing Taeko's arithmetic results, she even talked about Taeko's IQ, but after all, she was also a child, and her mind was immature. With this heart disease into adulthood. The good news is that Taeko is definitely not without merit. In addition to her good language performance, an occasional drama performance made everyone recognize her acting talent and almost gave her a chance to become a big star, but because of her father's stubbornness, she directly The vote vetoed her acting career. Because of this childhood regret, she started to participate in the school's performing arts group when she was in high school, which was a wish to make up for her childhood. However, it is undeniable that some opportunities are lost and will not come again, although she finally laughed at herself and said that although the high school performing arts activities I made myself very happy, and I also experienced an actor addiction, but I also realized that I was really not this material, although it was open-minded, it was a pity for others to sound.

When I was a child, I liked to sing, but after all, it was impossible for people in the countryside to find a special teacher to teach me because of financial constraints. They had to learn pop songs, copy the lyrics, and practice at home when I had nothing to do, but at the end of the semester. My father was very angry, thinking that I was not doing my job properly, and rudely tore up a songbook I had copied. At that time, I could only secretly feel sad and did not dare to resist. But after all, it is something I love. After I was admitted to the university, I also participated in the choir in the university like Taeko. I also accompanied the choir to perform in places such as the Beijing Concert Hall many times, and worked up the courage to participate in the campus singer competition in the university. I went down step by step, but stopped because I was too nervous and forgot my words during the top ten campaign. Others also felt sorry for me, but after that, I was invited to sing in two school-level evening parties because of my appearance. wish. I also didn't forget to talk to my dad about tearing up my songbook when I was a kid, but my dad didn't think he was so wrong. He thought his harshness made me who I am today, otherwise I wouldn't have been admitted to Beijing's 985. University, he has been very frustrated in his life, and I may be his only pride, I understand him from the bottom of my heart. Just like Minxiong, although it was his father's opinion to go back to work in the countryside, he was dissatisfied, but in his heart he still respected his father.

And the ignorant love when I was a child, it's really fun to think about it now. Seeing Toshio explaining to Taeko the strange behavior of Abe towards Taeko in the fifth grade of elementary school is because Abe actually likes her. At that time, there was a beautiful girl in our class. I was usually not too embarrassed to talk to her, but when I took the opportunity, I bullied her viciously and murdered her, showing a face like: "Hmph, how could I like you". Once she was bullied and cried, and the head teacher found out. The head teacher left the two of us after school. She was still crying. The head teacher asked me to talk first. Maybe because I usually get good grades, the head teacher likes me very much, and he doesn't criticize me so much that I forgot to tell me something, and then the head teacher told me that I can go back first, and I was proud at the time I looked at her and walked outside the classroom. I still remember her crying louder and more sad when she saw that I didn't get the punishment I deserved. Thinking about how bad I was at that time, that kind of little boy's mentality is also very interesting, because he likes it, so he is shy, because he is shy, so he doesn't dare to approach, so when approaching, he pretends to pretend to be arrogant to cover himself up , maybe I still have a little bit of this character on me all this time, a little bit unconfident, a little bit twisted.

When Ms. Taeko told Minxiong about what happened in the fifth grade of elementary school, Minxiong was always a little puzzled. He felt that today's Taeko was weird. I also felt weird when I saw this, how could it be at such a moment? Talking about things that are not related at all, maybe she is a different girl herself. She remembers the regrets of childhood too clearly and affected her too much. She has been troubled all the time, and some regrets have been compensated so She was so kind and always felt that she must have done something wrong that Abe hated her so much, shaking hands with everyone but not with her. She has always regretted not being able to apologize to Abe and ask him to forgive herself. Now that she said it, Minxiong finally solved this crux, and finally she could say goodbye to her past moments one by one and welcome a new life. At the end of the movie, it was not stated explicitly, but the cheerful style of filming the MV implied that she finally chose to go to the countryside to marry Minxiong and live together.

As for living in the country, when her grandmother proposed to let Taeko marry Minxiong, Taeko was suddenly in a trance. She hadn't considered this issue before, and she doubted whether she could adapt to the life that has been staying there, and she was also afraid that she was just a Ye Gong loves dragons, and she still feels embarrassed. Although she talks about her love for rural life, when it comes time for her to stay in the countryside, she is really conflicted and wants to back down. As a child who grew up in the countryside, I can understand her feelings very well. The countryside has many benefits, beautiful scenery, fresh air, simple villagers, and the rural lifestyle is the closest to the true state of human existence. When I was a child, I always looked forward to going to the city, but now I live in a big city, I always miss that kind of life in my heart, and even seeing the trees in the city green in spring makes me feel inexplicably happy. Of course, rural life also has a less beautiful side. Leaving aside a series of convenient electronic equipment and advanced technology brought by modernization, farming alone is very tiring after a long time, and the repetitive work day after day is also very tiring. It's boring, and it's hard to get used to without Toshio's mentality of treating crops as creatures and caring him patiently as a friend. It is impossible for me to go back like her. The place and fields where I lived when I was a child have long been flattened and replaced by a reinforced concrete forest of high-rise buildings. However, even if my hometown remains as it is, I will not be able to go back. One is that my parents hoped that the man should study more and start a career. The other is that modern life is too stressful. After returning to a small village, how can I make a living and support my family? Agriculture has always been in China. It symbolizes poverty. If I go back to live that kind of life alone, it will be no problem, but now you have to be responsible for the people around you, so the beauty of the peach blossoms is beautiful, and you can only think about it. Mr. Hayao Miyazaki used the way of filming to question the modern civilization's memory of mountains, forests and fields. I can only watch it occasionally and think about it. Taeko finally chose to go back. In fact, on the one hand, she was willing to endure day after day toil for the tranquility of the village, and another very important aspect was that she really had feelings for Minxiong and wanted to be with him, so in this film A fairy tale full of little regrets finally ushered in a real fairy tale ending.

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  • Hirota: Rainy days, cloudy days, sunny days... which do you like?

    Taeko: ...cloudy days.

    Hirota: Oh, then we're alike.

  • Taeko: The king of fruit is... the king of fruit is...

    [the scene flashes from 1966 to 1989]

    Taeko: ...the banana!