When it comes to the word paradise, many people will immediately think of Disney. Indeed, after decades of painstaking efforts, Disney has woven beautiful fantasy wonderland for people with theme parks all over the world, and has also made itself into the hearts of countless people. The pronoun of the park, whether it is an adult or a child, can not resist the charm of the Disney theme park. The steeple castle has become a symbol of joy in many people's hearts.
I really like playing a game called "Roller Coaster Stars", because in this game, you can use your imagination to create an amusement park like Disneyland, but I prefer to do it instead of building a park. The point is to switch to the perspective of tourists in the game, to experience the joy of those tourists firsthand. In the game, every tourist in the park is grinning, which makes me easily infected. I feel that whether it is in the game or in reality, it seems that as long as you touch the side of the amusement park, there will be beautiful and happy things. happen.
However, when I watched the movie "Florida Paradise", I realized that not everyone connected with the park is happy and happy.
The Disney theme park in Orlando, Florida, USA is by far the largest Disney theme park in the world. It can be said that it is also the world's largest place of dream-making and fun. The story of "Florida Paradise" takes place in a motel called "Magic Castle" across the wall from Orlando Disneyland. The whole movie revolves around a single mother named Moni who lives in this hotel with a single mother. The six-year-old girl unfolds and tells us a story full of joy, triviality and sadness.
There is a saying among the folks in our country that "a dog at the age of seven or eight is disgusted." For a child of Moni's age, it is the most energetic and naughty time, and the countless motels and wastelands near Disney are her paradise. She and her friends who are at the same age and class as her wander all day in this wilderness paradise, all kinds of jokes, all kinds of mischief, like soap bubbles in the bright sunshine of Florida, bright and beautiful.
Although the whole film tells a long and trivial story that happened in a summer in the life of a six-year-old girl, the film lens is also as neutral as possible, but after watching it, it will make people feel incomprehensible. The helplessness and sadness. Moni is so close to Disneyland, so close that the hotel where he lives is at the gate of Disneyland, so close that he can greet the sightseeing helicopters that take off from Disney every day, so close that you can see the grand fireworks blooming in Disneyland without going far. Show; but she is so far away from Disneyland, so far that she has never qualified to enter a real park, so far that she is always facing warnings of being kicked out of the hotel, so far that she has to rely on the distribution of free food to wrap her belly . In this same physical distance, we have seen the farthest distance, which is the class distance between the poor and the rich.
Du Fu described the huge difference between the rich and the poor with the poem "The Zhumen's wine and meat are smelly, and the road has frozen bones" in "From Beijing to Fengxian County" However, "Florida Paradise" uses a plain narrative and a lens without any filters to express this difference in the softest way, so soft that you almost never pay attention to this problem when you watch this movie, but When the movie is over, I think about it, only to find that all the details in it are making this kind of hint to us.
Children don’t experience the pain of life. They treat fireworks displays as their birthday celebrations, the rainbow in the sky as a fun scenery, the abandoned houses overgrown with grass as amusement facilities, and the swearing by an adult It is a kind of entertainment, but it is impossible to understand. Behind those swear words and rude manners is the helplessness suppressed by poor life. This is not "When Happiness Knocks on the Door". No miracle will happen. All of Moni's mother's struggles to change her life are just the beginning of a further decline. The miserable life of the people at the bottom is like a grotesque and interesting performance in the eyes of a six-year-old child. She would not know that it would also be her destined destiny.
In this movie, there is a detail that is worthy of fun, that is the unchanging Moni and her ever-changing playmate. At the beginning of the film, Moni always played with Scotty and Dickey, and then Dickey After leaving, they let Jesse join the small group, and then Scotty also left, leaving only two girls, Moni and Jesse. At the end of the film, Moni also left "Paradise." This seemingly inadvertent detail actually contains intriguing things. The little friends disappear one by one, silently and without a trace. No one cares about them, just like those struggling at the bottom, saying It may disappear into life someday, but does anyone care about them? Obviously, no.
I am reminded of the protagonist's argument about "Poverty is a disease" in "Going Through Water and Fire". "Florida Paradise" seems to be a projection of that paragraph. In this era of rampant chicken soup, we have seen too many words like "work harder", but in most cases it is a kind of self-hypnosis. When poverty nails people to the bottom from all directions, work hard. It's just a futile struggle.
In the eyes of a child, the world is a beautiful soap bubble, shining brightly and beautifully in the sun, but the child will eventually grow into an adult, and the soap bubble will eventually shatter and disappear. When it disappears, a cruel life will come. It's here. In this not-so-long movie, we saw the broken soap bubbles in Moni’s eyes. At the end of the film, when Jesse and Moni escaped from the "paradise" and ran into the real Disneyland, my heart was mixed, but This is growth, the life we cannot escape.
When did your soap bubble break?
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