The first time I saw a Ceylon movie, I decided to make up for his other movies. In fact, it is very obvious that he can find his own shadow. So I prefer to use the first person to tell the aftermath of the movie.
As we grew up in the countryside, when we went to university, we saw the prosperity of big cities. Read Hemingway and Faulkner, discuss Picasso Matisse, watch Spielberg and Nolan films. Our spiritual world is different from the previous generation. We therefore feel capable of challenging them and questioning them.
They want us to take the civil service exam and live an ordinary life in a down-to-earth way. We felt that we were destined to be extraordinary, that we would publish a book, be famous, be someone. So we are full of disdain for the fate that the previous generation has arranged for us.
But in fact, it is very likely that our fate is the same as that of the hero of the movie. We will never achieve anything. Love and ideals will be shattered. We are not even as good as the previous generation. They can still live an ordinary life by enduring hardship. And we are not high enough.
The main line of the film is actually the father-son relationship. I love how the whole film presents the father-son relationship. The person you most want to stay away from, the person you hate the most, is actually the person who understands you the most. He is your 9 only reader. He actually knows everything about you. Because what you've been through, he's been through. What you resisted, he resisted. You think how awesome you are, how great you think you are, but he still pampers you in his eyes. When you came back to your hometown with nothing, he told you that you wrote about me in the book and didn't say anything good about me, but young people should criticize the previous generation. At that moment, I felt ashamed along with the protagonist. I believe that the hanging scene is actually the protagonist's shame and his apology to his father. Yes, your father is not perfect, he has many flaws, but he is your only reader, and for that alone, I am moved and grateful.
Maybe we resisted, struggled, struggled for a long time, and found that in the end we were actually in the same place. Our resistance, struggle, struggle, are all in vain. So, are you willing to be my reader? Even one reader is enough.
For a writer, one reader is enough.
For your whole life, with an audience, your life is different. What your life is like depends a lot on who your audience is.
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