one by one

Jaquan 2022-04-21 09:03:02

"Mother-in-law, I'm sorry. It's not that I don't like talking to you, it's just that I think you must have known what I could tell you. Otherwise, you wouldn't call me 'obedient' every time. Like they say You left, and you didn't tell me where you went. So, I think, that must be a place we all know. Mother-in-law, there are so many things I don't know. So, do you know what I want to do in the future? I'm going to tell people things they don't know, and show them things they can't see. I think this must be fun every day. Maybe, one day, I will find out where you have been, and can I do it? Tell everyone, how about asking everyone to come and see you? Grandma, I miss you so much, especially when I see that little cousin who doesn’t have a name yet, I will think of you often telling me: You are old. I want to talk to you very much. He said: I think... I'm getting old too."

—— Zhang Yangyang

, one by one, implies a ruthless span, from experience to memory, from the surging thought activities in the mind to the withdrawal from the mind of a segment of the past of life , immature to mature, mature and then to aging. Years are lost tirelessly like this, regardless of people's deliberate retention, and only care about getting old day by day.

One, one, is the way people age. The same object was cruelly added with so many strokes by Nianhua. We want to reject a mature way of seeing things, fearing that it will deprive us of the pure thinking that age imposes upon us. The so-called experience is just a buffer area for aging. In the end, we will still be occupied by aging and become the spoils of the lost years.

One by one, I will think of this subtle process from time to time, and at the same time I will pour my hatred into the container of Love. The bad consequence of it is that, unconsciously, gradually lose the enthusiasm for life, lose all kinds of fresh feelings that "one-way" thinking can bring us at any time, we will feel that our imagination is stifled, and we will start to feel about certain things. Feeling painless, sadly lamenting the obscurity of life. Passivated "one-style" thinking is not a simple thought, it is mixed with too much dust from the adult world and cannot be purified. We are distressed and seek the "one-style" thinking of the past to face some facts, but we can no longer find them, just because we know the answers to too many practical problems.

Fortunately, the appearance of "one" does not mean that "one" has completely lost its status.

"Daddy, can't we only know half of the things? I can only see the front, but not the back, doesn't that mean half of the things can't be seen?" Show others what they can't see, Yangyang's camera is aimed at the back of everyone's head. The thoughts that existed only at the "one" stage controlled Yangyang at this time. He showed the photos to everyone to see what they could not see. Simple wishes and small actions give us the illusion that the youthful executioner has not set his sights on young Yangyang. This is not the case. One detail, the unknown light in Yangyang's eyes when he looked at the girl, was a precursor to the budding of "One". In a word, what the boy said to Yangyang's sister: Without a cloud, without a tree, it is not beautiful. So people should be like this. It is a return of "one". Pure children will be driven by curiosity, and there will be some "one" ideas. In the end, the boy kills people under the guidance of "One", although he firmly believes that there is no unbeautiful person.

"One" and "One" can coexist, but alternately prevail.

To live again, there is no need for that. If you are young again, what if you really do it? After all, we will experience aging from one to one again, and we will lose the innocence we cherish again, and it is enough to experience the painful process once. Like being truly young, once is enough.

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  • Ota: Why are we afraid of the first time? Every day in life is a first time. Every morning is new. We never live the same day twice. We're never afraid of getting up every morning. Why?

  • Yang-Yang: I'm sorry, Grandma. It wasn't that I didn't want to talk to you. I think all the stuff I could tell you... You must already know. Otherwise, you wouldn't always tell me to 'Listen!' They all say you've gone away. But you didn't tell me where you went. I guess it's someplace you think I should know. But, Grandma, I know so little. Do you know what I want to do when I grow up? I want to tell people things they don't know. Show them stuff they haven't seen. It'll be so much fun. Perhaps one day... I'll find out where you've gone. If I do, can I tell everyone, and bring them to visit you? Grandma, I miss you. Especially when I see my newborn cousin who still doesn't have a name. He reminds me that you always said you felt old. I want to tell him that I feel I am old, too.