After watching this movie, I can't say anything, my heart is completely entangled.
Birdy loves birds, loves the sky, likes birds, raising birds, and even fantasizes about becoming a bird. Although he is not understood by everyone, he can also enjoy a happy youth and high school time. Chicago boy, crazy youth. Flying down from under the rubbish heap, the beach, the car, the beautiful woman, the dance party, one bird, two birds, their baby birds, all become the pictures in the memory. As memories, they never reappear, this time in the film of a war victim seen as mentally ill and perhaps facing disfigurement. The madness at that time was relatively silent as it is now.
Although youth has joy, it also has hidden sadness. Owners keep dogs just for fun, and when they get bored, they abandon them, but stray dogs are sold into electric slaughterhouses for $1 a piece; the bird escaped the cat's teeth and mouth, but On the last stop on the way home, he died tragically from flying glass. Dogs who died at home and strayed in the city. At that time, their homes were people's houses. Now their homes are countless streets and trash cans in this city. They were all betrayed by their homes. The first betrayal made them stray. , the second betrayal cost them their lives. And the canary can fly freely outside, but never imagine that it will die at the hands of anyone.
People are weak after all. One day, these young people will be betrayed by their "home" and sent to the battlefield. The wanton laughter will never come again. In the endless darkness in front of them, there will be killing, blood, gunfire, death, and decay. People and birds are also at a loss in the fire. Like the dogs who entered the slaughterhouse like that, their fate is not in their own hands. The grief after the war is no less than that of the war.
People always yearn for birds to fly freely, but the premise is that the bird can fly in nature. Everyone may be a bird, not unable to fly, but locked in a cage. This cage may be shaped externally, or it may be internal. Whether it is the spirit of liberalism, Marx's socialist theory, or even anarchist ideological trends, the common denominator of all positive ideological trends is the affirmation of human dignity, that human beings can improve themselves through reason and effort. to improve the situation of others, and to bring society into a better realm of goodness. Human beings have such potential, but their numbness and blindness, their surrender, will become a slap in the face of various trends of thought. Countless events have deleted countless slaps, world wars, the Cultural Revolution. . . . . .
Birdy is always a sober person. He has made up his mind to say goodbye to this world and go to a mental hospital to be his free bird. This is the final decision. Until Al's final expression, he understands that someone understands after all. his. "I have nothing to say to him", as for the major, for those who won't understand and the world that won't understand, so be it.
As for the ending, there is no clear answer, it seems that it is, but it can only be so. They didn't escape completely, they didn't get caught, and birdy jumped down, but not dead, but the smiling face of the sun. Maybe the plot doesn't need to go on, because that's the fact, that's our fact. Each of us feels uneasy and helpless in the face of this world, but what accompanies this is not despair, but hope still gives a little light. Birdy's smile in the last sunshine is its symbol. So, man, man, tell me, where do you go?
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