Snails are all just "alive"

Darren 2022-12-19 21:08:05

After watching this movie, I feel very complicated. If this movie is purely artistic, I think it's a really good movie. It should be because it tells about something that happened decades ago, with a sense of alienation in time, but the characters are vividly portrayed. , as if they are the people who live around us, so they are very easy to understand. The protagonist of this film is Fugui, who has been reduced from a hopeless prodigal to a restless peasant. During this period, fate always seems to be joking with him, and he has withstood the storms of life again and again. If it is described in this way, Fugui's life can be regarded as experiencing great ups and downs, and since he himself can withstand the shock waves of fate time and time again, he should at least be a "good man" with extraordinary psychological quality. However, on the contrary, Fugui is not a so-called "great man", but a "little man" who just wants to get along. After experiencing the turbulence of fate, it seems that he has not made much progress. However, people will always become more mature with the increase of experience. It is not objective and impossible to say that wealth has not grown at all. Therefore, it is necessary to point out the growth of Fugui. I am afraid that his desire for life has almost disappeared. Instead, there is peace and helplessness. After the story is told, Fugui's life may not have any huge twists and turns, and the biggest thing left is death. I think that if the knowledge gained from watching the movie lamented and sighed, and complained about the troubled fate of the Fugui family, I think it would be like treating the abalone as a vermicelli. I think the ultimate purpose of this film is not only to make readers think about why we live, but more importantly to inspire us what kind of people can persevere to the end and persevere in living. Regarding the first question, the masters of philosophy and theology of all dynasties have been constantly discussing it. It is also an eternal topic and the ultimate topic of human beings from ancient times to the present. I don’t think a movie alone can clarify this question. And if the director didn't want to clarify this issue, but just wanted to arouse the readers to think, then the tragic plot of the movie would inevitably make the readers go into negativity, presumably the director didn't plan to do so. As for the second question, the time of one movie is enough to make it clear.
There is an old saying, "There are only two animals in the world that can stand on the pyramid. One is the eagle and the other is the snail." A few, "natural selection, survival of the fittest" refers to this group of people. They represent the mainstream voice of society, and they move the waves of the age forward. Snails represent the weak in society, the masters of fate, and the minority in society. Their voices are often drowned out by the turbulent waves of the times. They are often at the bottom of the waves, but they are often the easiest to be shot to death on the rocks. A group of people, no one cares about their life or death, so they are also the easiest to get through the gaps of the times and live in peace. In the film, Fugui lost all his family property because of gambling, and angered his father to death. In just one night, he changed from a playful boy with a nourishing life to a bereaved dog with nothing. For ordinary people, they would definitely not look back and ask their friends to borrow money if they were killed, but Fugui’s status changed very quickly. Not only could he borrow money from his enemies without changing his face, but he was also calm in the face of ridicule. , also without too much self-blame and anger, that is how he accepted everything in life calmly, not because of his high realm, but because he never thought about taking the initiative to think about what life requires, what he gave, and no requirements. When he was captured by the national army and became a singer with the army, he still roared loud and clear, except when he was homesick and his wife was like a child, he showed sadness, but when he sang, he brought joy and comfort to the army, not his calmness. , but he was always at ease, singing when he was singing, and homesick when he was homesick. It is precisely because of this character that he can flexibly adapt to his identity and role in the ever-changing world, and take a cheap life. After crawling out of the dead, he finally returned home, and found that the seriously ill old lady had passed away. He just said that the song before he was arrested "should be sung for the mother". He found that his daughter became dumb because of a high fever, and his self-blame was clearly revealed, but he still did not complain about life, because he didn't think it was an injustice in life at all. In his mind, things only had a direct causal relationship: Because the daughter has a fever, the daughter has become mute. Not only Fugui, Jiazhen, like Fugui, is a person who has no additional requirements for life. Although life is hard, she is full of gratitude because the government has sent a water delivery worker. In her heart, the government has sent a water delivery worker. It is a direct cause-and-effect relationship with the fact that he is still struggling to make a living in the midst of the turmoil. If it weren't for the simplest and most basic requirements of life, it would be hard to imagine that Jiazhen would continue to live with Fugui. Perhaps in that era, the choice of marriage was even more difficult, but the future of Jiazhen and Fugui would be even more difficult. Happy Little Days speculates that Jiazhen's requirement for life is to "live in peace with you (Fugui)".
Speaking of this, the analysis of the snail's mentality is almost the same, but the above is a kind of person who is a snail and is also willing to be a snail. There is also a type of people who are originally snails, but think about how to become eagles all day long. This is another type of life that another TV series "Snail Dwelling" will describe. In "Snail House", a couple's wife is the first kind of snail, and the husband is the second kind of snail, but no matter what kind of snail it is, we can clearly see that they are all at the mercy of fate. These two snails with different aspirations also quarreled less and became less angry because of their different life philosophies. The first half of the whole TV series was shrouded in a suffocating atmosphere, which made people start to waver about which snail should stick to. life concept. Fortunately, the story finally gave people hope. The snail who wanted to become an eagle finally won the initiative in life. Originally, I tried to use these two examples of snails struggling in life to distinguish the pros and cons of different snail life concepts, but now I realize how powerless my efforts are, because life never gives any one. The snail's life philosophy is scored, and life will never give you anything beyond your requirements. As long as the snail persists and has a life, the final appearance of life will be what every snail has in mind. So, for all snails, all they can do is live and get what they want and want.

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  • Xu Fugui: What did you name our son?

    Xu Jiazhen: "Don't Gamble".

  • Xu Fugui: If Youqing does as daddy says, our lives will get better and better. Our family is like a little chicken. When it grows up, it becomes a goose and that will turn into a sheep. The sheep will turn into an ox.

    Xu Youqing: And after the ox?

    Xu Fugui: After the ox is Communism, and there will be dumplings and meat every day.