Everyone can only walk with you for a while
In 2017, GQ magazine shot the cover for Ang Lee. The 63-year-old director has gray hair. Behind those deep eyes, I seem to read the compassion in the Buddhist scriptures. When I saw it, my heart tightened: Li An is old.
I remembered the first time I saw his movie, which was the final chapter of the "Family Trilogy", "Food and Man."
At that time, I had no idea about this world-famous director, except for the ending with a full score of "shocking", I was deeply impressed by a group of panoramic shots aimed at the traffic flow.
In a hurry, isn't it just the appearance of all living beings?
For the past 30 years, Ang Lee has always held great enthusiasm for the separation of the human world. When it comes to the external expression of film language, he has always used the theme of "home" to explain the world.
I remembered it was Hirokazu-eda, because he seemed to have the same obsession with "home". There is always daily life in his lenses, and there is always tenderness in daily life, and there is always a vein of regret in life in tenderness.
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In 1968, Ryoko Ishida swept the streets with the song "Yokohama under the Blue Street Lights", setting a sales record of 1.5 million copies.
That year, it was Hirokazu Eda who was 6 years old.
Thirty-two years later, he adapted his childhood memories into a play. The name of the story was taken from a lyric in Ryoko Ishida's song, "Never Stop Walking."
Maybe two or three years in the morning, I still can't like this Japanese movie style, because it is too slow.
Now looking at it from an emotional level, I feel more and more the sense of life behind "Non-Stop".
Under the narration of Hiroeda and plain water, the undercurrent of repressed emotional contradictions surges. There are too many unbearable lightness in life hidden between the mutual bondage of many families.
There is death in the movie, but the director and did not deliberately consume death.
He reminds you to think about life and the state of getting along with your family in a short way for parents.
While he is creating warmth, he tells you that life is impermanent.
Life is impermanent, how should we live this life?
two
The time scene of the movie is the family's three meals a day.
A day is a microcosm to express the regrets you leave today and will be lifelong regrets because, in essence, life is nothing but a capitalized day.
The daily life of three generations is a typical social family structure. To form a new family, it must be based on the deconstruction of the original family. Reunion includes the normal life of human beings. The youth is innocent and rebellious, the middle-aged is rebellious, and the old is lonely. Powerless.
Every teenager has worshipped their father, but most of them don't grow up according to their father's wishes.
The middle-aged began to smash the fireworks on the ground, worrying about Chaimi.
Old age gradually moves to the edge of being abandoned by the times, but stubbornly clings to his former majesty.
We have different thoughts and moods at different stages.
But in the transparent future, they will all walk into the same regret.
This kind of regret is hidden in that famous line. On the road of life, I keep walking, and there is always a little bit of time.
Yes, time never speaks, but silently teaches us many things, such as cherishing and regretting.
three
A while ago, I watched "Old Man in Mountains and Rivers", and the scene where Zhao Tao danced alone in the snow at the end made me very heartbroken.
Jia Zhangke said: Everyone can only walk with you for a while.
Then why the old man?
It is a person who has walked with you for a while, created some good memories in your life, and is now taken away by time. Friends, lovers, parents, and children are all deceased.
This casts a great pessimism on life.
We move forward all the way, but at the end of life, we only meet ourselves.
This is also the core of the "Step" film: life is constant loss.
The 46-year-old Hirokazu Kore-eda once again felt the tenderness in his mother's life through the movie. He wanted to forget that the so-called "time will eventually find an outlet for us to understand" is not so much a kind of calmness, but a confession of fate.
Just like Jiang Wenren's emotion when he reached middle age: People can't fight their lives, but their lives can't fight time.
Life is written by Hai Zi: I wasted my time and I was completely tired; it was also a regret that you and I kept walking, but had to pick up when looking back.
wantonly
9 years ago, my brother got married.
One day he took me on a motorcycle, and he rode very fast. I told him to slow down. He said something that has left a deep impression on me to this day. He said: I hate the snail-like speed for 20 years.
Yes, every child resists his father's restraints.
When he can take back the mastery of his life, he is in high spirits, he pursues speed, and he is indomitable. In his world, there is only: the sea is wide and the fish leaps, and the sky is high and the birds fly.
Today, he is still walking on this road, but he has never turned around and felt the loneliness of his parents.
I was sad for a while. I think my parents are getting old, their teeth are falling out, their skin is starting to get spots, and worse, they are getting more and more polite to me...
I seem to have gone from being a son to being a guest, which I thought was a huge shame.
They stubbornly use hair dye to maintain the decency that refuses to accept the old.
But wrinkles can't deceive people.
In the tenth year of entering the arena, the only thing that I can be thankful for is that my life still has a place to come from, and some friends have lost their parents, and their lives are only the way back.
Wu
I used to think that the expression of "Keep Walking" is to warn us to always Stil walking, because as long as we walk fast enough, regret should not catch up with us.
In fact, it is not. Although the daily life is trivial, it is tiring, but in the trivial, it is Hirokazu Koreeda who buried a touch of tenderness.
This touch of tenderness is called: slow down.
Looking at Jiang Wen, who lost his mother, he finally understood why Jiang's mother's entrustment before her death was always only two things: eat well and sleep well.
Because if you do these two things well, there will be no big things in life...
Let's see Ang Lee, who lost his father, became uneasy. After eight years, he finally used the mouth of the young Pi to shout again and again in the storm: I'm sorry, I'm sorry...
Let’s see the person who lost his parents is Hirokazu Kore-eda expressing sadly at his fingertips: life will always make mistakes that can’t be undone no matter how much you pay, and it’s always a little too late...
It turns out that rush is the fundamental culprit of regret. We can never catch up with the pace of "love", because it has been lingering behind you and me.
The reason why life is slow is precisely because you go too fast.
Because you walked so fast, you ignored the lover around you and the scenery along the way. You can only look back at a certain moment when people are going to the empty building, and the two lines are clear of tears. It turns out that those moments in life are as light as a feather. It is the most unbearable weight in life.
Yes, the two-hour "Non-Stop" did not have a climax, but it created too many emotions.
Good movies never provide answers.
But it will definitely make you think about life.
The essence of life is nothing but the trivialities of daily life. The daily life is not the fireworks that shatter the ground. The daily life is the beauty hidden in love.
The world is in a hurry, you and I keep walking, slow down. Look at the people around you, and look at the scenery around you.
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