The island of my hometown welcomes and sends away several typhoons every summer and autumn.
Before a typhoon comes, it is often violent and rainy. The trash cans on the street are blown down and roll over on the empty street. The sound of dingling and clanging is mixed with the dense sound of rain hitting the windows, which can still be heard clearly. There are umbrellas that have been blown over on the street. , and a shoe that fell from someone who hastily escaped.
Typhoon nights are often accompanied by power outages, lighting a candle, listening to the howling wind outside the house, and guessing what kind of mess to see after dawn. The typhoon always reminds us of the mess in such an exaggerated form. When the typhoon passes, the rain passes, and the sky clears, take a look at the mess and sigh.
In one year of junior high school, the typhoon came very violently. Dalang and his sister were both studying abroad. My father did not return home due to gambling debts. Only my mother and I were left, lighting a candle, and the wind was howling outside the window. The glass fell and shattered, the candle flickered, and my mother suddenly said, "Being a human
being, how can you be like this?"
The scene came to mind at the moment.
When I started writing the "Island Stories" series of short stories at the beginning of this year, I wanted to write a story about a typhoon, a typhoon night, a messy life, and a farewell to the past. story.
After watching this year's new film "Deeper than the Sea" by Hirokazu Koreeda, I couldn't help but tremble in my heart. The story I wanted to write was presented in a more beautiful way by Hirokazu Koreeda.
2.
Many of the middle-aged men played by Hiro Abe are a failed middle-aged man. Of course, like every failed middle-aged man, he has also been successful and happy.
Fifteen years ago, he was a novelist a lot, wrote a novel, won a not too famous award, and became the pride of his family for a while, but he has not written anything decent since then.
His wife divorced him because he felt that many of them were not suitable for starting a family. The children belonged to his wife, and many of them were able to accompany the children for one day a month. Due to the needs of livelihood, many became a private investigator who helped others to collect evidence of cheating, but the money was always insufficient, so he always saved the idea of using the old mother's pension.
More failed than the status quo of many failures is his sinking bond with the status quo, in which he seems to be stuck and unable to come out.
He is reluctant to admit that he can't write decent novels. Even if he is a private detective, he always uses novel materials to cover himself up; he is reluctant to accept that his wife is divorced, secretly following his wife's dates, and speculating whether his ex-wife has dated someone else He didn't want to face his embarrassment, he used his money to gamble and buy lottery tickets, fantasizing that he might be able to change the status quo all at once...
The day before the typhoon came, in his messy nest, he wrote Zhang sticky note.
"Where did my life begin to be abnormal?"
3.
Life is always like this, ordinary days go by, but I don't know whether I am accumulating ordinary or mediocre or accumulating resentment, and then one day my life suddenly ends. I caught you, and you can't help but sigh, how could it be like this after living your life.
Maybe it’s unbearable mediocrity, maybe it’s a failure unwilling to accept, maybe it’s the fetters that can’t move, or maybe it’s the fatigue that gradually settles.
In a word, life is like a computer that is constantly running. The debris accumulates more and more, and suddenly it can’t run. However, life is not very like a computer. Easy to give up.
Many people can't give up their ex-wives because they are afraid that they will be wiped out like data and disappear completely. His partner advised him that feelings are like an oil painting, new feelings cover the old ones, and repaint them. But the old one is still there, many ask, is this really going to be the case?
Many mothers said that they had thrown away all the belongings of the dead gambler father, but they still carefully kept one of his shirts and some belongings. On the night of the typhoon, they listened to Teresa Teng's song on the radio, "More than the sky." "Blue, deeper than the sea", he murmured to his son, "Have you ever loved anyone in your life, more deeply than the sea?"
Many ex-wives have decided to start their own lives again, but they always bring their children with them. Going to see my grandma, I always forgive many for not being able to pay the monthly child support, and I always care about how others evaluate her ex-husband's novels...
4.
The typhoon finally came, and the wind and rain were heavy, trapping the family in the old Dandi dormitory where my mother had lived for decades.
A warm dinner, a three-generation reunion that has not been experienced for a long time. Many took their son to relive the games that his father took him to play on the night of the typhoon. The mother-in-law and the ex-daughter-in-law wrote greeting cards under the lamp and chatted about each other's thoughts.
Grandma has too many wishes in her life, never lived in a big house, never experienced a love "deeper than the sea", and she seems to be finally relieved of her ordinary life.
Many ex-wives said to many, "Since the decision has been made, let me go forward. Do you understand?" Many ex-wives said, "Well, I understand... No, I already understood.
" The son talked about his dreams and listened to his son talking about the very realistic dream that was the same as when he was a boy - being a local civil servant, many said, "Dad's dream has not come true yet."
It didn't come true, it didn't give up.
There were not many stories that happened on this day, there were some ironic details, and there were some open-hearted conversations, but after the typhoon, faced with a mess, everyone said goodbye to their past selves and started to go on the road again.
The chaos of reality is like typhoon after typhoon. It will always meet everyone unexpectedly. Maybe as long as the heart is still clear and bright, life can always continue.
5. It
is Hirokazu Kore-eda is one of my favorite Japanese film directors. He almost only shoots family themes, all kinds of families, all kinds of problems, there is always no intense plot, but there are details everywhere, I don’t know Capture you anywhere.
I wrote a film review of Hirokazu Koreeda's "Haijie Diary" before. If you are interested, you can come to the WeChat public account to see it.
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