Unlike "Leave a Trace in the Sun", which is adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro's best-selling novel of the same name, "Illusory Land" is based on a true story. Hopkins played the role of British writer CS Lewis in the film. He has said many times in his writings and lectures that God allows people to endure pain, is to let people learn to love and be loved, just like a sculptor who has to remove extra parts when carving works. We are the work of God. We grow in pain. However, as the heroine Joy pointed out, he has protected himself in a special way for most of his life. He has always been single and only associates with people younger than himself or stupid. His life The way he can avoid the chance of suffering. His love for Joy made him come out of this cocoon. He realized the happiness that he had never felt, and the pain he had never felt.
Having said that, I can't help but think of another movie, "Good Will Hunting" (Good Will Hunting). The genius Hunting is also a person who is afraid of love. He is afraid of being rejected, so he rejects others first. In other words, he was afraid of the pain of loss, so he chose not to own it. Only books are safe, he perceives the world through reading. However, even if he can read a lot of books, he never forgets, books can never replace personal experience. In the film, the psychologist Sean said to Hunting by the lake is very meaningful: "If I ask you about women, you might return me some words you like to describe them. Maybe you have had sex a few times. But You can’t tell me what it feels like to feel very happy when you wake up next to a woman... If I ask you about love, you might quote me a sonnet. But you never looked at it. A woman feels extremely fragile. You don’t know that someone can knock you down with her eyes, it feels like an angel God sent into the world for you, able to redeem you from hell. Nor will you Know what it's like to be her angel, love her, be there forever to support her, go through anything, go through cancer... only when you love someone more than yourself can you know what a true loss is." These The words were simply addressed to Lewis in "Illusion". Lewis can answer all the questions in class, but in life, there are some questions that cannot be answered. Only when he is happy with Joy can he know what intoxicating happiness is, and only when he loses Joy can he know what pain is unforgettable. Happiness and pain are always two sides of the same coin, and they complement each other and never give up. As Joy said, "If there is no pain today, there would be no happiness yesterday. This is a deal." This is a deal between humans and God. So to love or not to love? This is a question that can only be answered by ourselves.
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