The boy chooses safety, the man chooses suffering.
The theories in the philosophical classics, abstract speculation, and rigorous doctrines, before experiencing the test in reality, immersing in these and pointing to the other are quite "safe", but these are just "baby halls" for escaping from reality; unless you take the initiative Choosing to face pain and walk out of the comfortable kingdom of knowledge, a boy will never become a man.
Even if it is as knowledgeable as Lewis, every speech is full of seats, and the audience pays homage to it, but it still can't get out of the memory of the teenage bereavement. At the end of each lecture, that shocking concluding remark:
"Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Pain makes you perfect."
Although shocked thousands of listeners, Lewis himself was shaken in his faith after losing his wife, and once became as weak as the little boy Douglas.
Before the two-year marriage, Lewis discussed with the students the love between Dante and Beatrice in the Divine Comedy, and regarded "perfect love" as "unattainable love"-"The most intense joy lies not in having but in desiring" "Lewis, who is over half a hundred years old, and the Wayne brothers are no longer the age when they will be obsessed with love. Perhaps at this time Lewis has given up the hope of pursuing the ideal of love in this world. It is inevitable that he will often be in the beer hall, or In the library, spending time with vulgar professors and colleagues.
But if it ends like this, there will be no movie, and the movie is based on the true story of Louis and his wife.
Mrs Joy's straightforwardness, optimism, and most importantly bravery, in all the movies I have seen, I have never been more moved by other female characters. If you want to say that this is a movie, I would say that in the real university, at least two girls I know are ten times braver than me! Although as a humanities student, you should carefully control your personal feelings when watching literary works, and you cannot allow your personal experience and preferences to influence your understanding and evaluation of movies, but today, make an exception!
Many dialogues in the movie are worth recollecting:
When Lewis invited Joy to his home for the first time, the two discussed what is most important for writing poems. Lewis said it was knowledge, Joy said it was experience, and Lewis said it was “safe” for people.
When Joy gave up treatment and the two drove to the countryside for a "honeymoon", Lewis said that he hoped to stop at this moment forever. Joy said:
"The pain then is part of the happiness now.
The pain now is part of the happiness then."
Since the beginning of this year, I have participated in a public account organized by a teacher to write a push manuscript. The theme of the most recent push is "Glorious Years". What kind of time can be described as "brilliant"? I just think of these two words of Joy, happiness and happiness are always more cherished because of their shortness, pain and suffering are reminded not to be greedy because of their endless repetition.
Of course, we also need to go beyond the plot of love to reflect on the movie. "Shadow lands" can have two opposite meanings:
One is that in the context of the Christian faith, if we compare the earthly world with the other world, we all live in the incomplete "shadow land".
Second, if you compare knowledge, theories, and doctrines with love and discipline in reality, the former is nothing but the gray "reflection" of the latter. "The theory is gray, and the tree of life is evergreen."
It is said that the latter explanation can be found in Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia". I prefer to believe: In the first half of the movie, Jack before meeting Joy will choose the former in the safe and comfortable knowledge kingdom; and in the second half of the movie, after he chooses to admit love and experience the painful pain again Lewis would choose the latter.
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