entry ) The legendary Arctic Circle is actually an invisible line with no width. Whom do you belong to when you step on the line? Is it the heaven with only daylight, or the dunya where the light is robbed of light by night every day?
I think of the passage that touched me the most in the Seacat game: "There are obviously so many happy fragments in this world, but you only pick up those unfortunate fragments... so you gradually become afraid of injury... Only if you are sure that there is no unfortunate fragment around you. Only then did you dare to admit the existence of happiness...You are really a poor child."
Otto is such a poor child. Even if he and Ana are grown up, a very important part of their souls lingers in childhood, two childhoods of regret. They are like a pair of twins, looking for the missing father's love and mother's love in each other. They are also like two sides of a coin, even if they are connected, they always look at different landscapes.
Death is indeed the most perfect way to say goodbye. It can isolate all filth and corruption from the sight of the living, so what little Ana will always lose is the perfect father, while little Otto faces a gradual change. The betrayer, the process of corruption of beautiful things is the most suffocating. People's hearts are really elusive, why on earth they don't love anymore, maybe Otto's father also doesn't know. Otto asked his father whether there is something eternal, afraid of the cold to the sunset behind the warm day, afraid of the smell of death after love is burned, afraid of the touch of quicksand dying in his hands, so he never tried to grasp love.
"Otto, be brave, be brave" Ana always whispered to him; "Even if you want to turn away from life, I will walk with you firmly", Ana kept telling him with the strength of his arms on the sled. But Otto suspected that she would abandon him before reaching the end, "Be with them, I'm leaving!" The seemingly free and easy farewell, in fact, only Otto knows who is in this love. It goes without saying that the brave is a coward. Otto is too scared to see the back of the person he loves, so he always saves the back to the person who loves him deeply. In fact, he is not a person born for love, the shy but shy Otto, the restless Otto holding the note firmly in the palm of his hand.
Otto fell in love with Ana first, but Ana took the initiative to kiss him. It was Otto who had ignorant lust for Ana first, but Ana took the initiative to send out the invitation note. Even on the night when Romeo and Juliet first tasted the forbidden fruit, the prince who turned the window didn't have the courage to wake up the Sleeping Beauty, instead the Sleeping Beauty resolutely sneaked into the prince's bedroom.
This is their story, one keeps running away, the other silently guards. Otto will always be the little boy who likes to peek-a-boo, under the bed, in the cabinet, behind the window, fleeing from his mother, from his father, from Ana, from harm, and from love, but it is always too late to remember to turn around Apologize, only the guilt of "passed away" in his eyes. Ana has been growing up, as if responding to the "girl precocious" joke. The little girl who tried to find her father's shadow in Otto has now replaced Otto's mother to guard the timid boy. As long as he wanted to come back, she would never lock the window, and she knew clearly that only she was his way home. Ana still believes in a clearer and clearer destiny even in "not getting".
After Ana stepped into the polar circle, she finally unloaded her many years of resentment towards her mother and left it in the other world. In Ana's tears, we saw relief rather than sadness, because she never liked to shed tears for sadness. For many mortals, invulnerability might be just to conceal fragility, but true bravery is to say forgiveness. Forgiving people who have hurt yourself requires courage the most. It is also an acknowledgement of your imperfect past and yourself.
I think Ana's final death was the ultimate happiness to her. The lover she couldn't get was finally found, and the perfect circle was sealed forever at the moment of death. And Otto's life has never been lost again and again, and when he finally plucked up the courage to turn around, he never lost his final return. At that moment, the eyes of the two people reflected each other, but it was the gap between heaven and hell! Ana's slowly dilated pupils encircled Otto's face. I think her pupils are the Arctic Circle where there is no night, and her story must end in the hug in the room. But Otto's circle will never have an end point. The legendary kingdom of heaven on earth only has a white chair and an empty house, standing in the bleak sunlight. In fact, there is no line between heaven and hell. Otto, who walks alone along the Arctic Circle, can find the heaven in his dreams by simply turning around. The way to be happy is actually just a thought.
I understand Otto deeply, because I also have a childhood similar to him, and avoid love like him, but in fact avoid the weakness that may become ugly in love. But my tears flowed to Ana. The true winner in love is not the one who gets more love, but the one who works hard to give sincerely. It is not shameful to give, because "God is in the courtship, not in Where is the loved one."
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