1. The names of Moment and Mind have their own symbols. Represents the different stages of love. It also represents two different attitudes towards life and death.
2. The death setting in the animation. Without real death, every existence will merge into a larger existence. Kechart "put all his memories in the singing. The singing will change shape and pass on, inherited by the vibration of the air, and unknowingly merge into our body. So in a certain part of the world." Place forever.” And Shun’s singing was heard by Asuna, that is, Shun’s life has been fused with Asuna. Therefore, he hopes that Asuna will survive. Knowing that his life is not long, Shun, in order to find the stars and the meaning of life, came to the earthly world.
3. The entire earth and underground worlds are all mappings of this real world. There is conquest, there is greed, there is the reflection of the final civilization. There are religious Yagotais who see through the shortness of life and lack of meaning, so they no longer ask about meaning, and there are Yi people who madly fight against external forces in order to maintain the purity of Yagotai (ideal world), and also break through narrow life. Concept, the pursuit of human love, the moment of life and the starry sky of hope, the heart and others. Lieutenant Colonel, Asuna, Shun, Xin, etc., they expressed different explorations of the meaning of existence in the world.
Instant heart and
if you will think of me, as never again think of an open flower.
Tomorrow, a common image in everyone's mind, loves learning, self-reliance, and rarely interacts with boys. She sat on the rock in the mountain and listened to the voice from the underground world. "The human heart becomes music. At that time, happiness and sadness came together, making me feel that I am not alone. I have always stayed in my heart."
Then, she met Shun. Perhaps it was the secret guidance of Adriatic who guarded her. They want to grow up together. The image of a handsome boy appeared in front of the imaginative Asuna, and also saved her, so the thing called love began to grow. Don't laugh at it because it's immature. It's not love. Without this first moment, how could there be long-lasting warmth in the heart?
First love is always so "stupid". I totally ignore my dignity, my own boundaries, I fully expand myself, I give myself completely, and I am completely hurt. Perhaps, after experiencing the initial pain, many people no longer dare to dedicate themselves so much. Similar to the damage received, his happiness has also become small. Of course, Asuna, who has a good impression of Shunchu, can't tell the difference between Shunchu and Xin. For her, the moment is the heart, and the heart is the moment. They are just the nourishment needed for the budding love in her heart, and the comfort of loneliness in life. Can anyone be replaced? Is this the same for everyone? A immature heart has not yet been able to fill up, able to distinguish the shape of love. The moment has passed, and she is still clinging to her own world. It doesn't matter, this is exactly how she grew up.
Shun, a boy from Yagotai. His name is the hint that Xin Haicheng gave us, moment, moment. It was so unclear, so sudden, as if he was still outside, and he could only faintly feel his presence. In an instant, it was broken again, not long in itself. It is still, but also the past. But at the same time, the moment is also the beginning of the eternal mind.
When Asuna saw Xin, she thought he was Shun. When they entered the gate to the underground world through hardships, Xin told Asuna that he was Shun's younger brother. Heart, heart or mind. That is what distinguishes us from the beast. Kechart, who had lost his heart, turned into only tyrannical desires. And the beating of the heart is the last memories and lives of those who died, and they tremble with us. One moment after another, in my heart, strung into eternity. And it is the heart that makes Asuka grow up.
When Asuna was trekking in the water alone, facing the Yi people on both sides of the strait, she began to really think about the meaning of coming here. The movie never tells us clearly. Whenever she wants to talk about it, she finds that she can't say it clearly. At the end of the day, she finally told the lieutenant colonel what she thought, and Xin Haicheng deliberately omitted the past. But I think that the reason Asuna is unwilling to risk her life to climb down the cliff is because she realizes that she is not going to be resurrected instantaneously. She entered here with Xin, also to find him again. There is only a passionate lieutenant colonel, who would rather risk death to resurrect his lover. Although selfish, but the love is so deep, it is also lamentable. However, at that time, he was instead obsessed with the beautiful moments in the past, staying on it and couldn't bear to leave, and he never saw the meaning of the music and the starry sky squarely. Being lonely, he even wants to reverse the destiny of life and death, come back to the moment before. Constantly resisting life and death, until he lost his eyes, the eyes of the soul opened, and he came to understand.
The theme song of the film is called "HelloGoodbye&Hello". Someone translated it as "Meeting, Separation and Reunion". However, is the last hello the reunion of the deceased, or a new beginning? I'm afraid they have different meanings for the colonel and Asuna. This trip to comprehend the farewell journey (to Asuka, but also to the lieutenant colonel), Asuka said goodbye three times.
The first time Xin rescued Asuna, it was in the Yi people's lair. At that time, the heart felt the power of Govis, which is the symbol of his being an adult in Canaan village. It was also at that time, Asuna began to hesitate to confirm that he was not Shun, but Xin. The lieutenant colonel and Asuna got on the boat to bid farewell to the village elders and the little girl of human descent. The Adrian cat, who had been watching Asuna, did not go on the road with her anymore. Because her task has been completed. The rest of the story depends on them (Heart, Asuna, Lieutenant Colonel) to create them. Looking at Adriatic who was going away, Asuna said goodbye for the first time, facing Shunhe Adriatic's back.
On her way back from the end of the world. She finally understood that whether it was mother, Shun, Xin, and the lieutenant colonel, they were all things that the mind began to look for, but the helplessness was only a moment, staying outside. It can be a mother, it can be Shun, it can be a heart, it can be a lieutenant colonel, so Asuna falls in the river facing the Yi people alone. She knew that she came here only because of chance and loneliness in her heart. Only when the heart is full, will you be able to face the moment and face the heart. As a flower that will never bloom again, live beautifully, even if it is short-lived. But her reflection at this time is already a moment of her past. When she decided to save her heart, she had slowly changed. The river ebbs and the skeletons of the Yi people want to eat her. At this time, there is a second feeling in my heart. But he no longer needs a key (Geweisi) as a medium, and even he has surpassed his own people. Because the people of the tribe are just to protect the key to the fate of Yagotai, and the heart has the stars for it to pursue and guard. For this reason, he gave up his position among the tribe and chose to wander. And it was after that, Asuna really recognized the difference between Xin and Shun. The heart finally entered her heart, and this is precisely because Asuna's heart is strong enough to accommodate others.
In the gate of life and death, in order to save the Asuna that was used by the lieutenant colonel to resurrect his wife, he used a knife with his heart, and finally struggling to cut off Covis, saying loudly: The living talent is the most important. Only in this way can the lieutenant colonel truly bid farewell to his wife and be with his wife forever. In Asuna's dream, she could finally face Shun and Yadlik, and bid farewell again. This was a real farewell and a real experience, and my heart trembled like Shun. These don't need to be really waved away, but to live well with the blessing of life, as Lisa said to the lieutenant colonel at the end, you have to find happiness.
The final farewell, of course, is tomorrow's food, choosing to return to the world on earth. Only by understanding can we return. And they still live together. Every time the butterfly wing flaps, every breath of people, every heartbeat. They will meet again when Asuna looks at the distant mountains as usual. She also took the key to the place where the flowers will bloom tomorrow, where there will be stars blooming.
Suddenly, it finally constitutes the heart.
Gods and beasts
Kechart, as the guardian of mankind at the beginning of human civilization, "guided the still naive mankind." At that time, they were gods. "Guards are the guiding light for mankind."
Mr. Lu Xun seems to have said that, ghosts and gods are just any combination of human beings’ perceptual materials in life. Because there are cows in the real world, there will be bull demon kings, there will be lightning storms, so there will be thunder god Zeus, and there will be Greek myths. Of various gods. That's right, Brother Xun told the truth about the world. Because to the ancient ancestors of mankind, these gods were actually real lives in life. They all limit our lives and at the same time give us shelter.
Qing Yun can be stubborn, constrained, the sun and the moon are shining, once Fudan is shining. After civilization begins to awaken, in the long cold night that does not know the beginning and end, whether the sun will still rise tomorrow has become our biggest puzzle. People look forward to the appearance of the sun, just as Asuka is in the raining mountains, waiting for the appearance of Shun. Therefore, when the ancestors survived sleepless nights and finally strengthened the grace of the sun god to them, they sang and danced to celebrate the future harvest and the continuation of their children. (For some people, the sunrise is just the beginning of another day, symbolizing endless work and suffering. = =. They don’t know that the poets are on the top of the mountain, praising the rising of the sun again and again for what reason ) At the beginning of the animation, isn't the goat on the side of the road the god who guards the entrance of Yagotai? They are actually all around us.
Until one day, human beings were self-reliant and no longer needed the existence of gods, and Kechart went back underground and became the guard to Yagotai. Yagotai, where the blessings and longings of the human spiritual world are preserved. All things go to spirits, and what is left to future generations is a more controllable scientific world. In order not to hesitate, to grow without slaughter, Kechart succeeded in retreating and let humans grow by themselves. And after we mastered civilization, we gradually forgot these original gods. The polluted sky made them lose their hearts. They no longer lead mankind to the land of peace, but merely serve as slaves of mankind, as the object of treatment, the object of being dominated and slaughtered. When they completed their mission and faded their aura, we became the poisonous snake in the arms of the farmer.
There is a passage in Zhuangzi, "The ruler should not be reckless for the government, and the people should not be destroyed. The past is the grass, but the farming and the recklessness are in fact also reckless and retribution; the cloud and the destruction of the cracks are actually also destroyed. Repay for the split." I am reckless in my treatment of plowing the soil, and the fruits that grow in the ground will be reckless to me; I will destroy them at will when I breed, and they will repay me by destroying the fruits. The god who once guarded mankind also lost his soul under the treatment of mankind's reckless destruction. Heart couldn't bear to kill the guards in the cave, because he knew that Kechart's cruelty was human's own cruelty. However, in the eyes of the lieutenant colonel, this sacred Kchart was just an ancient Bucky Whale, an extinct animal (beast). Science has become a representative of human beings, and compared to the human being who has lost his heart, who is terrifying?
Not only other things, but also own life. In Asuna's dream, she seems to have returned to her previous life, the moment she was reborn. Parents sit together, blessing for a new life. When modern people use a set of specialized vocabulary, whether it is yellow or scientific, to gradually secularize sex and birth, this symbol of human life is hidden in the underground world like Kchart. She once guided human beings to live and continue in the harsh nature, looking up at the stars. Treat the new life with gratitude and blessings. Just be born. Just stay alive. Xin Haicheng put one thing in the huge fertilized egg that symbolizes modern interpretation, which is the soul. She flickered faintly, a response to the ancient gods. In the valley of death, Kechart’s singing trembled here.
Teacher Cai said that art is to once again give soul to all things. Teacher Cai also said that he prefers realistic works more than his science fiction works. As a small person, I like watching animation. Because there is no film and television expression that is so "naive" and so directly reveals the soul of all things, letting them appear in front of us alive. This is not so much a fantasy, as it is a metaphor, behind which is still a vivid reality, even a cruel reality. But it reveals a kind of resistance, not like sharp thinkers, nor avant-garde artists. Animation masters use a more gentle way to describe their "curse" of reality. At the same time, as the film says, it is It is a blessing. They are the children who chase the stars, from Yagotai, who looked down on the ever-changing earthly world, came to the earth at the risk of death, just to find a trace of tremor in the heart and the infinite starry sky above his head.
One of the main clues in the life and death film is that the lieutenant colonel has been searching for ten years in order to resurrect his wife, only to enter Yagotai, and pray at the gate of life and death to the patron saint of Yagotai to satisfy his wish. Tang Yuming wrote in the preface to The Peony Pavilion:
Love does not know where it originated, but it continues to deepen. The living can die, and the death can live. Those who cannot live and die, and those who die and cannot be resurrected, are all innocent.
Because of being sentimental, life and death have become a major issue in the world. Because of being sentimental, dying for love and bringing the dead back to life have become the common spiritual topic of mankind. In the animation, the discussion about love, loneliness, life and death has reached a very deep stage. Let's start with a story told in class by the lieutenant colonel disguised as Mr. Morisaki.
In "Gu Shi Ji", a couple who fell in love are recorded. His wife passed away early, and the man prayed sadly. Finally, his wife told him that she would negotiate with Pluto, and maybe Pluto would allow her to resurrect because of their love, but during the negotiation, the man could not enter Huangquan. But the eager man who missed his wife still pushed open the door to Huangquan, where he saw his decayed and ugly wife, life and death lying in front of him. Perhaps because of his unsolicited admission, perhaps because of his unacceptability, his wife could not be resurrected in the end.
After death, the body continues to decay, and eventually becomes a zombie. It is really unacceptable for people to become a red face and instantly white bones. Buddhism has corpse viewing, which allows people to see through the attachment to the body, and there is a basis for people's inner heart to think about it.
In fact, I have been confused by something recently. In fact, life and death is also the most ultimate question of mankind. Sometimes I think, when we are moved by those who are old by holding hands, fighting for the reputation, power and money, for those who have looked down on life and death and realized that color is emptiness and emptiness is color, we must be indifferent. . Looking back dreamy, who is opposite. Maybe there will be a few good drinks, just as most of us still can't recognize the lives of Buddhist disciples.
"To give evil is to know that it is happy to live but not to be confused? To give to evil is to know that evil is not to die but is not to be lost but not to return"? "Fang has his dreams, but I don't know his dreams. The dreams are occupied in the dreams, and then he knows his dreams. And when he has a great sense, he knows his dreams." If there is no way to know the truth, then we really do not know which one is the correct view of life and death. I always feel that for those who believe in Buddhism, they really have to cultivate to the realm of Nirvana, at least for the love and happiness of sentient beings, they will do nothing. So has the meaning of life been cancelled like this?
The Yagotais in the animation have experienced conquests brought about by human greed, civilization has been destroyed a few times, and only a few villages remain. Thus closed the door of communication with the world on earth. They have a high degree of wisdom. If you see the leader of the tribe (Canaan) where your heart is, you will understand that they are actually a religious society. The supreme leader is the leader of the religion. What they have done all their lives is waiting to be integrated with IELTS. To reach eternity in heaven and earth.
After the death of Yadrich who had been guarding Asuna and growing up with her, he was swallowed by the tall one-armed Quechart, thus becoming a part of him and continuing to survive. During the whole process, only the little girl of human descent was crying and sad. Because she still has human feelings, or a kind of obsession. Then she hugged Kchart, just as she hugged the lovely Adrik. Xin said, "Yagota's world is short of life in this world, lacks meaning, and knows too much, so it will go to the road of destruction." Beware of such questions. He is no longer standing on the position of the Yagotai who is obsessed with emptiness. He is not an enlightened person waiting for death, but is asking how human beings deal with life and death and how to obtain happiness in a short life. . The elder said that he was very much like the man on the ground.
Tomorrow. When she knew Shun was really dead, she went back to her childhood in a dream, re-understanding her smile and mother's tears at that time. After losing her father's snow, she still doesn't know what farewell is. "Death is a part of survival." Why?
"Life and death are just a small part of the big process, and humans are not allowed to block this process." In this case, everyone has heard of it, and perhaps no longer has the power to suddenly hit people's hearts. The world view in the animation is quite similar to the Taoist philosophy of life and death.
"The birth of a person is the gathering of qi. The gathering is life, and the dispersion is death."
After Yadlik's death, he survived in the greater existence-Kechart, and Kechart, from the corners of the world, sang his last song, and at the same time jumped to the bottom of the valley. Integrate with the larger world. Why didn't the ancients treat life and death like this. Especially in the Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming Dynasties, life and death are no longer talked about, but words are mixed and scattered. Everything has never died, but is hidden in the world, returning to the vitality at the beginning of life. Those who die but not die live. This kind of breath can not only be tangible, but also sentient. Therefore, everything in the universe circulates back and forth in such a way and communicates with each other. Zhang Hengqu said that the people, my compatriots, things, I and also. In the movie, isn't it exactly what it says like this?
Kechart "put all his memories in the singing. The singing will change shape and pass on, inherited by the vibration of the air, and unknowingly merge into our body. So in a certain part of the world." The place will survive forever." "Rotten and decayed into miraculous, and magical and decayed, so it is said that the whole world will be alive."
The same kind of death and life, but with completely different treatment. For the Yagotai people, the enlightened beings with high intelligence, life is meaningless, and people always return to the heavens and the earth, so they become empty tribes. They have experienced suffering and survived in the eternal dusk. Expectation to melt at the end of life Yastrali. After all, I have not forgotten the suffering of the past, and I still live in the moment of yesterday.
The lieutenant colonel, who has been obsessed with his wife's body, believes that his wife has died and died out. I can only recognize the past moment through the pronunciation box left by the wife. He lay in the underground world with no stars, and said to Asuna, even more to himself: A night without stars is disturbing. Let me deeply feel how lonely human beings exist. Therefore, he is determined to resurrect his wife and return to his side once again. As a flesh and blood existence. On the contrary, his wife told him that "everyone will leave one day, a little earlier or a little later. As for me, I will leave earlier than you. It is destined." Her wife has indeed turned into an immortal note in the heart, but the lieutenant colonel has not realized it for a long time, and is still looking for a tangible "wife" to resist the fate of life and death. The whole meaning of resurrection is to break away from fate in pain and live forever in the past.
For Shun, he came to the end of the world after foreseeing that his life would not be long, and spread his memory to all corners of the world through singing. It was through that radio that Asuna felt the existence of Shun. To be more precise, Shun has entered Asuna's heart. There, it survived forever. Shun told Asuna, to live well. In fact, it is a continuation of his own life. Shun came to the ground just to chase the things he dreamed of, the stars, and life. So he fell off the cliff and died because he caught the stars. In fact, it is for a meaning of life. This is something that the underground Yagotai people have given up. Therefore, there is no starry sky. Only in the place of reincarnation can there be stars, love, and hope of life. Shun saw Asuna, and Asuna finally understood what Shun’s blessing was for her.
What is the meaning of being alive? Why do we sing life? Asuna's mother said that it is a wonderful thing that you can be born, and it is worthy of blessing. Because we are not just living for ourselves. If so, what is the meaning of life and death. Because our hearts are already filled with the blessings and existence of many others, we are not such a shriveled being. We are still ourselves, but we are not only ourselves. The people are my compatriots, and the things are the same. What a simple expression of life. Tomorrow, the name, I think the dish may mean flower. Tomorrow's flowers, no matter how short they are, will bloom beautifully and bravely. Brilliance is the meaning of flower life? Then let it naturally break through the soil, grow and bloom. You have never died, you are still alive in the hearts of those who appreciate your beauty. There, you are not an instant flower, nor the same flower every year, you are unique and full of spirituality.
As the village elders said, "Everyone tried their best to seek salvation and embark on a journey." So "all gone", to pursue my own stars. Live well, with blessings. Why is this true of true Buddhism? Buddhists should cultivate compassion and bless others happiness. In the evening of three-day meditation, it is "returning", that is, to bless others because of one's own practice. From the people around him, to the creatures in the entire mountain, and even the entire world. Few enlightened persons can see the emptiness behind dependent origin. It is not to deny the meaning of existence, but to bless sentient beings and live happier lives. Live well. Because life and death, since they are destined to be thrown away, I can't ask one. Therefore, since in the broader way of life, then live with these. Perhaps this is no longer the original meaning of Buddhism, but where does it have an original meaning?
To live is a curse of mankind, because there are too many sufferings, but it is also like what Asuna finally realized. At the same time, it is also a blessing.
Postscript:
Japanese are very good at manga. I always feel that there is still a lot of meaning in it. Both Hayao Miyazaki and Makoto Shinkai are thoughtful manga men who intentionally or unintentionally reconstruct the spiritual world of a nation.
The most popular audiences of these comic movies are of course teenagers, and the content is mostly related to growth themes. The world view setting of "Children Chasing Lost Voices" always feels that there are many reflections of reality. From this point of view, art comes from the truth of life.
There may be Japanese spiritual exploration in this. From the initial weak, to the people’s reform, it moved to the extreme of the militaristic road of pursuing a strong and rejuvenating. During World War II, Japan’s greedy seizures, the Bushido spirit was radicalized into the idea of loyalty to the emperor, and suicide by caesarean was a loyalty. This method of death turned out to be the greatest virtue. Then, groping in the ruins. After the war, the greed for capital, environmental pollution, and the financial crisis led to the shattering of this dream. The increasing pressure forced the Japanese to find a way out. How will the culture of their nation, that is, the cultural variants introduced into China continue? How to keep those beautiful ideals? Did the Japanese who were deeply influenced by Buddhist ideas escape to the world of Yagotai? Is it about to become a Yi nationality, a nation that constantly fights against outsiders to purify itself? The Yi nationality is the Yi nationality because it opposes another way of human existence-the way of cultural existence. Therefore, the Yi people in the animation can only be skeletons without flesh and blood. They use their own way, a confrontational way to deal with foreign impure blood. Just like Gintama who first used force to fight against the government and the gods. [But now the distinction between Yi and Xia has been changed. We have become the Yi people struggling to catch up in modern civilization, and the developed capital society in Europe and America is the China we belong to. Is this a problem? 】The
Yi people are afraid of light and water. And light and water happen to be the symbols of life. They are still lifeless skeletons after all. Guarding the declining civilization, resisting in an uncivilized way.
Therefore, many people are trying to reconcile the lack of beauty in modern society and the indifference of people's hearts. Therefore, Hayao Miyazaki, Makoto Shinkai and their works will become popular. And in this, it is also their kind of thinking. As I said at the beginning, in a more gentle way.
Speaking of Japan, I still want to talk about China. I hope that Chinese animators will have more commitment and self-consciousness, and don't make animation just to collect money, and don't think that their poor animation is because of their poor skills. We have a lot of cultural resources to use, but you all regard them as Yi nationality, and you keep going to the West to find the so-called Chinese civilization. The result is like King Xi Rong in the Qin Dynasty, abandoning his virtues, and only learned the civilized female music. It's also a pity.
Of course, don't just copy the things of the ancients and become preaching. Should it be convenient to teach in a way? Naturally, I want everyone to "please hear and see", don't you also like this term the most.
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