What is the reality, a declining and lonely town, a piece of grass that cannot see the distant sky, and the grass frozen in the picture, thick moisture overflows from the surface, it is winter without the sun, and it looks extremely cold.
It is written in the plot introduction: "The Selfish Giant" tells a contemporary fable between 13-year-old Arbor and his best friend Swifty. When I saw it was a "fable story", I understood it as a "fairy tale", how ignorant I was.
When Arbor was expelled from school, he was very happy. He was finally able to get rid of studying and finally be a man who made a living by picking up rubbish. Maybe some people don't understand. Just like Swifty's mother thinks that reading is the way out of poverty. Even if Swifty is also expelled, she doesn't want her children to mix with Arbor to pick up trash.
Society is complex and hierarchical. Naturally, we cannot understand the lifestyles and thoughts of people who do not belong to our hierarchy. The thoughts we are instilled are actually not practical. The freedom and happiness we understand may be the pain and suffering of others. Tortured.
Arbor and Swifty are marginal figures in the bottom society. Both material and money are extremely scarce. I think that arbor’s goal is to have a garbage dump like a kitten, collect and sell waste products, have a good income, and can solve their own family and friends. The problem of swifty's home. When the most basic problems of survival and food and clothing have not been solved, the child is like an adult, a person who is responsible for solving the main problems of the family. All the adult men and women in the movie appear to be powerless, not irritable. It's sad crying. The incompetence of adults is to see through the pain that this society brings to them is incurable, degenerate, and degenerate again and again. The fearlessness of children is that they feel that they can change their destiny with their own hands, but reality and movies are cruel. How many people can get out of the bottom, even if it is like a garbage dump owner kitten, he is still a member of the bottom of society.
There are many scenes in the movie with foggy skies, standing high-voltage towers, sluggish roads, declining houses, and many quiet pictures staying for a long time. This is not only the scene that the people of this small town see every day, but it is also the reality that cannot be escaped. , Living there, vision and goals also stop there. Therefore, where we choose to live, where is our world, the size of the world is up to us to choose. Arbor's world is picking up trash. This is the free life he wants. In his heart, this is the fastest and effective way to improve his life. If we choose to live a nine-to-five life, but feel unhappy and unfree from time to time, then we are no better than Arbor.
Is there "love" in the movie, but love is bitter. Arbor with mania can calm down by holding swifty's hand. When swifty is killed by a high-voltage electric shock, he also holds arbor's hand. I knew that such a tragedy would happen early on. When it really came, I couldn’t help but hold my breath. It’s not incredible, but I can’t imagine that death is so peaceful and real. There is no struggle, no fear, and it disappears in an instant. . There is even no wind in the world in the movie, and the picture is pulled far away, and the horse is there quietly, as if it has been a long, long time before the picture wakes up.
In fact, after watching this movie, I have always wanted to figure out whether people at the current level are struggling to enter a higher level of life, or should they be content to enjoy the current life. In addition to real liking, all the things that make yourself consume time and energy are actually to prove that you "go to the hall and go to the kitchen", to prove that you are not only "alive" at this level, but also that you can "live". People. Let yourself become a person with pursuits. In the final analysis, you have a lot of dissatisfaction with life at this level and envy of life at a higher level. I don't know what is right and what is good. I am not as simple and rude as Arbor, and I have no hesitation. Maybe I should go back to the world of children and return to the truth. Even if it is wrong, it is high-spirited.
Did Swifty's death let Arbor know something? The hug between him and his mother swifty was an absolute teardrop, but the only little warmth of the movie is also difficult for people with "pursuits" to stand firm, break through the shackles, and break through" How difficult it is for the giants to build the world. Who are the selfish giants who keep them outside the wall of love and warmth and turn their childhoods into blemishes? At the end, Arbor stood in the original position of Swifty, doing what Swifty liked. The friendship was extended in this way, and the fate of struggling stopped moving forward at this moment.
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