In a world without hearts, everyone is a hedgehog

Makayla 2022-11-13 22:48:31

The film is roughly divided into two perspectives, and also two protagonists

One is under 12 with baloma

She is so smart that she understands the essence of life at a young age

Give birth to pessimistic "question" and plan to commit suicide one day

One is Honey, a 54-year-old concierge

She has been working as a concierge for more than 20 years, but she is not numb in such days

She reads books, movies, has a cat, and occasionally eats chocolate

She is candid and truthful

Between these two roles, Baroma is more like a recorder and observer

And Honey is the graceful hedgehog

The change happened between her and Ozugero

Like two planets in the vast universe that receive the same frequency signal from each other

As Ozukaro said to Honey, "No one has ever seen the real you."

At that moment, the hedgehog covered with thorns, the snow and ice in the heart is slowly melting

It turns out that hedgehogs don't really want to be hedgehogs...

Every spiky thorn on a hedgehog, it's not an aggressive thorn

but a thorn of self-protection

Like, hedgehogs curl up when other animals approach

Bury your head in the dark, revealing only the sharp thorns

How it is like men and women in life, in the city

longing for intimacy, longing for understanding

eager to hug, eager to tell each other

It can be after repeated disappointment, after injury

Each man erects spikes and builds cages

make yourself look stronger

Everyone slowly learns to use offense as defense

When the second before the injury occurs

Then he said harsh words and walked away

Everyone isolates himself from the world

there, occasionally dancing alone

Most of the time, just looking out through the cracks

Fortunately, some people can meet the same kind who let their guard down

Some people may live their whole lives in a fighting attitude

But, as the end of the movie says

"It's not death that matters, it's what people do when they die, Honey, you're ready to love."

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Extended Reading

The Hedgehog quotes

  • Paloma Josse: Planning to die doesn't mean I let myself go like a rotten vegetable. What matters isn't the fact of dying or when you die. It's what you're doing at that precise moment.

  • Renée Michel: Happy families are all alike.

    Kakuro Ozu: Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

    [Quoting from Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina']