Go inside the belly of a whale

Shana 2022-12-20 12:26:56


The clips in the front and the clips in the back are super fast.
Although I understand a little with the help of the bilibili barrage, I am
still quite confused.

Here will write about the general impression of the first rough viewing of the movie

. It was boring to be stuck in the suburbs during the winter vacation last year. I was about to open it with my friends but gave up because the internet was too bad.
I thought it was
a sci-fi police and gangster movie.

When the hero came back from God and showed his power in all kinds of driving, I still didn't have a special feeling for the movie
. The fancy special technique has its own way of dealing with it

. After the film's rhythm slows down to the whale's belly,
it slowly tastes in the

darkness, Xi said, take this as an adventure.
Living in the belly of a whale is indeed not an everyday thing.

Eat a big meal, live in the space of your own imagination, observe endangered species, ride a dinosaur and a small fish

The male protagonist came back from God and said, I don’t want to live a mediocre life anymore, I don’t want to be a small role day after day

So he Started this adventure

only to find it so boring. As if Robinson was stranded on an uninhabited island.
The old man said, if life is so boring, just find a way to make it interesting. So the amazing thing about human beings is that they can dance, be colorful, write comics, fall in love, and have sensual sex in the dark, smelly belly of whales.

People are very adaptable.

However, people still can't help but miss human society. Miss the looming possibilities in life day after day. Faint hope.
West misses order. I miss the repetition day after day, I miss the crowd of trams, I miss the coffee people drink in the office, and even the milk I was forced to drink as a child.

Even if I get arrested, even if I commit a crime, I have to go back to human civilization, to return to order. go inside.
Because even the imagination runs out one day. In this limited belly of darkness, despair seems so close.


The greatness of film lies in its metaphor for life.
Our day-to-day work and study are suffocating us. We are such powerless little people. Besieged by rules, defined by lists and signs.
We crave a vacation, crave a breakthrough, and treat it as an adventure. Become a big hero. Live well. Not like a piece of shit when you die.

When the holidays come, however, you fall into deeper despair.
Lots and lots of time and quiet. to drown me.
I really want to go back to order.

In the end, the hero showed his heroism. He is no longer the little guy at the beginning. He made love with the goddess, he went on adventures in the belly of a whale, and he was like Moses from Egypt, leading everyone back to the most ordinary and most despised life.

Yet human society, isn't it more like another, giant whale belly?

We're not going anywhere. Even if it gets in, the stomach of another whale has nowhere to hide.


Today is a holiday. I made eye contact with him.
Today is our anniversary
and we're not going anywhere. Did not go anywhere.
We had an argument about it.
I hate the sense of despair that is so close at hand.
I also want to go back to order.

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Extended Reading

Mind Game quotes

  • Nishi: This roller-coaster you're trying to stop is a genuine Angel Express. And I can see you moved to tears as you watch that mystic angel spread its wings and disappear into the sky. OK?

    Yakuza boss: The fuck?

  • Nishi: We've gotta leave. It's that or drown.

    Yakuza boss: But how?

    Nishi: The boat, of course!

    Yan: The cops'll be looking for us.

    Nishi: So?

    Yan: The Yakuzas'll come after us!

    Nishi: So what! I wanna get out! 'Cos there's so much out there! So many different people, living different lives! Incredibly good guys, bad guys... Folks completely different from us! It's one huge melting pot! See, it's not about success, dying in the streets, who's better, who's not! I just want to be a part of it! I realized that even if I've no connections, no talent, even if I'm one big loser, I want to use my hands and feet to think and move, to shape my own life! We can just die here or we can try, see what we've got!