No matter how hard it is, life must go on

Aryanna 2022-10-28 14:26:56

Cool tones, stream of consciousness, a revolving light-like scene of life flashed frame by frame, and it was raining heavily outside the car window.

In the subway station, the girl who was chased and the first love met after many years. A real farce begins. No more spoilers.

You only need to know that this film is not like a Korean drama, and it is even more pointless that Hayao Miyazaki's fresh style of painting is so beautiful that he wants to cry. The roars interspersed in the dialogue are like monologues that make people even want to smash the computer. Every scene is lamenting WTF, Male protagonist, are you possessed by Wang Dachui? ! But after reading all of them, when the truth emerges, when everyone's life goes back, when you see the connection of all people, you will understand the full meaning of the revolving light.

This is destined to be an animation for adults.

Shooting, rape, underworld, sex, anti-social elements, but when they are all included, what you care more about is plain warmth. In any year or month, every grass and tree you have cared about, a stray dog ​​you rescued, and your kind greetings to strangers will all redeem you at some point in the future.

An individual's life seems to be so boring and ordinary, and you often wonder if you are the manipulated protagonist in "The Truman World", but thank you for the butterfly effect and the connection between us and everything in the world. Subtle connection, thanks to every choice for making so many possibilities, that it's too late for us to think carefully about why you live.

So I ask you now, how would your life be different if you died now, if you could come back to life?

This seems to be a first-world problem, but it dominates every choice we make and the way we spend every day. It determines what kind of person we will become in this life and what kind of story we will interpret from an unknowable place. and the ending of the story. Maybe we are all escaping one kind of bondage, and then you will fall into another bondage. You struggle so hard that you are very tired, but have you ever thought that this kind of bondage is originally a kind of lost happiness. It’s like when we were young, we wanted to leave our parents and school. We didn’t like our hair color, face shape, and our current circle. We wanted to break away from our hometown and go to a big city. We wanted to go abroad and make more money. , we are obsessed with dissatisfaction, we are obsessed with results, but is the whole process meaningless in itself? The answer is no. Although I am result-oriented, I have gradually started to enjoy the process. At the same time, your decision can only be made once, and you will never regret it after you choose it. Just like a passage I saw today, the general idea is, don't look at the price after buying clothes, don't regret the calories after eating, and so on. In fact, the sunk cost is very understandable. The more you want to make up for it, the more you will pay for the unprofitable cost. Movies give us new choices, but life cannot be restarted. You have to make yourself happy and make choices carefully. After all, life is not a movie.

certainly. When we watch a movie, we always stick to the ending.

Wouldn't it have been different if I had caught that subway in the first place, I hadn't met you again, and we hadn't met at our pub on a rainy night. You finally became the comic editor you wanted to be, my sister finally realized her dream of being an artist, Grandpa Shark is no longer alone, and the two people in the underworld have their own happy families.

Unfortunately, only if.

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Mind Game quotes

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

    Yan: But how?

    Nishi: The boat, of course!

    Myon: The cops'll be looking for us.

    Nishi: So?

    Myon: 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!

  • 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?