A friend of mine is a person with a strong sense of urgency. He often says: Whenever something good comes, I can't enjoy it with peace of mind. I always feel that things must not be so perfect, and there must be bad things. waiting for me not far away. For example, taking the subway together and going in different directions, he is not particularly happy when his car arrives first, but feels that the car that arrives first will be more crowded.
In traditional Chinese philosophy, it is where fortune and misfortune depend, and where misfortune and fortune lie. Foss, the protagonist in the movie "The Virgin Mountain", lived such a life. It may not be as bad as luck or misfortune, but it seems to me that his life has been so ups and downs, and he is a person who has the same strong sense of grief as my friend.
He is not overjoyed at the sudden goodness of others, and certainly not overwhelmed by the evil of others. He just lives frankly in his own world, not happy with things or sad about himself. Of course, if the woman with depression hadn't entered his life, maybe the second half of his life would have been the same as the first half of his forty years without any change.
As soon as Foss appeared on the stage, the most intuitive feeling was fat, sloppy and strange. Obesity is arguably the most terrifying verdict on human beings in the world today. As long as you give the impression of being fat, then no matter how well you live, it is somewhat strange and miserable in the eyes of passers-by.
Sloppy may come from his work, but more from people's additional misunderstanding of obesity. People who are overweight always feel that they are somewhat sloppy, maybe a Zou Baba shirt, or a head of greasy unwashed hair.
What's even weirder about Foss is that he is ashamed to talk to people, or that Foss doesn't want to talk to people unless he has to. Shy and introverted, his only hobbies are tank models and heavy metal music. So aside from his mother, his only friends are another neighbor next door who also loves model tanks and a music radio DJ.
It's actually hard to say whether most of the ill will towards Fox in the movie comes from being obese or introverted, or both. They were happy to joke about the dumb fat man, questioning him if he was a virgin, and forcing him to take a shower.
At the same time, they are also happy to think of Fox as a pervert, and if anything unfortunate happens, everyone is more willing to suspect the fat man. I always feel that because of his fatness and strangeness, he has many possibilities to become a pervert. For example, the woman who later fell in love with Foss asked directly when she rode home in Foss' car for the first time: Are you perverted and will you kill me; and the father of the newly moved little girl also He didn't want the little girl to play with him because he thought Fox was a pervert, and was even interrogated by the police because he took the little girl for a ride.
In fact, the same concept also exists in our lives, those who are handsome always get more admiration, and those who are ugly are always pointed at. The ancients taught us to be on guard against others, but they did not make us prejudge others with the worst mentality.
Foss has always lived a simple life by himself, living with his mother, getting up in the morning, sitting by the window, having breakfast, and then going to work in the airport grounds department. Go to the same restaurant every Friday for the same Pad Thai, then drive to the lake and call the radio to order a heavy metal song for myself. In my spare time, I play tank models with my neighbors.
It all started with that dance class gift certificate given to him by mom's boyfriend. An uneasy Foss was forced by his mother to take a dance class, and happened to meet a depressed woman who was unable to go home during the blizzard and needed a ride. As they took dance lessons together, the two grew closer, and the woman even started inviting Foss: Would you like to go up for some tea. And the cute Foss actually replied: I don't drink tea, and then drove away. Of course Foss came back a moment later and said: If you have milk, I will accept the invitation.
In an instant, Volkswagen has a close female friend, and the originally nasty co-worker became friendly after Volkswagen helped fix the car and even invited him to a party, and everything seemed to be fine.
But misfortune is slowly approaching. The woman with depression used to work in a flower shop, but after being fired, she went to work in a garbage dump. When the depression broke out again, she hid in the closet at home and never came out. And Foss also turned against his colleagues because he was forced to help him by a prostitute called by his colleagues at a party.
After not going to work, Fox began to take care of the depressed woman, helping her clean the room and organize the closet, help her with the cat, help her cook and put it in front of the closet every day, buy her flowers to put in the room, and even go to the garbage dump Help her with the work she owes. Time passed slowly, and the woman with depression gradually got better; and the colleagues at the junkyard were equally friendly, taking Fox to watch the game and drinking beer, and gave Fox a small garbage flower as a farewell gift.
Everything is getting better again. The woman out of depression begins to date Fox, and they happily go to dance lessons together again, while Fox, who is shy and unconfident, begins to dance to the rhythm of the music; they also go to see the house on the corner together to prepare Open a flower shop; they're even getting ready to move in together.
However, as expected, when Fox moved everything from her mother's house to the woman's, she told Fox apologetically: she didn't seem ready. They made a wrong decision. The open-minded Foss slowly moved his things back home without crying or fussing.
At the end of the movie, Fox rents the corner shop and renovates it, gives the key to the woman, and embarks on a trip to Egypt by himself. Because when Foss first met the woman, she said she liked to travel, so Foss privately booked a trip to Egypt. But then she couldn't make the trip because of her depression; she planned to go together after her depression got so cold, but in the end they couldn't be together.
Foss, who got on the plane, looked at the scenery outside the window and smiled, as if everything was in a smile. In the end, the man who had never been abroad took his first step and got on the flight to the first country.
For Foss, he has lived in his own world for the first half of his life. He gratefully accepts the kindness brought to him by the outside world, and just accepts the malice brought to him. It seems to him that everything in the outside world has nothing to do with him. This woman took him and let him know the beauty of being with people and the variety of life; but after that, Foss became the one who took care of this woman.
To a certain extent, both of them are "patients", but they become each other's doctors and heal each other. Although they didn't live happily ever after like the prince and princess, they completely changed each other's lives. Foss took the first step in life and began to touch the world; it is not difficult to imagine that a woman who owns a flower shop will also start a new life of her own.
Finally, let me say that the film is called "The Mountain of the Virgin", and its original name is directly called "Fúsi". The virgin is easy to understand, and Fox has never had a girlfriend in his forties. At the same time, it seems to me that Foss is as calm as a mountain, accepting all changes magnanimously, always maintaining his own kindness and warmth.
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