The beginning of the film tells us that this idea originated from the legend of God's Genesis-light was created on the first day, air and water were created on the second day... Rest on the seventh day, what about the eighth day? What exactly happened? This is the question the film tries to answer-besides what God created in this week, what else is indispensable to this world? Everyone can interpret the "Bible" in their own way. The director reinterpreted the concept of Genesis out of this kind of thinking, that is, Genesis still needs an eighth day, and this eighth day created The things are vital to mankind. When quoting the classics, the director made a big subversion. The sun, the moon and the stars were turned into TV records. The animals and plants were limited to lawn ants, and some people’s subjective feelings were added, which is more than the dry original. vivid. Of course, this will inevitably be criticized by diehards, but art obviously does not recognize only one God.
Of course, this film is not a myth, the real story has nothing to do with religion. The protagonist of this film is two men, a mentally ill and a normal person. In fact, the themes of lunatic, mentally retarded, and mental illness have also been repeatedly explored in the movie. "Flying over the lunatic asylum" promotes the spiritual freedom of lunatics, "Rain Man" is about the preciousness of the pure family affection of the mentally retarded, and "Dream Traveler" is Reflections on the root causes and living conditions of mental illness. The story of this film is like a synthesis of the above three movies. The part of the mental patient’s crazy play outside is imitating "Flying over the lunatic asylum." The ending of "The Traveler" is also somewhat similar. In terms of the style and theme of the film, it is still the closest to "Rain Man", but the excessively patterned plot has reduced the novelty of the film to a certain extent. The shot of George jumping down the tall building is very poetic and beautiful like autumn leaves, but it still seems abrupt to the whole story.
Harry, like all our urban office workers, mechanizes every pre-set procedure in life and work every day. He can talk confidently at work, but his face is rigid and fearful as soon as he leaves the job. The more money is earned, the higher the position, but the feelings between people are getting more and more rusty, and life is less and less tasteless. Of course, such a money-making machine will be abandoned by his wife and daughter. In fact, the director did not say that work and family are absolutely contradictory. He just reminds us that apart from chasing fame and fortune, we must not forget that there is a non-utilitarian happiness in life, and that we must not forget our original purpose of running around.
Why does our work run counter to happiness? We can see the clues from Harry's usual speeches. He teaches employees day after day to be good at imitating when facing customers, because similarity will be easier to gain recognition. People will turn a blind eye to the commonalities between people, but alternative personalities often become unpleasant. His eyes are pierced in the flesh. This is actually a common problem in human society, namely, stubbornness to established values and intolerance to heresy. In order to gain the goodwill of the customers, the salesmen put up a smile on their faces. Everyone put on a personality mask and desperately suppressed the true thoughts in their hearts, so that their true role in life was lost. Van Loon once said that nature has a natural aversion to any standardized ideals. No matter how advanced human beings are, after all, they are just members of nature. The inconsistent pretences deceive others, but they can't deceive their inner instinct to pursue pleasure.
One of the most sincere people in this world is a child, and the other is a lunatic, so they are also the happiest. What George brought to Harry was a completely different life philosophy, courage to pursue, without pretentiousness, to release every bit of pain and joy in his heart. He warmly greeted the street beggars who Harry never ignored, asked for shoes and chocolates in the store childishly, expressed his love for every woman he liked directly, and made funny faces to the truck driver very mischievously. He has never thought about things rationally in advance, as long as the desire arises, he will go straight to the goal. Ordinary people may be contemptuous and contemptuous of such willfulness, but it obviously has a huge impact on people like Harry who have completely lost the idea of happiness.
So we return to the question at the beginning-what else should God create on the eighth day? The director said: "On the eighth day, he created George. George is great!" What George endorsed is the white clouds under the blue sky and the ladybugs in the grass, the sky full of fireworks and the mouthful of chocolate, and the light music in the ears. The caressing with the mother in the dream is pure joy of the soul and the happiness of forgetting myself. The most eye-catching thing in the film is the large green background, which represents a fresh and upward force and creates an appropriate external atmosphere for the male protagonist's psychological transition. Even if the camera is aimed at a city street, it is not completely cold tones, which always makes people see a glimmer of warm hope. When Harry carefully imitated George dancing solo in the water, I couldn't help smiling-it turns out that each of us can get the kind of happiness that God has forgotten.
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