When this man came to heaven, he found that heaven and hell were very similar, and people were also sitting around a huge soup pot holding a large spoon. The difference is that the people here feed the soup into the mouths of others, everyone eats a lot, people talk and play, time goes by with laughter and laughter.
Inflatable doll Xiaowang said that life may be complete without its own power, but life is essentially lacking and is complete because of the existence of others. It is like a flower. Even if the stamens and pistils are gathered, it is not enough. It still needs the visit of insects and breeze. Therefore, Xiao Wang wants to be a horsefly, swimming in the light, and slowly flying towards the blooming flowers under the breeze.
But the secret discovered by this intentional inflatable doll is not known to mankind. Man is the spirit of all things, but the spiritual energy that was blown into the human body by the gods in the legend is dying out in modern society. The prisoners in the steel from the forest lived a lonely, closed life in mutual estrangement. Their expressions were rigid, their souls withered, and they shrank in their own silkworm shells, wearing masks, walking through the feasting and feasting tiredly. We gave up the pursuit of meaning, soul, and self, and chose instant pleasure and flashy pleasure while weary, so as to dilute our inner emptiness and potential despair. In order to meet people's needs, the market is flooded with various substitutes. We use junk food instead of wife’s cooking, tear-gas movies instead of husband’s hugs, find a more real identity for ourselves in the virtual world, and use inflatable dolls to solve basic physiological needs. Over time, we are getting farther and farther away from each other in this alternative world. The self that needed to be formed by others is also shrinking and morbid. One day, we find that we are nothing more than substitutes. When a person has no self, but is just a tool to complete a certain kind of work, a certain kind of stylized life, it can indeed be replaced at any time. Xiao Wang’s owner was constantly threatened by the boss to be replaced. The old man in the park was also a substitute for the school teacher, and the female staff was afraid of being replaced by young girls. When measuring humans with only the utilitarian ruler, anyone is just a tool, a screw in a huge social machine. The only way for humans to fight against this alienation in modern society is to rely on each other. Self is also a reflection of others and must be established in interaction with others.
After Xiaowang had his heart, he began a journey of self-searching. The narration of the whole movie often showed Xiaowang's definition of himself. First, the way the owner treated her made her feel that she was just a substitute for solving sexual desire, but the encounter with Junichi, a man in the video store, especially the air that Junichi blew into her body gave her a new understanding of herself , She began to want to be a real person. In order to be more like a person, she used foundation to cover up the lines on her body, preventing her shadow from being seen, eager to have her own birthday, and decided not to inflate herself, because then she would be like a human over time The same is getting closer to death. In the process of pursuing herself, she encountered setbacks again and again (whether it was the rape of the video store owner or Junichi’s death). Her innocent and clear eyes at the beginning became more and more confused and worried with the growth of her soul. But she never flinched and feared. When she returned to her birthplace, she saw the smelly skin that was exactly the same as herself lying in the trash dump, and heard her creator distinguish between humans and herself as combustible and non-combustible trash, she was relieved. She no longer cares about whose substitute she is, because if she doesn't have the heart, human beings are just substitutes, combustible garbage. But she has a heart, and it is this heart that makes her different from anyone else. When she went to Chunyi, Chunyi said, you are not someone's substitute.
Because of Xiao Wang's existence, Junichi is no longer a walking dead. It was the breath he exhaled that gave Xiao Wang life. In real life, all of us have to understand each other, warm each other, and give each other meaning to life. Life can be infinitely empty. We live in each other's breath and find our true selves in each other's love and embrace. It is not God, but human beings who give human form aura. We are mutual air and mutual sustenance. We are not mayflies, or ants born for birth, but loneliness and isolation have wiped out our humanity and temperature. When the owner asked Xiao Wang to turn back into an inflatable doll with no heart, what he proved was not only the love incompetence of modern people, but also the mental illness of modern people's voluntary degradation and self-willingness. When we lose each other, how fragile and helpless each individual human is, there is no power to resist the world's alienation of itself, no motivation to pursue a complete self, and can only stagnate in the emptiness and grow old alone.
But Xiao Wang is different. She is full of curiosity about everything. She wants to approach people, help them, and warm them. There are many warm scenes in the movie. For example, Xiao Wang on the bus lends his shoulders to a man with dozing glasses, gives foundations to female employees who are afraid of aging, accompanies dying elderly people, and teases babies in strollers. When human beings are anxious to keep their distance from each other, Xiao Wang can't wait to get close to everyone, so she not only has a heart, but also has many thoughts, courage and feelings that no human has ever had. When Xiao Wang survived with the breath that Junichi breathed into his body, Junichi died. Compared with inflatable dolls, lonely human individuals are much more vulnerable.
Xiaowang asked Junichi, what's in the sky? Junichi said that there are air and clouds floating in the sky, and the air is transparent. Although it is invisible, it exists. Xiao Wang's heart is like this, although it is invisible, it exists. Every bottle she collected was like this, although they were empty, each one was filled with air. The most beautiful things in this world are invisible, but they exist. We have to rely on each other to feel that when we become each other's breeze, horseflies, we can fill the lack of ourselves and become a different person from anyone else. It's a pity that too many people have been lonely for so long. Do you know that what you lack is just the breath of others?
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