You need not only love, but also courage

Jaren 2022-01-23 08:03:32

One year I spent the White Night in Paris (it was an event organized by the city government where everyone went to museums all night and various free exhibitions). It was already midnight after I walked out of Palais de Chaillot. I was probably in a good mood and started humming on the road. , The students behind said grinningly: "It's like seeing a foreigner singing the March of Volunteers on the streets of China...". God knows, I have forgotten that this is the prelude to the Marseilles, all I want to hum is the Beatles’ All you need is love... blah blah blah...

so when it’s in the movie Gabriel played the trombone vigorously and asked excitedly: "Guess which song this is!" I couldn't help but laugh, I know your man must not be asking about the French national anthem.

America in the 6's and 70's was really a magical place, sexual liberation, hippies, rock music, marijuana, anti-war, LSD, psychedelic art, The Beatles, Dylan, Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix... ...I don’t even know that these decadent things were born in the late 70s. At that time, China had just woke up from the Cultural Revolution, and then reform and opening up, the southern tour, the black cat and the white cat caught it. A mouse is a good cat. In 1989, the square was full of blood on TV, but I was worried about the results of the graduation exam... In 1996, a boy lent me a tape ripped tape with a white label. The name of the song handwritten on the child. That is the Beatles one. I did four-level simulation questions in the library, but listening to Yesterday over and over again with my little broken Walkman was a mystery. Paul McCartney became the world’s most vocal man, how could he sound so good? It sounds so good that dementia can forget exams and memorizing words, and it sounds so good that it makes people cry.

...Slowly Sergeant Pepper passed through the yellow submarine in the Lonely Heart Club, flew out of the Zeppelin behind the lost wall, and Alice in chains and the kinks fell together... When there was no internet, I couldn’t tell who lived in which age and country. Except for the four people wearing a scarf in the pamphlet with a hole in the disc, the faceless young man and the fly in the red glass jar. I don’t know what they look like and what life they lead. Their songs don’t sound like the manic metal music of the 80s, but there is always a kind of heartless joy and innocence, not at all. "Rock".

Until I grew up slowly by myself, everything in the United States in the 1970s became a strange point in my memory. The freedom of hippies, colorful children, do not fight for love, sounds too naive to today's young people, music can change the world, once almost become a reality.

Later, as if gunpowder and colored confetti were dropped after the fireworks, these children took off their colored cloaks and put on the suits left by their middle-class parents to return to the banks, office buildings and factories. Some of the remaining people who did not want to repent until the death went to Nepal, planted marijuana under the Himalayas, and watched the Bengal tigers shuttle by the tavern, becoming a drunkard.

If Gabriel hadn't had a brain tumor, what kind of life would he lead? After a quarrel, he slammed the door and stopped contacting his parents for 20 years. He gave up college and girlfriend. He single-mindedly pursued his music and his ultimate ideals, and used music to stop war and all injustice. Looking at our current world, he still failed, right?

Seeing that the stubborn father abandoned most of his life prejudice for his son with severe amnesia, and began to listen to the "noisy" things he thought was poisoning his son. The funny thing is when he walked into the record store and wanted to change it. When some of the band's sons know how to record, it was a punk who received him. Time is like a white horse. If Gabriel has a child of his own, will the same conflict arise? Will he also think that punk and metal are some "noisy" unbearable music, but his son can no longer listen to wearing it in the sky Lucy of Diamonds.

In the first half of the movie, I knew that the father and son would definitely get forgiveness in the music, but the director tried to avoid deliberately sensationalism, which made the film finally come to a near-perfect ending. The huge gap between father and son was finally filled up bit by bit by time, disease, submissive mother and music. The memory that no longer exists is like a gentle void, containing all the resentment, hatred and hatred. Gabriel is lucky, even his brain tumor seems to be compassionate. His father and mother who loved him are still alive. They operated on him and took care of him rain or shine. Even in the face of a rebellious son, his parents still retain a trace of unbearable peace. forgive.

Such parents not only have love, but also have unmatched wisdom and courage. The father put aside the 20-year estrangement and wanted to understand the child's world. Even though the world conflicted with his values ​​and was corrupt and evil, he still opened his heart to accept him. This really makes me sigh. In any case, American culture praises the culture of youth so much. You can always see parents compromise with their children, and the new generation can get rid of shackles and gain the growth of personality and spiritual power. They may have completely different values ​​from their parents. But stronger and more powerful, and more morally "right". (Perhaps into the wild is an exception).

In contrast to our own film and television dramas, all young rebellious, free thoughts and life forces have been obliterated. All you can see is to pay tribute to authority and use parental affection for moral kidnapping (I really I am fed up with all kinds of disgusting affectionate advertisements.) "Go home often" "Parents care about their children, Children’s hearts are in stone." "Parents in the world are everything" These mantras in this lifeless country have become horrible spells that fall on young lives, not to mention the various insecurities that parents have to their children. Emotional blackmail and personality kidnapping.

In this sense, All you need is not only love. Perhaps what you need is not only love, but also courage.

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The Music Never Stopped quotes

  • Helen Sawyer: Are we ready? I've got the medication.

    Dianne Daley: I've got the bag.

    Gabriel Sawyer: I've got the brain tumor.

  • Henry Sawyer: They don't just play the notes on the page.

    Gabriel Sawyer: No, they play what's in the air, you know?