When the balloon rises

Tyson 2022-03-20 09:01:06

There is no doubt that the most exciting part of Flying House is the first fifteen minutes of the game. No matter how disappointingly the later plot fell into stereotypes, the moment the old house rises with the colorful balloons, it is destined to become another classic created by Pixar.


In the film, the story of the old man touched many people because he could and did happen to many of us. When we were children, the world was full of infinite possibilities for us. We have a deep curiosity and desire to explore, and even more ambitious ambitions. We are confident that we will be who we want to be, as different as the heroes in the documentary.


However, as we grow up, we have to accept a simple reality: our world has boundaries. Although all kinds of boundaries can't be touched, but it firmly binds us on a fixed track. You can see far away and fantasize, but your dreams are always floating on the other side of the boundary. If you have two lifetimes, you may have the courage to break the boundaries and live for yourself once. But life is much shorter than you think. You think you have enough time in your future, but unknowingly you are old and your years are gone.


Giving up on dreams is a painful thing. Therefore, people often choose to forget. The past pledges and ambitions are buried deep in memory. Only in this way, people will be numbly busy with the complicated and trivial things in front of them. Therefore, people who once dreamed of traveling around the world will be content to spend their youth slowly in a small office until gray hair; people who have vowed to find true love will be willing to live a lifetime with someone who just looks familiar , Until the end, I was still inexplicably strange to my partner; more people who once dreamed of being different were finally lost in the masses of beings. Before they died, they were forgotten by people, as if they never existed.


At the beginning of the story, two young children spread out a map on the table, marking the end of their dreams at the end of the world. Their passion is incredibly provocative, and we all look forward to a Hollywood-style adventure for the two of them. However, the following story is commonplace. They lived an ordinary life among the masses, although warm and harmonious, but calm. Time is like flowing water, the lens is delicately switched, and the protagonist of the movie, the center of this world, has become old without knowing it.

So no one remembers him anymore. He lives in the same old house as him, and leads a more boring life. Life has no meaning at all. Although the surroundings of the house are noisy, it brings out his loneliness. No dream and future life are painful. If at the end of the story, the old man walks into a nursing home and the house is torn down, then his life will be lost in the world like countless people.

In the end, however, an exciting moment came. When hundreds of colorful balloons were lifted into the sky and the sails rose in the sky, a rush of heat caught everyone's hearts, and the house flew! This is a dream that belongs to all of us that we have always wanted to do, but have never had the courage to dream: we are sitting in a flying house and leaving the noisy city, leaving the boring life we ​​are accustomed to, and flying to another place. We firmly believe that at the end of the world, there is a fairyland waterfall waiting for us, and the great adventure officially begins at this moment.

The development behind the story is rather disappointing. In my opinion, the opposite of the old man should be the boring years, the indifferent city life or the suffocating fate. What I hope to see is that these things are crushed and knocked down as a target, but the screenwriter has designed a masked old evil man to be a big villain, and I have to say that it has deviated from the original intention of the film plan.

By the way, the most beautiful waterfall in the world really exists. It is the Angel Falls in South America, also called Angel Falls. In the documentary planet Earth, this real waterfall is extremely majestic and majestic.

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Up quotes

  • Police Officer Edith: [after Carl gets back from the courtroom, at night] Sorry, Mr. Fredricksen. You don't seem like a public menace to me. Take this.

    [she hands him a Shady Oaks Retirement Village brochure]

    Police Officer Edith: The guys from Shady Oaks will be by to pick you up in the morning, okay?

  • Newsreel Announcer: [after the National Explorer's Society accuses Muntz of fabricating the "Monster of Paradise Falls" skeleton] The organization strips Muntz of his membership.

    [a patch is ripped off Muntz's jacket]

    Newsreel Announcer: Humiliated, Muntz vows a return to Paradise Falls and promises to capture the beast alive!

    Charles Muntz: [speaking to a large audience outside in the newsreel] I promise to capture the beast alive, and I will not come back until I do!