The film is narrated in the form of storytelling. Unintentionally, we replaced the writer in the film and became a person who really listened to the story. We traveled across the ocean with this young man and experienced everything.
The wonderful thing about the film is that when you see the end of the film, you can go back and think about the pavement that the director made at the beginning of the film. This kind of response makes people feel inexplicable joy. The beginning of the film describes the beliefs of the Juvenile School. He is a child who believes in Hinduism, Islam and Christianity at the same time, and he is extremely pious. This seemingly unreasonable arrangement was joking at the beginning of the film, but when the final ending of the film was shown in front of us, we understood this truth: no matter what kind of story, what kind of belief, Only the one you believe has meaning, as long as you believe it has meaning.
In fact, when a person faces his beliefs and cruel reality at the same time, he is very struggling and very painful, just as the boy screamed when facing the lightning in the storm in the sea: I have lost my family and everything, you What else are you taking away from me? What else to take away? Before this shout, he was still shouting excitedly: Come out and see! This is a miracle. A person just praised the unspeakable magnificence that appeared in his life in the first second, but in the next second, he remembered his desperate situation. I believe everyone may have felt this way. I was once, like the boy school in the film, very puzzled by God’s creation. Why did he create evil, why he kept taking it away, why did I have to endure hardships, but still let me believe in love? So, like the Junior School, I admired the seemingly illusory miracles, while letting my beliefs collapse in questioning in reality.
When the boy sent another story at the end of the film, I was deeply shocked. Director Ang Lee created a beautiful dream to tell a dark story. I realized that it turned out that the hyena killed the zebra, killed the orangutan mother, and then was killed by the tiger. All of this is not just the killing instinct in the animal's nature, but also deeply buried in the depths of human nature. At this moment, that beautiful dream was like a fragile bubble, and it shattered all at once. In the next moment, the middle-aged teenager said: No matter which story, the ship sank and I lost all my relatives. Which story do you prefer to believe? The writer in the film believed in that beautiful dream, what about you and me?
I think the director is more willing to make us believe in this beautiful dream. This is not to deceive ourselves, but to face ourselves. Just like the youth pie facing the tiger, we also face the evil in our hearts all the time. The greatness of our human beings is that we can face it, tame it, carry it with it, and finally say goodbye to it. And when we say goodbye to it, we will feel pain just like saying goodbye to all good things, because it was once a part of us. Although it did not look back when it left, we don’t know when it will come back. Maybe In the next second, maybe in the next life. You will find that this once tiger will make it hard for you to give up and will make you give up your faith for it, just like the juvenile pie, he killed innocent fish and fed this tiger. In the face of life and death, violating the inner belief may not mean giving up the belief, but more, it is to give a new interpretation to the faith, to give the meaning of reality to the faith, to make the faith not just a dream, not just a dream. A beautiful castle in the sky is the choice we should make when we face everything we don't want to face, and we have to face it.
I started to understand some of the reasons why God created evil. Everything in this world is a child of God. If we don't face it, we will never grow up. In fact, about human nature and beliefs, perhaps there is no need to discuss so much, just tell a story like this. We will grow up eventually, we keep bidding farewell, and then continue to suffer, but continue to grow. Just like that boy school, he said emotionally that he always failed to say goodbye, which is always a pity. However, if you think about it, perhaps what the director wants to tell us is that a life without regrets may not be a real life. Maybe we shed tears, maybe we feel despair, maybe at the same time, we will feel the ecstasy of life. As long as we persist in the kindness in our hearts, we will be saved.
We exist in this world, and although we have to say goodbye forever, we never want to say goodbye. Therefore, we cannot indulge in the lonely paradise and escape everything, because just like the island in the film, this paradise has a price. While giving beauty, it also takes away something. We live not to forget, but to remember, remember ourselves, remember others, remember the past, remember the present, and remember the future.
Why does the film give us that dark and true story, but we can still leave the theater with a smile. It may be that this is just a movie, and I would rather believe that the director has guided our inner yearning for kindness. The tension of this film lies in the happy ending with cruel memories and reality.
Perhaps life is like this ocean. There are bright stars in the night sky, groups of dolphins appearing in groups, brilliant jellyfish on the bright sea surface, huge whale sharks, storms, stormy waves, roaring lightning, and sunken ships. With you, there are inner malice and animality, unyielding resistance and the kindness of the heart. You and I may die at any time, whether it is from the bite of the tiger or the tsunami that covers the sky, but we will eventually reach the other shore and we will be saved.
God created evil intentionally or unintentionally, and took some away intentionally or unintentionally. If we don't fight, those who have been taken away will be gone forever. While losing, we will see miracles that we would not see when we have them. I think this may be the meaning of life. Regardless of whether it is people who have watched this film and are walking out of the cinema, or people who have not watched the film, we are all the same. We have already started our own fantasy drifting. In this drifting, we will face our own stupidity. Desperate, but we can still find a way to survive and the meaning of life.
When you reach the other side, you and I will definitely remember, think of those adventures, think of the good things that have been experienced, and think of parting. Actually, I don't know whether I will reach the other shore, I just know that if I never raise my sails, if I don't face it, the other shore will always be far away. Please believe that your life is destined to be full of cruelty and ruthlessness, but at the same time, it is destined to be an unparalleled dream journey.
Postscript: At the end of the article, I recalled the story about Vishnu in the film. In Vishnu’s mouth, we saw the universe. This may also mean that we are experiencing a finite life, but we can see the infinite possible. In fact, like Vishnu, we can create everything or destroy everything. We must treat the world and ourselves with awe. Another: The picture of the film is very dreamy. Although it does not bring us a real fantasy story, such a picture is enough to be called a fantasy.
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Bastide, written on the night of November 23, 2012
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