The movie Garden State tells a story about depression.
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At the beginning of the film, people are emotional and overwhelmed in the chaotic plane, the plane is violently turbulent, and boxes of various sizes fall to the ground one by one. Only Andrew sat there with a numb expression, silently turning off the prompt sound, and accepting all this calmly. As soon as the screen changed, the phone rang at Andrew's house with white walls, and there was a familiar but unfamiliar voice from his father.
Mother is gone.
Andrew returned to his hometown and met his father whom he had not seen for many years, as well as his childhood friends who grew up with him.
Everyone has their own life.
Everything that followed rushed into his mind like lightning bolts. More importantly, he met a lovely girl.
Every depressed patient is familiar with this feeling. Taking the medicine for a long time will make the patient's mind numb and the heart freeze. For a long time, there will be no interest in anything or anything. The expectation in my heart is "time stops at that moment", because at that moment, there are parents, friends, and that little bit of poor life.
However, life always moves forward.
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There is a dialogue between the hero and heroine in "Garden State":
Man: When you know the house you grew up in is no longer your home...that's a turning point in your life, everything is so sudden, even though you still have a place to live...but the meaning of home is gone
Woman: I still think it's my home
Man: One day you will move out, and then you will understand, you will feel that everything can't go back to the way it used to be, as if this home never existed. Maybe this is the only way in life, but That feeling goes away when you start a new family on your own, for your kids, for your new home, it's like a loop... maybe that's what home really means, a fiction built by a group of people The place……
It took me many years to understand the meaning of this sentence...
For a long time, the pain of being sick made me shut myself in a small, cramped world, indifferent to everything in life. Until I found out that my mother was sick, until one day, I finally realized that my mother was terminally ill. I am still painfully unwilling to believe that this is the truth, dodging, dodging, and repeatedly denying all of this. I waited until my father came back from out of town, took my mother to face it directly, and received active treatment. At this time, I admired my father from the bottom of my heart, his silence, his persistence, and his courage to face the disease. I searched for information about the disease and did my best to tell my father that my mother was still not getting the right treatment at the beginning. I have not been able to fulfill my responsibilities as a family member! ! ! This is the threshold that I can't get over until today...
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Andrew went back to his hometown and saw Diego, whom he hadn't seen for many years. Diego is still down and out, doing insignificant work. The day before Andrew left, Diego took him and his girlfriend to many places until they came to a bottomless pit.
What unfolded in front of Andrew was a bottomless abyss.
A middle-aged man named Albert lives in a boat by the abyss, along with his wife and newborn baby.
They live on this boat.
Albert occasionally climbed down the pit to explore the abyss.
Albert to Andrew and his girls: I'd rather believe it's infinite...
Abbott added: "But those thoughts are all too selfish, as long as I can be with my wife...and our lovely kids... those things don't matter anymore, that's all I need.
Andrew said to Albert: Good luck!
Albert said to Andrew: Good luck to you too!
Then Andrew shouted beside the abyss, shouting from the heart! That was the feeling of being alive, the spring rain poured on his face, he came out of depression, he found the feeling of life again! Living has never been more real than that moment!
When he parted with Diego, Diego gave Andrew a necklace, which was her mother's favorite necklace and his favorite toy as a child.
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I was 26 like Andrew when I first saw the movie, and when I rewatched it, I was 38.
Life always moves forward.
Relatives will leave, friends will go away and reappear, and people will always grow up.
Movies are always just movies.
The real Andrew, who is also director Zach Braff, hasn't come out with a big impact after this "Garden Island," which was well-received at independent film festivals.
He doesn't live happily in New Jersey with Natalie Portman like Andrew in the movie. He continues to be a regular actor, working day in and day out in Hollywood.
I don't know how his own life is, whether he has found his own happiness.
I also found a little happiness of my own. She would say to me "you are so nice" and I would say to her "where are you and where is your home". Yes, we have rebuilt a home. This is a warm and comfortable home, with her lying on the side and playing with her mobile phone, and the cat eating cat food lazily on the side. With this home, I can fart without any scruples haha. With this home, I can just jump around in long johns. With this home, we began to look forward to the arrival of our children.
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The mother suffered for 8 years in a serious illness and passed away.
Mother left in the morning. Before her death, her eyes were empty, her mouth was full of blood, and her throat kept making indistinct sounds. Until the moment of death, the mother's eyes were not closed.
She is looking for my son.
She doesn't worry about me.
After my mother became ill, my mother and I talked about everything. According to my mother's wishes, I scatter my mother's ashes in the sea. Grandpa also slept in the sea. There will also be my home.
I thought I would be completely broken when my mother left, but nothing happened.
Life always goes on.
Years later, my wife and I moved into a new home and started a new life. I happily cooked my favorite dishes for my daughter-in-law - stir-fried three diced, fried pork with oyster mushrooms and rapeseed. Two unremarkable home-cooked dishes, when I ate them, tears could not stop flowing. It was the taste of my mother.
My mother never left me, she was there, in that home-cooked meal.
Maybe, if I can have my own children, I will also make fried three diced, fried pork with oyster mushrooms and rapeseed for her, and I will tell her, "This dish was taught by my grandmother, and my father will teach you in the future." , I don't know if my children will be happy to learn these two home-cooked dishes.
Life is just, in my opinion, a little more difficult.
Birth, old age, sickness and death, ups and downs, everyone has to face.
I am writing this with a smile now because it is clear to me that through these common life experiences, I have never given up hope.
As long as you don't give up hope, there will always be tomorrow. As long as you don't give up hope, there will always be forever.
Life is long, be yourself.
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