If you don't understand, this movie will really become chicken soup
Share an analysis of "Spiritual Journey", there may be slight spoilers, it is recommended that you watch the movie and then read this article.
First of all, I like Mr. Guan Yadi's comment on this film: "This film is quite good, like an energy reflection board, how much inspiration and thinking you can get from it is basically proportional to the richness of your personal life and life experience. It's pretty amazing in itself..." Indeed, I watched this film and chatted a lot with Mr. C in all directions. A good story is rich in layers, and its own mental maturity and thinking depth will also determine How many different levels do you see.
Here I want to talk about the core of the story, why the concept of "living in the moment" given at the end of the movie is so important, and why it can solve the respective problems of Joe and 22. Thinking at this level will give you a more complete understanding of the meaning of the film, not just emotionally moving and healing.
First of all, the pre-birth scene setting of The Great Before in Soul's story shows that this story wants to discuss the problem of two self-"current me" and "future me", or "Who am I" ' and 'who am I likely to be' questions. Professor Lobster once said very interestingly, he said that the human self is actually a community, which is composed of the present you, the tomorrow you, the next week, the next year and so on . Therefore, the relationship we often talk about includes not only the relationship between me and myself at the moment, but also the relationship between me and countless future selves. My relationship with myself on each time slice, all add up, is the total experience of life. Humans can perceive time and have imagination and expectations for the future, so we have realized the ability to travel in time in the imagination space.
When we imagine the future, set goals and pursuits, it is actually time travel to a certain future, seeing what we are like there, and then returning to the present and telling ourselves: "I want to go to that place!" You Mentors in Seminar are there to help souls make such time travel. The protagonist Joe also has his own imagination for the future. He hopes that one day he can achieve success in his career and become a great musician, so he does everything to pursue it, and even after his death, he desperately wants to return to the show. He took this pursuit very seriously, even more important than his own life. Should he do this?
If we start from the perspective of the "self-community" mentioned above, we will find that for Joe, the current self and the one who "completed the wonderful performance" are very closely related. Point A goes to that particular point B in the future. When he really did it, he found that he was not very satisfied, or even lost. Why is this happening?
This is because in a community of countless selves, he only focuses on the present moment and the performance-finishing self, while ignoring the countless other selves in the community—the walking self, the sunbathing self, the eating self Self with pizza, self with family...he was so busy getting from A to B that the rest of the way he didn't notice what he was doing and couldn't enjoy anything but career achievements of anything. So after the performance, he found that he did not feel full and complete, but instead was disappointed and empty.
When he lined up the 22 piles of debris in his pockets in front of the piano and watched them play, he was actually re-focusing on the self at every moment, and they each deserve their own notes.
In this community of egos, Joe's problem is that he only sees a certain future self at one point in time, and 22's problem is that he refuses to see any future self. In his community, there is only "who I am" at the moment, and there is no imagination of "who I may be", because in his opinion, he is not good enough, so he is not qualified to imagine. The real meaning of “being in the moment” is to pay attention to each and every one of the self in this community, and not to favor a particular version of yourself.
For Joe, he saw that he was not only pursuing music, but also interacting with the world in various ways. For 22, he sees that his future self doesn't necessarily need to have some kind of great purpose to be eligible to exist, because at many moments his self interacts with the world in various ways.
In this sense, the problems faced by Joe and 22 are actually two sides of the same coin. Taken together, we understand that it is neither necessary nor controllable to have talent and great goals, but we should see it anyway. In an ongoing future, the ego will go through moments and stages, and all of these egos need to be seen by you so that you can feel your life has meaning.
If you only see the moment when your dreams come true, then life beyond that is a blurry background that doesn't bring much touch and feeling. If you refuse to see the self in every moment because you can't achieve anything, then the result is the same, the existence is just a process of time passing, we can't experience what the self has been in each moment. In other words, living in the present doesn't actually make you not look at the future, on the contrary, it just makes you see yourself every moment, so that you will always see yourself in the future.
Because the question of whether life is meaningful in the end requires consultation with yourself every moment. If you can't see yourself most of the time, then most of your life is empty.
Of course, what goes further than this state is that you must not only take into account your own needs at the moment, but also assume a sense of social responsibility to your own community, and consider how your choices today can make every self in the future also are satisfied. For example, you should not do things that you regret now, because it will make every future you feel miserable, or you should not be greedy for pleasure, because it will make many future selves pay the price.
It's good to have pursuits and dreams, but it shouldn't be a reason to ignore every moment. In the self-community, every member is equally important. If you treat yourself with such an attitude, your life will be meaningful and fulfilling.
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Also, I like this film very much, and I recommend that you watch it with someone you can talk to if you have time, and have a good chat after watching it. But one of my only two faults is that the story doesn't pay much attention to the relationship between self and others. Because when it comes to meaning and fulfillment, we need to take care not only of the community of ourselves, but of the community of ourselves and the people around us—family, friends, the community around us. The second point of criticism is that the ending is too hasty, and the truth that I want to say is not fully stated, so the audience is forced to improve the thinking process by themselves, so you see, I wrote such an article.
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