People in modern society are generally caught in identity anxiety. Facing the bustling crowd in the city, people pursue the greatest degree of stability. This is evident from the "civil servant fever" in recent years. Harold in the movie is a standard civil servant with a stable life, so that his daily habits can be counted down to the second, but he has become the new protagonist of a novel written by a writer who is good at writing tragedy. The writer thinks all day about how to make the "Harold" in the novel die heroically. Despite Harold's hard work, the fear of death is still approaching step by step, so he began to learn to change his unchanging life: start No tie, start not memorizing numbers, start finding girlfriends, start playing guitar. This brought his life back to life, and the writer finally "showed mercy" and spared Harold's life, and the movie ended happily.
After all, it’s a movie. You and I in life can’t be the protagonists of someone’s tragedy or drama, but when stability becomes a dream of the times, does it also imply that the colorful life should be a little less? What about the light? Sometimes we are accustomed to think that this is life, and that the dull and indifferent every day conceals the increasingly heavy hearts of people. There is a story: the wife bought a beautiful scarf, but she was reluctant to wear it, and said to her husband: "Wait until a special day." Soon, a flying accident took his wife's life, and the scarf was permanently placed at the bottom of the cabinet. The so-called "I have time to..." and "Find a special day to..." have become excuses and excuses made by people intentionally or unintentionally, but they seem to have forgotten the impermanence of life. Whether each day is special or not depends more on us. Inner identification, this kind of evaluation that is often strongly subjective, makes many simple things complicated and mysterious, and changes into a distant fantasy. In the comic "Dragon Ball", only pure-minded people can sit on the small cloud to observe the present you and me, which seems to be more ironic, but the fact should make us blush even more. So, where exactly is that special day? Is there a special day in our life? The day you met your girlfriend? When you got your first salary? Or the wedding day? ...Perhaps you can list more than N special days, and the other layer of meaning is that almost every day is a special day, well, congratulations, your understanding of life has deepened a lot.
The last segment in the film, Harold's last day, is full of special meaning. He completed the work satisfactorily, expressed his feelings for Anna, and then began to face death quietly. Shakespeare once said that life is a big stage, and all men and women are actors. We are all performing our own different joys and sorrows, but we must understand that there is no rehearsal for this scene, only live broadcast. Living is a kind of happiness, how to live is a kind of happiness.
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