eternity under selfishness

Shana 2022-05-17 12:30:32

After watching the movie, I read Murakami's prose memoir "What I was thinking when I was running". I didn't fall asleep until I was too sleepy, and didn't get up until 8:41 the next day.
I have been thinking about "Love" just now, and the story is not exhausted.
"Love": Everyone lives in all kinds of lies of different sizes and shapes caused by other people's secrets, selfishness, and desires. Maybe a small lie is just a small selfishness, but after everyone's different reactions to events After the transformation of "selfishness", the lie has gradually become the "self" lie that is dyed with the color and smell of the self. With such a narrow reason, the lie is like a rock in the hands of Sisyphus, which is pushed up but keeps falling. It is constantly repeated and disseminated by some people. Perhaps it is tragic, no matter how big the snowball of mutated deception becomes, as long as one person constitutes the element of tragedy, isn't it irreparable loss and suffering? Life is a huge lie field in which everyone participates, and no one is immune. Only by having faith like the teacher in the play, and only by doubting, believing, and loving like the protagonist, maybe you and I can escape from this field of lies without being overwhelmed and overthrown.
Simon gently held the testimony of his parents' love to his heart, took on a true love and truth, and achieved self-affirmation and completion.

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Adoration quotes

  • Simon: I think that this idea we get, that if you get to know someone, if you humanize them, it stops you from pulling the trigger or setting off the bomb or whatever, well that's just a myth we're taught, something we get from the movies. When the reality might be that's what actually inspires extreme action.

  • [last lines]

    Simon: You looked happy.

    Sabine: He was. We were happy.

    Simon: And then what happened?

    Sabine: Then he met your mom.

    Simon: You let him go.

    Sabine: No, I never let him go.