The protagonist Harold Crick, an auditor, lives a simple and monotonous life every day, a person who deals with numbers, his life is also full of numbers, the number of times he brushes his teeth, the pace he walks, and he arrives at the bus stop on time every day. That's right, the story starts here.
This is a story about a well-behaved and super rational person, but found a narration in his life, narrating his own life from the perspective of a bystander, with extraordinary precision, until one day, this voice told him that he was about to die. And this voice actually exists. She is a writer. Her character is pessimistic. Every protagonist in her writing ends in death, and no one escapes. Coincidentally, the protagonist Harold Crick is the real male protagonist in his writing, and this work of hers is the voice of the narrator. The protagonist in her works actually exists so real, and the protagonist will die in his writing, It's just that the writer is struggling, how to let him die.
When the male protagonist finds out that he is about to die, his life changes, the simple and rational life becomes alive and vivid, he starts to eat with friends, starts to do something that he wants to do but has never done - learn guitar, Start chasing love. When he later found the writer and saw his ending written by the writer, he did not panic, but chose to face it calmly. This choice gave the writer an epiphany.
Finally, the story ends with a different ending.
what is the most important thing
After watching this film, I have a new idea of "the most important thing". In the "Time Management" course, "important things" are always mentioned, but this concept is difficult to articulate. We face a lot of things that I should do every day, and there are still those things I want to do in my heart. But when we realize that death is coming, because there is no indefinite tomorrow, there is nothing I need to do in this world, and the important things become the things I want to do. Just like the male protagonist in the movie, rational work, auditing, calculation, and incomparable accuracy. However, when he realizes that death is coming, all he wants to do becomes learning the guitar and pursuing the woman he loves, and those other things become less important. His life has also changed since then, no longer counting numbers, no longer living such a regular life, and living a completely different life from before.
Don't we know what we want to do only when death is imminent?
When the courage to live in the moment
first started, the ending felt a bit cliché. Because the ending that can be thought of by me must not be a wonderful ending. As I watched it, I was thinking, is this protagonist dead or alive in the end? When the protagonist and the writer meet and they discover that the real Harold Crick exists in this world, does the writer let him die or live? After reading it, I found that it was a happy ending, and the impact on me was not particularly big. Just like the evaluation in the play, it's okay, not great.
Sometimes this is the case, everyone is happy, and the impact is weak. It's just like "Scared Heart", the final ending is atrocious to death. After watching it for a long time, I can't calm down. Some people say, why can't Ruoxi be allowed to live, why can't she be married to the Fourteenth Master? I'm confused, but I saw a netizen's revised version in the post bar: "Ruoxi did not reject the emperor's offer of marriage, and married the Fourteenth Master". sigh.
What is a good literary work, its own evaluation.
This film, although the ending is ok, not great, but the final writer's point of view is worth thinking about.
"If a person doesn't know that he is about to die, you can let him die. But this person knows that he is about to die and what will happen in the future, but he still faces life calmly and death calmly, so that shouldn't he be allowed to live (in his writing, also reality)"
As a result, Harold Crick survived, and the last word of the writer's manuscript, "die", was heard while typing the last letter , the protagonist's life was saved, although his life was hanging by a thread, but in the end, he was lucky to survive, and the one who saved his life was his watch, a symbol of his normal life in the past.
Seeing this, I can't help thinking, this reason, can really make the writer make such a major decision to change the ending of her work?
Come to think of it, it's really worth it. Not because of the change in his attitude towards life in the face of death, but because of the courage to live in the moment.
Knowing that my days are running out, I live every day seriously, and then face the coming fate calmly.
In fact, each of us will die, but there is not such a strong perception. This perception will only become stronger when we are about to face death.
Life has been in a hurry for decades, fast or slow. For most of us, we feel that death is still far away, so we don't cherish each day as much as we are in the present. And the life of normal people like us, in the eyes of some people, is indeed so unrequited and precious. Yu Juan, a female teacher at Fudan University, wrote in her "This Life Is Unfinished", "To live is to be king", what a simple wish, just to live.
If you don't live in the present state, how can you have the courage to face death calmly?
Just for that, it's worth it for the writer to keep Harold Crick alive. Yes, such a person is indeed worth living.
Sometimes, when we face something calmly, it often turns around.
between rationality and emotion
When a voice narrates your life as a narrator, will there be a strangeness? "I don't know the real face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain", when we jump out of our own life and examine our own life from the perspective of a bystander, will we have a different feeling? Am I really like this? Is my life what I want? Is it your real self? Would you like to shout or even curse at the narration of the narrator: "Who are you talking about?"
This is the uniqueness of this film. This way of expression also made me fall into a kind of thinking.
Sometimes, is it possible to see yourself from another angle? How about your own life?
The protagonist is a particularly rational person whose life is full of mechanics, precision, and numbers. Although it looks like the rules, it is precise, precise and efficient. I am a GTD practitioner, my life is actually full of all kinds of rationality, one of my creeds is "doing things by the system, not by feeling", a typical blue personality, Taurus. But this kind of rationality that relies on the system actually lacks romance and imagination. Sometimes, the existence of the system can make me insensitive to external things, even a little dull and numb. In this world, there is absolutely no point of view that is right or wrong, rational, emotional, or casual. In fact, there are no clear boundaries. However, if rational people are more emotional, they may have more perception of the outside world.
Yes, I'm just an ordinary young man, but if there is more literature and art in life, more 213, it would be good. Such talents appear plump, neither rigid nor so hypocritical.
This morning, I posted this message on the street: "After playing on the street, I met some friends with very keen senses. They have a unique perspective and sense of smell, and even they have become sharp." These friends and I am different, a little literary and a little personal. In addition to being delicious and fun every day, there are also small personalities and big complaints. An ordinary picture taken with a mobile phone has a unique perspective and looks very interesting. A cup of ordinary cheese green tea has its own unique drinking method. At first, I didn't feel anything, but one day, when I was drinking cheese green tea with my friends in the quiet environment of the library, I had a personal experience. I suddenly found that I used to be very slow and numb.
When people's perception of the outside world is numb, their thinking tends to fall into rigidity, no matter how stimulated it is, it will remain the same. Imagination and creativity, not to mention. In fact, as a trainer, you need more inspiration and creativity. If you are numb, it is also dangerous.
Of course, I always believe in the golden mean. It is too much to go too far. There must always be a balance between sensibility and rationality.
Don't forget, at the end of this story, it is the fragment of the watch that symbolizes rationality that saves the hero's life.
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