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"People will always miss the disease in the end." I
read the comment of Makoto Shinkai's movie "Your Name " on the Internet, and saw this sentence, quoted from the French writer Antoine de Saint-Eyck Superi.
Makoto Shinkai is a Japanese animation film director. His film "Five Centimeters Per Second" has softly conquered many people. "Your Name" premiered today, and as usual, a wave of admiration from lovers floated in the circle of friends. But I found that people who like the director Shinkai Makoto, or when these people mention him, have a strange taste. Familiar yet uncommon.
Usually, when a favorite director makes a new movie, people often celebrate support with excitement and fanaticism; those who oppose it are also fiercely criticized or dismissive. But the fans I know who are talking about Makoto Shinkai's films have a soft feel to their remarks today, as if soulful, not intense, not fanatical, and with fond or sad memories. They praise with the power of the heart, not the power of the tongue.
This is rare. You must know that many people here are usually sharp and sharp, some are bosses, some are professionals in the workplace, and some are arrogant critics. I think Makoto Shinkai, whether it is his "Five Centimeters Per Second" or this "Your Name", invokes another thing in their emotions, which may be invoked infrequently, but it has always been strong Squeeze somewhere.
This thing can be called "dream", or "hope". This is almost a forbidden word for those who are fighting in reality, robbing their future in the office, business field or society.
It was rarely mentioned, but it was always there, and when he met Xin Haicheng, he was activated.
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Shinkai movie is animated movies. That's probably a big part of why. Most movies always tell realistic stories, and because they want to create realistic scenes, people take "not far from life" as the highest standard. Even a magic movie will eventually point to power, love and hate in the real world. To be honest, it's quite tiring. Even in movies, people don't dare to get too far from reality. Once they get too far, they will be criticized.
Animated movies don't have this problem. It's unreal by itself, and people don't mind seeing something very unreal in an animated movie. All the romance and loss in "Five Centimeters Per Second" are the kind of romance and loss that we would have believed in our high school days, and they will not be destroyed by the fumes of real life at all. "Your Name" seems to be the same.
Of course, Xin Haicheng did a good job. But everyone is also willing to let themselves relax in his movies, not to be wary of "too unreal", but to recklessly enjoy this unreal. Since high school (or, for some, elementary school), we haven't had the chance to allow ourselves to enjoy a beautiful, dreamy story like this. Stories like this are alarming: I am no longer a child, and I no longer have the right to be out of touch with reality. Whether it is an expectation or a dream, it is immediately accustomed to the sober person thinking about reality, thinking about the house, the car, the salary, the valuation, the family.
Even "sorrow" is a little luxury after puberty. In the pain of parting, adults feel guilty because the real world is still waiting for us to stand up and win.
Only then can we live better in this harsh society. But there is always something that is over-repressed. Young dreams, withered youth, dreams that gradually drift away, unrealistic wishes. We don't need these things at all.
The three
realities are indeed constantly reminding us that hopes and dreams are less important, at least, they have become second-order things. The number one thing is to make money and be number one. There is nothing wrong with these claims, and people are doing what they are doing, scrambling to move up, trying to squeeze a higher position in the social order, and believing it is necessary. But in such an era when reality has to crowd out ideals, people are still afraid.
Yes, I mean everyone panics every now and then. Because people are such strange things, no matter how much you believe in the laws of success and the rules of reality, there will always be times when you feel like you're missing something.
Who is not like this: in his 20s, he is eager to catch up with people who have already succeeded, and hopes to become famous when he is young, but in the collision and setback again and again, he feels disgraced, and suddenly remembers that he has it but he does not dare to pursue ideals; more than 30 At the age of three, while running forward, he felt that the days behind him were chasing after him, he was not satisfied, nor had the courage to give up, some dreams suppressed by reality and reason, he did not know when to pursue them but was unwilling to give up; I am in my 40s, and my dreams are gradually blurred. I can't remember the girl who shook hands in middle school. I know that some things in life are hopeless, but there is no way to accept my fate...
So you know the weight of this sentence . We will follow the rules of society and become a qualified and motivated person first, but we will never let ourselves become a person who has no worries, no expectations, and gives up the dream.
"People will always miss in the end, a disease called hope." This disease goes deep into the bone marrow. It brings more pain. A few people went to their dreams, broke their blood or got what they wanted, but most people have been thinking about it all the time, unwilling and helpless, and they grow old fast day by day.
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Shinkai movie, or that everything can be activated ideals and hope things did not completely give up our hearts, are important post. No one can live on dreams and hopes alone, and reason allows us to respond to reality. But there are also some things, contrary to reason, that jump out from time to time, reminding us that "even if life is good in reality, don't forget that there are some things you have longed for for a long time."
In Makoto Shinkai's films, there is a thing called "beautiful hopelessness". We are all people who burn, kill and loot in our lives, and it's good to stop and think about these dreams, hopes, and a little "hopelessness" every now and then. Instead of making reality appear uglier, they remind us that even in such a striving life, we still have something to give up entirely.
The best things in our hearts must be a little hopeless, and the beauty is not the hopelessness itself, but the way we always try not to let it disappear completely.
I feel a lot of powerlessness in my life. It was this powerlessness that made my efforts seem more worthwhile.
Being awake and not giving up dreaming is the most difficult practice to achieve.
Title picture: Stills of Makoto Shinkai's "Your Name"
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