Maybe many people have heard the story of Alice the whale. On December 7, 1992, the blue whale was discovered by Sergeant Velma Lanquay of the Whidbey Island Naval Observatory. That is, the sound frequency of other blue whales is 15-20Hz, but Alice has a frequency of 52Hz, and no other similar species can hear its sound. In the more than 20 years since she was discovered, Alice has been wandering alone in the sea. From the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, all the same kind have seen it, but no one can hear its singing and understand its heartbreak.
The loneliest whale in the world is actually like many of us, living in a group, but almost no one can hear our voice. Over time, we are unwilling to confide in our hearts and live ourselves as one The 52Hz blue whale in the crowd is accompanied by the sound of the waves. The German film "Between the Containers" released this year tells the story of such a person.
The two-hour film puts the perspective on a taciturn man, Kristan, about his day-to-day work life as a tally clerk in a large supermarket. It's a very, very flat movie, like the waves when they are calm, there is almost no ups and downs, just calmly rushing to the shore and back to the sea calmly, but there is an attraction that firmly grasps I, when I finished the story, I realized that this strange attraction is called loneliness.
Punch in to go to work every day, put on a uniform uniform, put on a uniform expression, do repetitive work, and even slack off in the same way every day, then get off work at the same time every day, and get on the same bus that I take every day, Greet the driver with the same words every day, then go home, wash up, lie in bed and wait for the next day to come. When it is dawn, everything starts to cycle again. This is the daily life of Kristan in the film, and I believe that life is like this for most of us.
There is such a scene in the film, work partner Bruno brought Kristan to the aquatic area of the supermarket. The tally staff in the supermarket called it the " Ocean ". Two large tanks were filled with live fish. . " They're swimming here until someone buys them, " Bruno said as a fish jumped out of the water and then fell back into the water. Seeing this, I suddenly understood why in the previous plot, I heard the sound of waves between the full shelves several times. This is not an illusion, but an implicit expression of the director.
Shelves, work, crowds, and oceans are actually all the same thing. Among us, there are always one or two Alice with 52Hz, and one or two fish who want to jump out of the water, but for For others, such people are weird and weird, they don't understand, and they don't want to bother to understand; for those who are different, they don't know how to express their different voices to others. In the end, it became unwilling to express, preferring to embrace loneliness and be a lonely whale with different frequencies.
Therefore, this is a movie with a strong audience distinction. For ordinary audiences, this is just a procrastination movie that tells the trivial things of a young man's daily life, but for those audiences who often feel lonely in their hearts, this is just a procrastination movie. The movie is as pleasant as Alice receiving a message from another 52Hz peer. In my opinion, this film is like an Impressionist-style painting, which makes us feel like it is not real when we watch it. The film tells about the daily life of Kristen, but it is subtle. It expresses many things that cannot be seen in life. Life is filled with work, work is mechanical repetition, you can't find any happiness, but you have to do it to make a living, all emotions are smoothed out every day, enthusiasm is extinguished, the only thing that can make you feel comforted Yes, only the sound of the waves when the elevator tracks rub. When you hear that sound, you can feel that you used to live in the sea. The cramped water tank is not the ocean, but the hotbed where you wait for death. .
Why would someone suddenly die? Why do people you've known all your life suddenly do things you can't imagine? Because their appearance is not the same as their soul, they are like the fish that suddenly jumped out of the water, and suddenly found that they were only living in a water tank, but could not keep themselves from hearing the sound of the waves, so they If you want to jump out, even if you can't go back to the ocean, don't continue to live in this cramped water tank, and the time to make this decision is uncertain, some people spend a few hours, some people spend decades. "I really miss the life on the road in the past. " When Bruno, who is also a teacher and friend of Christan, said this, he had considered the decision for decades, and finally made it at this moment. It's a pity that no one can understand this sentence like Alice's singing voice.
Personally, I like this movie very, very much because I can find my own projection in it. In the past few years, I have been unhappy, the most fundamental reason is that I know that I want to live in the ocean, but I am unable to jump out of the cramped water tank, and people around me feel that this "marry a wife and have children, be content with the status quo, live with The water tank where you work, rest at sunset, and work hard until you retire and enjoy family happiness” is the ocean. So I lived myself as an older, single young man with eccentric ideas, a failure in the "Someone's Home" series. But fortunately, I found a way to hear the voice of the sea, which is to tap out the words in my heart and find solace in the fragmented and repetitive life.
Written on the night of November 11, 2018, another Singles Day in my life.
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