I think
there is a family of Andrew whose mother had the chance to return to his hometown because of the death of his mother. Due to an accident, the originally happy home fell apart in an instant. Self-blame and guilt had to be forgotten by medicine. For Andrew, the concept of home no longer exists. Loss of belonging, numb attitude towards life, boredom of life. His mother's death allowed him to finally find a reason to go home. The concept of home is by no means a priori for everyone. It requires us to accumulate, understand, and perceive its value with a methodology that is close to positivism. The prodigal son in Gide's "Return of the Prodigal Son" finally chose to go home after spending many years away, but he encouraged his brother to wander like himself. Why? Perhaps it is only after leaving home to understand the value of home. “You don’t know the good for being in the blessing.” The loneliness that humans can never get rid of has become the emotional basis for the establishment of a family. Maybe your home is dilapidated and desolate, so you have to leave it in order to pursue your ideals, but it will become a dream that will never be erased in your future life; maybe your home is beautiful and rich, You have to leave it in order to break free of its shackles, but it will become a beacon on your future life path, illuminating the way forward. It is more complicated for Andrew, and home also carries more spiritual things beyond the material level. That is his sad place, even if it has a beautiful name "Garden House".
"I want to have a home, a place that doesn't need much." For people, the spiritual value of a home is far greater than the material value it can provide. This is why people describe it as a safe haven and do not want to call it a hospice. "The person who must tie the bell to untie the bell." Andrew, who left home because of his mother, returned home because of his mother. This may really be an opportunity for him to face himself again. He has always "Take all the problems yourself." People's ability to withstand is limited. Once this limit is surpassed, the pressure becomes "unbearable lightness in life". People's thoughts become "lighter", their existence becomes "lighter", and the meaning of life becomes nothingness. The contradiction between the subject and the object, that is, between the person and the environment, has become more and more prominent. Actors become waiters, and some people actually want to order bread in Vietnamese restaurants! The environment will never turn the other way around to adapt to people. If you understand this truth, maybe so many people will not commit suicide. Andrew finally let go of what seemed to be a change in the object (Los Angeles-New Jersey), but in fact it was a change in the subject (changing pressure into motivation).
Can we not be brave
when there is a contradiction between the subject and the object, how do we resolve this contradiction? External changes are always in vain. Drugs, moving, and even Andrew’s shirt with the same pattern as his mother’s wallpaper in the movie looked completely out of place, but when Andrew finally took back his mother’s favorite necklace, the subject and the object, the living and the dead At this moment, the reader was relieved at the same time. How did he do it?
Andrew, who always "carries all the problems by himself", met Ammansha, an optimistic and cheerful girl who always lies and has intermittent mental illness. Just four days of getting along, countless touching moments, from friends to lovers, everything is so magical and so natural. This girl let us, let Andrew redefine the meaning of "brave". Is it brave to face the illness? Ammantha's lies in the clinic let us see that it is more important to face life with an optimistic attitude. Sometimes telling a lie to yourself is not deceiving yourself, and the guilt after lying can help you understand yourself better. Ammantha always lied and then corrected it immediately. The girl who was skating in a crocodile suit and was saddened by Andrew was to tap him to finally save the frustrated man. "It's not a crime for a man to cry. It's not a sin for a man to cry. No matter how strong he is, he has the right to get tired, and taste the tears of a long absence. Why should you be so embarrassed when you are a man." Andrew finally shed a precious tear, which seemed embarrassing, but in reality Interpreted the true meaning of "brave".
Andrew is unfortunate, but lucky. The mother who was paralyzed by the door latch of the disinfection cabinet, and the squirrel who died because of the small wheels in the cage, let him bid farewell to a relative and found a lover. Under the leadership of a friend to receive the mysterious farewell gift, the watchman of the Underground Grand Canyon made Andrew understand how important it is to protect his inner peace. After that loud roar, Andrew finally let go. Life really needs to be touched once. There is always a piece of pure land waiting for us in the bizarre life, which is different from our materialistic real world, which is full of milk. Canaan with honey. Thomas Mann said: "For the sake of goodness and love, one should not let death dominate and dominate one's thoughts." Andrew said before accepting a gift from a friend: "This is not important anymore." He found his true self. , He can finally start to forget. According to Lacan's mirror image theory, this self-recovery is to support the imaginary self by identifying with external objects. Ammantha, the guardian of the abyss, friends, father, deceased mother, garden state, all these help Andrew out of the haze and embrace the sun again.
Actually don't want to go
In the end, a scene at the airport seemed clichéd, but in fact it was an inevitable choice. When Andrew insisted on leaving, he seemed too self-confident, confident enough to think that he could retreat completely. The strange passengers on the plane, the narrow space, the suffocating atmosphere. Andrew once came to the emotional tipping point. Like his roar in the rain, he did what the audience hoped. If we regard the previous time as the return of the self, Andrew has regained the self that has faded away. So this time we can see it as the return of love, and he has the ability to love again. Self and love, are there more important things in this world than these two? "Actually, I don't want to leave. I actually want to stay and stay with you through each spring, summer, autumn and winter." Andrew made a promise of love with a deep kiss.
From the hometown to the foreign land, from the foreign land and back to the hometown. The wanderers are always repeating an eternal life trajectory. Pip in "Great Expectations" experienced the prosperity and disillusionment of life and finally returned to his hometown and won the true love of his life. Duoduo in "Paradise Cinema", childhood memories have become his life's wealth. When he returned to his hometown, the gifts left by the old projectionist made Duoduo warm up the touching scenes. When Zhi Zhen returns to his hometown in "Spring in a Small Town", what he has to face is the fragments of ruined walls and the love that hesitating to say... "The outside world is wonderful, and the outside world is helpless." For wanderers, Only the hometown, only the home is the most important destination. Come back! Wandering around the world, here is the most precious treasure in your memory!
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