I haven't watched a movie at normal playback speed for a long time, obviously, I don't have enough time and patience for a movie, I don't have enough time and patience for 90 minutes, I don't want to know a story, nor do I intend to chase the face of a certain star to attract attention What’s more, those hot scenes produced by the computer, while blasting and releasing hormones, relax my normal nervous nerves and become a calm rhythm in my spare time; however, there is a premise: I hope to calm down. In fact, in the past few months, my thoughts have been following waves of summer heat waves, and the temperature has also risen with the rise of the mercury column, hoping to use heat to melt history, bronze, writing and iron. At the same time as the curtain, I was also competing with the heat and humidity, living and writing took up most of my waking hours, and I had little hope other than sleep. There are more and more movies on the computer, and I spend three or four hours watching six or seven movies on weekends. There is no enjoyment at all in this, but I just continue the habit that I have cultivated over the years along the hobby. As the saying goes: Those who have no time to rest, always have time to be sick. Intensive writing takes up most of my mental resources, I don't even have time or energy to get sick, but the cold doesn't come early or late by subjective desire, I have to say, it came just right, I was stuck between two writing In the gaps, the feelings in front have been sent away by the heart song laid out by the text with the heat, and the words in the back have not been sent by the inspiration of the autumn wind. It is in this intermittent link that a person's talent and patience are truly tested. , unfortunately, I don't have either. I am like a reckless man who has nowhere to go. I fire violently at memory and books, looking for challenges and invitations to respond, opening a ray of inspiration for the cutting and force of words, and I return home without a feather , the first protest was not the brain but the throat. I have been dealing with the body for a long time, so I have a superficial understanding of its operation law. The discomfort of the throat often indicates that a cold is coming quietly. At this time, I should adjust rationally. Diet, medication, and correspondingly increased rest, but unfortunately, instead of taking medicine and going to bed early, when I continued my usual work and rest, I actually adopted the heavy method of "fighting poison with poison", using pepper and garlic to rejuvenate the red and swollen throat. The result can be imagined, the next day I was speechless. I started to take medicine, which was obviously to make up for the dead. The cold had taken over my consciousness and body overnight. I dragged my body like sleepwalking to work, work, and off work. I sat in front of the computer at night, and I really couldn’t write a word. , I should be annoyed with my state, but my heart is like being poured with concrete, and I can't float the slightest emotion. I resist and insist on not going to sleep, although I am too tired
It was under these circumstances that I watched Narcissus, and ironically, if it wasn't for my inability to write and my exhaustion in fighting a cold, I probably wouldn't have the patience to read it in one sitting. The story begins with a fisherman. The beginning of salvaging a woman from the net itself means the beginning of a fairy tale. The story was filmed in Ireland, and the director and the leading actor are both Irish. As far as Ireland in the western hemisphere is concerned, as a person who grew up in Chinese, I know how much I know. I only know that it is a place rich in whisky, music and myths. In addition to the "IRA" that brought some negative influence to this mythical land in the 1990s, the music of Enya and U2 is deeply rooted in people's hearts, and of course, there are Irish faces on the screen, such as Ke in this movie. Lynn Farrell, in this film he crosses the screen with an Irish accent, but in this film his edge is taken up by the young actor who plays his daughter, if viewers don't like the story , I have to say, the performance of the little actor is the highlight.
The fisherman is unlucky. His beloved daughter suffers from kidney failure. In addition to regular dialysis treatment, he is waiting for a long-term kidney donation. The fisherman and his wife are divorced. , the fisherman stopped drinking, and his ex-wife was still drinking; the fisherman hoped that he could take back the custody of his daughter, but from a practical point of view, this wish was difficult to achieve; when the fisherman had something on his mind, he went to the church to seek a confession from the priest , except for the priest, the fisherman has no friends in the small town...
The woman who was salvaged was in a trance, as if she had lost her memory. The fisherman placed her in his mother's hut. The story surrounding this "narcissus" was like a mysterious mist floating on the cape. The fisherman told the "narcissus". His doubts and curiosity led him to tell the story to his daughter and priest. Unlike the priest who could only keep silent, the wise daughter noticed that her father, who was always clumsy, could tell such a fascinating story. There must be something strange. She drove her electric wheelchair to follow her father quietly, and she found the "water fairy". existence in reality. The daughter embodies the potential of a scholar. She borrows all the books about the "Naruto" from the library, and studies the "Naruto" who landed in real life from the mythological waters from a theoretical level; here, the fisherman takes a self-proclaimed The woman of "Odin" (the name of the "Goddess of Water" in Irish legend) went fishing. Odin's natural voice and the language from the bottom of the sea made the fisherman fascinated. Soon, the fisherman found that with the appearance of Odin, he The good luck came, from lobster to salmon, he was caught in the net, which made him believe that Odin was a real "narcissus"; his daughter met Odin, the so-called open book is beneficial, the little girl's mind is full of The myth of the Selkes (water tribes), and it seems that Odin is a lost Selke. Facing the girl's questioning, Odin neither admits nor denies; Odin's hidden existence lies in a fishery inspection In the small town, the fisherman and the "daffodils" became the focus of discussion in the streets; once, when Odin taught the girls to swim, they found Odin's "sea seal coat" , according to mythological records, by burying the "seal coat", the "water fairy" can stay on land for seven years, and the two buried the "seal coat" and this secret together in the garden; , Odin's Selke husband also appeared, and he came to the small town with silent and gloomy eyes, looking for his Selke wife; at the annual "regatta", the girl wanted to confirm Odin's identity as a Serk, he took risks to verify Odin's origin, and Odin saved the girl; at the same time, love also came between the fisherman and Odin, it seems that everything that happens in reality is in accordance with the myth. The prophecy of the story gradually matched; the fisherman began to be afraid, because life made him see "hope" again, he went to the priest, and the priest said to him: "We should never lose hope." The appearance of Odin changed The fisherman's life has also changed the fisherman's future. In the future that follows the tide of inertia, the fisherman only vaguely feels that what will happen, good or bad, will definitely happen, but he does not realize that the change has already happened; at. ("Pain is easy, but happiness is something you need to strive for."); The girl who had a successful operation returned home and found that Odin was no longer there. She was a little lonely. The fisherman happened to hear the song Odin sang on TV. Only then did he realize that the singing did not come from the mythical kingdom in the depths of the ocean, but only a Romanian folk song. At this time, the fisherman suddenly realized that maybe he understood that Odin was not a myth, maybe he understood the mystery of the priest's words, or maybe he understood This is his life and love. In short, he once again salvaged the "Daffodil" from the isolated island. This time, instead of fishing nets, he used his hands and a heart; the identity of "Daffodil" was also at this time. In broad daylight: Odin is a Romanian drug dealer, his Selke husband is her accomplice, "husband" let her escape with heroin on his back when the coast police searched them, Odin in the waves in Ireland Exhausted, just when she was about to die at the bottom of the sea, she was salvaged by the fisherman's net, and the "water fairy" also found a land home in a foreign land... This reminds me of the poet's words: "Parting in life" , not too poetic. "If I can move this sentence out of the "riotous youth", then it can be said that we can't "live a poetic life" after all, because all myths have an end, whether it is a political myth or a love myth, just , I would like to give my emotions and expectations to the latter. The mythological narrative of "Naruto" has ended here, but the real narrative has not come to an end. When the fisherman and Odin returned, the "husband" and his accomplices had already uninvited Come, they are here to find Odin's "seal coat" or heroin. The story begins in the sea and will end in the sea. The Selke husband who can't swim finally returns to the sea, and the "water fairy" is also captured. The police took it away... As for the ending of the story, I obediently kept silent. If you are interested, you might as well touch the narrative of the entire movie in person.
After the movie, I kept thinking: Is this a romance movie or a fairy tale movie, or both? It attaches the narrative main line between myth and love, and adds the third dimension of reality. The space listed is enough to make the whole movie run across this huge frame. The story gives the mystery but deducts the mystery. The way of telling the story is not new; those coincidences in reality are also the narrative focus of the frame itself. The whole film can be said to be a standard craftsman's work. The director is not mediocre, but his talent is limited. Talent bothers spiritual creators the most, mediocre people consciously stay away from art, and genius grows in here.
There is a small detail in the film. When the fisherman confessed to the priest, he quoted the story of "Midas" in Greek mythology, the king of Phrygia, an ancient country in central and western Asia Minor, in addition to the famous "Golden Finger" story. , the story of "donkey ears" is widely spread. The sun god Apollo and the faun Pan played the flute, and Midas awarded the victory to Pan. In order to retaliate against Midas, Apollo replaced Midas's ears with the ears of the donkey. The meaning of hearing without hearing is similar to the double signification of having eyes without beads and playing the ox to the ox in Chinese. In a scene where the fisherman and the priest are talking under the big tree, a donkey is grazing with its head bowed under the big tree in the distant view.
Maybe it's the relationship between the position and the angle. I didn't resonate with the narrative of love in the movie. Except for the Irish mythology, my attention was deviated from other places. For example, I was very concerned about the little girl's electric wheelchair. . According to the account in the film, this wheelchair is free for girls, and the donor organization is the Civil Rights Commission (CRC), which I guess is the abbreviation of "Civil Right Committee" (I'm not good at foreign languages, so I'll ask Fang's family here). I was wondering what kind of organization this "CRC" is? The information given in the movie is about the same: medical institutions apply to CRC for free or discounted medical services, medicines or rehabilitation equipment based on the family income of the patient (such as the girl suffering from kidney failure in the movie), which makes it possible to apply for free or discounted medical services, medicines or rehabilitation equipment like in the movie. Showing low-income or "difficult" families can enjoy fair social security. I suspect that the CRC is a semi-official or unofficial organization that maintains a positive interaction with medical institutions (perhaps not only in the medical field), and as a "third-party force" between the government and the private sector, the CRC plays two The irreplaceable role of the person, as the category of the government's exercise of public power, emphasizes fairness. According to our term, "first come, first come", just like the girl in the movie who is waiting for kidney disease, according to the order she submits to the medical institution (if it is public), Decide when she will be able to perform organ transplantation. Of course, since it is a public hospital, the operation should be free; if it is a private clinic, then follow the market rules, as long as you can get enough money, you can perform organ transplantation at any time, since it is Private institutions, then they have to pay out of their own pockets. According to the background of the film, I am afraid that the girl's situation cannot afford the high medical fees, so they have to wait patiently for the donated organs to line up to her. In other words, it is impossible to completely rely on the government (leftist) or the market (rightist) to perfectly solve the specific difficulties of individuals. Of course, this is only a theoretical model. At least in today's Western democracies, there is probably no extreme A left or extreme right government is nothing more than a left or right government. According to Mr. Qin Hui’s words, it is a government with “big power and big responsibility” or “small power and small responsibility”. An infinitely large government has not yet appeared in human history. Maybe one day Utopia will be realized, and it is not certain that such a government will appear. However, I also doubt whether it is necessary for a "government" to exist at any time; as for "power" Infinitely large and infinitely small governments do exist in the world, but there are only a handful of them in the world. Let’s take a seat according to the above three situations.
Between the government and the market, citizens do not need to wait for a miracle to happen, because citizens also have the freedom and right of association, and organizations like CRC exist for this purpose, traversing the blank area between the government and the private sector, as an NGO like Organizations should pay more attention to saving costs in the process of operation. This itself is in line with the law of the market. In layman’s terms: government agencies spend taxpayers’ money; NGOs spend their own money. The latter requires careful planning. NGOs are more like the link between resources and individuals. The government owns resources, but it is impossible to cover everything in the allocation of resources. The market sells resources and follows the principle of maximizing interests, which cannot guarantee fairness and justice. NGOs correct these two fatalities. Defects. First of all, in Western countries, the government cannot monopolize all resources. Besides government control, there are a lot of free resources. Second, no Western government dares to hand over all resources to the market. The Great Depression of the last century This has caused the subsequent government to have lingering fears. The government needs to guide and intervene in the market in a timely manner. This is in a macro sense. The government cannot do everything at the micro level, and these areas are precisely the stage for NGOs to show their strengths. Sending idle or wealthy resources in society to those who need them is the function of NGOs as I understand them. While it integrates social resources in a positive role, it also promotes the harmonious development of the entire society. If an NGO is a sign of the formation of a civil society, then the maturity and development of an NGO is a real record of the development of a civil society.
Compared with the social transformation stage we are currently experiencing, the emergence of NGOs is inevitable in the social process. However, the development of our NGOs is not optimistic. It is not so much the reason for the unsmooth development, but whether this reason can be called a "reason". , For example, if a thief has stolen his wallet, the problem should lie with the thief, you can't blame a with a wallet. Judging from the dialectical relationship between NGOs and civil society, our civil society is only in its infancy, and in this case, it is likely to remain in this stage for a long time, or even go backwards.
From this point of view, whether it is love, electric wheelchairs, civil society or universal values, it does not come from waiting. Happiness is not a paradise of fantasy, a castle in the air, or a "Beautiful New World" of slogans. , statistics, and smiling faces posed for pictures can prove that happiness should be tangible, visible and tangible. It includes not only the tools that the disadvantaged such as wheelchairs urgently need, but also every citizen who is willing to live in The system in it, and whether we can have such happiness depends on the efforts we make for it. Just like the priest in the film said: "Pain is easy, but happiness requires your hard work." I believe that only in every With the efforts of every citizen, the future will not be as ethereal and illusory as the "Daffodil".
Written August 12-15, 2010
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