. I have watched all of Chaplin's movies, but in fact, many of them are like this. Describing the absurdity of life is actually a kind of despair. Comedians are always melancholy in life. Stephen Chow is a boring melon in life. Xiaoxin’s father jumped off the cliff and died of depression. When he was interviewed, he replied that all comedies are derived from a deep despair. Wang Shuo also said that comedy is to tear up the worthlessness of life for others to watch. So this kind of light comedy of love makes people laugh, and they want to cry after laughing. They are all interpreting the absurd in their own way, as if to say: If someone is destined to be the most unlucky, then let yourself do it!
I remember that Chaplin's comedy has a lot of impressive fragments, which really performed the absurdity to the extreme. For example, at the beginning of "The Great Dictator", Chaplin fought as a soldier, drove an airplane, was hit by a cannonball, and the airplane fell over. The water in his bottle suddenly spilled. He didn't even know that the airplane was down. I thought that the water flew up to the sky, making an expression of incomparable surprise, and then pulled his necklace down from the air, and after pulling it down, I found that it was up to the sky again. The plane fell again and returned to normal, but he plunged into the mud all of a sudden and lost his memory. Hitler’s face was lifted, but he found that he couldn’t open his mouth anymore. When watching a comedy show, he held his smile in pain. He turned his head and didn’t look at it, but he couldn’t hold it. Finally, he laughed and his mouth was full. The ground grinned... In "Modern Times", he twisted the nails and became mentally ill, and finally turned the entire factory into an amusement park, playing with a spray-painted tube as a water gun, and seeing the women's buttons twisted up, and finally scared the woman. died. In "City Lights," he hides from the side to watch the flower girl, because she is blind, so she walks to Chaplin and splashes him with a basin of dirty water, and his face is expressionless. He stood in front of the statue of the naked woman in the closet, pretending to look elsewhere, pretending to be noble, and then took two steps back, and then walked two steps forward. He didn't notice the opening in the street behind, and a man rose from underneath. In "Gold Digger", he was seen eating leather shoes with relish, and a man dancing with a fork and bread. He was asked to shovel snow, and he piled the snow at his door. As a high-ranking official, he was thrown around by a child and sat on the cake. There are also a lot of pictures that are really absurd and look like crazy, but it is undeniable that these are really funny. If you can realize that humor is a kind of helpless despair, a kind of attitude to support yourself in waiting, then comedy always laughs with tears.
These stories always have a key point of change. It is impossible for the entire movie to repeat this absurdity. The previous comedy seems to be about the sadness that cannot be found in the same kind, but there is always a person, a seed of love, and a beautiful new one. world. The routine of this kind of movie is very old, but I don’t know why it is always attractive. Maybe this is a classic! So I always feel that if you haven't watched "City Lights" completely and haven't seen the smile of Chaplin looking at the flower girl in the window, you won't understand what a classic is.
The story of wall-e and eva saving the earth in "Robots" may be more fantastic, but I think the morality can be ranked first among all animated movies. Wali has lived on the earth alone for seven hundred years. Through continuous compression of garbage, he found a green seedling on the top of the earth, which is completely reasonable. One day, the robot eva, who came to the earth to search for life, encountered wall-e. Together, they took the seedling and embarked on a space adventure. In the end, green and love revived on the earth, which had become a garbage dump, and the earth became heaven again. It looks like a beautiful fairy tale and a gorgeous adventure, but this fairy tale has paid the wall-e 700 years of waiting, isn't it?
It’s the same in "Angels Love Beauty". Love Beauty has been lonely since she was a child. She lived in her own world. When she met someone who was lonely like her since childhood, she even made up a romantic world for him, in this world. Their souls resonated with each other. Aimi has always helped others secretly like an angel, but when she faced her own happiness, she retreated-she just longed to be an invisible person with silent dedication and enjoy the joy of helping others. She and the "glass man" are peeping at each other through binoculars. The glass man gave her the courage at the end and asked her to chase her own happiness bravely. At the end of the film, Meimei and her crush were riding on an electric car happily. Take a drive. This movie and music are so beautiful, beyond words. The album that collects shredded photos records a full of broken lives, like lonely love and beauty, but the shredded photos can also be recollected to restore completeness. Love is such a power that makes broken Everything is put together again.
"Pumping" is a movie as beautiful as its name. For this kind of movie, I think it is indescribable in words, just as love can never be described. This film tells a story about love and growth from the perspective of Bryce and Julie. The Julie family lives happily although they are poor, while the Bryce family is rich but unhappy. Julie, who loves nature, has always liked Bryce. This kind of "reckless love" made Bryce uncomfortable at first, but slowly Julie changed Bryce, opened the door of his heart, and made him truly Growing up, let him gradually understand who he is. Even a picture in a movie can hit the depths of people’s hearts. Julie has an adventurous spirit and a romantic spirit. She is very sincere. I think she represents the most primitive American spirit and represents the most free and tolerant culture of the times. The 60-year-old director Roblina recorded this image. It's really a touch of deep memory. The simple story brings the most true and warm feeling to people. The most classic sentence in the movie is: "Some people are shallow, some are mediocre, and some are golden and jade. One day you will meet a rainbow-like person. When you meet this person, others Everything has turned into clouds.” (I like this one the most among all translations)
I like this kind of movies very much, telling stories about love and hope in the simplest way, in the most intimate way, very small but extremely small. Really. Hope in despair is an eternal theme. Because of the deep despair, I hope it looks so beautiful. And because of the black humor, it seems so touching in despair.
Movies may be everyone’s dream world, and the real world is often dull and oppressive. Everyone is eager to put various names on desires to hit others. In a world where classes are constantly being divided, everything is the same. The ground is false, full of loneliness and despair. As Wang Xiaobo said in the last sentence of "Red Whistle at Night": "So far, nothing can convince me that I am right, that is, my life is interesting, the past is interesting, I want to be interesting, and my heart is interesting but pretends to be boring. . There is nothing that can prove me wrong. It makes me believe that life is boring, in the past boring, and now boring, I don’t like interesting things and they are the same. So so far, I can only hold back despair and live in this world. On." When life is no longer used to bloom beautifully like fireworks, when various rules entangle us, people can only be brainwashed by the times and become selfish, and then brainwash his next generation, let this The world has become more and more boring.
The lonely Wang Xiaobo sat in front of the computer all day immersed in the fantasy world, and died of a heart attack one night. Perhaps his death was the last time he resisted. At least he died in the enthusiasm of creating completely selfless, blooming himself on this wasteland like Xia Hua. What could be more beautiful and moving than this? How wonderful it is to die for love, and to freeze yourself in the wasteland for centuries, what's the point of being alive? Is it to face endless despair for eternity? Sadly, many people live for a better life. They take this as their belief, so no matter how much they get, they can only bring more troubles. They don’t understand that this moment is the only real existence. , They just kept themselves in the dark, so that they could not see the bigger world. I think of a science fiction novel about an alien who wasted thousands of years of time in order to gain immortality. He puts all his life's hard work here until he is still looking for it when he gets old. It is a pity that he And did not find it. Why don't we think about it, what do we live for? If money can bring happiness, why have we lost the simplest happiness?
Maybe we don't want to be controlled by material prisons at birth. Everyone will have a romantic dream, want to see this beautiful world, and want to discover a broader world full of freedom and love. But reality is really beyond human control. We always have too many constraints that prevent us from choosing life. We are just fighting desperately for life to choose us. When the bond of maintaining feelings has become a material reward, when the house and car replace love, it becomes everyone’s goal for life, when one person wants to support the burden of the whole family, and being better and better means earning more. More and more, when rich and powerful becomes the only criterion for success, when everyone has a set of proud success theory, when there are more and more criteria to judge a person, when the gap between rich and poor is getting bigger and bigger We are also proud of it. When the world gets bigger and smaller, we lose our love.
If these are the whole content of the world, if there are so many souls struggling deeper and deeper in the quagmire of despair, then it is better to be a punk than a hypocritical person, so there are always people who don’t care about anything. Er Liuzi, maybe they want to fit into this world but they are getting more and more funny, maybe they have closed themselves up and can't find any reason, maybe they are still working hard in the ruins to believe in the construction, maybe they are just like Wang Xiaobo are holding back Desperate to live in this world...Because they don't think of themselves, they just look at their own jokes when they die, because they can't change the world, so they become more indifferent. But what they don't know is that they are an angel, and they are destined to meet a seed of love. They have been waiting in the dark. It was not until the seed of love landed on the earth that they finally found themselves, buried the seed in their hearts and guarded it.
The appearance of that person often brings a map to another world. Although the past life was chaotic and broken, but when you meet you, you will encounter a beautiful new world. In every movie, we will sigh, how lucky it is to meet you on this planet! I want to take you everywhere to fly, let us forget our worries and forget the sorrow, let me say to you on the deep blue sea: To love me is to not mix other memories with me. As long as we believe that everyone’s romantic knights will come, we can also be another’s romantic knights. There is still love and hope in this world worth fighting for. In contrast, everything in the chaos of the past has become a cloud. .
Like every green seedling, true love may be very small, but it has a reality that life cannot replace. One day it will grow up slowly, slowly bloom and bear fruit, spreading green all over the desolate planet. The dream world is built from the heart, because love has nothing to do with matter. On the day when we meet love, our hearts are opened, radiating a green light that can heal all hurts. Love resurrects the notes and colors in the world. We will finally find the true self and fill the life like white paper. The brilliant colors let the long-lost passion bloom like fireworks.
We will not be alone forever, no one will be alone forever, one day we will meet the same kind as us, and rebuild the destroyed paradise together in this desolate world. We have to believe that love will wake up one day. Like the protagonists in all stories, we are constantly looking for and waiting on the journey of life, nothing can stop the power of hope and love.
Because of love, everything that is broken will be restored to the original paradise.
Because of love, everything else becomes a cloud.
Because of love, we save each other.
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