About hurt and forgiveness

Marley 2022-03-20 09:02:28

In a quiet farmhouse, two old men depend on each other for life. To be precise, Aina is taking care of her old friend Mitt, who was maimed by a bear attack while she is running the farm. Life is not easy but not because of livelihood, but because of the pain of losing a child in Aina's throat. Aina went to his son's grave every day to interview his son, but he never really faced the traffic accident that took away his son. Mitt always sat outside the house quietly watching all this. He didn't try to explain Aina, because he knew that some pain should not be taken lightly because it is not too heavy, and if it cannot be shared, do not speak out loud.

Life flows in a calm and light sadness, but this peace is broken by three foreign guests: the perpetrator of the traffic accident of Aina's son is also Aina's daughter-in-law, and she takes Aina's granddaughter, whom Aina has never met, to escape from home. The violent boyfriend defected; the murderer who caused Mitt to be disabled for life, the big brown bear went down the mountain again to forage and entered the farm. So the two main lines about hurt and forgiveness are intertwined, bringing about a reflection on how to face the big gains and losses in life.

As a human being, who can never make mistakes? Perhaps for the pain caused by the unintentional loss of others, forgiving others may be more a kind of release, just as Mitt treats the brown bear with the attitude of repaying grievance with virtue. At first, Aina couldn't accept Mitt's actions, just as Aina couldn't accept his daughter-in-law who lost his son (of course, his stubbornness and hardness are understandable), but even his heart was as cold and hard as the glacier version, but he was eventually surrounded by his granddaughter's natural closeness and hardness. Warm companionship melts. Perhaps it is not only time that heals the pain, but the emotion that grows silently and wantonly in time. Of course, not all injuries are worthy of forgiveness. Aina's daughter-in-law's violent boyfriend pursued and harassed again. Treating such a shameless act only deserves the shotgun that Aina held up.

Moving emotions, moving scenery, moving soundtracks, and moving endings make people who are stuck in prison believe that the haze over their heads will eventually dissipate, and there will eventually be an encounter ahead that makes people feel: Everything is the best. arrange. The so-called favor of the healing system is nothing but insistence on self-redemption. Therefore, all works of the healing department should be supported. Because life isn't perfect, but it's worth it.

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  • Jean Gilkyson: I flipped a coin. Griffin fliped a coin and I lost. So I was the one who was driving. It was 3 o'clock in the morning and we were both tired. We wanted to make it in time for the rodeo in Great Falls.

  • Jean Gilkyson: I killed him, Einar. Is that what you wanna hear? It wasn't the change in our pockets, or the weak ass coffee, or the rain. It was me. I fell asleep and I flipped the car six times. I killed Griffin. He had no argument from me. You think it's something I forget. You think that I'm not sick with it, that I hate my life? But I tried to keep living, and you haven't. Is that why you hate me so much? You know, you act like I killed you when Griffin died.