wait in the past

During the May Day holiday, I watched a movie called "The Lake House", which is called "Untouchable Lovers" in Chinese, and the male protagonist is Gino Reeves. The idea of ​​the story is very strange. It tells the story of a man who lived in 2004 and a woman who lived in 2006 by chance and gradually fell in love.

The so-called peculiar means that people who usually live in the present have their way of life and concepts affected by the past, so the development of history follows the flow of time. In this movie, the person in 2004 did something because he knew the person in 2006. His behavior was influenced by the future and moved against the flow of time, but his behavior had no effect on 2006. For the heroine, it is the result of a past that has become an established fact. So the past and the future interact and influence magically, and both people are waiting: the person living in the past is waiting for the message of the future; the person living in the future is waiting for the person living in the past to write and influence her. s future.

Waiting is the common and only theme of almost all future-themed peoples. All religions and nations that cite eschatology and apocalypse, whether Christianity or Judaism, including Marx who was born out of Jewish thought, are in no way excepted. Waiting for the end to come, waiting for the Messiah's redemption. The lives of these peoples are influenced and determined by the future. Waiting remains an important theme in this film. The heroine's favorite books are a novel by Jane Austen and "Crime and Punishment" by Tostoyevsky, both of which have the theme of waiting. And when she checked a little girl's ward, the girl looked at the hero and heroine of an old movie on the TV and said: She may not marry him, because women always think, maybe the next one will be better. At this time, the heroine said to the little girl: But such people tend to wait for a lifetime.

This simple dialogue is almost the death point of all end-time thoughts: it is okay to wait, but the arrival of the last moment is not limited by the natural life of human beings. Who will make up for the disappointment and even despair after the failure? This kind of waiting has long dug the abyss of nothingness under hope. The famous modernist drama "Waiting for Godot" outlines such an image: waiting for a man named Godot, but no one knows when he will come, and no one knows who he is and what he is going to do. Waiting becomes a gesture of pure waiting, until in the end people seem to forget even the waiting itself.

Perhaps, the hope of forgetting to wait can truly become hope. This kind of hope is the trust in every moment, so that we can live in it.

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