In fact, what the film wants to express is that we must be content, love life, just breathe, live. But in fact, real life is not as one-sided as in movies. The protagonist in the movie is a student of a key high school. He was extremely worried about suicide for several times because he was worried about not applying to a good university and the series of domino effects caused by it. In the end, he chose to enter mental illness because he still has a lot of nostalgia for life. The hospital saves itself. In fact, I understand the protagonist’s mental journey too well. His suicidal behavior is different from those who really want to commit suicide. In fact, his behavior was so heavy that he couldn't breathe because of the pressure of life. The sharp contrast with other people's seemingly smooth lives made him feel huge. Powerlessness, these feelings are so heavy that he can't face the problem, so he chose a psychological avoidance tendency, this suicidal tendency even contains a bit of wanting to be angry with this unfair world. In fact, he didn't really have no nostalgia for this world. He still has family members and girls he likes. He would be so anxious because he had hope and aspirations for the future, so he had to enter the mental hospital.
The next story is a routine that everyone can guess. He met all kinds of people in the mental hospital. He learned that they took the initiative to help them. In the process, he gained friendship and love. So he gradually recovered his hope for life and decided not to think about things outside of the body. Live better. At first glance, this process seems to be no problem, but in fact, the protagonist's way of psychological rehabilitation is just comparison. Yes, he was surrounded by genius teenagers in the school. Craig was dwarfed by them, so negative emotions such as pressure and low self-esteem were generated from this; and in the relatively closed environment of the mental hospital, the people he came into contact with Either he has no friends, or he has no health, or he leaves the hospital without a place to stay. In contrast, he is so happy that he has everything. As Bob said, I don't know what you can't think of as a young, smart, talented teenager with family and friends. It was in such an environment that Craig's psychological problems were slowly resolved. The plot of the film must of course be set up like this. Just imagine, if Craig went to a wealthy club instead of a mental hospital, then he might really commit suicide.
Just as some inspirational words seem to be very healing at first glance, they are all said to be the same. For example, Helen Keller said that I kept crying and crying, crying that I had no shoes to wear, until one day I saw someone without feet.
We feel misfortune from the comparison with others, and we also experience happiness from the comparison with others. This is the fact. What a fragile happiness and misfortune.
Some people may say that extremely rich and extremely unfortunate people are a minority, and most people are in the middle. Our sense of happiness and misfortune comes from how we perceive the environment. Choosing to see the good side of life naturally leads to happiness. This is the connotation of the film.
However, the problem is this. There are many, many kinds of people who are between the happiest and the most unfortunate in this world. If they are people who want to simply live their own little lives, then live with this self-convincing mentality. Of course it is a good choice. But for some other people, Craig is a more ambitious young man. He has the quest to enter a good university and find a good job to live a good life, but if he really comes out of the mental hospital, he doesn’t care. The university has a good job and decides to enjoy youth and enjoy the moments of playing, having fun and falling in love, so he will still be unhappy when he applies for college because he is too far from his own expectations. Even after he goes to university, he will find a huge gap in comparison with his classmates who have gone to prestigious universities. At that time, he will still be overwhelmed by the pressure, so does he have to go in again? madhouse? It can be seen that unless he suddenly changes completely and is willing to live a leisurely and easy life for a lifetime, entering the lunatic asylum is really a cure for the symptoms rather than the root cause.
So, no matter how you choose to look at it, the problem remains there. But the key is not whether to take immediate action to solve the problem, because even if Craig immediately faced the problem to apply for the summer school, he also faced the risk of not being able to apply. In fact, whether you choose to live optimistically or pessimistically, whether you choose to procrastinate and avoid solving the problem or become an actionist and immediately start to solve the problem, life is a constant problem of overlapping problems and endless problems. An endless trouble. this is life. We must learn to accept this fact.
Okay, so it sounds like I'm really in a low mood, so I inexplicably ranted at a movie, as if I was not Craig who was going into the insane asylum to seek a cure at this moment.
That's true. In the final analysis, this film is a little healing and refreshing. When you are in a bad mood, you can just smile when you see it. When encountering big problems and very depressed, of course, don't expect to get any life guidance from it. From then on, the enlightenment will suddenly become clear. Just turn off the player silently, focus on the issue, then restrain your emotions and don't have suicidal thoughts, everything will pass. Just move on.
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