too old to be a kid.too young to be a man
No longer a child, but still young and far from a minor.
Every story throughout the film is telling you about two sides of life, but it's up to you to decide whether the opposite of vulnerability is strength or indifference.
I don't need to be cured. This phrase runs through the appearance of the film. Because there is no cure, the reality cannot be changed. As Connor has repeatedly emphasized, it is my mother who should be cured. Please help her.
It sounds like a very reasonable cause and effect. Only the recovery of the mother can restore the peace of Connor's past life, not to mention the happiness, confidence and hope. At least the company of the only relatives must have eliminated the loneliness and anxiety of the teenager to a large extent.
But it's not. It's logical not to be people's assumptions about all good wishes. Imagination has no power. The reality is still cruel and powerless to reverse. The so-called healing has never been explosive to comfort you or create shortcuts to take a detour. , but must be injured, face the pain, self-healing.
The three stories told by his mother incarnate as a tree monster are all guiding him to understand life and growth. As the mother said in the later part of the movie, I hope to have a hundred years, and I hope to be able to take care of you for a hundred years. What the mother can't do in action is turned into belief as companionship.
The first story, how can a prince be both a murderer and beloved? The second story, how can a pharmacist have both a bad temper and a reasonable mind? The third story, how can the invisible man make himself more and more lonely when he is seen by others? Because human beings are complex animals, you know the painful truth and yet believe the comforting lie, which makes the lie all the more necessary. In the end, it's not what you think that matters, it's just what you do.
Because everything is multi-faceted, there is no absolute good or bad in the world, only its corresponding absolute interests. What's more, everything is changing all the time, in cycles, as far as infinity.
The last story is Connor facing his own heart. It is actually very cruel for an ignorant teenager to fight alone before his relatives are about to die. It is dark enough to be alone in the adult world, let alone a child who does not know where he is going.
The grandmother is paranoid and strong and hates the father who has no beginning and no end. Even if the father brings Connor the only short smile in the whole film, there are various reasons for him not to take over. Want to let go, want to end everything, want to escape.
Grandma and father are like the first two stories. Although they have their own shortcomings, they have their own reasons. It's just that what Connor sees is a relatively one-sided part, but he has to accept it. School Ba Ling corresponds to the third story. If you always look down on yourself, you will never be able to resist. Therefore, you must first input value to yourself so that it will not be ignored.
The ending of the movie is not well handled. If you want to directly move the value, let the child digest all the grievances, anger and powerlessness in one bite. Life really needs self-resolving, and the death of the mother can't wait for Connor's growth. The original intention of the tree monster suddenly changed. It became a tough guide that made Connor grow up overnight. The cruel law of the world is that you have no choice.
It's actually a very pessimistic movie, isn't it? Not only have to bear it alone, but also say goodbye generously. "Frozen" translates let it go to let it go instead of letting it go. In this movie, let her go when my mother left, I feel more passive let her go instead of letting her go subjectively. What is the last story that comes straight to the heart? I must not let go of the hand of the only person in the world who protects me wholeheartedly in order to end it all...
Dialectical thinking, having beliefs, and importing self-esteem are important, but in my opinion, they are far from being able to resist the ultimate torture of losing a mother.
At the end of the movie, there is a sudden reconciliation, which is really bad. My film review will not tell you what you call healing with a bowl of poisonous chicken soup. Even if Connor and his mother understand each other and forgive each other, they cannot resist the darkness of childhood with only a small picture book incarnated by her mother.
The reality is that I will go on, maybe not because of everything that is being praised, but licking and patient with pain and going on unconsciously...
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