"Family Hell" is vividly presented in "Shining". David (of course not only David) suffered both deep tenderness and secret devastation. In the long years, music was a drug and an antidote for him; it was a knife and a sheath for hiding the knife. The physical and mental wear and tear and the impact of music day after day add up to terrifying stress. The robust giants of Beethoven, Bach, and Liszt are naturally able to take on stalwarts; and David's long-dead body can only collapse. On the surface, the cause was a Rachmaninoff number three (a spell cast on his body and heart by his father since childhood); The body has long been lingering on the edge of the abyss, only the last trace of external force is pulling and bumping. If the time comes, maybe, a Chopin.
After such a mutilation, a person has experienced dark dormancy, tenacious struggle, and difficult recovery, and finally regained his physical and mental freedom. It's a journey of mixed feelings. The most cherished connotation of "people" is also contained in it. When David, who had been avoiding the piano for many years, tried his hand at the bar for the first time, when David listened to the opera on the sunny trampoline and rejoiced, his heart after suffering and sincerity was as pure as a baby. He could not feel the ridicule, teasing, sympathy or admiration of others. There was only music in his ears, eyes, and heart. The excitement of the body and the intoxication of the soul arrive at the same time. This is the moment when the body and mind blend. How I hope this life can have such a moment, even if it is fleeting, but also willing.
And David did not stop, he ushered in a purer, more open moment. When he shed his clothes and ran to the sea, playing freely in the vastness, he was no longer a prodigy fighting the piano, no longer a half-crazy rapper in a sanatorium, no longer entertaining himself in a bar. The weirdo, he is just himself, he returns to "man" itself. As an element of all things, he dissolves into infinity. "In the cage for a long time, I will return to nature", the staggering footsteps, confused words, throbbing fingers, these imprints of the past years have not been erased, but everything these imprints represent can no longer hurt him. , is no longer the golden hoop tightening his head.
No matter what others think or think, I would like to see someone like David as my spiritual brother. I wish I had such an honor.
In the final scene, David and his wife walk through the cemetery towards a vast distance. He said, "We can't give up." I admit, the idea of giving up has been flashing in my heart. In the confusion, I have sought peace from words, music, movies, and friends, but where is the peace? It is not outside this mind. Only go forward alone and never give up. You, me, we can't give up. Through hardships to beauty, through fetters to freedom, through clutter to silence, through shadows to shine—as far as I know, there is no other true meaning in life.
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