This movie reminds me of my college days. At that time, I was also in Hainan, a small place with almost flat terrain, so I called it Wenchang Plain. At that time, I used to ride my bike around the nearby villages and fields without a single goal, just to get out and get some air. I know that somewhere I don't know, there is something I'm looking forward to. Actually, I just want to see nature. But it's hard, especially when we're in some crumbling city.
I still remember my later experiences in Kunming, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Haikou, the cement in those big cities seemed to have no boundaries. When I first arrived in Kunming to look for a job, I was sitting next to a flower bed on the side of the road, and the car was roaring and suffocating. I looked at these endless cement, and my heart was full of despair. This is not only because I grew up in the countryside and I am used to being in contact with the soil and nature, but also because I cannot feel the anger of the earth. I see nothing alive, and everything around me is full of human meaning. Where is the god of nature? We have carved the temple God gave us into these buildings and slogans full of various ideologies, street lights eat into the night, and time is perpetually chaotic.
Remember Omnec, the Venusian, said that on Venus, their cities are not inhabited. Because they have long abandoned the crumbling city and went to the countryside to live in seclusion. All have lived a life of freedom, dignity, worth and for themselves. I believe this will also be our future.
When the female protagonist said that the indigenous people were ignorant, the male protagonist immediately refuted that they were not ignorant. In our so-called civilized world, it seems barbaric and ignorant that indigenous people cannot read. But in fact, civilization itself is inseparable from barbarism. Barbarism has nothing to do with whether you have a culture or not, but only whether your mind is sensitive enough to understand other beings. The protagonist is such a person. In some ways I feel like I'm a bit like him because, going back to the beginning, I do revel in nature from time to time, especially when I realize that I've lost the earth I was a kid. It is more often to look for that kind of natural handwriting—that is, the work of God, the work of all that is.
I don’t know if it’s because the Taurus symbolizing the earth and the Libra symbolizing love are both ruled by Venus. I always feel that the souls of lovers are easier to approach when they are in nature. I've had this experience once, and it's pretty amazing, I'd say. Because the feeling of being close is really wonderful, it's not physical proximity, it's spiritual. Because it's as if you really got into the other person's heart, and you know the other person does too.
During my three years in college, I saw a lot of natural beauty on my bike. I've often wondered if it would be nice to have someone to share with. That's exactly what the protagonist does. The beauty of nature nurtures them, and coupled with love, the feeling of oneness is indescribable.
Lovers, go to the earth, to the animal kingdom and the place where there are no people! The silence of nature allows us to really be at peace, and at the same time your heart is free, and so does the other, because true communication is possible. That kind of communication sometimes doesn't require language. It was silence talking.
Such communication is hard to come by unless we all enter a state of being, not a state of action. And once a silent poem like this happens, you will both understand each other like never before. That's what's called a return to basics. Sooner or later we have to leave the crumbling city, if you don't believe it, just wait patiently...
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