Tomorrow, is it still worth looking forward to?

Ophelia 2021-11-16 08:01:29

The Fire Dragon Empire, a film produced in 2002, tells that in 2084, in London, England, Quinn, who was a child, accidentally found a sleeping fire dragon in the underground mine where his mother worked. This fire dragon can fly into the sky. It would breathe fire, it destroyed everything in an instant, and Quinn became an orphan. The fire dragon multiplied very quickly. In a very short time, everything on the earth was destroyed and turned into ashes. The fire dragon took everything. It seemed that the time for mankind to perish. Quinn and a small group of people survived. After more than ten years of hard work, they lived in seclusion in an old castle under the battle of wits and strength against the fire dragon. Quinn became their leader.
The people who survived stayed in the castle as if they were in jail, and could not go out casually, because fire dragons were raging everywhere, and there was no safe place on earth anymore. People have reverted to the most primitive and simple life, with uncertain food and clothing, and living in panic every day, at a loss. There is a fragment describing the prayers made by a child before going to bed: "What do we do when we wake up every day?" "Look at the sky with our eyes." "What do we do every day when we fall asleep?" "Watch the sky with one eye." The content of the prayer greatly expresses people's fear of fire dragons from the side. In everyone's mind, fire dragons are the most terrifying, like the devil, which will rob people's souls at any time. It is a fluke to wake up every day. People no longer have hope in their minds. I don't know why they still live like this, and they don't know how long such days will last. Tomorrow, is there really tomorrow?
Seeing this, I suddenly thought that the fire dragon is an external tangible factor that traps people in a kind of despair; from the movie back to reality, our life seems to be rich and full, material rich, and we never have to worry about food and clothing. The problem, everything seemed so peaceful and peaceful, which formed a huge contrast with the movie. But what about our hearts? Year after year, day after day, life is going on in an orderly manner, but when one day suddenly calms down, I can’t help thinking, what am I doing? Tomorrow does not make me look forward to it. Tomorrow and today are just a repetition, a rigid life, numb thoughts, invisibly like a fire dragon blocking the exit of the soul.
Later in the movie, a group of Americans came, with the courage that the Americans have always moved forward, and cooperated with Quinn to return to the place where the fire dragon was first discovered-London, to find the fire dragon headed by it and kill it. The final result is a success, of course, it also pays a heavy price. Has the earth gradually returned to calm, people have begun to return to the ground to carry out reconstruction work, and even received messages from far away, new hope seems to have risen in people's minds.
The movie rekindled people's hope, but in reality I couldn't find a way out. I'm busy every day, but I don't know what I did in the end, and I don't even know if this is what I really want to do. Although there is no fire dragon, there is always a sense of anxiety in my heart. Time flies so fast that I don’t want to pass boringly, but what makes sense? For me who have no faith, I neither expect to go to heaven, nor plan to become a Buddha, maybe I have been trapped in the castle.

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Reign of Fire quotes

  • Denton Van Zan: Envy the country that has heroes, huh? I say pity the country that needs them.

  • Creedy: Only one thing worse than a dragon... Americans.