If there's one thing we've learned from movies, or made clear, it's ourselves.
"One" My father was once a hero. He was born in a poor small mountain village. Through his own efforts, he became a teacher and engaged in a job with a good reputation. But when his son Ceylon came back from the liberal arts college, he found that he had betrayed it all. He gambled and lost everything, including his reputation, and his family. This is not to say that his goodness as a father should be questioned. For him, it was a mistake, but it was only his own business, or at most between him and his wife, not the children or the students. He continues to maintain his image, fulfill his responsibilities, and show his love—even if it doesn't match reality. It was more of an accidental crisis. But the chasm torn open by this crisis is big enough that it simply cannot be filled. A middle-aged man woke up in the gully of his life and suddenly realized his strangeness and loneliness. But he could only go down a deeper gully. He has nowhere to go. There's only one place to go, and that's where you came from—the old house in the village.
"two"
Does he love Ceylon? He loved it, or he wouldn't have kept that Ceylon book clipping in his wallet. He read of Ceylon, of the land where father and son lived together, the land of strange wild pear trees. "I see a strangeness in you, me, and even grandpa. Like a wild pear tree, it is lonely and out of place." "I climbed the wild pear tree that day and picked one to eat, it was very sweet... The key is to accept and like." In his own eyes, his father's life was both a wild pear tree and a well dug halfway up the mountain. He acted with his own joy and judgment, even if no one believed him, he believed that he could Dig into water. But in the end he felt that the villagers were right, there was no water in the well. Life goes around in circles and back to the original point. For him, this is the best way to protect himself. "Timely retreat is also a victory." And Ceylon, as a newspaper clipping, offered him comfort, pride, and even beyond imagination.
"three"
And for Ceylon, he is similar enough to his father, but he is desperately trying to get rid of this similarity - he wants to rebel against fate, against the fate of a life that has been futile. He asked the writer: "If someone like me is not born with the ability to write, should I persist in writing?" Facing his mediocrity and the financial constraints of his family, he doubted the necessity of sticking to his ideals. He did not find a publisher willing to fund him. They are rich, powerful or famous, they have all kinds of positions, but they are not related to Ceylon. Even when he finally printed it out at his own expense, there was hardly a single reader. But his work still surprises one person - his mother. "To my dearest mom, it's all thanks to you". This line of words on the title page, in the most secret way, shows his most sincere feelings for his mother. He loves his mother, so he has pity on her. Because the father failed to make the mother happy. He hated his father. And the mother responded to him and said, "One more choice, I will also choose to marry your father." At this time, Ceylon could not accept this assumption, and his mother's decision made him more painful. We can't get rid of this ending, just as we can't get rid of the decision at the beginning - which is obviously unacceptable.
"Four"
After returning from military service, none of his books have been sold. The burden on the family remains the same. After his father retired, he has been hiding in the village and became a farmer. The snow fell, and he and his father went to feed the sheep. "What happened to that well?" "There is no water. I admit that I failed, and the villagers were right." "The timely withdrawal is also a victory." There was a scene where Ceylon was hanged in a well, it was an illusion - the camera didn't make it clear whether it was the father's or Ceylon's imagination, and I think both of them had thought about hanging in the ideal well. inside. When I woke up from the hallucination, I could see that Ceylon was digging hard at the bottom of the well where no water could be seen. At this moment, Ceylon became acutely aware that his resemblance to his father was inescapable, but he was neither hating his father nor fleeing the country where his father lived, but cooperating with him. He swung his axe and chiseled hard at the well his father had tried to give up. As long as you believe that there is water, it is worth chiseling with an axe.
FIN.
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