(—Not a film review, the three words "writing a film review" make me shy away from documenting film viewing.)
2021.11.30
It was a long journey of two hours, and in the middle I was stuck in bed for half an hour. I am very happy to watch a movie that I like in bed alone on such an afternoon. "Future Things" is about things in my fifties. For me, of course, it's in the future, but the two hours I've experienced don't seem to be in the future at all.
The heroine in the film is a philosophy teacher. She said, "At this age, the children are all grown up, my husband has an affair and divorced, and my mother has passed away. I feel an unprecedented freedom, and it seems that I have been released into freedom again." This sentence is the summary of the content of the whole film. In the poster, there is a philosophy student she admires, a radical, full of vigor and vitality, but she is just a friend of her "consistent thought and behavior".
When I heard one of the class scenes, I remembered that I recently started to read "Utopia", because I heard a live audio of Mr. Luo Xiang talking about "Utopia" on NetEase Cloud. So think about it or read it, even if you still can't understand it. I have read Plato's "The Symposium". If I remember correctly, I read it twice on the plane. The first time was to Hainan, and the second time was to the Netherlands. I took some notes, but I almost forgot. I still love that reading scene.
Speaking of philosophy, I also met a philosophy student at my current school. He is also an explorer of life. Chatting with him the other day, we talked about his life. He said that he and his husband were living in the framework of an open relationship, but suddenly someone broke in, and he was a little confused. When I chatted with him, more than a dozen "I don't know" appeared together. He said that I am also exploring what is a good boundary and what is an appropriate degree. I mention this only because each of our individual stories are groping and growing. Countless molecules move randomly, perhaps to the universe we are microscopic particles that move randomly.
While watching a movie, I turned off my cell phone signal. Just opened WeChat, and a friend who had not been in touch for a long time sent an audio, which was the piano recording "The Promise" she played. I praised it again and again, and in order to save it, I transferred it to the NetEase Cloud Music cloud disk. Right now, I'm listening to music and typing. She was a graduate student in my first year. She should call me senior brother, but we always called him by his first name. Later, it was called "Little L..." and "Little S...". Very kind, isn't it?
"You should study abroad," I told her a few times. We got to know each other more and more when we were preparing for the English test and writing essays. There are not many students from ordinary colleges and universities who want to study abroad for Ph.D. She said that she was pleasantly surprised to meet me. She even expressed her affection later. That night, I found out that the last person was in a "hurry" on the playground, and I made a long phone call to tell friends who already knew about my situation, and then I was able to stop the overwhelm in my heart. Later, she still did not study abroad and found a good job. She said that if you go back to school, you may not have a chance to get this job opportunity, and now the involution is so serious.
Later, we also occasionally contacted. Mainly because of her birthday some time ago, I sent a happy birthday, so I remembered the piano I played today and sent it to me. The piano she plays should have improved a lot, although I haven't heard the piano she played before. But I vaguely remember that there was such a promise that "there will be a chance to play it to you in the future" during a dinner party.
"The Future" is not about the future, it's just that the timeline is a few steps ahead of us. Whether it's a walk, a run, or a walk, you'll get there.
The whole afternoon passed, I was still in bed, I was hungry, and I was going to make dinner to clear up my mood. I don’t know if I can still have the motivation to work at night, but this movie is flat, but there is always a certain point that makes me want to write a long paragraph.
What I like the most is that in the film, when the two of them get divorced and divide their property, for the sake of fairness, the property presented at the end is the philosophy books on the shelf full of notes.
"He took my Levinas with all my notes, unbelievable; Buber was taken too! The bastard." Her husband is also a professor of philosophy.
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