Stare at your belief

The first time I saw this film, the dark humor in the film is not very easy to understand, especially for people like me who have no faith and have a relatively narrow vision of history, nation, war, politics, etc. So let's talk about it from my narrow perspective. Slowly recalling and understanding, it is not difficult to find that everyone has his ideals (beliefs). There are many people in life who are like "superpower special forces", they are paranoid and insist on their ideals, pursuits and beliefs, even if it is absurd romantic complex.

Hongyuan is like a pacifist (the character represented by George Clooney in the film: a member of the earth's spiritual force), who firmly believes that peace and love awakening the human heart through spiritual will can quell wars and disputes; the mediocre are like countless mortals (in the film). The character represented by Ewan McGregor: trying to affirm himself by going deep into Iraq to report breaking news, thereby winning back his wife's love and restoring his self-esteem), convinced that he will eventually achieve career, fame and love without compromising with reality.

Like the "superpower special forces", although these people claim to have "superpowers", they earnestly and unremittingly adhere to and confirm their beautiful ideals, and then stage a series of ridiculous jokes in our eyes; they are hit by reality. He began to doubt his "superpowers" due to criticism, and it became difficult to walk. Is the realization of the ideal still as feasible as it was believed to be?

The contrast between the two people trying to pass through the wall in the beginning and end of the movie probably brought us reverie and thinking. The wall-piercing technique that cannot be achieved in the material world requires only a calm and confident force in the spiritual world, which could have been so easy. Life is full of walls that our bodies can't penetrate, but don't doubt that our minds have the power to transcend them. The "hitting the wall" event we have experienced is nothing more than that we have not yet allowed our mind to exert its ability to go beyond.

This film made me better understand a book I read not long ago: "Conversations with God" Book2 by Neale Donald Walsch, which mentioned about time and space, collective awareness, universal energy and so on. Everything that exists in the universe is nothing but eternal, transferable energy. When you feel stuck, tired and lost, it's not that your energies are running out; they're just shifting. As long as you still believe.

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