In fact, even if you try to eliminate the fear of the future, only to find that it is impossible in the end, the best result is to turn it into courage to avoid and face it. As someone said, all the motives of human action come from either love or fear. Perhaps it was due to the slowness of the style of this film at the beginning, and there was also a preconceived idea of "just a documentary", so when I watched this film, I watched it intermittently, so that it didn't start to appear in my mind until halfway through the film. Come up with some insights, or ideas, near the end, take a deep breath in the melody of "TO BE BY YOUR SIDE", if you have some understanding.
First of all, you can watch it as a documentary, documenting the migration of birds. At the beginning of the film, it is said that birds fly tens of thousands of miles every year, going through hardships just to survive. The cruelty of nature is self-evident. In our opinion, it is a wonderful thing to be able to fly far away freely, and all these seemingly literary beauty are just for survival. During the migration process throughout the film, the birds flew over the mountains, fields, rivers, forests, and seas, and there were always those left behind, either being run over by motorcycles, being captured, or falling in response to gunshots, or landing injured. to be food for predators on the ground. Even though the migrating flocks are spectacular, the crises on this road give this survival-oriented migration an epic tragic. The protagonist of the film, tentatively positioned as the bird rescued by the boy with a fishing net on its feet (although it tried to take it down, failed), survived this tragic migration, which is almost a miracle. Everything that happens after that footnotes the images of the chicks at the beginning of the film: life, survival, reproduction.
The film uses a large number of shots to describe the bird's flying posture, under various Beijings; it also describes the play, predation, and courtship when they stop at rest. If this is regarded as their daily life, this long migration in time and space is a wandering between groups that linger between two places - it cannot be called wandering, it is wandering without a destination.
And Hai Zi's phrase "In the distance, there is nothing but the distance" is always recalled in his mind.
When we are young, we always want to walk around and go to distant places, whether it is to escape or to pursue romantic travel, even if we are displaced, we must be regarded as a beautiful thing. In the end, the motive has become irrelevant. Just to travel far away. Although it doesn't have to be as heavy as birds "for survival", at least there should be a general direction.
How beautiful is the distance, how hard is the future, or put it another way, how unbearable the current life is, that makes your eyes go beyond the mountains and rivers, beyond the time of light and shadow, and feel uneasy in an illusion.
Finally, sum up the feeling after watching in one sentence: because man cannot support his own weight with wings like birds, his world can only be measured by footsteps on solid ground.
For tonight I will be by your side. But tomorrow I will fly.
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