From "The Disappearance of the Elephant"

Eliezer 2022-03-23 09:02:04

Haruki Murakami has a novella called "The Disappearance of the Elephant", which tells the story of the bizarre disappearance of an elephant. Elephants cannot be tolerated in modern society. Elephants are large animals that are gentle and powerless, and have no value, so they are eliminated. In Uncle Murakami's pen, such anachronistic images include sheep, dolphins, and so on.
Because these animals are gentle and fragile, they are always very pitiful.
People are not like that. In this movie, the audience loves such a protagonist because they know how difficult it is to maintain such tenderness?
The protagonist in this movie has always struggled and shed tears silently in his heart, neither talking nor howling. Always patiently and tenderly take care of everything around you. Quiet and kind.
In real life, people sometimes use indifference and harmony to fight the world. Crying children have sugar to eat, so they have to learn to complain in moderation, be vain and lose their temper in moderation. The world is always good and evil, and in order to protect oneself, one needs to be suspicious, indifferent and questioning.
People love elephants, but they don't want to be elephants. The gap between those who want to be and those who have to be takes years of constant effort to bridge. At the end of the day, striving to become stronger is just to get rid of the cold logic of the real world. And when they are strong enough to do this, how many people can remember who they were?

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Extended Reading
  • Gabriel 2022-04-23 07:02:24

    If the Chinese director got this book, he would definitely be able to make a "Zhiyin"

  • Aryanna 2022-04-23 07:02:24

    None of us know when we will leave, life goes on after all, beautiful or painful...

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    Oliver: Well are you happy? Here?

    Anna: Maybe I'm not perfect at it. I don't really know what I'm doing, but I want to be here.