"Life is an endless cycle, everything is a cycle of life and death." When Otto was a little boy, one day, his father was preparing to divorce his mother, and he started a conversation with his son: "Everything is passing, wrong. It's not me, it's the time." This is what my father really wanted to say.
"No, not everything." The little boy couldn't agree. He doesn't know fate yet, he just instinctively opposes such a sad view.
"You know there are eternal things? Time erodes everything, even love," said the father.
The boy shook his head stubbornly. He couldn't say why, he just couldn't agree. He was still young, and he still believed in love, in the eternity of love.
"For example, it's like you run out of gas and you're helpless on the road." The father said, "I'm going through a divorce with your mother." The
little boy looked at him stubbornly.
At night, the sound of mother crying came. The wind was blowing and the windows were swaying, and the mother came to close the window for little Otto, and then sat down beside the boy pretending to be asleep. The little boy opened his eyes and said to his mother, "I always love you, and if I run out of gas, I will die."
He was so stubborn that he began to fight against time, and if he ran out of gas, he would die. die. He wrote sentences and folded them into planes. Paper airplanes are released from the window of the school toilet. Paper planes passed through the playground one by one. The children after school picked up the paper planes, and the adults who picked up the children picked up the planes. They saw the sentence above, and there was only one sentence: time is immutable.
Time is the same, all good things never end, they just keep looping. However, at the end of the movie, in Otto and Ana's love story, there is an important link missing that prevents that loop from being completed. The director was ruthless and gave people a hope that the sun would never set, but shattered it in the end. However, you can not say that love lost to time.
Eternity and a day, eternity and corruption, eternity and passing... Recently, when I watch movies, I always see time and the confrontation between man and time. A good movie, a regrettable movie, mostly tells about time, the time lost, the time that cannot be saved, and the unwillingness and magnificence of people in it.
Perhaps, all art is about the same topic: the struggle between love and time in the eternity standing and fading. Art is the stubborn child, like Otto in childhood, who is not willing to bow to time. They confronted and splashed with their own creations. They folded countless paper airplanes and flew them out of the small and dirty windows of life. There was only one sentence on them: time is immutable.
I was that stubborn kid too, and I paid homage to Otto as a child. Like him, I refuse to give in to time. I don't believe that everything will pass, I don't believe that love will end. Even if everything rots, then I will send my tears. Those shed tears leaked out of Time's fingers, and Time couldn't catch it.
The article was read in 2009, and at that time I thought I must watch this movie.
After more than 4 years, when I wanted to watch it, I was spoiled by the cheap hand, but I liked this article very much.
I like it, maybe I want to watch the spoiler too.
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