This Is Life - After Viewing "Bella's Magic"

Elroy 2022-03-24 09:03:14

The first time I started writing a film review, it wasn’t because this movie was particularly appealing to me, and it wasn’t because the movie was gripping and thrilling. On the contrary, this movie is more like a cup of tea, even like a cup of boiled water, plain, but not tasteless. Only this taste must be tasted by people with life experience.
What is life? 100 people will have 100 answers. Life is the fireworks of the world, it is firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, it is chatting, it is being in a daze, it is watching everything around you, including yourself, as time goes by slowly. Some people's lives are wonderful, some people's lives are boring, there are laughter and tears, there are successes and setbacks, some people's lives are like stormy waves, like a roller coaster, and some people's lives are like quiet lakes, like The pendulum goes round and round. The life of the elderly, the life of the young, the life of the city, the life of the country, the life of abundance, the life of scarcity... Life is to live and endure time. The cloudy and sunny days of nature are bound to be created by our joys and sorrows, so many things that seem to be accidental are not accidental, even inevitable. Since life is ups and downs, with the current and the reverse, then knowing how to appreciate the adversity and sadness in life is the only way to truly know how to taste life. This film is a good medicine for a silent cure with gentle wind and drizzle.
My wife often says: everything is the best arrangement. The first time I listened to it, it was like Ah Q's style of self-soothing. Later, I experienced and listened a lot, and I suddenly felt that it was like a bowl of chicken soup for the soul, a spiritual guide dog. When falling into boundless entanglement and distress, it can iron out the ups and downs, wrinkles and knots in the heart, make it open-minded and calm, and feel comfortable and relieved. I think that's the real "positive energy" that brings out a kind of inner peace and the power of that peace to overcome all kinds of sadness in our lives.
This film tells us in Homecoming-style storytelling: everything is arranged for the best, because this is life, isn't it?

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The Magic of Belle Isle quotes

  • Monte Wildhorn: That cannot be the response to every admonishment.

  • Monte Wildhorn: Most times real life doesn't measure-up to what's in our heads, but every now and then it comes pretty close... you happen to catch me in one of those rarefied moments.