Only you know if you are happy

Grace 2022-03-25 09:01:19

This is a biographical film. Jackie Lin's prototype is the genius cellist Jacqueline Dupree. No matter how far the plot of the film is from the story of the genius itself, this is not the subject we are going to discuss now.
Ji Qilin is like an irresistible tide. From the day when she had an epiphany, the whole family was carried forward by this tide, becoming more and more powerless. She is like an elf who has fallen into the mortal world, ignoring the laws of the world and living by her own temperament. She played music that conquered the world with her undisguised innocence and directness, and also used her undisguised innocence and directness to hurt the people around her who love her the most.
She has many opportunities to perform abroad, and her family was very excited when they received the package from her for the first time, thinking that she finally thought of sending some gifts to her family, but it turned out to be a box of dirty clothes; she was jealous that her sister had a lover who loved her her boyfriend, she said to her sister: "You are not special at all"; she longed to be loved, so she wanted to share her husband with her sister and asked her to agree to let her have sex with her brother-in-law...
On the surface, it seems that Ji Qilin never Knows how to cherish the love of others for her, but that is because she is extremely lonely in her heart. Everyone only saw her shining bright on the stage, and no one cared whether she was happy or not. When she found out that her body was abnormal, she once asked her husband, "If one day I stop playing the piano, will you still love me?" The answer given by her husband made her despair, "Dancers and dancing cannot be separated. If you don’t play the piano, you won’t be you.”
Perhaps as Rilke said, “the temperament of an artist can only be realized outside of human obligations”, genius and life always maintain a restrained distance. But who can understand the loneliness of genius? Love is the greatest medal in a woman's life. Ji Qilin and her sister, who is happier? Winning music and losing life, is that what she wants?
Being talented is not an excuse to stay away from life and be forgiven, you have to work on developing the ability to make yourself happy. People live a lifetime, like a fish drinking water and knowing whether it is cold or warm, even if the life is bright and beautiful in the eyes of others, only oneself knows whether the inner happiness is not.

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Hilary and Jackie quotes

  • Hilary: If you think being an ordinary person is any easier than being an extraordinary one, you're wrong.

  • Jackie du Pré: I'll play the fucking triangle, I just want to make music again!