The film begins with a man who is shipwrecked while adrift at sea and wakes up on a deserted island. Alone on the deserted island to survive, day and night with crabs, and time and again trying to make a raft to leave the island, but unfortunately the raft was sunk again and again. Finally one day he found out that every failure was caused by the loggerhead turtles. From the curiosity and fear of the loggerhead turtles at the beginning to the anger when he discovered that the "mastermind behind the scenes" was the loggerhead turtles, he finally took revenge on the loggerhead turtles.
With the passage of time, the man's anger gradually subsided, but he found that the loggerhead turtle had been motionless since he was "revengeful" by him, so he began to feel compassion and tried to wake the loggerhead turtle, but found that the loggerhead turtle had already die.
He began to reflect, and finally realized that the loggerhead sea turtles rammed again and again to tell him that if the raft could sink even the sea turtles, the loggerhead sea turtles would not be able to escape the impact of the storm. The loggerhead sea turtles were not against him, but to protect him. ! When he regretted it in every possible way, he inadvertently found that the loggerhead turtle shell had a crack open...
After a long time, when the man returned to the loggerhead turtle, he found that the loggerhead turtle's shell was no longer a turtle, but Has transformed into a wonderful woman, but still lying motionless.
A few days later, when the man returned to the loggerhead turtle, the woman was nowhere to be seen. After several searches, the man finally found the loggerhead turtle girl on the beach.
All the curiosity, all the puzzles, after several trials, they finally sat cross-legged. The man was very ashamed after thinking of the evil deeds he had done to the loggerhead turtles. Fortunately, the loggerhead turtle girl cleverly resolved everything.
The woman pushed the red tortoise shell into the sea, not wanting to interfere with the man's choice, but the man also pushed the half-made raft into the sea. For the sake of the woman and the repentance of her previous behavior, she stopped going out to sea, which seemed to imply a new relationship between man and nature. reconciliation.
Gradually, the man and the woman fell in love, and later, they had a son and became a happy family of three.
As the son grew up, the man began to teach him to draw and tell him what the world of human beings is like on the other side of the world, while the mother used the drawing to tell him how sea turtles accompany nature in the sea at dawn and dusk. After that, the son learned to swim again under the guidance of his parents and learned various skills of survival. Gradually, he was even free to roam in the deep sea and play with the turtles. When I got tired of playing, I went back to my parents, and the whole family was happy. Between the valleys, on the beach, and under the stars, the laughter of a family of three echoed throughout the island.
However, just when the family was enjoying the family happiness, a tsunami occurred, and the family of three fled, went their separate ways, and separated again. After the tsunami, the surviving son embarks on the road to find his family.
After untold hardships, they finally found their mother who was unconscious on the beach and their father who was trapped in the sea. The family of three cherished each other more and loved each other even more. In the bonfire, they could imagine the warm scenes of the family dancing happily.
With the passage of time, the son reached the age to go out on a voyage. He told his parents that he wanted to go to sea and to explore unknown distances. Although the parents were reluctant, they were helpless. They knew that this parting was likely to be forever.
The son was finally gone and went on a voyage with the turtles.
On the night of their separation, the man hugged the woman tightly, because they were about to return to the days when the two of them depended on each other.
Time flows unhurriedly, men and women are getting older, and their once-black hair is turning white.
Later, the old men can no longer move as freely as they used to, and rely on women to maintain their survival.
Finally, one night, when a meteor fell, the woman found in her sleep that the man was no longer breathing. Despite shouting and shaking the man's body, there was still no response, just like when the man tried to wake up the loggerhead turtle.
At that moment, time seemed to be suffocating, the woman knelt down beside the man, and tears wet her entire cheek.
Futility, pain, helplessness. After all kinds of pain, the woman had to caress the hand of her dead wife, hoping to feel the last remaining body temperature of the man...
When the camera pulled back to the woman again, the woman was gone.
Accompanying the man was only an old loggerhead sea turtle.
After a long, long time, the loggerhead turtle was also tired, and seemed to know that it was time for him to return to the original days of being with nature in peace. After a short stay, he finally chose to leave helplessly. In the picture, it gets farther and farther away, until it disappears into the sea...
The story is a bit similar to "The Fantastic Drifting of the Youth Pie", but the picture of the story itself is very simple (more of a return to simplicity), and the youth Pie stories are similar in how reality meets magic. The surface of the movie is what happened between a human and a loggerhead turtle. Although the loggerhead turtle turned into a human woman and had a "human tortoise love" love with a man, there can also be another kind of juvenile pie behind the metaphor. Formal understanding: If everything is just a man's fantasy, the loggerhead turtle is a loggerhead turtle after all, there is no so-called "incarnation" and the follow-up "love story", it is purely a relationship between loggerhead turtles and people, a kind of soul. The companionship of people, then this kind of emotion and companionship is even more valuable when you are on an isolated island and empty, and even surpasses the love between people to a certain extent. There is no language, no disputes, and the communication between souls. It seems to be the true meaning of nature. The short lifespan of human beings is even more insignificant in nature compared to the hundreds of years of lifespan of loggerhead sea turtles.
Some people think that it is a realistic version of "Zhouzhuang Dream Butterfly", but in contrast, the connotations expressed by the two are still different.
Leaving aside another understanding behind the lesser stories, human beings are small and short-lived in their own right, but as a whole, human generations also symbolize a kind of natural eternity.
Later in the story, when the teenager left his parents and went to sea, we couldn't help but think, what would happen to the teenager at sea after that? Perhaps there is a possibility that the young man was shipwrecked in a storm after drifting at sea for a long time, and his subsequent experience seemed to return to the beginning of the movie. When he woke up, he found himself on a deserted island. After that, he repeated his father's experience, and so on, from generation to generation... From this point of view, doesn't the similar experience of human beings from generation to generation also symbolize a kind of reincarnation of life (or human nature)?
Life is short, but full of helplessness, full of despair, but also joy, hope, and dialogue with the most primitive soul of nature.
We can't resist the laws of nature itself. Perhaps it is passed down from generation to generation, living in harmony with nature, and it can be regarded as the original essence of nature.
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