Not everyone can encounter miracles, and if you take the slightly more probable ones as miracles, everyone can encounter one or two. The miracle of the small town boy Quentin is to live across the street from Margo, a playmate who has had a crush on him since childhood. Margo is a goddess-like being, a girl who likes mysterious things and is curious about life. It wasn't until the eve of high school graduation that the goddess climbed up to his window on what he called "the longest day of her life" and invited him as an accomplice in her midnight revenge against her ex-boyfriend and best friend.
The indecisive and timid Quentin experienced the joy of adventure in revenge. The goddess took him to overlook the town where she had lived for more than ten years at night, and told him that it was a paper weight, and she was like a paper girl.
After the night of adventure, the goddess ran away from home. As before, a little clue is left. Her parents gave up the search. So Quentin and a few of his friends drove the car onto the road to find the goddess.
Both the movie and the original book are worth watching. Without the teachings of any life mentors, the readers experienced an exploration and thinking together with the characters of the story in the process of reading and watching the movie.
The original story is much more than the movie. The metaphor of the human string is also interesting. The text is also fluent in reading, there are not too many new words, it is suitable for general reading, and when you read it, you will forget the time, and you want to read it in one breath.
On the road of the adventure night, the goddess asked him what kind of life he wanted, and Quentin said that he would go to college, become a doctor in the future, then get married and have children before the age of 30. Then you will feel happy? The goddess asked him back. Just like many times, those who live freely and freely that we envy ask us rhetorically.
When I'm done with this period of time, I'll go to the gym. When I'm rich, I'll travel the world, and when I get PR, I'll be able to do what I love. Are you happy then? In 30, those who realize the idea of buying a car, buying a house, marrying a wife and having children are called winners in life. Eating the anxiety of being sold by others, anxious to grow up, and then lying on it, being a mediocre person, gossiping about others, and fattening yourself wantonly.
In the past few days, Yu Minhong has been sprayed into a sieve for saying that the depravity of women leads to the depravity of the country. On the other hand, feudal society is even more degenerate in the long run. You can see how women are deformed by men, such as foot binding.
To say that we are degenerate now is not enough, but this generation needs to be as masculine as the ancestors of the Anti-Japanese War, then hehe, looking at what is popular now, it is not clear whether it is male or female. It is no wonder that I have seen so many friends who feel that they are bisexual in the past few years. It's not right that you blame women for this self-confusion. You think that because men pursue women and women pursue material things, the whole society is material. Society is different. How many people agree that you can't get married without money? It is very rare abroad that a girl will go to register marriage with a boy who has nothing on a whim, not to mention that the domestic material life is so abundant. The poor don't get married, just fall in love. In case of having a child, it is also irresponsible for the child. The investment in education is no joke. People are tough.
People who don't understand life are always so greedy, they want a good reputation, they want to be rich, they want to be with their favorite people, they also want to be good-looking and talented. How many people in this world can be so lucky? .
I wrote in a movie review, escaping life in the moment, if only for a moment. When we ran out, we were more or less tired of the domestic atmosphere. I extended this moment for many years.
There are always some people who say, "So someone really lives the life you want", but you know it's not the norm at all. Travel is so rare, just like the cherries embellished on the cake, the whole cake is full of cherries, then it's better to eat the cherries directly. Eating too much will cause diarrhea. Some people live the life you envy, but it doesn't mean that these people live well, nor does it mean that this is the life you want. Born as human beings, each has his own troubles and his own pursuits.
Most of the time, you only know what it is really like when you experience it yourself. What others see is the bright and beautiful circle of friends, the heart is riddled with holes and the soul is scattered, others may not see it.
I often have friends who come to chat with me, tell me about their current predicament, some want to continue reading, some want PR, if I study, I will do, if I have their conditions, I can do, what is it actually? Sample? After studying, I can't find a professional job after reading, and then I go to make coffee, move bricks at the construction site, go to the counter to do sales and customer service, these are jobs that I don't agree with at all in China. Reading for so many years is to do the work that could have been done without reading so many books. How many people study for the sake of immigration, the policy of Tu and Australia is the same as that of the anus. If you say it shrinks, you will shrink. Keep reading to continue your life, and then read NAATI to make up points. Work. and then? The little friend said, I'm a base, I can't let my family know, so I have to stay. I think this is justifiable. You see, isn't our society more harsh on homosexuality? Even to the point of escaping forever.
At the end of the movie, the town boy finally found his goddess, and the goddess came to the paper town not just to escape, because she didn't know what she wanted, so she found a quiet place to read and think. He understood that the goddess is not a miracle, she is just an ordinary girl. And his own adventure, with his friends, in a life he didn't go on, a life he identified with.
At night, I actually dreamed of my boyhood, restless afternoon, the rain will not fall, the dull air, the ceiling fans with dust in the classroom, the abandoned classroom without people, the scattered playground, the corner overgrown with grass, the voice of people The bustling campus... It seems that everything is waiting for the moment when the rain falls, and the world returns to tranquility. That was my youth, a certain moment in a fixed frame, and it will always be that green look, like an old sketch hanging on the wall.
Youth seems to be a dream that I remember for a long time after waking up. Just like paper town, it exists in the map of my life, every time I flip through it, it is always there, but I can no longer reach it.
Alin
20 NOV 2018 Auckland
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