Mary, even though she is the honorable lady of the Indian aristocracy, her heart was frozen because she was neglected by her parents who were obsessed with her own world since she was a child. Even the grief of her parents' sudden death in the earthquake could not make her cry.
Orphaned Mary was taken to her Scottish uncle's castle by a stern housekeeper. Because her aunt and mother are twin sisters, the decor tastes in the castle are very similar. The difference is that the castle is dead and lifeless everywhere.
I learned from the maid that this was because my aunt fell off the garden swing and died. My uncle was sad and seldom stayed there, so the castle was abandoned. At the same time, my aunt's garden was also closed.
Driven by curiosity, Mary accidentally opened the garden and opened the cage that restricted her closed life. She became friends with the maid's nephew Dickon, and together they built this seemingly deserted but hidden garden.
And the faint cry in the castle made Mary discover another imprisoned place in her uncle's house, her cousin Colin. Colin, who was born frail, was like the garden to his uncle who was in the pain of bereavement, a shadow cast by his aunt's death, and an existence that he deliberately avoided.
Under the strict restriction of activities by the housekeeper, Colin became increasingly weak and pale, and his legs were atrophied and it was difficult to walk. The appearance of Mary became the dawn of Colin's dark life in confinement. The same pain of losing his mother made them cherish each other, and the same yearning for the paradise of freedom made them congenial.
As a result, the three children, Mary, Dickon, and Cody, began to germinate like flowers and spirits in the secret garden, release their hearts, and grow splendidly. The weak Cody also got rid of the shackles of the wheelchair in the play and regained the ability to walk and run.
In the paradise-like secret garden, children whose minds and bodies are free are like angels, and their love is equally free. They lit torches and prayed in an ancient ritual for Cody's father, who was in self-imposed confinement over the loss of his wife.
Cody's father, who was in the distance, returned to the castle as if he was inspired. When he came to the garden to find his son's footsteps, he was surrounded by swaying flowers, laughing and cheering. He finally let go of his past loss and embraced this with a smile. Precious moment.
Seeing her cousin Cody and her uncle hug affectionately, Mary's long-frozen thing called family revived and stung her, and she wept in tears. And when her uncle picked her up and said "don't be afraid" to her, she knew that she also had relatives from now on.
At the end of the credits, Mary monologues:
"The spell was broken, my uncle learned to laugh, and I learned to cry. The secret garden is always open, awakened, alive."
In fact, everyone has a secret garden, where our best emotions, happiest memories, and deepest desires reside. We often freeze and confine it because it is hurt, leaving it isolated, barren, and dead, and our lives are dimmed over time. Careful management may be the way to keep this secret garden alive, often sweeping away unpleasant emotions, eradicating growing resentments, creating breeze with friendly communication, rainwater with broad love, making flowers and trees intertwined, pulling vines and climbing vines, Greenery.
From a certain angle, the whole world is a garden.
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