Family affection we didn't understand

Marvin 2021-12-22 08:01:29


Few classical music can make me cry, but Lasan in "SHINE" did it.

This is not the first time I have watched this movie, but I have more comprehension than the first time. I even wonder if this is enough in life. To experience misunderstanding, perseverance and love from such images and sounds, such abundant emotions, is happiness and perfection in itself.

I also once doubted that father's love, such a stubborn, arbitrary love, and I also wanted to deny that it was love.
He let his young son learn to play Lasan; he did not allow his son to leave to destroy the integrity of the family, even if he was going to fulfill his musical ideals; he beat him and told him that if you leave, you will never have a father again— —I thought he was cruel and surly.
But this time I saw his details: as a stubborn and tenacious Jewish descendant who survived the shadow of war, he stood behind his puzzled son and gently but forcefully told him: "Life is so short. , And music is eternal."
-Shortness, eternity.
After spending most of his life, the son finally understood these two words.

I think we were all young DAVID: sitting in the bathtub and hugging ourselves tightly, with such a resisting look; we were determined to leave without turning back-we thought we were resentful.
But we will eventually choose to pull three, choose the dream of father, even if we pay the price of madness and babbling.
No, that is not a price, but love.
Expressed in the form of hatred and incomprehension, and finally released.

The son who had been nervous for many years bounced Rasan on the stage again. I cried.
Not bitterness, not joy, but finally understanding.
Those stubborn confrontations, those days of loneliness and betrayal, those idiots and babbles...those, are all life. It's as short as the father said, and there is no way to avoid it.
And my father did not say that a short life, because of music and love, can also be eternal.

In the last shot of the movie, DAVID and GILLIAN walked away from their father’s tombstone under the sun, and there was a light of love shining around them.

The short life is so eternal.

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Extended Reading
  • Ed 2022-04-21 09:02:35

    Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3

  • Ryley 2021-12-22 08:01:29

    The speed of my uncle's speech is too fast, it matches the rhythm of the piano music he plays~! I can understand the situation that some people wear different socks, but they don’t wear the same pair of shoes. . .

Shine quotes

  • Peter: Religion is nonsense.

    Ben Rosen: It's also a gold mine if you know where to dig.

  • Isaac Stern: America. You know, land of the free, home of the brave. You know, Mickey Mouse.