Everyone has more or less traits, obstacles, memories, or situations that they want to conceal, don’t they? Otherwise, there will be no double eyelid stickers, whitening creams, hair restorers, corsets, high heels, facial repair apps, emotional management training classes, or even bamboo forests for retreat and endless yearning Taoyuan . But this kind of life is unlikely to be resented, because even if it is not concealed, it is not very alien, and even if it is a bit alien, it can be concealed as not so alien. But what if what God gives you is something that cannot be concealed? How to face all kinds of eyes, how to face life and powerless self?
The film "Mind Station" is also translated into Fen in "The Next Station of Happiness", but he is not as tall as a primary school student as an adult. The unconcealable label "dwarf" swallowed almost everything about him. If he likes trains, he can't learn to drive, and even get on the train will be teased about what ticket to buy. It is conceivable that he will be swallowed by countless struggles and efforts. He has no choice but to be the object of kindly or maliciously ridiculed, intentionally or unintentionally being ignored. Of course, he can't be blamed, or even the people who covered their mouths and talked about him, held their cameras at him. Fern slowly became a kind of "light medium", instinctively reflecting all disrespectful, unfriendly gazes, and even all gazes.
But even so, life has not let off Fen. His only friend, the owner of the "Golden Spike" shop, and his only friend who could join the train club activities, smoke and listen to the train to pass the long time, the same lonely Henry died suddenly. In his will, Henry left an old train station on half an acre of land in Newfoundland to Fern. So Fen finally became Lonely Planet, and traveled along the rails to a strange city and a new life with no expectations. After all, even in a new environment, you can guess the reaction and gaze of others.
But even so, life did not give up on Fen. The hot dog stand outside the train station and the car that rushed to Fen over and over again brought two people who met unexpectedly into Fen's life. The Cuban boy Joe Olamas who came from Manhattan to watch the hot dog stand for his father; Olivia, a female painter who came from Princeton to heal the pain of losing her son; two different experiences, inexplicably attractive, and equally lonely people, With Fen's constant refusal, the moths tried to live close to Fen as if they were fighting the fire. The solitary time of one person has become an awkward chat of two people and a gathering of three people; the dream of one person has become the madness of two people and the sharing of three people.
The sparsely populated Newfoundland has no shortage of stories. The little girl who collects spikes along the railway, because her boyfriend is irritable, dare not tell the pregnant library waitress, the mother who is heartbroken because of her ex-husband’s entanglement, the son who runs around because his father is in poor health... In the lives of others, Fern also saw loneliness. It turns out that everyone is scarred and hesitated, everyone is holding secrets and heaviness, but some people are in the face, some people are dragged in the shadows; it's just that some people Choosing to embrace each other with sympathy and sympathy for warmth, some people choose to use bluffs to whitewash it.
If it were not gains and losses, Fen might not have noticed it, and the negation that was often used on her lips became affirmations; she would feel lost when she saw the big hot dog stand disappeared; the end of a walk along the railway turned out to be her home In front of the door. Those who rushed to the company turned out to be frustrated with helplessness, and those who took the initiative to endure for no reason became misses. If it were not for the loss and regaining, Finn would probably not be able to realize that the inescapable difference turned out to be an arrangement to save herself; things that were once impossible could be challenged without a big deal; yesterday, getting along on pins and needles turned out to be today. Those hard ice shells will be warm and warm, and those stubborn insistences will change when they become loose. Therefore, instead of arguing with life in a desperate and arrogant manner, perhaps reconciliation is the next stop of happiness.
The film has a metaphor of life buried in the details. Railroad tracks that can’t see the side will also cross somewhere, and souls who are lonely with each other will meet unexpectedly; and Fen of "Golden Spike [Note]" will also go to NEWFOUNDLAND, and the life of being treated unkindly will eventually be met. Find a new way (new find land).
Note: "Golden Spike National Historic Site" is a memorial to the Chinese laborers who participated in the construction of the 700-mile railroad from San Clemento, California to Promento. The Golden Spik Arch was renamed "Chinese Gate" by "China man" at the request of the Chinese.
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