How will you choose your path?

Preston 2022-04-21 09:03:20

How will you choose your path?

The movie is like the protagonist's life is a game-playing process called "mind game", at every crucial moment, his inner experience is drawn.

After being killed by a rogue tavern riot, we see (the author imagines) the world after death. God said to him, yes, he created you with all his might and made you suffer such a joke-like life. Is there any problem? What an irresponsible god... This may be the author's understanding of the impermanence of life. Unbearable and only acceptable.

This blow followed him all the time, falling into the belly of the whale, rushing to the exit countless times before being swept back by the big waves. The senior who had fallen in for 30 years told him that if he couldn't get out, it's better to enjoy the life here. It's actually self-deception. Behind his dazzling collection are the fears and struggles of the past. Maybe this is not the case, you can't choose the life you want, you have to try your best to have fun in the current environment.

When people are so depressed and lost, they need a little happiness to change their mood. In the darkness without borders, the four people danced like they had taken medicine, like gorgeous flowers.

But the protagonist doesn't seem to be a coward. He can disobey God's instructions and race against fear. It's a fight between man and God! Miraculously, he returned to his body from the gate of hell, and left the crime scene with his friends. Different from the previous timid and cowardly performance, is this really the power that people have experienced after life and death?

After challenging the mouth of the whale for the last time, the boats were all scattered, the bones were broken, and they were still running. The little dinosaurs were carried and pulled by people. Ultraman superman was all possessed and escaped the tank. Aircraft carriers, planes... Then I saw the familiar Osaka. Those everyday lives, the blue sky and the sun, are so precious and real. At that moment, he saw that there are so many possibilities in life, that there are so many unfulfilled dreams waiting for them to do, and seeing the memories of so many lives experienced in this world, he suddenly thought of what the Diamond Sutra says, Form is not form, form is emptiness.

This is the mind game.

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Mind Game quotes

  • Nishi: We've gotta leave. It's that or drown.

    Yan: But how?

    Nishi: The boat, of course!

    Myon: The cops'll be looking for us.

    Nishi: So?

    Myon: The Yakuzas'll come after us!

    Nishi: So what! I wanna get out! 'Cos there's so much out there! So many different people, living different lives! Incredibly good guys, bad guys... Folks completely different from us! It's one huge melting pot! See, it's not about success, dying in the streets, who's better, who's not! I just want to be a part of it! I realized that even if I've no connections, no talent, even if I'm one big loser, I want to use my hands and feet to think and move, to shape my own life! We can just die here or we can try, see what we've got!

  • Nishi: This roller-coaster you're trying to stop is a genuine Angel Express. And I can see you moved to tears as you watch that mystic angel spread its wings and disappear into the sky. OK?

    Yakuza boss: The fuck?