Open your heart

Theodore 2021-12-13 08:01:09

I watched a movie a long time ago, and now I see it again, the whole feeling is completely different.

I wanted to write about the feeling of viewing the film "Journey to Heaven", but I didn't expect to have an idea about this film first.

I made up my mind earlier to make a messy summary of all the books I have read and the movies I watched. It hasn't been fully developed yet. Procrastination is really killing people! When people reach a certain age, they always suffer from gains and losses, always wanting to make changes, but they are too lazy to change; in the late stage of lazy cancer, they are a little bit "love and loss" indulgence.

However, after all, the world is still worth it. There are some beautiful things and lovely people and animals, and every brain can make a memorable aftertaste. We have all seen a lot of people like animals, so it’s not difficult to speak of. If we talk about human nature alone, it is still very difficult.

But when it comes to animals, those who provide milk and meat for humans are cute, but they feel sad in the end, so it is always too flattering to use them for writing. Among the animals that humans love and hate, but also like to hold and watch TV, I like Wang Xingren or cats the most. Of course, the film I'm going to talk about right now has nothing to do with cats and dogs. So, I have to get back to my senses and go on to talk about personnel matters.

I personally understand the film "Visitor of the Mind" that no matter when I watch it, it will never be "outdated". And the most important thing is that it has great motivational significance for ordinary strugglers with spirituality at the bottom. In a secular world, this kind of encouragement is very necessary, and of course also very important.

Another key point, I believe today’s friends, there are many people who like to write something in an attempt to be a "writer", especially since the rise of the media, many people have indeed created a world through writing. To be sure, this is a good thing! To develop my hobbies and preferences into my own business, this kind of thing is simply undesirable.

The film is based on a mysterious writer as the main line of the story, step by step to promote the progress of the young black people. This black guy likes playing basketball very much, but his literary talent is not bad. In the eyes of his writing teacher, his talent is so good that it is unbelievable, "it is good, but not so good", it is the teacher's evaluation of him. And this writing teacher is actually an "extraordinary writer", because the published works failed to do what he wanted, but was actually given the opportunity to "replace" by the mysterious writer, so he has always held a grudge, so it can be said that he is a little bit worse than him. The mentality of a gifted "peer".

So when the black guy showed his amazing writing talent, his teacher didn't believe in his abilities anymore. Of course, his suspicions are justified. As a person who likes to write, he still has that sense of smell. He smelled that behind his students' unusual talents, there must be a blessing from a mysterious figure. This olfactory sensitivity is quite powerful, this is the "inevitable way" to introduce mysterious characters step by step.

The picture turns to the side of the mysterious writer and the black guy. The writing process needs to think about such things. It is a necessary process for young people, but for old writers, the process of writing means writing, and thinking should be left. To the reader. So, if you want to be a writer, the most important "talent" is to keep writing! No matter how much you think, if you don't leave a word on the paper, it will become farther and farther away from the essence of the writer.

If you don't want to be named or seek profit, writing can make you express your heart, and the writing process can make you feel extremely happy, then what is more meaningful than writing? You can convey a lot of things with writing. Of course, there are still many things that cannot be conveyed, so readers are required to read and think. In this way, composition and reading become more meaningful.

However, many people like to write may not have a pure heart. They both want to name pictures and seek profit, so they force themselves to become another person. The things expressed in the text may not be consistent with what they think in their hearts or even what they actually express. The "not simple" of human beings happens to be manifested in this innocence. That's why there is an old saying that "people die for money, and birds die for food"; of course, "cai" here can also be replaced with "famous".

When the plot develops later, we will notice that, in fact, what humans really need to do, that is, things that can make themselves happy and make others feel comfortable, just open their hearts. You must have a true temperament in life and a true mood in your composition; when your heart is opened, the sun will naturally come.

This kind of sunlight is the warmth of human nature, and it is also the thing that best reflects human nature. And what we humans are increasingly lacking is precisely this kind of thing. It is softer than the cruelty in war or competition, but it can poke the hardest part of the heart and brighten the darkest corner of the heart. Good and evil, true and false, beauty and ugliness, good and bad, the positive is always the positive, and the negative is always the negative. In the ever-changing and complex human nature, it is possible to "reach a consensus" no matter when and where. .

The ending of the story is of course beautiful. After the conflict, the young man obtained the "passport" of his own life, and the old writer also passed away in an atmosphere of admiration or hatred by individual colleagues. In that kind of beautiful ending, we can feel melancholy from light to dark. This emotion is conveyed to all mankind, because we have a lot more changeable emotions and complex emotions than animals.

I hope that after I am not confused, after the destiny, after the ears, after the old age, even in the old age...If you are still alive, can you watch such a movie again, how will it feel then? I hope that by then I can still write words to relieve my emotions. Of course, I also hope that there will be a lot of "Visitor of the Soul", come and watch a show with me, drink tea and wine, and live together until the "damn" time.

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Finding Forrester quotes

  • Jamal: I ain't seen nothing change.

    Forrester: You ain't seen nothing? What the hell kind of sentence is that?

  • Forrester: What's your name?

    Jamal: Jamal Wallace.

    Forrester: Sounds like some kind of marmalade. How old are you?

    Jamal: I'm sixteen.

    Forrester: Sixteen? And you're black. It's remarkable.

    Jamal: "Remarkable"? It's remarkable that I'm black? What does me being black have to do with anything?

    Forrester: You don't know what to do right now, do you? If you say what you really want to, I may not read any more of this. But if you let me run you down with this racist bullshit... what does that make you?

    Jamal: I'm not playing this game, man.

    Forrester: I say you are playing it. An expression is worth a thousand words. Perhaps in your case, just two.