The Spring Festival is approaching, and the Spring Festival travel has begun again. People have packed up their achievements and setbacks, joys and sorrows, and exhaustion, and set foot on the way home. I have seen through TV news that this 3 billion migration seems to be filled with a joyous atmosphere of "reunion". Those who are lucky enough to have a good year probably don't know that there are many people who -- as the year draws to a close -- have that mixed feeling in their hearts. Thinking like this, I turned around and walked away, turned on the computer and revisited "Miracle" - a movie about family gatherings and separations from the perspective of a child, drawn by a Shinkansen train.
The story of "Miracle" is simple: the separation of a pair of parents has left two brothers in elementary school separated from each other. The elder brother Hangichi returned to Kagoshima's family with his mother, while the younger brother Ryunosuke and his father started a new life in Hakata, Fukuoka. But the two children (especially the older brother Hang Yi) are still looking forward to the reunion of their parents and the reunion of the family of four.
Hang Yi heard rumors that on the day of the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen, the moment when two trains cross for the first time will generate huge energy, which is enough to turn any wish of people into reality! So he invited his younger brother to embark on a "miracle" journey together. The brothers gathered their partners and went to Kumamoto Prefecture, where the trains intersected, to make a wish and witness the miracle.
As a result, the miracle did not happen as expected, but the children tried to accept the unsatisfactory "life" from regret. This kind of growth is their real "miracle"!
As ordinary audiences, we have a sense of closeness and identification with a movie. The most common path is emotional resonance. From the life course of the protagonist, we have seen Jiguang Kataha of our past life, and we can’t help but share sympathy with him. .
When we look at how the protagonist gradually overcomes his predicament and realizes his self-improvement as the plot advances, we will re-examine the similar predicaments in our lives, accept the inspiration from the protagonist, and look forward to the protagonist's "upgrade" "The way to achieve a breakthrough in my life - the meaning of growth-themed movies, nothing more than this.
Watching this movie again after a year, it still touched me deeply. It was as if through Hang Yi, I saw my childish self - paranoid and helpless standing between the emotional gaps between my parents, trying to bridge the two sides, but in vain time and time again.
The parents at that time were so engrossed in their own discord and pain that they had no time to take care of him. I was alone in the troubles and hesitations that I couldn't get rid of, and spent a very unhappy childhood. I grew up in a daze... Although my parents were not separated, their spiritual separation was exactly the same as Hang Yi's parents.
Hang Yi condenses the shadows of many children from unfortunate marriages. We see in him the emotional experience close to ourselves, or through imagination, we realize this "experience".
It was also at the age of Hang Yi that we gradually discovered that the original "home" was far more complicated and troublesome than we thought; it turned out that the world could not operate as simply and beautifully as we expected; Parting ways too, and "love", especially "full love" - what we care about most, is also the most fragile...
These "new discoveries" initially brought us endless confusion and grief. At that time, we were still unable to face and deal with the reality that was more complicated than fairy tales. We thought to ourselves: I only have a small dream, but this big world can't hold it!
We don't know that our dreams are really extravagant. The reason why we dare to promise such dreams is because we are too young and too superficial. By letting go of these extravagant hopes, one can gain profoundness.
"Xiao Bi's Story" said: "She is too perfect, which relationship in the world is not riddled with holes?"
I didn't know in the past.
Koichi went to Kumamoto with eagerness to wait for the trains to cross. But at the moment when the two cars rubbed shoulders, when his companions shouted their wishes, he was the only one who did not express his wishes in the roar of the train and expected a miracle to happen. He was just silent, staring solemnly as the staggered moments passed before his eyes...
"I chose the world over home," he said.
This is his growth, it is a sign of his upgraded pattern and strong mind.
Children's initial understanding of what is "society" and "relationships between people" comes from "family", the most personal and simplified interpersonal relationship unit. They first encounter troubles in the family that are the motives or triggers for them to "run away from home". But when they met and embraced the "world" during their long journey, their obsession with "home" gradually shrank, and instead, they began to seek the meaning of their own life from the "world".
When we were still under the wings of our parents, we only had home and family in our eyes. But when we grow up, have an independent life, read some books, watch some movies, experience joys and sorrows, and see many different lives, we may gradually feel that the trauma or regret caused by our family is not a problem. , not so important anymore. Because we touch on something bigger and more essential in life - like truth.
It's like the metaphor of "Landscape in the Fog": the siblings set out to find the father (father), but at the end of the journey to find the father, they found the father (god, faith).
Therefore, don't underestimate your child's ambition to "go to the world".
This film depicts a total of 7 children, except for Hang Yi and his younger brother Ryunosuke, as well as their 5 little friends. As mentioned earlier, the friends also embarked on the "miracle journey" with the Hang Yi brothers with their own wishes. The journey, and the wishes that may or may not be fulfilled after the wish is over, has also allowed them to grow.
Speaking of "growing up", there are two scenes of the child's expression that left a deep impression on me: one is when Hang Yi took a bus to go home alone after swimming, and he was sitting on a chair by the window. expression;
The other is that the children are staying at their mother-in-law's house. When the mother-in-law brushes the girl's hair, she mentions her mother, the expression on Huimei's face.
The children in these two expressions are thoughtful and serious, and seem to think of something that cannot be said... In the words of the Japanese film critic Hasumi Shigehiko: These two shots capture the expression of the child as an adult. , very remarkable.
These two shots make me feel that when children fall into contemplation, it may be the beginning of their realization. Children are not necessarily less enlightened from meditation than adults.
Here, it is Hirokazu Koreeda who reflects his insight: childhood is a reserve for adulthood, children are not like stupid animals, they are independent people whose spiritual world is becoming more complex and their minds are gradually mature.
Maybe some people haven't noticed that "Miracle", such a warm "children's movie", is actually a "high-speed rail" promotional film. It was shot to celebrate the opening of the entire Kyushu Shinkansen line from Hakata to Central Kagoshima by JR (Japan Railway Group).
This was supposed to be a commercialized railway propaganda film, but it was made into a film full of humanistic care by Hirokazu Koreeda, who always pays attention to the humanistic spirit. It must be pointed out that the objects it cares about are not only the little protagonists, but in the double line, it focuses its attention on the changing reality of contemporary Japanese society:
Hang Yi's parents broke up because of differences in values - a "moon and sixpence" multiple-choice question, the couple gave different answers. Where will Grandpa's beloved "Light Soup" go? Facing the modern commercial economy, should traditional craftsmanship compromise and find another way out, or insist on letting it decline? Even when a child shouted: "Dad, hurry up and quit gambling!", it also expressed concern and criticism for the mental loss of Japanese people under social pressure...
It is Hirokazu Kore-eda who used his ingenuity to integrate many social care issues into a family story of separation and reunion. In the end, the place where he wants our eyes to stop is still the "dark silk swimming" of "home". "General understanding.
Towards the end of the film, Hang Yi made a wish to return, and told his grandfather that he had given Qing Geng to his younger brother to eat. Come out; Hang Yi asked his grandfather if his "running" behavior was exposed, and the grandfather said that he was hiding it well, rest assured. After Hang Yi left, the camera captured the grandfather bowing his head and smiling faintly. This smile is meaningful, there is helplessness and calmness after knowing that his expectations have been defeated; there is also silence about everything that is insightful but unwilling to break it...
Isn't that what life is like? Even if the sophisticated and delicate mind has already sensed thousands of mountains and rivers, but the slightest ripples on the face are not visible, and he will forgive everything if he is relieved.
After watching "Miracle", it's good to find that it has successfully healed my entanglement and anxiety at this moment. Even if the "train" going home during the Spring Festival can't go to intimacy, at least the family gathering can give the "Nian" a sense of reunion. The feeling of loneliness in my heart, even if only I know it, there is nothing wrong with it, right?
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