The interesting thing about the matter is that 4 years ago, I watched "The Invisible Man: Hayao Miyazaki", which was a record of Hayao Miyazaki's retirement in 2013 a little more than a year after he announced his retirement, and he reunited with a CG team. Collaborate to make a documentary about an animated short. At the end of the documentary, Hayao Miyazaki couldn't bear it anymore, and proposed a long-form animation plan to his co-producer, Toshio Suzuki, who wanted to make it before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Nowadays, no one has thought that the Tokyo Olympics have been cancelled due to an epidemic, and Hayao Miyazaki's long-form animation has still not moved. The childlike innocence of Hayao Miyazaki's animation?
Unlike Hayao Miyazaki's radiant face and full of fighting spirit in "The Man Who Can't Be: Hayao Miyazaki", in this "The Kingdom of Dreams and Rhapsody", you can clearly feel that Hayao Miyazaki is in the process of finishing "The Kingdom of Dreams and Rhapsody". After the full-length animation "The Wind", under such a high-intensity workload, with the increase of age, I have become very tired:
Whether what you do is worthwhile is a question that cannot be asked at the age of 70, who has been doing it for most of his life, but should have asked himself countless times and received affirmative answers countless times. When I asked, I should be really tired and just want to escape.
In this way, the subsequent announcement of retirement is a matter of course.
When I saw this sentence "How do we know that movies are valuable?", my first reaction was that I didn't respond for a few seconds, and then I understood and relieved. Drucker said:
Faith requires the experience of despair.
In Miyazaki in 2013, it was not so serious that he was in a stage of despair, probably as early as when he was young, he experienced it many times. The inspiration to me is: It turns out that even directors and artists like Hayao Miyazaki doubt the value and significance of their work. Ordinary people like me often have such doubts and are still struggling and have not been fully domesticated. Prove it.
Speaking of which, it seems to have entered a philosophical discussion: what is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of work? Hayao Miyazaki's answer seems to have the same effect as our sentence "It's not a useless thing, why send a lifetime of life". It's not nihilism, it's incomplete nihilism. This is the state of most of us. For us incomplete nihilists, it is probably to find something that we find very interesting to do.
When you are tired, you complain, use some soul torture to question yourself, or even question your entire life, to press the pause button. Probably the difference in the meaning of life lies in this: some people spend their whole lives and never understand it, some people think over and over again, but still point to no new answers, and in the end, except for this self-interesting thing at hand Besides, I can't think of anything more valuable and meaningful to do. so be it.
According to Hu Lancheng, life is sometimes so confusing and helpless. There is a kind of down-to-earth and peaceful world in this confusion and helplessness. then:
It's much better to die in production than to do nothing and die, and it's better to do something than wait to die.
Facing the same issue, Hayao Miyazaki made a choice with his actions. So, what about each of our own answers?
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