The foundation of life is not poetry and distance, but every inch of the ground

Wilburn 2022-10-11 17:50:05

I have my daily routine of doing massages, doing gymnastics, taking a shower, taking out the trash, drinking coffee, and then going home for dinner, which takes about three hours or more. But it's the foundation of my life. In this context, I read the world, such as watching the town change or thinking about what happened to this person or watching the price change, it's just as far as I can see.
—— Hayao Miyazaki

often asks whether our day-to-day life is repeating or improving. Now it seems that it is both repetition and continuous progress based on repetition. In the documentary, the white-haired director walked into his mysterious life with the lens of the documentary. From morning to night, eating, chatting, shopping, and most importantly, painting, are the lives of ordinary creators. Point and apply clips, while Miyazaki uses brushes and lenses to record everyday life. During the day, I have to smoke at work, curse people, tease cats, watch the sky with a group of people in the evening, draw pictures I want to paint, talk about things I want to talk about, and evaluate people I love and hate. He said that the sky before the handsome retreat was particularly beautiful, and he said "don't talk to cats anymore".

"The Wind Rises" is the quietest film I've ever seen by Hayao Miyazaki. It talks about the inner world of a man who is constantly growing up. The protagonist is Hayao Miyazaki. He loves fighter jets but opposes war. The film expresses his position. He opposes the revision of the constitution and is unwilling to be pushed by the times to become a rightist. He said that there is no longer a chance for free creation.

The young Miyazaki looked very strict. Like many Japanese people we may know or hear, the old man in front of the camera is indeed so kind and always cheerful. Pay attention to hygiene every day. Because this is the basis of his life.

In the middle of the movie, there is a brief story of a few people who have worked together since they were young. They cherish each other but don’t like each other. They will speak ill of him behind their backs, but they all feel that the other party has unique talents. This is the basis of their work. Who leads the way, Suzuki's decision to release two new movies together can be regarded as a summary of everyone's life work. The previous story is only the basis of the movie before they retired.

Now, the development around us is too fast, everyone is afraid of being abandoned in the media age, from "news" to "old news", and this film gives us a chance to think about our own lives. It's quiet from beginning to end, and the lens is full of ordinary things, sunshine, wild grass, small flowers and cats, look up, the sky is different every day, everyone in the studio is busy, but they will come Watching the sky, chatting, smoking, drinking will also be noisy, joking, and celebrating in meetings. Wherever we are, this is the foundation of everyone's life, and on this foundation, we do our own work, more or less affecting the world.

Always remember to look up.

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The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness quotes

  • Hayao Miyazaki: Today, all of humanity's dreams are cursed somehow

  • Hayao Miyazaki: The notion that one's goal in life is to be happy, that your own happiness is the goal... I just don't buy it