One day in the middle of the night I ran to the supermarket to buy fruit and saw a crayfish on the side of the road. It was the season to eat crayfish, and it must have gone through a lot of hardships before escaping from the red basin full of crayfish.
I suddenly felt that it was an inexplicable fate that I met this crayfish. I was moved by some of its qualities: it first realized its destiny if it didn’t take action, so it made a plan, took action, and finally escaped. He hid and waited until the night was quiet before poking out his head and starting to find his way home. I think this crayfish has great wisdom and courage-and I was lucky, so I decided to take it to the river next to the subway to release it.
One thing to clarify is that I am definitely not doing this out of love. I love to eat crayfish, garlic, salt and pepper, spicy...I have eaten crayfish that are countless-but if you have eaten an animal, then you can't claim to be a friend of this animal Yes, this is hypocritical. The reason why I wanted to help it was purely because of the fate of the encounter-it did not meet other people, nor did I meet other crayfish. For some unexplainable reasons, we met.
All in all, I bought the green grapes, and then picked up this lucky crayfish, holding the grapes in my left hand and pinching it in my right hand, and led it to the river near the subway. I used my thumb and index finger to pinch the sides of the lobster's head so that it could not pinch me. Doing so must make the crayfish very uncomfortable, because it has been swaying its tail with the little remaining power, and constantly trying to pinch my fingers to let me let go. It must be experiencing an experience similar to human seasickness and motion sickness. Its body is constantly swaying left and right and up and down as I swing my arms while walking. Its head is stunned, and its stomach is also dizzy. Overturned, nauseous and nauseous-if it has a stomach. I don't know much about the physiological structure and physiological response of crayfish. These are just some of my imagination.
Finally I reached the river by the subway station. I picked up the crayfish, congratulated it on its luck and gave it one last look, then swung my forearm and threw it into the river like a basket. As it thumped into the embrace of the river, I suddenly remembered the last scene of the movie "After get off work"-the gray-headed Paul, and finally returned to his work station in the company with a dull expression- This picture suddenly appeared in my mind for almost no reason.
The distance from the supermarket to the river next to the subway is about 800 meters; and this 800-meter road needs to cross two roads, a traffic light, a community, and a lively food street. I can’t imagine that this lobster can Safely pass through the countless wheels and tramples of human feet on this dangerous road, and finally reach the river safely; and if you can install a camera on the gray-headed head of the crayfish, you can record this from its perspective. The road to freedom and survival, that road must be full of unintelligible, bizarre, and fearful sights of "people"-I took it across a road that it does not understand at all and has almost never set foot in it. World, a human world.
Then with a "boom", it somehow returned to the world it was familiar with, gaining freedom and a chance to survive-just like in the last scene of the movie, due to some inexplicable reasons, the same ashamed Paul also replied Arrived at his company's workstation-a world he knew well. The movie story comes here abruptly, just like my direct story with Crayfish.
Martin Scorsese put a camera on Paul's head, then walked him through a strange and frightening night world that didn't belong to him, and then, like me, shot with his forearm. It seemed to throw Paul into the "water"-Paul returned to his own world and felt safe. Martin Scorsese played with Paul as the protagonist of the movie just like I played with that crayfish; and how should Paul explain the frightening and puzzling things that happened to him that night? ——As movie audiences, how should we explain everything in the movie?
This question leads to the possible theme of the film: acceptance of ignorance.
Both Paul and us as audiences must accept the fact that we cannot explain why some events happened—for some unexplainable reasons, it just happened. It is not easy to accept this, because it is tantamount to acknowledging our ignorance of the movie or the whole world.
As audiences, we certainly can’t understand how and why some plots in the film are designed in one way or another—this should be the work of film directors, scriptwriters and other creators rather than audiences; and most film audiences don’t. I have personally written scripts and filmed films, and naturally I can't have a personal experience of the process of thinking and creating film art.
Most people can only experience half of the art of film. As viewers, appreciators, and critics of films, what we experience is only the process of watching the film rather than creating it. So of course we cannot fully understand the entirety of a movie-our perspective is restricted by the "watcher", just like that crayfish is restricted by "itself is just a kind of crayfish", it cannot understand humans The world of “Paul” cannot understand Martin Scorsese, or the world of movie creators cannot be understood by the viewers. The key to the problem is not to let your ignorance affect your process of experiencing the world.
It is just an arrogant and unfulfillable attempt to expect oneself to stand on the perspective of an omniscient and omnipotent God to fully understand a movie. What is the meaning of the ghostly night in the movie "After get off work", or what ideological connotations do you want to express? I watched it several times and couldn’t figure out why-Martin Scorsese created a world that I didn’t understand, and took me to look up and down the world. I don’t know all about it, but it’s true. Thoughtful, this is actually very good.
Just as the film workers led the fans to look up and down the wonderful movie world after another, I took the crayfish and looked up and down the human world; similarly, I also created one in this text. My own little world, and I walked with you who I am reading: It does not intend to convey some deep thoughts and meanings, I just want to take you around in my world, looking up and down That's all, this is actually very good.
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