Pain is a derivative of love, and I don't know how to express my love for this movie that left me crying alone in the theater after the end.
At first, I watched "Arrival" with the mentality of treating science fiction films. The rational thinking area of the brain was excited, chewing on every clue that might solve the puzzle, and anticipation mixed with a little bit of fear, calm and suspicious like the heroine.
In the end, when the heroine hugged the dumbfounded physicist and said in a slightly trembling voice, "I almost forgot the feeling of being hugged by you", all the pre-set rationality collapsed and the tears couldn't stop flowing down, hidden in the coat of science fiction. The emotional card played is so powerful.
So far, I have forgotten all the mysteries about aliens, and all I think about over and over are the fragments that flashed back in the heroine's mind, which are connected into a clear time line. When I was a child, I also fantasized about having the super ability to predict the future, but I never thought about whether there is flexibility and perseverance that can carry this ability. The uncertain future is worry and expectation, and the certain future is amplified despair and force majeure.
The most classic sentence in "Forrest Gump", "Life is like a box of chocolate candies, you never know what the next one will taste like". But if you accidentally open the lid of the box and find everything you have longed for, only Huanglian and arsenic are left after taking all the outside row, will you collapse and cry, or hold back the tears and continue to smile and swallow?
Of all the femininity I admire, the one that hurts me the most is the word "forbearance". Like Miyaji who made a scorpion. Like Nie Yinniang who said nothing.
You know everything.
You know you have the key to the puzzle, and you know the key will bring you the halo of glory for a lifetime.
You know that you rely on your affectionate lover in front of you and become a deserter in the hardships of the future.
You know that the angel in your life will one day suffer from an incurable disease, and there is nothing you can do about it.
You know that short-lived sweetness is nothing but icing, which in the end will be exchanged for bitterness and heartbreak.
I ask you, do you have the courage?
However, you still hugged the person in front of you as if nothing had happened.
Like nothing will happen.
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