But it still leaves so many people unable to extricate themselves. Whether a movie is a visual spectacle or a dream-making tool, Ang Lee is really irrefutable this time.
Some of the undulating exclamations in the cinema were due to the fresh 3D spectacle, but it was the more unbelievable dreams on the screen itself that were unreal.
I have always been most afraid of water, not the fear of drowning if I can't swim, but the unpredictable fear of deep water. For example, the vast ocean, such as a bottomless reservoir, seems clean and free of debris, but you can never see how big it is, and you can never predict what kind of unknown huge energy it contains. This sense of unknown is terrifying.
The scene in "Youth PI" made the ocean at night as dreamy as the starry sky. Although this does not necessarily eliminate my fear of the sea, it does not affect the dreamy enjoyment brought by this visual spectacle. There has never been such a clear dream, allowing you to see every detail clearly, so that every cell in your mind suddenly begins to burst into transparent jellyfish.
Another scene that still makes my heart beat even now is the sight of the tiger and the boy in the water. Falling down layer by layer, it takes you to pursue the bottomless sea, those unknown powers and lives, thrillingly like a nightmare, and you are afraid and can't help but continue to fall. There are beautiful schools of fish in the sea, fierce killings, and the gentle face of mothers. Finally, is where it all began - the sinking ship that does not know where to go. The ocean gives you everything, the tenderness and cruelty of life, the most reluctant care, the most feared and the most urgent answer. Both Richard and pi saw it. Originally, Richard was pi.
Regarding faith
as a new generation of young people under the leadership of the party, I have never understood the meaning of faith. I have always agreed with Wang Xiaobo's saying "it was the pain that made him believe in God without a teacher". But religious belief makes people feel at ease. Otherwise, if the unpredictable cosmic and natural forces are not intimidated by the test of God, how can human beings have the courage to face them? The power of faith lies in a life attitude of kindness and gratitude, and nothing else matters.
The necessary support for human survival is fear and goal. For pi, Richard is the support for survival. Before watching "Fight Club", Tyler taught Jack to experience the deepest pain, saying that if he had experienced this, he would no longer have fear. And once people are free from fear, they can really be free from any external and internal constraints and approach the most free state. However, it was a terrible state at that time. A person without any inner and social constraints no longer exists as a social person, and there is really nothing that can stop him. In addition to restraint, fear also makes people sober. Fear of hunger makes you work, fear of loneliness makes you socialize, fear of other people's eyes makes you pretend... In fact, the meaning of this fear is not limited to people, but also to animals. Fear makes one turn without rusting, and purpose makes one keep moving without despairing. Fearing stressful days is sobering, but it's hopeless if everything just repeats itself mechanically, and goals keep you awake with something to do.
So for pi, the island that looks like a paradise will become a cannibal island. There is no threat, no difficulty, and no goal here. It is like a terminal waiting for someone who is almost desperate, making people forget where they are going and making your existence meaningless to this world. If that's the case, what's the point of survival?
And about being too late to say goodbye. Pi said that life is about letting go, but the most regrettable thing is that we didn't have time to say goodbye. I know that this regret can no longer be expressed by the word "regret". I think that there will always be such a person in everyone's life to let you experience this deep-rooted powerless regret. If you also think of someone, then let us cry like a child again for our lack of time.
Finally, about the real. In the end, maybe this story is fiction, and the story with four survivors is actually true. Yet for (most) people in the Japanese company, the humanity of the latter story is too real and scary to face. So even if this fantasy story doesn't sound very real, at least it's beautiful, and beautiful dreams are more acceptable than cruel reality.
Of course, there is no doubt that Ang Lee's story has always been well told, and the editing remains as amazing as ever.
This time, there is more purity.
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