The classic lines in Ang Lee's new film "The Fantasy Drift of the Teenage Pi", everyone remembers this sentence, and everyone remembers it. There are too late and unsatisfactory farewells, and we continue to move forward with helplessness and regret. However, this sentence did not move me: since you want to let go, just be quick, fast, absolutely, ruthlessly, why do you have to say goodbye silently and promptly? Since there is reluctance and nostalgia, one step and three turns back, then why let it go? No matter how big the difficulty is, he is determined not to give up, no matter how heavy the burden, he will carry it on his back, and in the end he will be willing to do so, whether it is good or bad.
I rarely follow the trend to watch blockbusters. I watched "33 Days of Broken Love" last year, because the book I wrote was put on the screen, and because the film's popularity brought huge economic benefits. The only thing I want to watch this year is this "Youth Pie". I've read the novel for a long time, and it has quite a fantasy color. Making it into a movie is simply a difficult challenge and adventure, such as the Pacific rafting trip between the boy and the tiger.
I was prepared that it would be a boring film that many people imagined, and if there were no dazzling 3D special effects, it would probably have lost half of the audience. A person who has been anxious for a day at work, who would sit in a movie theater and think deeply about life, every shot has a meaning, and it cannot be understood through appearances, and what cannot be understood is really not understood. There is basically no dialogue in the whole film, the protagonist is only one person and one tiger, the end of the day is night, day after day, seconds pass, boundless loneliness; violent storms, lightning and thunder, boundless sea, no end in sight; people in the universe Terribly small, hope is an illusory thing, not knowing what keeps you alive, that's life.
Ang Lee is a director who is very good at telling social relations. It is not a complicated plot, but it hides various intriguing relationships, such as the same-sex love in "Brokeback Mountain", the father-son ethics in "The Wedding Banquet" and "Eating Men and Women", as well as "Breakback Mountain". The relationship between men and women that is twisted to the extreme in the extreme terrorist political environment of Lust and Caution is, in the final analysis, all about getting along with people. Until this "The Fantastic Drifting of the Young Pi", he once again played a new theme, crossed the relationship between humans and animals, and placed them in the vast and boundless lonely sea full of dangers, confrontation, despair, and struggle with each other. dependent.
When Pi was a child, the family owned a zoo. One day he went to see the Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, gave it meat to eat, and wanted to be friends with it. When the tiger came step by step, the father shouted and scared the tiger away. He warned Pi that animals can never be friends. You think it is kind and harmless. What you see in its eyes is only you. Projection of one's own mind.
Never live by hallucinations, don't deceive yourself, don't choose to believe, the only reliable help in the world comes from yourself, not from God. This is the survival law taught to the sect by his father as an atheist.
The mother represents another point of view. People must have faith, believe, wait, pray devoutly, and maintain good persistence. Long-term loneliness brings us helplessness and despair. Only by believing that this illusion is real and the world is beautiful can we hope to live.
Young Pi and the Bengal Tiger struggled on the sea, drifted, and survived. From mutual fear, hostility, and prevention, to mutual dependence, mutual dependence, and finally the tiger became the driving force for his survival. The tiger's roar and counterattack gave him a huge stimulus, and he had something to do every day, which was to tame the tiger and feed it. Until he couldn't leave the tiger anymore, he took the dying tiger into his arms and stroked it tenderly; he whistled and called for the tiger to leave the dangerous man-eating island quickly; In the dark night, the boat drifted quietly at sea. Extremely lonely, he asked the tiger on the bow: Richard Parker, what are you looking at?
no respond.
At the end of the film, the boat finally docked and ran aground on the beach, and the boy was rescued. However, when people carried him away, he suddenly burst into tears. He cried, not because of the joy of regaining his life, but because he was with him. The tiger who survived the difficulty together only shrugged his shoulders, shook his hair, staggered and walked straight to the jungle without looking back, and disappeared from his world.
"I thought it would look back at me and end the relationship, but it didn't." This is the line that touched me the most in the whole film.
Pie, a middle-aged and fat man, sat in the living room, calmly told all this to his friends, and shed a line of tears. He said that life is about letting go, but unfortunately we didn't say goodbye. I got on the lifeboat and lost my family, and I regret not cherishing my parents. Richard Parker left me forever and I remembered that I should have told him that you are the only thing that keeps me alive at sea and that I love you.
After saying this, he wiped his eyes, and at this moment the door opened, he said apologetically to his friend, oh, this is my wife coming back, along with my children and a pet cat.
The fairy tale ends and everything returns to reality.
There is a tiger in my heart, and I sniff stingy Wei. Anyone who has read this novel knows that the tiger is just a symbol, that is our inner alter ego, a desire full of exciting and terrifying. Because of its danger, it is hard to resist, like muddy feet, unable to extricate themselves. In an interview, Ang Lee said that the reason why he chose such a strange and uncontrollable subject is because of the fierceness in his heart. A marriage relationship requires loyalty, and filmmaking requires freshness. The less you have tried it, the more exciting it will be.
Fear brings us strength, and because of the existence of the tiger, Young Pi has to use all his wisdom and energy to fight against it. He must keep it alive, with himself, and give himself reasons to live. Afraid, people will be strong. Afraid, people will be more alert. The fear of tigers fuels the youth, he said, "I like to do things I don't know how to do."
So when one day, this fear no longer exists, when life returns to comfort and stability, when the teenager becomes an ordinary person, marrying a wife and having children, going 9 to 5, he suddenly loses the direction of survival, and also brings huge loss to the audience. The young Zhong Yong is nothing but the crowd.
Half of the people in the world are good, and half are bad. The hearts of those who are not well behaved are crouching tigers and hidden dragons. The tiger is both desire and anxiety. It is a shadow that threatens us. It frightens us and keeps us awake. We always maintain a fighting attitude and dare not take it lightly. Life is meaningful because of this. Years have passed, and it always seems that something is chasing behind, and the waves and beach dangers continue to stimulate potential. When the dust settles, it's really frustrating. This tiger will accompany us and leave at any time. All we can do is not to think about it, not to miss it, to calm down and accept the reality when it leaves.
In this pure illusion, it turns out that we are not alone.
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