Before reading the film, I knew that it was a movie in which the protagonist "awakened" and returned to life, so he asked: How does the protagonist find joy in life? What is the joy of life?
There are repeated voices around: modern life makes people rely on technology, pursue comfort, and expand material desires, and they should try to return to ordinary life. Can we get rid of materialistic desires by returning to "ordinary life"? Get rid of the coercion of capitalist values? It sounds reasonable at first, but I can't figure out any specific connection. After all, I haven't experienced it personally, and it is difficult to understand the profound meaning of the few words with my brain. It just happened that I was anxious again recently: peer pressure, the pressure of a learning society... In the end, it was the pressure that I put on myself. According to the theme, I found a few chicken soup movies: "In the Clouds" and "Groundhog Day", hoping to answer my questions.
"In the Clouds" originally had a lot of expectations because of the lead actor, but it didn't give me any inspiration.
"Groundhog Day" unexpectedly gave me great comfort and eased my recent anxiety. At the beginning of the film, as a typical social elite, the male protagonist is not like the white-collar and golden-collar image portrayed in "Little Times" (I'm sorry that I couldn't tell whether the values of the novel were correct or not when I was a child, but I read it with relish). With passion, he strode into the bright and bright office building, but his eyes were full of sadness, complaining everywhere, and being mean. Compared with the heroines around her, she likes poetry, likes nature, and can find fun in an ordinary little thing predicted by a groundhog. The groundhog may also be an ordinary but meaningful symbol here.
Look at the end (jumping a bit hastily, hehe), the male protagonist learned to play the piano, ice sculpture, read poetry after an unknown number of years in the cycle... indulge in his hobbies and return to "ordinary life" instead of physically following society Given the values, the heart hesitates and suffers. The ability to always look inward and not be coerced by capitalist values. I recently learned a point of view, if the pursuit of happiness in life, then setbacks will easily defeat you, if the pursuit is a sense of achievement, a joy after hard work, then this kind of excitement will last for a long time. I think the male protagonist is pursuing this sense of achievement, a kind of spiritual satisfaction, but the premise is to do what he likes, not the standard of social evaluation, not the coercion of material desires. The recent epidemic has actually reminded us of the volatile social standards. If the things we "pursue" are suddenly regarded as worthless by the society, it is easy to fall into confusion and anxiety. It's better to be like the publisher in the second season of the documentary "But There Are Books". Even if the paper media is not as prosperous as before, what he has paid is still meaningful and has no regrets.
Every time I'm catching up with DDL, I imagine that if I had the ability to compress or expand time and space, it would be great. The current minute is someone else's year, so I can suddenly amaze everyone. But now that I know myself better, if I still do something I don’t know if I like it during the year, it’s easy to continue to worry and procrastinate. Or explore inward, pursue a sense of achievement, and explore the direction you are interested in, which will take a long time. In this process, it will be very happy to be able to surpass yourself bit by bit, and the comparison with the people around you will be superfluous at this time. Just like the groundhog, even if it is regarded as worthless by some people, it still has its own charm. I must find a companion who also appreciates this charm on the way of exploration. This will be great of comfort.
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