if we can no longer dream
than all of this but also much more frightening
when we only dreamed of terror
in the world, Mia and the big man, but not year-round sunshine, I love this gloomy and dilapidated setting infinitely, because I always feel that in such a weird and bleak environment, any little warm and beautiful spark can instantly burn my heart in a prairie fire.
The girl in the red dress had the soul of a child and the mind of an adult. Faced with death, she calmly said: Born in the stinky gutter, and died in the dirty dock.
That tall man has an adult appearance, childlike innocence. Sleeping in the pile of sack, he whispered to the girl and said: I will be the stove.
In this bizarre world, before we met, we were all born lonely islands. Life is a dirty and turbid sea. We don’t hesitate to clean it up, but also to find another similar island. In order not to lose the ability to dream, in order to be robbed of heat by the cold sea, someone can act as your heater.
For this reason, the scientific madman in the film even used his talents to try to create the perfect wife and children of his dreams to embellish his deserted island, but his repeated failures finally made his soul devastated.
Desolate or devastated, which is more pathetic?
In the film, you can see such deserted or broken souls floating around everywhere. They are all trying to save or change their failed lives in different ways, or they are unswervingly willing to fall. But whether it's a cold machine, a blind and fanatical pagan worship, or even a crazy experiment to regain dreams by stealing children's dreams, these are the same as the rubbish that people throw into the sea, and they can't save anything at all. But seeing the red eyes, the circus owner who was once enslaved by money finally chose a completely different path, you will understand that he kept crying after meeting a big guy, not because he caught a cold at the pier, but because he was crying. Go through the process of being healed. He was a fallen addict, when he met two islands full of kindness and love, he was cured.
I think so. After listening to the singing of the whales, I decided not to kill them anymore. I took in the abandoned boy waiting to eat, and then I looked for him indiscriminately. This is such a pure and beautiful island. He has nothing to do. Questions can heal the deep sorrow and loneliness of others, even if he was just as lonely at first. He deserves love and dreams, because he was born with them. This is unavailable to the endless experimentation and copying of science fanatics.
So when the son of science screamed frantically at the end of the film: "Empty is endless!", I disapproved from the bottom of my heart, telling you the world, I—not—believe!
Because the only real island in this film is the laboratory deep in the dense fog, even in such an icy labyrinth-like laboratory, there is still Uncle Aiwen who wants to save everyone. Didn't the son of science who shouted emptiness regret it at the last minute?
Loneliness is born but not by nature.
The independent and strong Mia knows this well. Her beautiful eyes have seen too much darkness and ugliness of the world. Even she was once sleek and sophisticated, and she was also one of these ant-like beings. But after all, pearls dropped in the mud are still brilliant jewels, so after meeting a big guy, she said goodbye to her former partner. No matter how misunderstood by others, she is also firm. This simple and kind-hearted man can comfort her swaying and sad soul, and she can become his warm and practical support.
Goodbye, cold water, I found another island that can heal each other.
Goodbye, merciless flame, I will finally throw all the sadness back to this dark world.
When a person is needed by others, it is the beginning of truly no longer alone.
So no matter what way I love you, I just want to heal your bottomless sorrow and my own bottomless loneliness.
Even if we were born as an island, there is absolutely no reason to be deserted as long as we can still dream.
(Old work in August 2008)
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