I originally watched "Jumanji: Battle of the Jungle" with an entertainment and relaxed mind, and also commemorated the classic film "Jumanji" starring Robin Williams 20 years ago, but the process of watching it made me feel this way. A middle-aged man in his thirties recalled a lot of past events on his way up.
In his twenties, he seems to be the age of game life. If he can do a few things in the film correctly, he will eventually become the person he wants.
01 Experience a different "me"
The four protagonists in the film represent four different personalities.
1. Spencer , a typical otaku, is thin and socially inept. He only plays games at home and wins in the virtual world. In real life, you can't get a girlfriend, and those who like it can only pay attention silently in self-righteousness. In order to please classmates, you must use ghostwriting assignments to achieve your goals.
2. Martha , behind her excellent academic performance is the fear of others' ridicule and lack of self-confidence. Therefore, they make themselves look cold and unwilling to integrate into group activities.
3. Bethany , the bow-headed family who can't live without mobile phones all day long. The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is to sit on the sofa and pose for pictures. Although smart and completed the exam early, disregarding the surrounding environment and discipline, he was punished for openly using his mobile phone to make a video call with his girlfriend.
4. "Refrigerator" Fritsch . A representative of well-developed limbs and a simple mind. Precisely because of his good health, he did whatever he wanted and didn't work hard to make progress. As a result, he was arrested for the homework written by Spencer.
One of the benefits of watching a movie is seeing yourself in others. In the movie, the four people were "lucky" to become the characters in "Jumanji", which happened to be reversed.
1. Spencer becomes the omnipotent Dr. Yong Shi . Not only is it strong and strong, but the key is to lead the entire team to fight side by side, testing Spencer's leadership and organizational coordination ability.
2. Martha transformed into Iron Fist Ruby . Has a beautiful appearance and good strength, but because of the lack of self-confidence in Martha, it has not been fully revealed for the time being.
3. The most beautiful Bethany becomes the unshaven, middle-aged Professor Oberon. As the only expert in the team who can read maps, he could rely on his face, but now he can only eat with his talents.
4. Maozi Finba is far from the "refrigerator" Fritsch in the real world. Not only is he small and slow, he can even explode when he eats a cake.
There is a way of expressing a film and television program called "conflict". The reversal of the image traits of each protagonist in the film is a good way to unfold the story.
In the DISC personality analysis , the same is true. A person with a more prominent personality trait is less likely to act diagonally. For example, the D trait is unwilling to do S and serve others. And the C trait is unimaginable like a neurotic I connecting with others everywhere, becoming the little sun and pistachio of everyone.
In the Flower of Life in the annual plan, I once talked about a sub-item "Experience breakthrough". There are many ways to experience breakthrough. It is a good way to try to be a diagonal personality.
Although many people are reluctant to change, I still want to borrow the slogan of the audio program "Speak America" - every self-breakthrough stems from a brave beginning!
Give it a try, you will be pleasantly surprised.
02 Find yourself a "mirror"
The hardest thing for a person to understand is himself.
We often think that we are smart, we can always see the flaws in others, and we stubbornly think "how can the other party do such a SB thing", but we seldom realize that we are often a SB.
In fact, this is normal, even tall people have weaknesses.
On the road of life, in addition to parents, if you can make a few good friends who know everything about yourself and point out the problems in time, it will be a great blessing in this life.
Others are a mirror of oneself, and one should make more friends to share in adversity. Parents give us limited, sometimes with tinted glasses, feel that their children are all good, even the shortcomings are harmless and can be forgiven.
But this is the real world, Monica said in the American TV series "Friends": "Welcome to the real world, it sucks!".
In the film, Martha and Bethany, who were originally mortal enemies, treat each other sincerely after sharing adversity, pointing out each other's shortcomings and improvement measures.
Try to understand how people actually see us, and the results will surprise you all the time.
03 Learn to work with others
The four people originally had contradictions and conflicts in the real world. They distrusted each other and broke down. They reached the peak when they first entered the game.
In order to vent his dissatisfaction, Maozi even forcibly pushed Dr. Yongshi off the cliff. Of course, he knew that Dr. Yong Shi had three lives in the game, and even if he died, he would come back.
But such a reckless move made Dr. Yongshi waste an opportunity in vain.
In order to pass the level together, Dr. Yong Shi finally decided not to waste his life, but to unite to overcome the difficulties.
For the first time since then, they have worked together to get back the missing piece of the map. Bethany is good at staring games because he often takes selfies, and volunteered to attract the snake to swim out of the basket.
By the climax of the film, they fully trust each other. Maozi and Professor De Oberon (Bethany) attracted the beasts in two ways, Dr. Yong Shi climbed the top of the jaguar statue to prepare to meet, and Martha (Iron Fist Ruby) overcame the fear in her heart and retrieved the gems from the pile of poisonous snakes .
When Martha is incapacitated by venomous snakes under the control of the evil villain Pelt, she chooses trust again. Take the initiative to be bitten to death by a poisonous snake, and use the moment when he regained his last life and fell from the sky to pass the gem to Dr. Yong Shi.
The four completed the final game mission almost perfectly.
The future is the world of the Internet, where everyone is an independent individual who can connect freely. No one is better than anyone else, and learning to work with others is especially important. People who don't know how to cooperate can't play the game at all.
04 Live fearlessly in the moment
Another character in the film is MacDonald, a pilot who entered the game 20 years ago.
Because the rules of the game only have three lives, he lost his life twice when he passed the level alone. As the only character on the team who knows how to fly a plane, when everyone expects MacDonald to fly a helicopter, he is reluctant to act for fear of losing his last life if he fails.
At the same time, in the last level of the game, Dr. Yong Shi also did not dare to act rashly because he had only one "life" left.
At this time, Maozi encouraged him to say
You only have one life! In reality, some people do not cherish time with the mentality of game life, and always feel that there are some things to do tomorrow, or even next year. And some people are afraid of having only one life.
Recently I read a book called "Live Again, Embrace Life Tenderly" .
Regardless of your state of health, whether a friend at home or around has a terminal illness or not, as someone with a game or fear of life, reading text like this will benefit you for life.
There are two sentences that impressed me the most:
One sentence is that people have long focused on "doing", but ignored "being". The word being, in English, means (living) existence.
Another line is that the author "heard" his late father at the moment of near death to say "Go back and live fearlessly" . In the interview, the author talked about this has nothing to do with mentality, but that we often cannot be brave enough to be ourselves, and are afraid of many people and things.
It is precisely because the author deeply understands the true meaning of living bravely that he has a chance to be reborn.
Although this kind of opportunity will not come to everyone, I believe that after watching "Jumanji: Battle in the Jungle", you will have a little "gratitude and love" in your heart to embrace yourself, your family and the world. And no longer live in fantasy and dreams, but live in the present (being), accept your own shortcomings and only life, and be the winner of the real game life!
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