"Have the courage to be an ordinary person." - Mei Yiqi

Clementina 2022-04-19 09:01:27

From my point of view, this animated film is slowly talking about a question about life, and it feels quite in line with my current state of mind, that is, does life need goals? Is life without purpose worthless? In life, you must find something you are interested in, and you must create something valuable. Is it worthwhile to have the highlights of life? Thinking of this, and torturing myself, I feel stressed and anxious.

So how does the film answer this question? If you have a goal (or spark), work hard in this direction and make achievements all your life, this is a kind of life; or if you have to turn towards the goal for various reasons, going to another road is also a kind of life ; It is also possible that one road goes to the dark, and it is always one step away from success. This is also a kind of life. Others, with no goals at all, just live their lives like this. In general, life can be directly divided into two categories, mediocre and promising. When we are trying to get rid of mediocrity and cling to our goals, do we forget other important things, such as happiness, relatives, and the beauty around us. What will you miss when you are leaving this world? Is it a life of success, praise, abundance, the moment you reach your goals? In fact, the attraction of these things is very limited. Maybe you will miss the changes of the seasons, the leaves falling slowly in the sun, the artists playing and singing heard on the street, the moments when your parents gave you a bath when you were young, It was the first walk on the beach with a lover... What you treasure most is actually what you already have.

Don't worry about growing up, don't worry about getting old, don't worry about mediocrity, no matter what the road ahead, life is just as wonderful.

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Extended Reading
  • Doris 2022-03-22 09:01:20

    D+ / At the beginning, I was amazed by the painting style of some moments and then disappeared (the flashes are just some pure "fantasy"). It seemed to be the first time that Pixar was set to be restrained. On the one hand, the Soul Academy has given an encyclopedia-like reproduction logic; on the other hand, the glitch in this system is extremely naive (compare the substantive catastrophe of the system collapse in "Invincible Destruction King"). After the film gives this set of binary oppositions, it seems that it has not considered the same closed world view behind it, and it even went around in the banal and bizarre comparison for most of the way, before it leads to the perception of life, which seems to be able to Open up some gaps in the thesis-but in fact, just relying on the functional supplements in the middle and back stages can not support this kind of large-span and high-strength de-territorial conception. In the end, I can only continue to use this textual setting to manipulate the character transition repair system to achieve a happy ending, which is really uninteresting... In the end, it is more like a chicken soup hodgepodge for some painting ideas.

  • Vincenzo 2022-03-24 09:01:23

    After reading it with indifferent face, cherishing every moment of this kind of thing still need to spend so much effort to talk about it?

Soul quotes

  • Joe: Wait, are you actually helping me?

    22: Joe, I have been here for who knows how long, and I've never seen anything that's made me wanna live. And then, you come along. Your life is sad and pathetic, and you're working so hard to get back to it! Why? I mean, this I gonna see!

  • Dez: You're the boss

    Joe: I am?

    Dez: When you're in this chair, yeah, you are