This is not a movie review.
It's just my hindsight.
The movie begins with the protagonist teaching music to a group of uninterested children in a middle school classroom in New York. Because I'm a teacher myself, it's easy to substitute myself for this scene. I have been to many such classrooms in the past few months. When I saw those children who didn't like to study, I felt that I hated that iron is not steel, and when I found a good seedling, my ecstatic feeling was exactly the same as that shown in the film. Then I saw the principal come to inform him that he will be a full-time teacher soon, with various insurances and a pension. I immediately cried out in my heart Oh, Yeah! Oye! Hurry up next! If it were me, I would have been grateful to Dade by now. As a result, the protagonist was hesitating and dazed, and I couldn't help but shout: Oh, man! Isn't it bad to go to school during the day and make music at night? Is it not feasible to go to school for classes at ordinary times and to go on tour for three months during the summer vacation? Wouldn't it be nice to have a stable job to support you in developing your hobbies and talents? Why bother? It's middle age, haven't you figured it out yet?
This Mr. G (Mr. G, whose name is Joe, translates as "Joe") is obviously not in the same position as me. He has talent, has dreams, and the only difference is an opportunity. So it seems that God was moved by his persistence for so many years, and finally let him wait for a chance. How perfect and how inspiring. Unfortunately, the director and screenwriter let him fall into the pit next. Yes, he fell into the pit, was dying, and his soul was lining up for heaven. But he couldn't accept this ending. When the great future is beckoning to him, he has to say goodbye to life. How could he accept it! So he went to Qiangbi and fell to Huangquan, just to get back to the world in time to realize his dream. The audience probably can't figure it out, isn't this jealous of Yingcai? Such a good young man, shouldn't he arrange for him to become famous, meet a sweetheart, have three children and two dogs, and move to the suburbs to live in a big house with front and rear gardens? Obviously, the script that his soul took when he incarnated on earth was not written in this way.
This movie, in my opinion, is about following the protagonist to understand what the soul is all about. The English name of the movie is Soul. The Chinese name is "Spiritual Journey". Is the soul the heart or the spirit? Many times, we can't tell them apart, or we like to put them together. But I think there must be a difference between the heart and the spirit. For example, there is a saying that people often say "Follow your heart". At this time, if you replace it with Follow your soul, the meaning will be very different. Do we follow our heart or our spirit? The heart is in our body, and the scalpel can be seen by opening the chest. But the soul, it is in an invisible place. Just like in the movie, you can't see it, you can't touch it, everything has no reality. We acquiesce that the heart and the spirit are one. But is it really so? Is our heart really with our spirit? If they were really together, there wouldn't be so many lost souls.
There is such a scene in the film, there is a Lost soul looking for himself there, seeing himself thinking hard in an office on Earth, and jumping down immediately. The soul is possessed, and the result is that the person who was diligently staring at the three screens to study the stock market suddenly asked himself, "What am I doing with my life?" Then excitedly swept all the computers on the table to the ground, Also throw away other people's. "I am alive! I am alive! Free yourself!" is called "I am alive! I am alive! Free yourself!" From this perspective, mentally ill people are the ones who truly find their souls. Isn't this a very ironic thing? And we hard-working workers, the reason why we are so obedient, either because the soul has been lost, or because the script characters we got in this life are like this.
No one is born with a blank slate. Souls cannot come to this earth casually, and this movie has shown us that to a large extent. So how do you know your script? How can I keep my body, mind, and soul together?
The answer is a seed with wings, and it is also the aroma of the pizza that No. 22 encountered by the protagonist, a lollipop and bagel bread. It's the laughter of children, the streamers blown by the wind, the music in the subway, everything that makes people live in the moment. When you come to earth, you must be grounded and down to earth, so that your soul will not get lost. Number 22 is an old soul that has been unable to reincarnate, just can't find this connection to the earth. The reason why the protagonist falls into the pit is because he has always been obsessed with the life he imagined. When he goes to the barber shop, he only talks about his jazz music, and he never really communicates with the barber. Without this connection, the final outcome is either to be lost or to go to heaven quickly.
In fact, when the winged seed spun down and fell, I knew the approximate ending of the film. Because every autumn, in those warm sunny afternoons, when I walk on the small street behind my house, I always come across these winged seeds, swirling and falling, like dancing little people, and like One by one, the little angels can't help but reach out to catch them. Every moment when a seed falls into my palm, there will be a heart-pounding feeling. There are many unsatisfactory lives in this world, but these beautiful moments always make people reluctant to part with the fireworks on this earth.
If a principal offered me a full-time contract, I'd be very happy for the rest. I don't have as many talents as the protagonist, and I don't have his dreams, but I love this life with occasional complaints and occasional joys.
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