I like most of the movies produced by Pixar, "Toy Story", "Monsters, Inc.", "Flying House", "Dream Travel"... These films have deceived me a lot of tears. Out of "Spiritual Journey" is no exception. Of course, earning audience tears isn't the best way to demonstrate the quality of a movie, but it does touch a certain corner of my heart. After watching too many routine movies about "dream is equal to life", Soul's "anti-dream, anti-meaning" narrative made me see more possibilities of transcendence in the individual, and at the same time made me tired of running and chasing We stop and reflect on what is the "meaning of life" when we have a purpose in life. Does the way of life shaped by the mainstream ideology of society really apply to every individual?
A scene in the movie shocked me very much. Jerry in the academy of mind only left a light sentence "so basic" to the obsession of human beings to pursue their dreams and reach the pinnacle of life. Power is a contemptuous judgement of the foolish and superficial human beings on earth who are tired of fulfillment. Being overly obsessed with achieving the so-called "goal in life" makes us towed, filled and manipulated, and even falls into the black valley and becomes a wandering lonely soul without knowing it. In fact, the way to have a beautiful soul is actually around us, walking, eating pizza, listening to various sounds, falling leaves in autumn, having a real heart-to-heart with the barber, and helping children solve a life path choice the problem...
The core metaphor of "little fish looking for the sea" mentioned by the musician at the end reminded me of a passage that Xiang Biao said in an interview in "Take Yourself as a Method", that is, "people on the fringe must enter the center. The desire is particularly strong, which of course makes people exert a lot of initiative, but it causes various distortions. And once they enter the center, many people become corrupt, because they have never figured out who they are, and they exist to enter the center. He gave up the land where he was born and raised, and the relationship with the people around him, and became a person without principles." In today's era of redundant information and strong collision of values, flaunting or demonstrating a superior social identity seems to have once again become a kind of The public generally follows and even advocates the psychology of the times. Too many people are bent on breaking away from the group and eager to build a heroic great self, while ignoring the most real people, things or various social relationships around them. Perhaps life is not elsewhere, but also far away.
As an ordinary person, let me retain the most simple enthusiasm, firm will, and keen feeling, let all consciousness pass through me but not stay in me, and let me still be able to travel through the real world and ecstasy. To maintain a stable and good interaction with the world around me, I hope that every choice I make is due to the construction of the mind and not the stimulation of the outside world.
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