This article is written by Vicky Hedgehog
The fragility of life and the hardships of life have been tested vividly by an epidemic. But the tenacity of human beings is that we will always use some works of art to show our eternal desire for life and unremitting efforts.
The two recently released films, one is Pixar's "Psychic Journey" and the other is Han Yan's "Send You a Little Red Flower", which are two such works. The two films tell different stories, but because of the theme of "life", they have the same meaning.
Why are we alive? If you were to die now, would you have any regrets?
Joey in "Journey of the Mind", who aspires to become a jazz musician, endures the boredom of his teaching career for this life goal. But when he died suddenly, unwillingly, he painstakingly returned to the world, got on the stage as he wished, successfully played his own music, and walked out of the bar door, but suddenly felt the emptiness and meaninglessness of his dreams. His life did not shine more brightly because of this, he was still the ordinary self, he longed to see the sea, but he did not know that he was already in it.
The glorious moments he wants are nothing more than the trivial daily life of a musician, the sea he wants to go to, but only the ordinary waters around him. Joey's disappointment, but also our disappointment. When the goal of longing for half a lifetime is achieved, in addition to the pleasure of that moment, the rest will be boring repetition, so why should we live with enthusiasm?
So, when you have attained enlightenment, you should abandon these dreams and let yourself enjoy unfettered freedom, but does such freedom exist in the world? In the end, whether we turned a circle and returned to the same place: the hustle and bustle of the city, the crowds, you are surrounded by a sea of traffic, but you just feel your own small loneliness.
Just like the soul "22", he has been united with countless great people in the world, but he has not felt the preciousness of life. She had lived for thousands of years, her mind was so old that she never wanted to really live again, and her life had no sparks, only darkness.
If I am destined to live without being able to shine and not be moved, why should I live?
The question is tied to the question, and the answer needs to be answered after the answer. "Journey of the Mind" constantly throws up such questions, leading us to explore this strange journey of the mind in depth.
Is life itself without reporting the destination, enjoying the present moment of life, not valuing the result, and indulging in the process? Alive, painful and happy, is it already life? It seems to be, and it seems not.
When Joy pops the notes of the heart on the piano, his emptiness is filled with joy. Music is no longer a tool for him to realize the meaning of life, it can make his soul fly, and his life is enriched by music, which is his own happiness.
When "22" understands that the meaning of life is not just dreams and sparks, but the ordinary moments in life with the heart: a piece of sugar melts between the lips and teeth, a fallen leaf falls into the palm of the hand, a piece of music wakes the ears, the warmth of a dress, a pair of feet running on the ground, a blue sky is bright overhead...
In this world, as many people are lost in the desert, how many people have found a harbor of anchorage. What are successes and what are failures? There is no single standard. Does life need meaning? I don't think Psychic Journey gives us the answer, but the answer is already in everyone's mind, it's confusing, but it's clear. Even if we are in darkness, as long as there is starlight overhead, we will not lose our way. Even if you get lost, it doesn't matter, because every road in the world has a scenery, and if you come slowly, there will be light.
Praise life, but also must not go around death. How do you face death?
"Send You a Little Red Flower" uses two young lives suffering from cancer to explain Tagore's "birth is as brilliant as a summer flower, and death is like the quiet beauty of autumn leaves." "The mood. If death can be faced like an autumn leaf, curled up and dried up freely, willingly falling, and becoming part of the earth, it should be a kind of wisdom, and it should be almost an ideal.
Wei Yihang, who had brain cancer, lived a very sad life. He is like a lonely hedgehog, wrapping his tender heart in a stubborn sashimi. Hiding in the crowd, cold and obedient, dare not love, do not dare to reveal their true hearts, afraid that they will die in the next second. It wasn't until he met Ma Xiaoyuan, a girl with cancer like him, that he began to restart his enthusiasm for life, learned to love, accepted loss, and bravely embarked on the journey he had always dreamed of.
Ma Xiaoyuan told Wei Yihang with his vigorous enthusiasm that the reason why a person is human is to experience all the bittersweet and bittersweet in life, and life, as the carrier of realizing all this possible, should not give up lightly. If you respect and cherish life, you should not live tastelessly. Being kind to life and blossoming with the passion of life is the most important commitment
However, love and hate are lonely, and life is loneliness. Is the ultimate in loneliness death? Can death free one from that deep loneliness? Life is gone, everything is silent, and it seems that loneliness will also disappear. A long list: Hemingway, Yasunari Kawabata, Van Gogh, Wang Guowei, Lao She, Haizi, Gu Cheng, Sanmao... It almost leads people to believe that death will lead people to final reconciliation with loneliness.
I don't know if when they die, they feel liberated, truly enlightened, and no longer dwell on their lives. All I know is that life is lonely and painful. Being alive requires more courage and perseverance than death. A sailor who has drifted in the wind and waves will definitely stay in love with the stable life on the shore. A person who has escaped death also knows more about the preciousness of living.
When you are alive, you have to live well. Only those who have gone through this experience have experienced it, and these experiences do not come from the introduction of great men or from the interpretation of the sages. As an ordinary person, you have realized what you should feel, you have experienced what you should experience, such a life is your own, is real, has temperature, and this life is meaningful to you.
So what is death?
Is it to go to heaven or to hell? Will we enter another world after we die? Is there also the same birth, old age, illness and death in the human world, and is there also a disparity between the rich and the poor?
According to Borges, time is multidimensionally crossed, non-linear, like a labyrinth. At different times, you will meet different people and do different things. I will do the same thing over and over again with the same people. Think of it this way, the cause of life, is not that you open one door and go to another door. In a strange city, meeting an acquaintance who has not been seen for many years will make people really have a trance of time and space.
"Send You a Little Red Flower" uses another concept of time and space, through the contrast of two time and space, let us feel the preciousness of ordinary moments: a trip that can be walked away, a meal for the whole family reunion, a vigorous love affair... These are mediocre life scenarios that some people no longer have in their lives.
"Psychic Journey" shows different dimensions of life: the real world where the flesh is alive; the staircase to death; the spiritual academy of personality shaping; and the selfless realm between life and death. Because of the distance of waiting and seeing, the outline of life becomes clear. Joey transforms from a concrete person into an abstract soul, attached to the cat's body, sees his own body, and then helps his body and soul to merge through the soul "22".
If time is a maze, it is a different dimensional space. So as long as we go back to the door that we want to relive, can we start all over again? Superman dials back the clock, and he saves Beauty. The men and women in the novel span thousands of years to fall in love, and they are quite at ease. Even if the yin and yang are separated, people can still be ghostly. The cycle of cause and effect in Buddhism also seems to be preaching the possibility that people can achieve this kind of crossing.
Unfortunately, real life tells us that without this door, we will never have the opportunity to start again. Even if you go back to the old place, you will have long been human. The most powerful force in the world is not nuclear weapons, not gravity, but time. Ancient Egyptian pharaohs built pyramids for themselves to mummify corpses for eternity, the gods in the ancient Greek pantheon expressed their desire for eternity, and the Chinese emperors painstakingly refined dan medicine in the hope of immortality, but now only some stones and tombs are left whimpering in the wind.
When we say the word "forever," it is nothing more than an inner longing and comfort. We cannot grasp the past, nor the present, let alone the future. Little by little time passes, life grows older day by day. The dead are like this. When you think like this, you can't help but be a little pessimistic.
I think of when we were kids playing the game of jumping the grid, we didn't care what was in the grid, but enjoyed the joy between the jumps. Treating life with a game mentality and treating time with a game mentality is not a kind of happiness for a small ordinary person like me?
Different religions have different interpretations of death. But no matter what kind of religion, I find that they all have one thing in common, and that is to emphasize the practice of human beings in this world. People are required to do more good deeds, give full play to the glory of human nature, and try to curb the evil aspects of human nature. That being the case, when death comes, man's life ends, and the spirit, the soul, will certainly stop. Everything falls into nothingness, and man returns to the earth, and the earth returns to dust.
In this way, death is nothing more than a white horse, and it follows us all the time. When you have completed the journey of your life, you are tired and want to rest, just lie on its back and let it take you into another time and space, isn't it also very poetic?
In 2021, I just want the outbreak to end as soon as possible. Everyone can hold a small red flower and reward their own spiritual journey.
Finally, attach a line from Wei Yihang to encourage everyone:
"I'm a person who likes to walk side by side, I have to shrink into the last row on the bus, I don't want to connect with anyone, I'm afraid that I'll die just by pulling out my heart." But I like you. ”
——" Send You a Little Red Flower" Cancer patient Wei Yihang
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