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The ground was full of sixpence, but he looked up and saw the moon. - "The Moon and Sixpence"
This quote is from "The Moon and Sixpence", the moon is a dream overhead, and sixpence is a reality that can be seen with your head down. Have you read this book, the protagonist of "The Moon and Sixpence" is a successful career, a happy family of stockbrokers, but at the age of 40, he abandoned everything and went to Paris alone, chasing the distant dream of painting, and finally ended his life in poverty.
Dreams and reality are almost everyone's inseparable multiple choice question, whether to be satisfied with the status quo to live a stable life, or to give up everything, chase the unattainable dream, this multiple choice question has no so-called correct answer, there is no correct way of living in this world, but maybe holding sixpence in your hand, idly looking up at the moon, is our unattainable life. The movie "How Beautiful Life" to be introduced today is also around dreams and reality, if you also encounter the same choice problem, you may wish to see how the protagonist George chooses.
What a Beautiful Life is a love film directed by Frank Capra and starring James Stewart, Donna Reid, and Leonard Barrymore. The film was released in the United States on December 20, 1946, and won many awards at the 19th Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director.
The film tells the story of the protagonist George who loses his confidence in life on Christmas Eve and prepares to commit suicide. So God sent an angel to help him through this crisis. Guided by the angels, George saw that many people's lives would become unhappy and miserable if he had not come into this world. He thus understood the value and mission of his life as a story of saving those who were less fortunate and regaining the courage to live.
The film tells a clichéd story, but the reason why it has endured for 74 years, I think the essence of this movie is:
First: the roles interpreted by each actor and the characters portrayed are very in place. George, who is eager for dreams and frustrated with reality; Mary, who has a sincere and gentle wife for George; an angel who subverts everyone's perception of angels, the image of a "bad old man", and so on, each image can be deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Second: the clichéd storyline expresses the deepest and most real "love", including family affection, love, and friendship, which surrounds each of us, and we are surrounded by "love" every day, but not everyone can feel it.
Third: angels are children with white wings, the film brings everyone a visual contrast of the image of angels, in addition to subverting our imagination, to achieve the effect of inner impact, but also to leave everyone with some thinking, angels really exist, angels are actually around us, in our hearts.
1. The greatness of family affection allows George to have love and a complete personality
There is not much depiction of George's family in the film, but only a few shots clearly show that it is a warm family. George, who has a lofty ideal since he was a child, dreams of leaving the town to fight the sword and go to the end of the world, a week before he planned to leave the town, his father suddenly died of a stroke, in order to protect his father's career, so that his brother could go to school, he did not complain, temporarily shelved the ideal, stayed in the town to assist his uncle in taking care of the affairs of the Beli brothers to build a credit association, the younger brother did not come back to replace his position, George resolutely stayed in the town. The love of a mother, the love of a father, the love of an uncle, the greatness of affection, give George love and a complete personality.
2. The greatness of love gives George a sense of love and responsibility
In the marathon of love, it is bound to experience all kinds of sour, sweet and bitter, and the love that has gone through ups and downs but never let go will be lasting and charming. George and Mary, the love for each other has been deeply rooted in their hearts since childhood, during which the two people have experienced countless ups and downs, the only constant is the love of the two people, when George's company encountered a financial crisis, Mary also took the honeymoon money to save the emergency without complaint. Missing out on their honeymoon, the two of them spent their wonderful honeymoon in that ruined house of special significance, and for the Georges, as long as there is love, there will be each other. The greatness of love gives George a sense of love and responsibility.
3. The greatness of friendship allows George to have a feeling of love and value
Blessed to share, there are difficulties, the road of life is not to help each other, George and his father, all their lives to help the people of the town, George and Mary let many poor townspeople rely on the low-interest loans of the Belley Company to own their own houses, it is because of George's insistence, the people in the town can live better, the people in the town did not live up to George, and later when the Belli Brothers Building Credit Association had a financial crisis, the people in the town helped George to make up money to repay, The crisis was easily overcome with everyone's help. The greatness of friendship allows George to have a feeling of love and value.
1. The original meaning of angels
Angel is the messenger of God, the messenger from heaven. Christians are generally translated as angels, representing holiness, goodness, integrity, the communicator of God's will, the spirit serving God, the protector sent by God to protect the faithful from demons, and the bridge that brings God's message to mankind.
2. Angels around
George lives in a warm family, the family supports his career, his mother gives him encouragement and support when George is confused, his uncle has been helping George in his career, George is even happier after marriage, he has a kind and sensible wife Mary, there is a group of cute and well-behaved children, the existence of these people around George, is not the existence of angelic power?
3. Angels in the heart
I believe that fans who have watched this film will feel that the angel Clarence completely subverted our imagination, an "bad old man" image, and there is no magic, just suddenly appeared next to George, let George witness what the world would be like without his existence, the role of this angel is only to wake up George who is desperate for life, when he completely wakes up to return to real life, optimistically facing the problems that felt difficult before, all the problems are easily solved, and life has always been very good.
In fact, this angel has always been in our hearts, when we live in frustration, when we lose confidence in the future, when we face setbacks, we may as well talk to the angel in our hearts, it will make us rekindle hope and confidence in life.
In the face of dreams and reality, George compromised, not so much as compromise, but George grew
George was very clever and eccentric when he was a child, and he grew up to be a talented person, he was an ideal and ambitious person from childhood, but a week before he was about to leave the town to embark on a dream journey, his father died of a stroke, he died of a stroke, in order to protect his father's career, so that his brother could go to school with peace of mind, he temporarily gave up his ideals, the son inherited his father's business, assisted his uncle to take care of the affairs of the Belylee Brothers Building Credit Association, the younger brother had other ways out after graduation, but he had no complaints, and still continued to stay in the town to guard the Belylee Brothers Building Credit Association. Although he looked up at the moon from time to time and thought about his dreams, George chose to accept the disappearance and cherish the present.
In fact, dreams also have a difference between size and distance, if the dream is too far away, you may wish to do everything in the moment, change your mind, change your view of the dream, we can also live happily. We live every moment well, maybe one day in the future we will be able to achieve our dreams, what do you think?
1. Love and be loved
There is a very boring but also quite interesting so-called contradiction question, love and be loved which one is happier, most of the time will ask the person in love, but this is a common topic, love and be loved, in fact, is a kind of happiness.
George had the love of his father, mother, uncle and brother before marriage, also because of love and responsibility, George chose to give up his dream and inherit his father's business; George had the love of his wife and children after marriage, and because of love and responsibility, George understood to cherish the happiness in front of him; George had the love of friends, so he encountered difficulties, friends helped him through difficulties, and also because of love, so George has been paying for friends. Therefore, loving and being loved is a mutual lasting relationship, loving and being loved are both a kind of happiness, and while receiving love, we must also learn to give love.
2. Dreams and reality
Having a dream is actually a very beautiful thing, not afraid of the conflict between reality and dreams, afraid of no dreams in the heart, everyone asks themselves, now or ever had a dream. Dreams are the other shore, reality is this shore, and action is the bridge that connects.
But when we have a dream and have to choose between the two, we will feel that dreams are always beautiful, reality is always cruel, dreams are sometimes out of reach, and reality is sometimes cold and cruel. In fact, the beauty of dreams lies in the yearning in the heart, and the reality is not as cruel as imagined, which is what George told us, if you must compromise with life, then you may as well accept it and cherish every moment in reality.
3. Balance the ego and the superego
In psychodynamicism, the id, the ego, and the superego are the three major parts of the spirit proposed by the psychoanalyst Freud's theory of structure. In 1923, Freud proposed related concepts to explain the formation and interrelationship of the conscious and subconscious minds. The "id" (the complete subconscious) represents desire and is suppressed by consciousness; the "self" (mostly conscious) is responsible for dealing with real-world things; and the "superego" (partially conscious) is a conscience or inner moral judgment.
George's ben I want to realize dreams, is to face setbacks want to escape from reality; George's ego is to face dreams and reality, he chose reality, in the face of setbacks want to solve; George's superego with the help of angels, he made inner moral judgments, recognized his own value and the meaning of life,
Write at the end:
Released 74 years of film, there is no perfect shooting technology, compared to the current endless innovative stories, it does not dominate, but it uses the most touching and real content and emotions to retain us, and attract us to watch repeatedly, this movie is infinitely charming, just like George, a small person with big dreams, he has been holding sixpence in his hand, but also looking up at the moon from time to time, and finally he found that the meaning of life is to cherish every moment and everyone around him.
We are a grain of dust in this vast universe, but we still have the value of living in this world, this may be the greatness of human beings, we not only need to be loved, but also need to know how to love people; we have dreams, but if it is really out of reach, we may as well live in the present; if you want to be in a peaceful and healthy state, you may wish to listen to the advice of the angel in your heart!