Rebellion is the best monster coat for fragile souls.
The recently launched "Spiritual Journey" has actually been heard of, from the joint production of Pixar and Disney, also about life and death, it is inevitable that people will compare with "Dream Quest", and subconsciously it is difficult to expect. Judging from the promotional posters alone, the gorgeous humans and skeletons are much more attractive than the black people and cats walking on the piano. Without Pixar's name, just this poster, I probably wouldn't have paid for this Disney, which never let down the "big friends" who love animation.
If "Dream Quest" is about the bond between life and death, "Spiritual Journey" is to cut the boundary between life and death for you to see. The protagonist is a music teacher who is difficult to exert his ambitions and is hidden in the middle school, joey, just when he finally got the opportunity to perform on stage, he accidentally lost his life, accidentally broke through the "other shore of life" leading to "death", came to the pastel-like dreamy "future of life" land, and met the soul of the new birth as a life mentor - "twenty-two". Embark on a wonderful adventure of soul dislocation.
"Twenty-two" is like adolescent rebellion, rejection of new life, and Joey's desire to return to the world, such a slightly cheesy combination, and the clichéd adventure plot, can not give people more fresh impact. However, the setting of the world view and the philosophy of "life" contained in it still soared to more than 9 points for this "cheesy" animation.
In the world of "the future of life", a newborn soul must obtain an Earth Pass to go to the world. So, how do you get a pass? Personality, ability, hobbies... These can all be cultivated through the Soul School, and only the "spark" needs self-understanding and perception to obtain, in order to summon the Earth Pass like the Dragon Ball and obtain the qualification of new life.
The soul next to you either watches the life of a great man, or when playing a sport or hobby, even some souls just have their heads hit by a ball, and they can easily get "sparks". Only twenty-two, thousands of years can not obtain a spark, religious piety and secular elite can not lead him to a new life.
The film does not describe in detail the changes of twenty-two in these thousands of years, but it can feel the film's precise structure for each character from the details. At the end of the film, after Twenty-Two and Joey go through a strange journey and are captured back to the "Future of Life", Twenty-Two finally gets a spark. Before Twenty-Two could get excited, Joey was arrested for failing to help Twenty-Two complete his dream of performing on stage, scolding Twenty-Two for not being able to get a spark on your own." Twenty-two's guilt is conveyed to the audience in the manner of giving joey the Earth Pass, and the vanished twenty-two eventually becomes a lost soul—an ugly monster. It is in this fragment that we perceive what twenty-two have experienced over the millennia, and let's listen to it together:
"You don't have a goal?" You're wasting your life! ”
"You have no value in existence at all!"
"You do nothing! You don't deserve to be loved! ”
The first time he heard these words, he might be indignant; after hearing them dozens of times, he would be paralyzed and disappointed; after listening to them for a few years, he would begin to be bored and rebellious; and when he had heard them for thousands of years, after finally getting the spark, he would still get a negative, so he went to despair.
Under the cloak of this troublesome monster, there is actually a depressed, self-denying fragile soul. His spark is not a cookie-cutter language, nor is it an inspirational and enlightening deed of a great man. It could just be a leaf falling, a piece of pizza, a piece of jazz, or a warm hand that can pull the soul out of the lost country.
I seemed to suddenly understand why the teenagers around me hated preaching so much. Behind the preaching, it is all negativity. And the end of the negation is the lost monster.
Therefore, do not impose on them our persistent goals, and do not let the soul fall into the abyss of the peak of life. Who says there is no beauty of life in the fallen leaves? Who can deny the beauty of life brought by a delicious pizza? Not to mention, the hugs of mothers and the encouragement of relatives are all gifts of life.
So, at the end of the film, Jerry tells us that sparks are not talents, nor goals in life, sparks, just ordinary lives. Just as the fish living in the water yearns for the ocean, the fish is where it lives day and night. There is no lack of beauty in life, do your eyes cherish these beauty?
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