If you are under the pressure of life, the whole person is extremely anxious, worried about whether your speech today is not perfect, this month's rent is not enough to pay, work or school can not achieve the expected goals...
Then I recommend you to see a very healing movie "Little Forest". After reading it, we may be able to find the true meaning of life.
"Little Forest" is divided into summer and autumn and winter and spring.
The film tells the story of a girl who returns to her hometown, Komori Village, from the big city, and lives in the village ever since.
Ichiko is an ordinary girl, because she is not adapted to the hustle and bustle of life in the big city, she chooses to return to the countryside and begin the traditional life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset.
In "Little Forest", we can see the various delicacies carefully made by the protagonist Ichiko, these foods that carry the taste of childhood, just looking at the process of making, it makes people feel incomparably healed. From cultivation to cooking, various ingredients taken from nature are collected and made by hand at every step.
In Komori Village, Ichiko makes a total of 27 dishes. From summer, autumn to spring and winter, each dish contains the gifts of time and nature.
In order to eat delicious food, the city began to grow tomatoes; if the grass was not exhausted, it would be made into a small dish to eat; its own rice was brewed into sweet rice wine, which was enjoyed with good friends; helped the villagers transport fish fry and harvested fish soup full of umami...
In the protagonist's continuous planting work, we see a person who loves life. It turns out that a person far away from the modern city can also be self-sufficient and happy to live happily!
From growing rice and vegetables step by step, to collecting wild fruits to make jams. Although life is not rich, but the heart is very full. As Haizi said, "Be a happy person from tomorrow / Care about food and vegetables / I have a house / Facing the sea, spring blossoms"
Whenever I see the life of "Little Forest", I will yearn for it. When I was a child, I grew up in a village, so when I saw the city grow rice, cultivate vegetables, and cook on fire, I felt kind, as if I had returned to the days when I was a child. I want to escape the troubles in front of me for a while and return to my hometown to live a simple life.
But is this really the way out? We can fantasize about it.
In the summer, the rice paddies are lush and green, but in order to grow rice, wear thick rain boots and pull out weeds, constantly bending over, the whole person will have back pain and sweat. Don't you want to blow air conditioning in an air-conditioned room?
The misty forest paths are beautiful, but it takes a long time to walk or cycle out of the door, are you willing to give up the city's convenient transportation?
The simple life in the countryside is not so stressful, and you don't have to deal with many unnecessary interpersonal interactions, but are you willing to settle for this kind of unremarkable life?
"Little Forest" is very beautiful, but it is not a shelter, just let us take a break in the busy life, think about why life is like this?
The heroine of "Little Forest", Ichiko, later returned to the city to get married. When she returns to the city after her days in Komori, she may understand what she wants to live. So she chose to return to Komori and continue her life.
After we watch the film, in addition to the healing and touching it brings us, we should also think about it: What is the life we want?