I believe that I am not the only self-media writer who is afraid to write.
Every time it's time to write an article, I'm tossing and turning, procrastinating.
Talking with other self-media authors, I found that I was not a special case.
After all, it's a lot of time to spend sitting in a room and trying to write stories and truths that readers are willing to see, think about, and understand.
I often choose to write articles in a café, although the moment I sit inside and order coffee, my mind is still blank.
When a cup of fragrant coffee is placed in front of me, I will hold the coffee cup and silently observe the surroundings.
I always see people waiting for others sitting here, their states and expressions different.
Happy, expectant, nervous, excited, happy...
I sometimes wonder what kind of story they are waiting for.
Maybe, someone is waiting for a reunion, someone is waiting for an encounter, someone is waiting for a long wait, someone is waiting for an opportunity that may make the future shine...
Some people, just staying with each other in the passage of time, not rushing, not hurrying, surrendering to everything that fate brings.
Sometimes, I can't think of any theme to write about, and I'll find some movies to watch.
Looking at it, the inspiration flows out unconsciously.
Recently, I have talked to many people about some experiences in 2021, and everyone can't help but have some regrets.
However, the reason why people are sad is actually because they can't see far enough.
Before the future comes,
How do you know that the so-called predicament is not a meaningful good thing?
How do you know that what is happening today is not building bricks and tiles for the future?
There is no incurable wound, no unending sinking, and all that is lost will return in another way.
No one's life will always be perfect, but no matter what time, look ahead and believe that there are unknown surprises waiting for you.
So today, I would like to recommend 5 movies with healing effects.
They can cure your anxiety and uneasiness, and will also make you yearn for and hope for the future.
1
The Thief of Time
Mr. Yu Guangzhong once said: "There is such a city, the golden box generally treasures the footprints and fingerprints of your half life, glory and anger, gentleness and sadness, and treasures your immortal memories one by one." ”
This city is home.
At the end of Wynn Street in Sham Shui Po in the 1960s, there was a Roger shoe shop.
The family of four relied on Luo Dad's exquisite shoe-making skills to survive, and although their lives were poor, they were happy and harmonious.
However, the oppression of the ground snake, the frequent typhoons that landed, and the bad news that the eldest son was suddenly diagnosed with cancer, all kinds of suffering forced the Luo family to get involved in the center of the storm.
But they never bowed to fate.
The sentence that Mother Luo often hangs on her lips is: To be a man, you must always believe. And the strength of this firm belief comes from love.
Love brings warmth, courage and hope to this ordinary little family.
In the changing life, the years, the greatest thief, stole everything we once had in the passage of time, but the only thing it could not steal was love.
Although life is trapped in inevitable suffering, people can draw meaning and hope from this experience.
2
The Grace of the Hedgehog
Sometimes loneliness simply means that you have been competent for a person's spring.
The Grace of the Hedgehog is also a lonely film, but the difference is that they meet in such a parallel universe.
The loneliness that had been hidden in their respective caves began to secretly produce small flowers one by one.
"The Grace of the Hedgehog", judging from the title, is an arrogant drama.
Hedgehogs, with thorns on their bodies, want to disguise themselves as impersonal, want to pretend that they are not easy to be emotional, but want to be alone, not with the public.
However, beneath the hedgehog's aggressive exterior, there is an elegant, sincere, and soft heart.
The hedgehog loves to be lonely and protects his weak self with sharp thorns, just like several characters in the film.
They hide their inner world behind the appearance of loneliness, looking for similar souls in ordinary life.
Renee, Paloma, and Ozu Are Three Truly Elegant "Hedgehogs" who are attracted to each other, understand each other, transcend age, transcend looks, transcend class, transcend national borders.
The Grace of the Hedgehog is full of metaphors and intriguing.
There are endless extensions to death, to life, to love and grace.
The Grace of the Hedgehog is directed by French director Mona Achache and adapted from the bestseller of the same name by French writer Juliet Barbary.
Relying on its unique narrative perspective and deep insight into the living conditions of modern people, the film has aroused heated discussion and fierce response in the film industry since its release.
The film won the Cairo International Film Festival Award and was rated a high score of 8.8 on Douban.
The theme of the film is growth, allowing the audience to explore the healing path of individual trauma in the lonely situation during the short film playback process, and find the path to warm and enrich life in art and love.
3
Heidi and Grandpa
Any nitpicking in front of this film seems so anachronistic.
The background music of the film is dominated by a deep and determined piano song, and little Heidi stands on the Alps, and the snow-capped mountains loom in the sea of clouds.
Facing the vast mountains and forests, watching the eagle fly in the distance, Heidi reveled in it with open arms.
Despite Heidi's lonely fate, she lived like a warm little sun.
Whenever Heidi runs freely on the grassy hillside, an exotic bagpipe-like melody sounds, which is a growing force.
The protagonist of this film is Heidi, a girl who has lost her parents since childhood, and she is fortunate to be taken in by her aunt in the middle of the drift, but this luck is short-lived.
Soon after, her aunt sent her to the tranquil Alps and handed her over to her grandfather.
And this grandfather, with a strange personality and isolated people, is a "strange person" in the mouths of the villagers.
The grandfather and grandson did not get along well at first, and grandpa's whole thought was to survive three days and then send Heidi to the village priest to deal with.
When I saw my aunt and Heidi, Grandpa's first words were: "Take her away and roll me!" "
However, three days later, Heidi was not greeted by another wandering, but a wooden chair built by grandpa himself.
In just three days, Heidi managed to win the acceptance of this reclusive grandfather.
How did Heidi do it?
- You can go to the film and find the answer.
If you want to reminisce about the innocence of teenagers one day, you can watch this movie;
If one day you want to escape the hustle and bustle of modern life and feel the charm and harmony of nature, you can watch this movie;
If one day you want to know what aristocratic etiquette and bosom are, check out this movie.
This movie carries too much,
But it allows us to transcend time and feel the warmth and softness of family affection;
It allows us to transcend space and look at the inaccessible heaven and earth.
4
"True Love Supreme"
Among the must-see movies every Christmas, "True Love Supreme" is the well-deserved first choice.
Every year around Christmas I revisit this film, and it has been 12 years now, and I never tire of watching it.
"True Love Supreme" is a comedy chowder composed of 10 stories (including love, friendship, family affection, etc.), and it is also the pinnacle of group drama films.
Every scene, every actor, and every bridge in the play is an irreplaceable classic.
No matter how many imitation films will be in the future, they will not be able to shake the status of the originator of its group drama.
Now, 18 years later, its status in the eyes of the British has never declined.
Every Christmas, "True Love" is still the movie that people are most willing to watch with their loved ones.
In fact, the all-star cast, the festive atmosphere and the tone of romantic humor are only the factors that fuel the classicization of "True Love Supreme", and the real core is the story itself.
Almost everyone can find their own shadow in the play.
It is precisely because the film explains everything you have experienced, are experiencing, or about to experience, which gives the film an enduring charm.
Rather than using the word "love" to describe the stories in True Love, I prefer to use "truth."
There is a pair of pairs in the play that are very special, telling the story of a singer and his agent.
This Christmas, the agent who has accompanied the singer for many years re-recorded a song for the singer, hoping that he can make a comeback and make a comeback.
The song did not live up to their expectations, making the singer's record stand out and achieve the number one sales.
They celebrate on Christmas night.
The triumphant singer was surrounded by countless fans and celebrities who cheered him on, while his agent simply stood outside the crowd, smiling, and then turned away.
However, it was not long before the singer knocked on the door of the agent's house with a bottle of wine.
Faced with the agent's doubts, the singer explained:
"I had a sudden epiphany... Spend Christmas with the people you love. Life is short and fleeting. I'm in my fifties and I've only only discovered that I've been with you for most of my life. Although I don't want to say this, maybe the only person I love in the world is actually you. ”
"Although we always complained and argued, our days together were wonderful."
When you're in a low point, someone accompanies you through the time of no name, and when you're back to the top, he just has to look at you and smile.
When I saw this scene, my heart was also deeply touched.
I have no intention of distinguishing whether the feelings between two people are family, love, or friendship, it does not matter, beautiful emotions do not have to be limited to a specific category.
I only care about the sincerity of the two of them, as well as the cherishing and valuing of each other.
The stories in "True Love Supreme", the emotions between people, can cross age, identity, borders, regions, languages, as long as the hearts of two people are connected, they can be conveyed to each other's hearts.
All the problems that need to be solved in life are actually repairing incomplete selves and developing a more perfect self.
This kind of repair and perfection can only be cultivated in the process of loving others and being loved by others.
5
"Little Forest Summer and Autumn/Winter and Spring"
It's a warm and healing movie for a winter afternoon, holding a steaming cup of tea and curled up on a soft couch to watch quietly.
The film uses food as a medium to explore the topic of life and life.
Each season divides the film into different lengths and episodes with seven different foods, like a separate chapter.
The ingredients of the food vary over time and the seasons change, but they are all planted by the heroine herself or collected from the countryside.
The film explains and edits the production process of each food in detail but not tediously.
Simple and common natural ingredients, with smooth and familiar processing techniques, coupled with warm and bright colors, make ordinary food more healing.
It is also because of the mouth-watering food display, especially the satisfaction of the main actors in the film when enjoying the food, so that the audience jokingly called the film "Japan on the tip of the tongue".
Compared with the leisure and healing of the summer and autumn chapters, the winter and spring chapters have more encouragement and firmness.
In the summer and autumn chapter, the heroine who is scarred in the city, has a bad feeling, and cannot adapt to the life of the city, chooses to hide back to the little mori who raised her.
After experiencing the natural washing of the summer and autumn chapters, the heroine has more insights and thoughts, and some transformations have also occurred.
There is a sentence in the film with a ten-point question:
"When I fall somewhere, every time I look back at my previous self, I find that I have fallen in the same place every time.
Despite the hard work, I always circled in the same place, wandering until I was back to the original point, which was very disappointing.
But the experience is accumulated every time, so whether it is failure or success, it is no longer the origin.
Well, it should not be called "circle", but "spiral".
From a certain point of view, it may seem like going around in the same place, but in fact, it will deviate a little bit from the previous point or the next point, and if so, it is fine.
Perhaps, man himself is a "spiral", going around in the same place, but differently each time, or up or down or horizontally stretching out.
The circle I draw is getting bigger and bigger every time, so the spiral is getting bigger every time. ”
Revisiting previously seen movies some time apart can sometimes have a completely different impression.
Of course, the plot of the movie cannot be changed, but in fact, it has changed itself.
If your life is a movie, different time periods, you will see the world differently.
Maybe our lives are like movies, a short life that includes all the wonders, tragedies and comedies.
Like movies, people should not be still lifes inserted in vases for people to see, but the rhythm of dancing with the wind spread across the grassland.
The meaning of life may never have an answer, but we must also feel this life without answers.