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"We are powerless to stop the passage of time, and we will be separated from our families and loved ones. But death is not the opposite of life, but as a part of life, it lives forever, and human memory is the continuation of the soul. ”
—— 2017 American film "Dream Quest"
If an animated film is to provide children with a story about facing death, it is hard to find a movie that is more lively, moving, and lighthearted than Dream Quest. The brilliant and colorful world of the undead, benchmarking the forgetting of the deceased in the real world, a sentence of "death is not the end, forgetting is", so that many people's hearts stir up ripples of emotional resonance. And a song "remember me" made many viewers miss their families and shed tears of emotion.
It has been said that a person experiences three deaths: the first when bodily functions cease to function; the second when death is pronounced by relatives and friends who come to the funeral; and the third is when everyone forgets. It is precisely by depicting these three deaths that this film awakens people's deep-seated empathy for what life is, and death is never the end of love.
Many people believe that beyond the world we live in, there is a virtual world, and this world is where the undead live. Our deceased loved ones go there, so at regular times of the year, we worship our ancestors, put on rich food, burn coins for them, and pray that they will bless us with peace.
On the surface, this is a feudal superstitious behavior, but the reason why it can become a solidified behavior, or even infiltrate our lives as a festival, must be inseparable from people's beliefs and spiritual sustenance.
This may be the way we choose to remember loved ones forever after they have passed away. We erect plaques, offer portraits, pass on traditions from generation to generation, and let the younger generations know that this is the family that my generation once lived with, they need our remembrance, and they cannot be forgotten.
In the long river of life, there is a time limit for mutual companionship, we cannot stop the passage of time, only memory is eternal, only the stories recorded for decades and long years can last forever.
So when the elders tell you the story of their generation, about the important people who have appeared in their lives, you must listen to them, and before their memories disappear, they hope that someone will save these beautiful and important memories, which will be the continuation of the souls of the dead.
You may think that it is mysterious, but this is just the most basic emotional maintenance of human beings. We can't freeze the body, we can't have the elixir of immortality, in the face of death, in the face of the death of relatives, everyone will grieve, no one wants it to happen, and in the face of the law of life, the only thing we can do is to cherish companionship before death, and after death, through worship, through inheritance, to remember our relatives.
We have always thought that the opposite of love is not love, and this film reshapes our perception that the antonym of love is forgetting. In getting along with my family, I have more or less quarreled, and I have done excessive behavior because of lack of communication and because I do not understand. Over time, this contradiction, affected by the degree of its magnitude, may eventually reconcile, release or continue hatred.
But I would say that you may not be able to imagine how much your family loved you, that they never hated you because of your hurt, and that their thoughts of you never stopped on every reunion festival, in every lonely night. You may not choose to forgive, but please do not forget that when no one in this world remembers it again, that person dies and disappears completely.
"I will definitely remember you before the memory of love disappears." Perhaps this is the most beautiful promise in the world.
May there still be people on the other side of the world!
The theme song "remember me" lyrics and movie footage
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