We never lack love, what we lack is the ability to feel love. --"Feel The Love"
Love is an eternal topic, and many people in life do not feel love. In fact, love is like food and water, is our normal physiological needs, everything we encounter in life, everyone will teach us how to feel love, how to learn to love, just like these two kind and innocent teenagers in "Crocodile Wave Shoes Go to the End of the World", they have taught us how to "feel love" in the journey of life, in family, friendship and growth.
"Crocodile Wave Shoes Go to the End of the World" is a touching film, and I cried several times during the movie. It is a movie about love and companionship, people are born lonely, and are destined to go through a lifetime of loneliness, in the process of our lives, with love and companionship, there will be a lot of laughter on the difficult road, and the road of life is no longer long.
"Crocodile Wave Shoes Go to the End of the World" won the 1995 Children's Film Festival Most Popular Film Award, Best Child Star Performance Award, the film from beginning to end by shoes in tandem, two teenagers of the same age, Eric Healthy, Dix suffered from "AIDS", in constant contact and play, the two established a deep friendship, Eric came up with ideas, tried all kinds of ways to help Dex cure the disease, and even took Dex to leave home privately, just to go to New Orleans to find a cure, but unexpectedly ended with Dex's fever.
Dex's misfortune is not only because of "AIDS", but more because of the indifference and fear of those around him. Eric is a ray of sunshine in his life, although the time is short, did not save his life, but gave him enough warmth and hope, at the same time Eric also felt love.
This film Douban score of 9.1 points, although small, but full of warmth, we will be from the living environment of two teenagers, the innocent friendship of two teenagers and the "shoes" throughout the role, to appreciate the inspiration brought to us by this high-scoring movie, we have never lacked love, what is missing is the ability to feel love.
The different environments in which they grew up caused the two teenagers to feel different abilities to feel love
The two teenagers established an innocent friendship in their interactions, allowing them to rely on each other and warm each other
The penetrating role of "shoes"
How we learn to "feel love"
Stills from "Crocodile Wave Shoes Go to the End of the World"
<h1>The different environments in which they grew up caused the two teenagers to feel different abilities to feel love</h1>
At the beginning of the film, Eric's appearance gives the impression that he is a lonely teenager, he has no friends, lives with a grumpy single mother, spends most of his time playing by himself, and eats microwave food when hungry. The mother often smoked and returned late, rarely ate with him at the dinner table, and communicated less between mother and son. Eric's mom, knowing that there was a child living next door with AIDS, told Eric not to play with him.
Lonely Eric
Dex, who lives next door, suffers from "AIDS" in an accident, and Dirks is lonely and no one wants to play with him. One afternoon, two lonely souls meet, and Eric climbs over the fence and happily plays with Dekkers.
Lonely Dirks
Dex lives with his single mother, who gives him the temperature a family should have. Mom would fight with Dekkers, chat with Dex, tell stories, kiss him, and that was something Eric couldn't enjoy.
Before Eric did not know Dex, he naively thought that his mother and the mother of the world were all so cold, but the first time he went to Diners' house, Eric was warmed up, and Deks told Eric in advance that his mother would call him "Sweetheart" and told Eric not to laugh.
At the dinner table, when Dex's mother called him "Sweetheart", Eric tensed up and smiled embarrassed, Dex was happy, and his mother gave him all her love and made him feel love. Eric was a little envious and jealous, and although he superficially laughed at Dex, in fact, his heart desperately longed for his mother to call him that way, and to have such a good relationship with him.
Dix's mother
Dekkers' mother will make all kinds of food, while inviting Eric to enjoy together, the same single-parent family, Dex's family is warm, Dex can feel the love of his mother, but also can feel the love that Eric gave him, and Eric, the mother rarely cooks for him, rarely communicates, even when Eric is particularly excited to play the game, the mother did not ask for his opinion, directly turned off the game console, Eric's mother will not express love, she did not teach Eric how to love, Eric never felt love.
Imagine how a child could love someone if he lived without love? How can you love yourself? He doesn't express love at all, which is actually the reason why Eric is lonely at school, he can't play with his classmates at all, and he is often bullied by his classmates.
Eric and Dirks as partners
The different growing environments have caused Eric and Dex to have different abilities to feel love, and although Dekes has an incurable disease, he enjoys family affection and also feels the love given to him by his mother.
Psychologists have said that happy people are cured by childhood all their lives, and unfortunate people are cured of childhood all their lives. The environment of childhood life has a vital role in the growth of children, many children are depressed, unsociable, and not good at interacting with each other after adulthood, in fact, they are related to the child's living environment from childhood, children do not feel love, naturally will not express love, and then prevent children from interacting with the outside world.
<h1>The two teenagers established an innocent friendship in the interaction, allowing them to rely on each other and warm each other</h1>
The two teenagers are very lonely, Dex's loneliness lies in his illness, which makes everyone jealous, and Eric's loneliness is that no one can understand him, and the two teenagers accompany each other and care for each other.
Eric tried his best to make Dex better, and although his methods were not well-founded, he carefully recorded Dex's every body temperature and carefully glued every leaf on his notebook, which was his love for Dex. Dekkers, though not convinced, chose to cooperate, and he felt love for Eric in his actions.
Eric buys a lot of candy for Dirks every day, because Eric thinks that eating more candy will make his body better. It was his love for Dix. The amount of dex fits in. Eric picked up the herbs and continued to try the phytotherapy, although the taste was difficult to drink, Andx still cooperated with him to drink, causing Dex to diarrhea and go to the hospital.
Eric takes Dex in search of herbs to cure the disease
Eric took Dex to New Orleans to find a cure, they spent all the money before they took a ride on a downwind boat through hardships and dangers, and before the two reached New Orleans, Dex fell ill, and Eric took the sick Dex home.
Two teenagers on their way to New Orleans
During the days when Dex was ill, Eric was like an interloper, breaking dirk's lonely life and painting some color over his pale days. If Dekkers hadn't met Eric, if he hadn't drunk Eric's herbs, if he hadn't run away from home and gone on an adventure with Eric, Dex might have lived longer.
Dex likes this teenager's partner, he wants to do everything he can to cure Eric's illness, Eric even more than Dex hope that their companionship can last a long time, the friendship between the two makes them not lonely with each other, the innocent friendship also makes both of them feel love, two lonely souls meet, take care of each other, help each other, in the process of getting along, both give each other love, and both feel "love".
<h1>The penetrating role of "shoes"</h1>
The first shot in the film begins with a pair of canvas shoes, and the second scene of the protagonist begins with canvas shoes, which run through the film like a rope, starting with the shoe and ending with the shoe.
Shoes at the beginning of the film
Shoes at the end of the film
Every time the tears are poked, it is related to shoes.
▶ The first poke hit the tear spot
Eric and Dex run away from home to New Orleans to find a cure, and when Dex in his sleeping bag is awakened by a nightmare, he is sweating profusely and his clothes are soaking, Eric swaps his clean clothes with Dex, when Dex tells Eric:
When I wake up in the darkness, as if I can never leave the earth and never come back, the cosmic span is 180 light-years, if I walk 1.8 million light-years and there is nothing, only infinite cold and darkness, what should I do?
Eric then handed his shoe to Dex and said:
If you wake up scared, you think: Wait, I'm grabbing Eric's shoes, why would I grab Eric's stinky sneakers for ten billion light-years, because I'm still in the warm sleeping bag on Earth, and Eric is with me.
Dex holding shoes
In the friendship, Eric learned to "feel love" and "give love", he brought love and friendship to the sick Dirks, accompanied by the fear of Dirks.
▶ The second poke hit the tear spot
At the end of the film, Dex finally left, at his funeral, Dex lay there quietly as if asleep, Eric touched his hand, stood quietly next to him and looked at him, said goodbye to this friend who had been friendly and had enjoyed a happy time together, and when he left, Eric silently took off the shoe of his left foot and put it in Dex's hand to let him hold it, Eric was missing a shoe on his foot, and Dex was missing a shoe.
Dex with one shoe missing
Eric took one of Dirks' shoes and came to the small river. With the gentle and breezy breeze of the river, Eric put his shoes into the stream: "May my shoes make you fearless of the darkness and cold at the end of the universe, and may you drift to the place where I have reached again." "
Seeing this, my tears couldn't help but fall, Eric seemed to calmly express his reluctance to his only friend, Dex, in fact, in his relationship with Dex, he also grew, he said to Dales's mother: "I am willing to call her mother in the future." We rejoice in his growth.
In Eric's eyes, he may never have regarded Dex as a patient, he has always treated him as an ordinary person, allowing Dix to enjoy the life of an ordinary person, and accompanyIng Dirks through the happiest period of his life, whether at home or in a hospital bed, they strive to enjoy the joy of being alive.
The innocence and beauty of childhood are worth recalling again and again, and fortunately, the two teenagers have learned to "feel love" while enjoying family, friendship and growth in each other's companionship and mutual encouragement.
Happy Eric and Dex
<h1>How we learn to "feel love"</h1>
In a person's life, there will always be some people who will appear and accompany you for a while, so that you will not feel lonely in the rest of your life.
Dr. Jenny Siegel, once treated a patient, this patient is very sick, one day the nurse called the doctor, said that the patient is dying, Dr. Jenny Siegel arrived at the hospital, the patient excitedly told her that she found a lover, to marry him, the doctor thought it was too incredible, has been critically ill, and still thinking of love.
Half a year later, the patient brought her husband to visit the doctor, and the patient was much better than before, and his spirit was particularly good. Although the doctor was surprised, it turned out that after the patient and the person who loved her began a relationship, the patient slowly recovered, and this case was also known as the "miracle of love".
It can be seen how important love is in our lives, and a life without love can be said to be like a year.
In fact, in real life, it is not that we do not love, but think too much, experience too little, and ignore love.
In short, our brains, at the same time, deal with a lot of things, there is work pressure, there is life pressure, such a life makes it difficult for us to calm down, eliminate interference, in order to make a correct judgment, so the pressure is like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger, but can not be alleviated.
In fact, the simplest way is to focus on the present moment, see the eyes and listening style of another person with your heart, his actions and reactions will reveal our feelings, especially our feelings about each other, focus on that moment, to experience love with your heart, feel love.
Two teenagers accompanying each other
In the movie "Crocodile Shoes Go to the End of the World", what we experience is innocence and purity, they are like the quiet flowing river, there is no impurity, deep as the vast sea, let us feel the true feelings will always be frozen there, always so clear. With a warmth with a sense of nostalgia, it reminds us of the beauty and innocence of our youth, and those days always inadvertently bring us countless surprises.
Although the road to life is not smooth, it can be a path full of meaning and satisfaction, because we can "feel love" in life.