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It is a blessing that people can do what they really like in this life.
"Sleeping Forest" is an early work of the famous Japanese writer Keigo Higashino, in 1989, Keigo Higashino decided to challenge his own field of expertise, so he chose the ballet world that he knew nothing about before as the main line of the novel. In order to write this novel about ballet dancers, Keigo Higashino watched more than twenty classical ballets in a year and poured great effort and enthusiasm into it.
The book "Sleeping Forest" is the second book of Keigo Higaga's Detective Collection, and its popularity is not as good as "White Night" and "The Dedication of Suspect X", which have been remade several times into movies, but the depiction of the beauty of human nature can be described as very moving, which is its unique charm.
For this book, some readers commented, "This book is very beautiful! Recommend everyone to see. A novel that combines reasoning and love" "This ending is really gentle and trembling! "Keigo Higashino combines suspense and aesthetic romance perfectly to have such a moving work.
At the beginning of the story, the police officer Kaga is forced to go to a ballet performance with his blind date, "Swan Lake", and the sleepy Kaga is stunned by the black swan who appears, and since then Kaga has a good feeling for the ballet dancer who plays the black swan.
When Kaga saw Wei Xu again, it was because of the murder of Wei Xu's ballet company. In the office of the ballet, an unidentified man died on the spot, while the ballet actress Ye Youzi, who was at the scene of the crime, was implicated and imprisoned.
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The investigation of the case has not yet reached a result, but the artistic director of the ballet has been murdered and died in his seat in front of everyone, followed by another ballet actress, Yasuko, who also committed suicide... Puzzle after puzzle, as the police investigation deepens, Kaga's love line also slowly unfolds, and in the contact with the ballet company, his unsettled love for the "black swan" is deeply rooted.
In the end, Kaga found the answer to the story and felt the heartwarming love.
First, the truth that has been painstakingly buried
Have I ever speculated about the motives of the crime, for revenge, for status, for love, for money, or just because of long-standing jealousy like Keigo Higashino's other novel, Malice? It turned out not to be, perhaps it was my habit of speculating with the greatest malice, and I did not think that all the concealment and lies in that story were just for the last ballet performance, for the ballet career that the ballet dancers were intoxicated with.
Behind the truth that was painstakingly buried by the ballet, what I saw was the true, good, and beautiful side of human nature, the friendship that Ye Yuzi was willing to bear in order to realize her friend's wishes, the love that Kaga knew was the murderer but still wanted to protect her, and the stage enthusiasm that Weixu knew that he could not do anything to complete the perfect performance.
When the mystery of the story slowly emerges, the light of the beauty of human nature shines more and more.
Second, the hand of fate that turns clouds and rains
What does ballet mean to Wei Xu and to the dancers of the company? I think it's probably the most passionate love. Wei Xu is a dancer who is really dancing ballet with her life, even if she is not the heroine on the stage, she has no complaints. But fate was so cruel to her, an accident, she began to lose her hearing, and her dance career came to an abrupt end. Her last wish was to dance the last ballet performance and bring her ballet career to a perfect end.
Life's accidents always catch people off guard. Life with smooth sailing is not often there, and more is powerless and helpless.
I think of another story Written by Yu Hua, "Alive". The Seattle Times once commented that "Alive" is a cruel reading.
In the book "Alive", Yu Hua tells the story of an old man named Fugui who was played by fate, father, mother, son, daughter, wife, son-in-law, grandson, one by one, died, and finally only Fugui was left, and the elderly Fugui could only rely on the old cattle for his life.
From Fugui's story, we lament the impermanence of fate and the creation of people, and any of us may be tricked by this invisible and untouchable fate. In the face of fate, we are afraid and uneasy, we can do nothing, all we can do is to hold the hands of those around us and continue to set out towards the love of our hearts.
Third, love but low-paying work
A man's life is too short if he wants to do one thing; if he does not do something, it is too long. Rigorous training day after day, strict weight control, meager salary, boring life... This is the life of a ballet dancer like Unsurrected. Although in the eyes of others, they live a hard life, but there is still starlight in their eyes, and there is still heat in their hearts. What a blessing to be able to do what you love!
I remember that there was an issue in "Strange Story" that debated "High-paid but disliked and low-paid jobs, which one do you choose?" ”
As the opposite, Zhan Qingyun, a talented woman of Hav, said something like this:
"Work is a very important part of our lives, only when work is lovely, life will be lovely, high salary can bind me to the seat where I work, but it can't bind my heart to creation." 」 The company with high salary does not just want to buy your time, it wants to buy your efficiency, buy your attention, buy your creativity, these things can not be forced by money, it can only like to bring, is like to bring creation, create and eventually accumulate wealth. ”
The reason why this debate has aroused widespread discussion is only because it directly hits the hidden pain of each of us. The two sides of the fierce confrontation are the two villains who fight each other inside. Not everyone has the courage to go forward for their love, regardless of their own lives, and because of this, those who insist on what they love as if they are not ready are not more worthy of our respect and encouragement?
At the end of the story in The Sleeping Forest:
Wei Xu successfully completed the final stage performance.
Kaga whispered that in her ear, I like you.
This ending is a bit sweet, when Kaga confessed to Weixu, I seemed to hear the sound of fireworks blooming in my heart; this ending is also a bit bitter, so I love ballet, from now on, how to spend the rest of my life?