Office workers who stay up late yearn for a perfect vacation, while unemployed young people want to find a job right away; women who are already mothers of two often miss their freedom when they are not married, while single men and women look forward to a warm family of a few.
We are always envious of other people's lives, just like the classic quote in "The Siege": people outside the city want to rush in, people in the city want to escape.
This year's Oscar-winning live-action short film "Neighbor's Window" tells such a story, a middle-aged couple with three children, accidentally found that a pair of young lovers moved to the opposite building, because there is no curtain opposite, the middle-aged couple inadvertently want to observe each other's lives.
The couple also knew that such behavior was not good, but they just couldn't help but observe. In my opinion, they do not have a desire to snoop, but want to see their own lives in the lives of others, facing the chicken feathers in life, and other people's lives may be pinned on their own expectations.
Why is it said to be double snooping, the modern poet Bian Zhilin wrote in "Broken Chapter": You stand on the bridge to see the scenery, and the people who watch the scenery look at you upstairs. The same is true in the movie, when the middle-aged couple spies on the neighbors on the opposite floor, the neighbors are also observing their lives.
This film tells people's different concepts of life from different perspectives, and also reveals the true meaning of life, cherishing the life of the moment, no matter what kind of life, there must be love.
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As night fell, a mother squatted on the ground to collect her toys, and her husband had just put the children to sleep, and after all this, they sat wearily at the dinner table to rest.
At this time, the wife found a young couple moving from the opposite apartment, and they were making love in the room without curtains, completely ignoring all this and falling into the eyes of the middle-aged couple.
Middle-aged couples are amazed by their exuberance, and their hearts are also envious of each other's young bodies and passions. Looking back at them, pregnant women pregnant with children and husbands who take care of their children while working, the pressure of life has long since diluted their passion, leaving only a faint kiss.
Time flies by quickly, and in the blink of an eye, snowflakes are flying. The wife has just returned from playing outside with her three children, and she is busy taking care of several children, while the husband is wearing headphones and legs crossed in a voice conference.
The wife sighed, the two people clashed again, the husband felt that he was busy with work, and the wife went out with three children, and there should be no dissatisfaction. The wife, in turn, said she would rather work on her own.
Seriously, full-time mothers are no easier than office workers, although the husband is also very tired, but he always has time to leave work, and the profession of "mother" is 365 days a year.
When the husband thought his wife was having fun outside with her three children, the wife took care of the children in the park who had runny noses, went to the toilet, scratched, and clamored to eat.
And she had only slept 4 hours the night before, and the energy consumption and lack of sleep had left her grumpy and gaunt, and she was more willing to go to work in comparison.
The husband is also aggrieved because he is already learning how to be a good father, he works hard to support the family, and his hair begins to turn gray.
What are the young lovers on the other side of the building doing, they jump at night to party, and wake up during the day and the two people are entangled together. They have socializing, there is joy, and middle-aged couples can only sigh when they look at their lives, and then hug each other and cheer each other up.
I think that middle-aged couples envy young people, no pressure of life, no sense of responsibility to take care of children, entertainment and socializing, and they can never go back to 22 years old, out of shape, passion fades, and the pressure of life is breathless.
The above is what middle-aged couples see in other people's lives and their own lives. We see the contradictions, conflicts, stress and sense of loss in middle-aged marriages, but we also see the carnival, youth and unscrupulousness of young people.
The middle-aged couple looked at the opposite side of the building, lamenting the death of the 22-year-old, how did the people on the opposite floor think of them?
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At the end of the film, the audience discovers the existence of another perspective, and we restore another story from the mouth of the young girl.
The middle-aged couple found that the young man on the opposite floor had shaved his head, disappeared for a while, and began to lie in bed and rest. Young lovers no longer party, and their lives seem to be overshadowed.
Until one day, the middle-aged woman saw the doctor go to the opposite building to take away the young man who was dying, and compassion and curiosity dominated the middle-aged woman to go downstairs to visit the young woman.
When they met, the young woman was also surprised to see the middle-aged woman, who was overly sad and told the story that shocked the middle-aged woman in her sobs. It turned out that the young lovers were also observing them.
The young lover saw that the family of five in the opposite building was very warm, the cute children ran around, and at night the middle-aged couple would have a person get up to take care of the baby. They envied the life of middle-aged couples, because young men were sick and could move freely at first, and then they had to shave their hair and lie on a hospital bed.
Young women would lie in bed with their husbands, would comfort him and encourage him, but how many moments they were longing to have a family, just like the middle-aged couple across the stairs, warm and happy.
But the disease took away the young man, the woman's husband, and a family that was about to take shape.
The chicken feathers of middle-aged couples and the hard work of taking care of their children are the happiness they can't aspire to.
At the end of the movie, the middle-aged woman deeply embraces the young woman, and their meeting means, in my opinion, the double combination of ideal and life, returning to reality, and the present is the real life.
The middle-aged woman returned home, and her husband returned with several children. She would kiss her husband, who would share family responsibilities with her. Everyone is getting better, and life is moving towards the sun.
Although there are trifles in life, as long as there is love, husband and wife are in the same heart, hand in hand, and the days will always develop in a good direction. Contradictions and quarrels are inevitable, and life cannot be all beautiful, but these are not beautiful, but they are real lives.
The short film "Neighbor's Window" can easily trigger the audience's thinking, no matter what stage of your life, you can resonate with the fragments in it.
When you are young, you long for family, and when you are middle-aged, you remember your youth, in fact, no matter what, you must cherish your current life and infiltrate love into every small daily thing. We all have to learn to grow up, and life will get better and better, and the current dilemma may be just a small episode of life.
Finally, I would like to say one thing: happiness is not in other people's lives, but in one's own hands. May everyone be able to grasp happiness!