No one will tell you directly, what is life? Regarding life, everyone will have their own feelings. Lament how difficult it is to live a life, and then leave this life and start another life that you yearn for, and so on.
This is an option that many people often do, but life doesn't get any smoother because you start all over again after you leave. We've heard the saying that when you leave one place for another because of disgust, you still can't change your disgust elsewhere.
Many people are tired of the current mess and choose to go somewhere else to start a life they yearn for. This is the same purpose of tourism. No place exists as a public tourist attraction.
Most of the time, the so-called tour is just to go from the place you are tired of to the place where others are tired. Boredom itself needs to be figured out, and the meaning of travel doesn't help you figure out why you're tired of this life, it just helps you get out of here and go to a place you yearn for, nothing more.
Is it possible to escape from life? Obviously not. The most important component of life is yourself, but even if you can escape from your current life, you can't escape yourself in the end. Therefore, the attempt to start a new life after escaping from the old life is not realistic in itself.
Bergman vividly illustrates this with a film from the 1950s. Decades later, there is a Hong Kong film that explains it to us accordingly, and that movie is called "Precocious".
But what we want to recommend to you today is Bergman's work, "Bad Girl Monica", which is a film work of the 1950s, which mainly tells us a story of shattered ideals.
Harry, a bored boy, works as an employee of a porcelain shop and lives a busy day. Although he was very diligent, he could not avoid being scolded by the shopkeeper in various ways. Harry felt that such a life had little meaning, but he could not find a more meaningful life to escape from the present.
The situation of the young girl Monica is similar to Harry's, Monica is an employee of a vegetable shop, and Monica can't find a clean place in this crowd of men. As the only female employee, Monica herself had to endure the ridicule of other male clerks, and when she returned home, her father was an alcoholic because of the large number of children. Monica is very weak about the concept of family. One day, however, Harry and Monica meet.
The two men met by accident and quickly became acquainted. Because of the same situation, Monica and Harry quickly became good friends and eventually developed into lovers. The two people who fell in love felt that life was suddenly full of laughter and laughter. Therefore, everything in reality should be immediately pushed back and restarted.
Monica was fed up with her position at home, and Harry was very unhappy that she was being called in the porcelain shop. So the two men resigned decisively, and then drove Harry's father's small yacht and began a free life. But the good times didn't last long, and Monica was pregnant. Under the blow of this reality, they had to go back from the wandering road. Once again, the path of freedom has deteriorated.
Back in normal life, Harry and Monica are quickly squeezed out of life. In reality, they have to face the rice, oil and salt in life, the need to buy food after the birth of the child, Monica needs to buy new clothes, and the rent is all kinds of expenses that overwhelm Harry.
In the end, the two people no longer had the joy and laughter of the past, and their lives were once again buried by various trivial things. The ideal good life has thus become gone. Bergman tells us a clichéd story in his own lens language. Bergman has always been cautious in judging. You can only explore from one aspect, and a complete evaluation will often appear to be insufficient.
This story is what we often call the principle of tourism, that is, the distance between ideal and reality for most people. Life doesn't always go well or it doesn't always go bad. Every life has its own good and bad. Most of the time, the ideal life only exists in the ideal, and once the reality is gone, the ideal has no basis for existence.
However, many people do not understand the reasoning too well. We are tired of the core of our current life that what we want and give is not proportional to what we give, so we feel that the current life is a drag on us.
But in fact, when we are far away from this life or change our way of life, will everything become better? Not quite, because we always put the good life in our imagination.
There is no sorrow in the imaginary life, there is only joy, but is that life realistic? As if unrealistically, Monica and Harry's life in the wild was indeed more laughing than sad, yet on those days they had to endure the reality of eating only mushrooms every day.
Monica and Harry return to reality without reflecting deeply, because the reason they return to reality is simple, that is, life in the wild can no longer satisfy the fact that Monica is pregnant. As a result, the beautiful side of the yearning is finally broken. Back in reality, Harry becomes more tired, and Monica herself becomes hysterical.
Not thinking about the causes of this life, but only focusing all your attention on leaving and going, does not change the essence of life, because the good life promoted by impulse will eventually be shattered by reality. In this way, the idealist becomes more sad.
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Hello and goodbye