Relive Digimon: The Last Evolution – When the melody of Koji Wada's "Butter Fly" sounds, the whole body suddenly stirs as if it suddenly returns to more than a decade ago.
I really want to go back to that summer. At four or five o'clock, the sun had long since lost all its sharpness, and the soft light and shadow hit the leaves and cast dappled fragments. The breeze blows, the heat and dryness continue to fade, and the village, which is suppressed by the scorching sun, gradually begins to come alive. The laughter of children returning from school, the collision of pots and pans, the shouts of calling for children... It seems like everything has to do with the good.
At that time, I didn't understand how precious such a quiet, simple, family and beautiful day was, and I counted the days with my fingers every day, just looking forward to growing up quickly. Today, those who grew up with us are gone, and we continue to lose and say goodbye in the process of growing up, only to mourn those lost days, and the people who miss them will never come back.
At some point, like the villain Menoa in it, I refused to grow up, just wanting everyone to live in the past forever, so that they would never lose. Growing up sometimes is really too painful, growing is actually losing, and sometimes it always comes suddenly, arbitrarily tearing up the beauty you once thought. So over the years I have always consciously or unconsciously put myself in a state of escape, that is, the death of my brother, until now I have never felt that it is an ironclad fact, I have even always felt that I am just in a very long dream, waiting for one day to wake up, everything will return to that summer. I carried my school bag to school and rushed into the small house to watch "Digimon Baby", tired and hungry, until I was called back to dinner by my mother.
The Final Evolution – a work that is both strange and familiar to me. Freshman, Awa, Yagu Beast, Gabu Beast... They are all childhood protagonists, but their faces and today's lives are completely out of our innocent impressions. They are faced with the problem of work or graduate school, and at the fork in the road in life, they have the same confusion as us. I used to feel that the days were poor, life was hard, and learning was tired, they were our deepest hope, not contaminated with any fireworks, as if they could make us jump out of life, forget all troubles, is what our hearts want, and we have been looking forward to the day when we will also become "called children". But now this work has shattered our illusions. Just as I can't accept that the protagonist is no longer what I remember as I was from my childhood, growing up is a reality that I have to face even if I can't accept it.
At the end of the film, Yagu Beast and Gabu Beast ask Taiichi and Ah Ho "What are we going to do tomorrow?" Taiyi and Ah He were silent for a moment, and before they could reply, when they turned their heads, the Yagu Beast and the Gabu Beast had long disappeared. At that moment, tears couldn't help but burst out of his eyes. Many times growing up is not even a chance to say goodbye, before hating his brother fiercely, every day he wished he went out to work and was not at home, and now he wants to go home but can never come back, only to regret that he did not cherish it well. Originally, it was a movie that I watched to relive the good memories of my childhood, but I didn't want to be taught by the movie: my childhood can never come back, even if it is uncomfortable, I have to learn to accept it. As said in another movie I've seen before, "The Excuse for Eternity"— what you thought wouldn't be lost so easily would collapse in just a split second. So don't easily push away the people who value you, cherish the present, and you will have it.
