Original: ZhuXi
Do you want to live forever?
If there was a spring in the world that would give people eternal life, would you drink it?
Maybe many people will choose "will"?
However, the heroine of the movie "True Love Endless" Winnie, the answer given to this is: "No! ”
Even though there was a possibility of eternal life in front of her, Winnie finally chose to live her ordinary and rich life in an ordinary way.
Ordinary and not mediocre, cherishing time but being comfortable and calm, such a thick and wonderful life experience is far better than the longevity and even eternity of life.
As tucker the elder in the movie says to Winnie:
"Don't be afraid of death, you should be afraid of meaningless life."
<h1>1.</h1>
The film "True Love Endless" is based on the American famous book "Immortal Springs", and the beginning and development of the whole story revolves around a spring in the forest that can make people immortal.
The film takes "eternal life" as the starting point, from small to large, in-depth and simple, leading readers to explore the meaning of life and death.
Young Winnie, dissatisfied with her parents' strict discipline, decided to run away from home early one morning. As she wandered into the depths of the forest, she stumbled upon a handsome young man.
This young man is the youngest son of the Tucker family, Jesse.
Winnie quickly got to know the Tuckers through Jesse.
In the forest, two young people know each other and fall in love, and the spark of love quickly spreads in their hearts.
They danced together by the campfire, talked to each other in the middle of the night, and spent a wonderful time in the mountains.
However, as they got along, the secrets of the Tucker family gradually surfaced.
Because of the fountain of immortality that he inadvertently drank, the Tucker family of four gained eternal life. Under the miraculous effect of the spring water, the whole family is not injured or killed, and it is not born or perished.
But because of this, they have to guard against the covetousness of the immortal spring by unscrupulous people, and they also have to avoid the pursuit of them by suspicious people, and they have to live in seclusion in the mountains and forests.
Day after day, life is monotonous and lonely.
Seeing this, I can't help but think: Is this kind of eternal life really what we are looking forward to?
In The Twilight Zone, Edward once said a word to Bella:
"I envy Romeo because he can choose to die with his lover. But for vampires, death is a distant thing. ”
Just like Jesse's brother Miles, because he is completely out of the orbit of life, he can only watch his lover and children die one after another.
He lived in isolation, alone and suffered the pain of parting again and again, and finally constantly paralyzed himself with war and gambling, slowly sinking in boundless emptiness and hostility.
Because there is a lot of time to squander, I don't care about my current situation and future at all.
Living in such a state is terrible, like a pendulum that stops turning, isolated from the ever-changing time and space, and the heart is gradually rusted by the wind and rain of time, buried by the dust and sand of time.
<h1>2.</h1>
In the movie, Old Tucker says to Winnie:
"Death is part of the wheel of life, and you can't just pick what you like and throw away the others.
It is a blessing to be part of the whole. ”
Just as day and night, cold and warmth constitute a cycle of nature, life and death are an integral part of life.
If only death is extracted from life, then such a life is incomplete.
I think that's why Winnie didn't end up drinking the Fountain of Immortality.
For the Tucker family, who are only alive and dead, time passes very slowly and slowly. Their lives are frozen at a fixed point in time, like a stone stranded in a stream, never to experience the joy of eternal galloping in the long river of life.
Winnie, on the other hand, is fluid and vibrant.
Because life is short, she will pursue fulfillment in a limited time.
So we see that after separating from Jesse, Winnie didn't trap herself in a long wait for her lover. She firmly grasped every minute and every second of her life, and chose to spend a colorful life in the way she loved.
She is optimistic, open-minded, lively, and affectionate... Enjoying both affectionate love and the pain of parting, he has lived a serious and hard life all his life.
At the end of the story, Winnie, like countless ordinary people, obeys the laws of nature and ushers in a peaceful death.
"Winnie ▪ Foster ▪ Jackson, Forever Mother, Forever Wife."
At the end of her life, Winnie was buried by her family next to the Fountain of Immortality, and the words on the tombstone are undoubtedly the best summary of her life.
Born for less than a hundred years, but never lonely.
The light that blooms from such a rich life is no less than the meaning that eternal life brings.
<h1>3.</h1>
Lin Qingxuan once said in "My Heart Is Soft, But I Have Strength":
"If the antiques of the whole world will not be broken, the antiques will eventually be worthless; if love can not change, we will not be able to cherish love; if no one will die, we will not be able to appreciate the meaning of survival." 」
We always think that life is good and death is bad, but it is not. It is precisely because we understand that the years must pass and the inevitable end of life that we seem to open our eyes from obscurity, to explore the infinite in the finite, to explore the potential possibilities in the depths of time.
You know, the fastest and slowest, the longest and shortest, the most ordinary and the most precious thing in the world is time.
Because time is limited, we will cherish all the beauty we have now, we will firmly grasp every minute and second in life, try our best to expand the extension of life, full of expectations, and brave to love.
From this point of view, how can a limited life not be a gift from heaven?
<h1 class="ql-align-center">4.</h1>
In the film, Jesse, when forced to separate from Winnie, says to her affectionately:
"Drink that spring and wake up every day with hope before I come back."
Winnie's limited life had not allowed her to wait for Jesse anymore. Although she did not live forever, she used her life to keep the secret of the Immortal Spring, guard the Tucker family, and also guard her young love.
I live, I live, but I believe that only love, everlasting.
I care more about life than eternity.
This is exactly the theme that the film wants to express.
Life is over, and true love never ends.
About the author: Zhu Xi, a sunny little girl who loves music and life.
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