Not surprisingly, "koi" is likely to become this year's annual vocabulary.
Pick up your phone and turn on the computer, and the pit is full of all kinds of koi. Whether it is forwarding the koi worship of koi or the anti-koi religion of the iron pot harpoon, everyone is wrapped up in this kind of inexplicable carnival of contemporary network rituals.
It seems that in addition to forwarding, we can really do nothing to achieve various wishes, the so-called "lying win".
If you think about it, everything has been traced since everyone has been advertising "Buddhism".
Happiness or success, when these mainstream socially recognized life models are becoming more and more difficult to achieve, young people who are taught to "find more reasons from themselves" when they are young are of course the first thing to think of is to change themselves: do not force, only follow the fate, where to go.
In the understanding of Buddhist youth, after giving up personal struggle, the turnaround can basically only rely on luck, and luck often falls from the sky.
In the end, forwarding koi is only a manifestation of Buddhism. Forwarding koi to seek is vain luck, to be blessed and saved. After Buddhist youth and koi worship became popular, criticizing individuals for "why not work hard" is basically equivalent to saying "why don't you eat meat" to say.
As for the reasons for the popularity of Buddhist youth and koi worship, I will not go into it. Today, let's talk about some happy and healing, and ease the awkward atmosphere.
It's Angel Amelie.
"Angel Amelie" has a kind of magic, after watching this movie, no matter what time you think about it, the mood will be better.
As for how classic "Angel Amelie" really is, the endless list of movies has said it all. There's another statistic about the audience's love for Angel Amelie: the number of newborns in England and Wales, named Aélie, grew rapidly to 250 in 2000 or 12, and remained largely stable at around 1100 after 2007.
Those young people who grew up watching "Angel Amelie", after becoming parents, still remember the love and hope brought to them by the heroine Emily. No one can't be attracted by Emily's big eyes, and director Jean-Pierre Genet is no exception.
It's hard to imagine what it would have been like if emily hadn't been played by Audrey Tatoo. But initially, when Genet wrote the script, the actress in his heart was the British actress Emily Watson, and even the name of the character was Emily.
Emily Watson's French is not good enough, so René specially revised the script to write emily in the story as growing up in England. Of course, Emily Watson ultimately failed to star in the film, on the grounds that she didn't want to be away from home for more than half a year.
Around the same time period as Angel Amelie, Emily Watson starred in the movie "Gosford Manor"
In addition to the starring role, "Angel Amelie" is also facing the problem of no money to be afraid of. Although René had just finished filming Alien 4 at the time, the production company he initially found was still messing with him because of budget.
For René personally, after spending two years busy with the large-scale production of "Alien 4", he is more eager for freedom and eager to make some personal works.
It was also because of Alien 4 that Genes parted ways with his former partner, Mark Carroll. They initially made animated short films together, and also completed the live-action movies "Rhapsody of the Black Shop" and "Night of The Lost Soul of a Child". However, for Hollywood's offer, René saw it as an opportunity, while Carlo was not very interested.
"Alien 4" shot on the set, with starring Winona Ryder on the left and director Jean-Pierre Genet on the right
After making Alien 4, René never touched a Hollywood movie again ("The Fantastic Journey of Young Spevie", although also in English, is a French-Canadian co-production). After all, the whimsy of the heat can not be domesticated into the hollywood pool.
Speaking of "Angel Amelie", even if Emily Watson can't star, the movie will still start shooting. Whether in the movies or in reality, wonderful things happen all the time.
One day, while wandering the streets of Paris, Genet saw the poster for the movie "Venus Desir" and was immediately attracted by the poster of Audrey Tattu, "I was attracted by a pair of black eyes, they flashed innocence, so special." ”
Stills from Venus Beauty Salon
Of course, he still arranged an audition for Audrey Tato, but the audition began for almost ten seconds, and René was already convinced that emily's role was indispensable to her. The heroine, who originally grew up in the UK, was changed to 100% French girl Amélie.
Then there was the angel Amelie, who was always blinking wide-eyed and wanting to stop talking, as if he wanted to blurt out a secret.
The story of the film begins with the moment Emily is conceived in her mother's body.
The narrator tells in great detail what was happening at 6:28:32 p.m. on September 3, 1973, the flies flapping their wings 14,670 times a minute, two wine glasses dancing with the wind on the tablecloth, an old man crossing out the contact information of his deceased old friend after returning from the funeral...
After "Angel Amelie", it will still go out of its way to depict all kinds of subtle and specific things that are happening at a certain moment. And these details are all collected by director René in his life before.
Since about the 1970s, René has been consciously collecting and sorting out various memories, events, and short stories. When he pieced together these little events, there was the movie "Angel Amelie".
The various likes and dislikes of the characters in the movie are actually real, but they are presented in different combinations.
In the film, Emily as a child is extremely unnoticed. Her father, a doctor, only hugged her during her monthly check-up and misdiagnosed her resulting rapid heartbeat as a heart problem. Her mother, a neurotic middle school principal, was killed by a foreign tourist who jumped off a building and committed suicide while taking Emily to church.
Little Emily has no friends, the only goldfish that accompanies her, and because of depression, she often jumps out of the water tank to die and is released. Since then, little Emily can only be accompanied by daydreams, fulfilling her wishes in fantasies, a habit that she still retains as an adult.
Growing up, she became a waitress in a café, living alone in Paris, ashamed to interact directly with others. But that all changed with the death of Princess Diana.
Just as she learned the news, Emily found a forty-year-old iron box containing various treasures from a young boy's childhood, and Emily decided to find the owner of the box.
After repeated failures, Emily finally handed the box to its owner. The feeling of helping a person made Emily feel incomparably peaceful, comforted and happy, and she decided to help more people, and the way to help was Emily-like: funny, unique, and untraceable.
As she walked through the crowd with the blind old man, she vividly broadcast for him what was happening on the street at the speed of a sports commentator;
In order to get the nervous female colleague and the guest who cannot extricate herself from the sea of suffering in the lost love, Emily forcibly creates a scandal between the two of them to help them get love;
In order to allow her father, who lives alone, to be able to get out of the house, Emily stole her father's cherished dwarf sculpture, asked the flight attendant to take pictures of it everywhere, and sent photos back;
The disabled clerk of the fruit shop downstairs is bullied by the evil boss, and Emily takes the lead for him, sneaking into the evil boss's home to set various traps and teach the evil boss;
She also wrote a sentence from the manuscript of the fallen writer on the wall of the street to let him know that his work was not unappreciated;
Emily also has the whim to forge a forty-year-late letter for the landlady to convince her that her dead husband once loved her;
Recording TV videos for his "Glass Man" neighbors who don't leave home makes his life a little fun.
In short, Emily is doing her best to help the people she can help in her own way, but she is afraid to act on her own life.
Emily falls in love at first sight with Nino (Matthew Kasowitz), a young man with strange fetishes. Emily, who had never felt loved, did not have the courage to express herself directly, and she played a game of hide-and-seek with Nino again and again, not daring to expose herself to him truthfully.
Just when Emily thought she would eventually fall in love, the story turned around. Nino finally understands her kindness and beauty, and the encouragement of the "Glass Man" neighbor also makes Emily understand that happiness depends on herself.
The angelic Emily also had the happiest ending you can think of. But as a viewer, you don't feel that this ending is too unreal, you will only feel relieved that good people have finally received the beauty of the world.
Looking back at "Angel Amelie", Emily and Nino's love story is still romantic and cute. But what the film wants to tell us more is that Emily deserves such beauty.
Speaking about the popularity of Angel Amelie, Genet said: "The success of it [Angel Amelie] is more because it speaks of generosity... This generosity is free, and she (Emily) doesn't need anything else in exchange. ”
In the movie, all the actions that Emily does for others are not to get rewards and gratitude from others. Most of the time, she was secretly doing these things. She does these things because she can be happy in helping others, and this happiness is enough to dilute her loneliness.
At the end of the story, Emily gets a response from her loved one. And the audience's joy also comes from this, Emily's efforts finally have another level of reward, and girls like her deserve this kind of reward and love.
Pacific Insurance recently released a branded video with a theme that coincides with Angel Amelie: "Love is worth being loved."
The protagonist of the video is a young girl and a stray cat. At the beginning of the short film, the girl stumbles upon a kitten looking for water to drink. After that, she found a lunch box from home, filled the kitten with water and rice, took care of the kitten's diet, and even prepared a cat nest for it.
This beginning, like the act of all caring people rescuing stray animals, is the story of one party being saved by the other.
As the story progresses, the girl in the workplace encounters setbacks. When she returned to the alley where she lived exhausted, when she wept alone, it was the stray cat she had cared for who healed and comforted her. At this moment, the healing and the healed, the saved and the saved, seem to be completely reversed.
And the most classic advertising slogan of Pacific Insurance, "Usually inject a drop of water, when it is difficult to have the Pacific Ocean", why is it not this concept? To give love is to reap love; to have love, to be worthy of love.
There is no shortcut to getting what you want.