<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > introduction</h1>
Li Zongsheng sang a "mortal song", which has two lyrics like this:
"You and I are mortal, born in the world. Running and working all day long, not idle for a moment."
How many ordinary people's hearts and sorrows have been sung.
When we were young, we were all passionate and confident in our desire to conquer the world.
But when we grow up, we find that no one can conquer the world. Rather, in turn, we have to accept the beatings of the world.
To survive, for the house, the car, the children, the tickets, we struggle desperately, desperately.
However, after a lifetime of busyness, he has never been able to live the life he wants.
We are miserable, we are helpless, why is fate so unfair? Why are you so ordinary?
After watching this "The Unknown Generation", we finally understand that life is so impermanent, and mortals are not only you and me.
Most of us will end up being ordinary people all our lives.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > born mortal, no need to apologize</h1>
The movie "The Unknown Generation" tells the story of a group of small people.
Ma Xianyong, played by Chen Jianbin, has achieved nothing in middle age, and has worked as a small security guard in a real estate project that is at the end of a project and the boss runs away.
The daily work is to guard a mess and fight with Liu Wu, who comes to collect debts.
Work is not smooth, life is also a mess, daily food and drink all rely on credit, the girl's tuition is not paid, the relationship between father and daughter is not harmonious, the daughter looks down on him, he often scolds the child in public.
But it is such a slightly greasy middle-aged bottom, who also has dreams, he longs to become a policeman, or at least become an assistant policeman again, but this road is extremely difficult.
During a fight between Ma Xianyong and Liu Wu, a motorcycle appeared in front of a bank, and two men in helmets walked into the bank with a gun in their hands and announced that they were going to rob it.
The final result was ironic, because it was too provocative, they gave up robbing the bank, turned around and robbed a mobile phone store next to the bank, and what was even more ridiculous was that they grabbed a bunch of worthless model machines.
In a panic, they climbed the window and entered the home of a disabled girl, named Ma Jiaqi, who was paraplegic and had been fixed in a wheelchair all her life except to be able to see and speak.
But although she can't move, her mouth cannon skill is MAX.
Under her sharp teeth, the robbers named Glasses and Big Heads were snuffed out and turned into complete skins.
The two had just come to the city from the countryside and dreamed of getting ahead and doing something big, and the way they could think of firing their first shots of fame was robbery.
Glasses people do not talk much, since childhood eager to become a big brother surrounded by everyone, his plan for the future is four words "bigger and stronger".
But there is not much learning, and the IQ is also lacking, and the only brother who has been following him is Datou.
Big head is an obsessive species, he does not have the ancient feelings of glasses, nor does he care about getting bigger and stronger, all his thoughts are on Xiamei, full of joy and longing to sell his mobile phone and take money back to his rural hometown to build a house, marry Xiamei, and buy lollipops for Xiamei.
Two armed robbers, a disabled girl, confront each other in a small room.
The girl is bent on death, constantly provoking the glasses with words, wanting him to shoot to end his painful life.
The glasses are constantly hovering between the superficial rigidity and the inner encouragement, and the ridicule of the TV host when they report their robbery and the ghostly video made by netizens for them are even more clicks that break his psychological defense line.
He collapsed and shouted, "You can arrest Lao Tzu and kill Lao Tzu, but why play Lao Tzu and prank Lao Tzu?" ”
This is the most merciless place of life, which always sprinkles a handful of salt on your wounds when you are most frustrated.
In "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", Xiao Loli asked the uncle: "Is life always so difficult?" Or only in childhood? ”
The uncle replied, "Always." ”
Life is always so hard, but it's not just for you, it's true for everyone, but for all ordinary people.
Ma Xianyong, who can't get a salary, can't afford to raise his daughter, and can't be an assistant police officer, will feel that life is difficult.
The rest of his life can only be spent in a wheelchair, and Ma Jiaqi, who can't even ask for death, will complain about the hopelessness of life.
Glasses that originally want to be impressed, but in the end can only be reduced to a laughingstock, will resent the impermanence of fate.
Their lives are not going well, and they are all struggling in the vortex of the ordinary.
There is a hot topic on Zhihu: "What is the experience of being a scum at Tsinghua University?" ”
One of the highest praises replied this way: "Anxiety." Anxiety every day. Most of the people who enter Tsinghua have a history of calling the wind and rain. Then I entered Tsinghua and found out what a frog at the bottom of the well was. You find yourself without any superiority, and even the only advantage, studying well, is gone. You become a completely mediocre person. ”
To be able to enter the highest universities in China is already outstanding, but in the Tsinghua campus where the masters are like clouds, they will still be confused for the sake of the ordinary, let alone those of us.
Park Shu sang in "Ordinary Road": "I once fell into boundless darkness, trying to struggle but unable to extricate myself. I used to be like you like him like that weed and wildflower, desperate, longing, crying and laughing."
For the vast majority of people, the ordinary is the background of our lives.
As Chen Daoming said: "There are not so many protagonists in the world, and most people may be willing to be lonely or mediocre in their lifetime."
Born as mortals, we don't have to be sorry, because that's our destiny.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > adult bitterness, hidden under a mask</h1>
The middle-aged Ma Xianyong once had a happy family, with a wife, daughter and sister around. Although the civil service examination has not been successful several times, at least a decent auxiliary police job.
But all this was shattered after a drunk drive, the wife died on the spot, the sister Ma Jiaqi was paraplegic, and although he escaped from death, he was saddled with heavy shackles.
The job is gone, the security boss also ran away, the sister resented him, and the daughter ignored him.
No money, no power, no dignity, he can only rely on fighting, rely on greasy facelessness, rely on scolding his daughter, rely on a lonely and courageous investigation and gun search to find a gun to find a little bit of decency, a little dignity.
Under his apparent cynicism, it is actually a heart that wants to make up for it and prove itself.
Ma Jiaqi, the queen of poisonous tongues, the car accident changed the trajectory of her life, turning her into a dirty woman.
Open her mouth and shut up "Lao Tzu", the nanny was scolded by her several times, her brother was her venting object, and even two robbers were scolded by her to the point of bloodshed.
It seemed that she didn't care about anything and just wanted to die.
She frantically stimulated her glasses, used the most vicious language to insult him, and encouraged him to kill herself.
But after a sudden urinary incontinence, all her strength collapsed.
She was not afraid of anything, not even of death, but she could not bear the humiliation of being in front of two strange men at this moment.
She lived herself as a shrew, just so that no one else would see her inferiority, because that was the only decency she had.
The life of the robber's glasses seems to us to be a joke.
Dreaming of becoming a big brother, but in fact it is just a skin.
A gun from the beginning of the movie to the end of the movie, never had the courage to open. In the end, a gunshot, but because of the accident, is really ironic.
Glasses asked the heavens twice in a sad rage, why did they play him like this?
But in fact, it is he himself who has been deceiving himself.
In order to get ahead among his friends, he pretended to be a dead cobra and killed himself. In order to gain a foothold in the big city, he wanted to use the bank robbery to establish the prestige of the bandits, but he unexpectedly dropped the chain at a critical moment and became a laughing stock.
He always has a hard mouth, always uses fierce cool to hide his inner timidity and cowardice, and all this is just to earn a little dignity.
Director Rao Zhigang said: "In the glasses, dignity is greater than the sky."
It is the same in Ma Xianyong and Ma Jiaqi, for the sake of dignity, they are all living with masks.
All the hippie smiles, spicy tongues, and fierce tricks on the masks are the weapons they use to fight against ordinary life.
Life is really hard, and only behind the mask can they and we get a moment's breathing.
I remembered a few news stories I had seen before:
The Hangzhou boy was retrograde late at night, kneeling and crying bitterly. The boss kept urging him to work overtime, and his girlfriend kept urging him to go home and deliver the keys. On the one hand is work, on the other side is love, the guy in the middle of the middle after being stopped by the traffic police, the emotions that have endured for a long time finally broke out, and he couldn't help but collapse and cry "It's really annoying."
At the subway station, the guy in the suit with a straight suit fell to the ground because he was drunk with the customer, and lamented that life was not easy. At the moment of seeing his wife's arrival, all his strength disappeared, hugged his wife and cried, and couldn't help but apologize: "Baby I'm sorry, I feel that I am useless."
The life of an adult is really full of heartache.
Zhang Ailing said: "Men after middle age often feel lonely, because as soon as he opens his eyes, he is surrounded by people who want to rely on him, but there are no people he can rely on." ”
The reality is like this, let us be born ordinary, but use life to force us to become superhuman.
But we don't have three heads and six arms, most of the time we don't have anyone to rely on, all we have is ourselves.
So, we put on our masks so that we could have a space to empty ourselves after doing our best.
If you accidentally see through someone else's mask, or someone else spies on the truth under the mask.
There is no need to be surprised, and there is no need to be afraid, because we are all like this.
The poet Haizi once said: "In these years, who does not wear a box of masks to the end of the world?"
Therefore, those deep cries in the middle of the night have made so many people feel empathy.
Because, this is the most authentic life of each of us ordinary people.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the world is worth it, and we will eventually reconcile with our ordinary selves</h1>
There is a saying in Li's birthday that was once widely circulated on the Internet: "The human world is not worth it."
Is it really not worth it? For Ma Xianyong, Ma Jiaqi, glasses and big heads, who have been ravaged by life over and over again, the human world does not seem to be worth it.
However, in the end, we will find that although there are too many unworthy places in the world, there are still countless reasons for us to like and love.
The old father Ma Xianyong fought alone for so long, he thought that as long as he found the gun and made a contribution, he could become extraordinary from then on, and he could repair the broken father-daughter relationship and brother-sister relationship.
However, when he saw his daughter's nervous expression after being shot, and saw that her daughter's name on the book had not changed her surname, he understood that compared with the social status he desperately pursued, his daughter's recognition was the most important thing in his heart, and it was also the most important meaning of his life.
At that moment, he really smiled.
The daughter he had been ignoring and treating her violently was actually just trying to save her father with superficial rebellion.
What the daughter wants is not how much her father has achieved and how much money she earns, all she needs is that this ordinary father can accompany her more, give her long-lost fatherly love and family warmth.
The bondage of family affection makes the ordinary human world of this father and daughter worthy from now on.
After the urinary incontinence incident, Ma Jiaqi's already world-weary mood reached its peak.
But the spectacles did not surprise her, and the glasses did not take the opportunity to laugh at her and retaliate against her, but covered her head with a blanket, put on a strong mask again, and changed into diapers for her.
This is a pair of ordinary people who have suffered a lot of pity, they have seen each other's most fragile and real appearance, ordinary has narrowed the distance between them.
Glasses and big head help Ma Jiaqi fulfill her last wish, taking her to the top floor to take a picture of her standing in every way, which is really funny and touching.
This is a rare moment of joy and laughter in Ma Jiaqi's gray life.
When Ma Jiaqi woke up to the music and found that the glasses did not turn on the gas as agreed, she was still alone in this immovable world.
However, when she saw the painting left by the glasses, she was touched. Glasses said he wanted to accompany her through the rest of the bridge.
Since then, Ma Jiaqi has had a reason to continue living, and it was glasses for her.
In fact, as early as When Ma Jiaqi unusually told her brother Ma Xianyong to take good care of herself, she had already let go of her resentment and reconciled with life.
Glasses give Hope to Ma Jiaqi's life, and Ma Jiaqi also gives a soft corner to the heart of the glasses.
They are each other's salvation, and love makes their lives worth it from now on.
Datou has always been the purest person in the movie who loves and is most desperate for life.
He loved his sister Zhenzhen, loved her completely without impurities, he didn't care what work Zhenzhen did, he didn't even care if she loved him or not, as long as Zhenzhen said a word, he could leave everything behind.
All along, Zhenzhen has not accepted the big head. However, when she saw that Zhenzhen learned of Datou's plan to rob the bank but hid it from the police, she had already fallen in love with Datou.
In the end, the picture of the big head and the real man holding hands and laughing and running is really beautiful.
This is the love of an ordinary person, there is no vigorousness, there is no romance to speak of, but it is enough to make us believe that the world is worth it.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > postscript</h1>
Romain Rolland said: "There is only one kind of heroism in this world, that is, after seeing the truth of life, still love life."
Deeply.
At the end of the movie, there is no ordinary counterattack as we expect, and the critical attack of life on the unknown continues.
In the contrast between the brilliant fireworks in the sky and the arrests on the ground, the film comes to an abrupt end.
Ma Xianyong was shot again, and his glasses and big head were still caught.
But for them, these injuries and pains are actually a good thing.
After experiencing whimsical failures, they can learn to live on the ground.
Only when they recognize the truth of life will they understand the preciousness of the ordinary, and will they cherish and love their future lives even more.
Zhou Guoping said: "Everything in the world is extraordinary, and in the end it must return to the ordinary, and its value must be measured by ordinary life." Great, wonderful, successful is nothing, only to live an ordinary life truly well, life is complete. ”
There is no one who does not aspire to be a hero and have an extraordinary life. However, when we focus all our energy on chasing the unattainable extraordinary, we tend to overlook the true happiness around us.
Only by accepting the ordinary and living every day well in the ordinary can we have true happiness.
Just like Park Shu finally sang: "I have crossed the mountains and the sea, and I have also crossed the sea of people; everything I once had has is like smoke in the blink of an eye; I have been lost and disappointed, and I have lost all directions, until I see the ordinary is the only answer." ”
Yes, the ordinary is the only answer.