The film "Flying Backlight" is taiwanese director Zhang Rongji's first theatrical film in 2012, which was loved by many audiences after its release and shined at the Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan in the same year. Because the movie contains positive energy such as dreams, inspiration, and warmth, the score on Douban is still as high as 8.2 points today.
In the first half of the film, two lines are designed to describe the male and female protagonists. One line is that the male protagonist Yuxiang has a visual impairment since he was a child, and he is always bullied by his classmates when he goes to school in general school. By chance, YuXiang's mother discovered his love and talent for the piano, and Yuxiang later entered the music department of national Taiwan University of the Arts through his own efforts. With his love for the piano and outstanding performance, he was recognized by more people in a music competition held at the school.
The heroine Xiaojie is a girl who has liked to dance since she was a child, but her family has a deep prejudice against dance, so after she graduated from high school, she began to work. However, this did not make her give up her love of dance. By chance, she attended a free dance training class and participated in a dance competition. After receiving recognition, he chose to return to school and study dance.
The film is based on the Taiwanese pianist Huang Yuxiang, based on his true story, and invited him to play himself in the film. At the same time, the famous director Wong Kar-wai was invited to be the supervising producer, and the Taiwanese dancer Xu Fangyi and the old drama bone Li Lie participated. It presents the growth process of Yuxiang and the process of mutual understanding, support, influence and progress between friends.
This article will interpret the film from the aspects of self-imposed limitations, ways to solve suffering, and growth through the power of others.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 has no limit on the target and does not bow down to fate</h1>
1, Yuxiang: If you don't try, how do you know how much you can do?
At the beginning of the movie, the mother is ready to send Yuxiang to college, the neighbors are worried about whether Yuxiang can take care of himself, the mother said: always try, can not take care of him all his life.
In the school, the department arranged for daily students to take Yuxiang from the dormitory to the classroom. Without wanting to trouble anyone else, he began practicing this stretch of his own.
Xiao Jie met Yu Xiang in a series of dilemmas such as emotional frustration and poor family situation, and with his encouragement, rekindled her love for dance.
"If you don't try, how do you know how much you can do?" This is the sentence that Yuxiang says the most in the film. In the eyes of normal people, many things that are taken for granted, for people with visual impairments, they cannot be directly perceived, and they can only rely on hearing to feel the world. In the movie, YuXiang translates this sentence into a personal practice, going to school, washing clothes, buying things, joining clubs, etc., trying to do a lot of things that have not been done before. From housemates to club members to teachers and friends, he was influenced by this spirit.
In real life, especially in the workplace, our past experience will form an inertial thinking about unknown difficulties. This kind of thinking will shackle our steps forward, and even produce fear and escape psychology because of unknownness. Therefore, many times we choose not to do it or to do it passively.
Things don't take a detour with the individual's escape, it always comes at some point. So since the difficulty will come sooner or later, why not take the initiative to try to solve it?
Avoidance is only a moment, and actively trying to solve the problem to the maximum extent, while knowing where the boundaries of your own abilities are?
2, Xiao Jie: If you can't give up on the things you like, then you have to work harder to let others see your existence.
In the movie "Flying Against the Light", Xiao Jie has always lived according to the requirements of her parents, in their view, dancing is useless, far less practical than going to the civil service examination. Because of this, xiaojie we see has no expression on her face in the first half of the movie, and she is like a puppet, arranged to do things she does not like.
However, the love of dance has completely melted into Xiao Jie's blood: she will dance to the music when no one is in the elevator car; she will see the dance teacher dancing when delivering takeaways; she will take Yuxiang to dance ballet on the stage of the auditorium where no one is.
In the movie, after Xiaojie and Yuxiang have been together for a long time, especially when she sees That Yuxiang, as a disabled person in the eyes of a normal person, is insisting on her dreams, Xiaojie finally understands what she really wants. So she began to learn to dance while working, even if she was tired.
In reality, we will also encounter such a situation. Obviously, I like something, but I am forced to give up or interrupt for some reason. Whether to stick to it or to give up is a difficult life proposition that each of us will face.
We think there must be a balance between dreams and reality, and we are always careful to find and try to balance it. However, such an idea is clearly ideal.
Mencius wrote in "Fish I Want":
Fish, I want it, bear paws, I want it. The two cannot be combined, and the one who gives up the fish and takes the bear's paw also.
Since you have chosen an option that you cannot give up in comparison, you should do it well or even to the extreme!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >02 Facing suffering head-on is the fastest way to make yourself strong</h1>
In the movie "Flying Backlight", Yuxiang's mother once said in front of relatives that although Yuxiang had a visual impairment when he was a child, he showed great talent when he first came into contact with the piano. However, every time Yuxiang won a prize in a piano competition, he was always talked about behind his back by others, always saying that the reason he won the championship was because of the care given to special people. But he was not depressed by this, and continued to practice hard until he was admitted to the university.
The discussion behind it, the ruthless cold water, is a stumbling block on everyone's growth path, but obviously, these are the driving force for Yuxiang to continue to work hard.
As normal people, we can't imagine how painful it is to lose our light at birth. Because the beauty of this world will not be able to be seen with the eyes, and can only be perceived by others' narration and their own imagination. But when this kind of suffering appeared in YuXiang's body, he did not break the jar and break it, but chose to face this mutilation that was born with it.
Lu Jiuyuan wrote in his "Lu Jiuyuan Collection":
When a gentleman encounters poverty, he will advance with virtue and advance against the odds.
What it means is that when we encounter suffering, it is also the time when virtue and resilience are improved. So, the best thing to do is to face and accept it, and turn this process into your own forward force.
In life, we encounter a lot of things like this. Obviously very hard to do things, but there is always no good results; obviously just want to try to prove themselves, but always people chew the root of the tongue behind their backs; obviously conscientious, but always be optimized. Maybe we've cried, we've been upset, we've even given up. However, after these emotional catharsis, the problem will still be placed in front of us, and there will be no reduction in the slightest. How do we deal with it?
Only by improving the ability to be anti-fragile can we start to grow stronger. One of the most effective ways to do this is to adopt a barbell strategy.
Barbell strategy is the ability to think holistically, without blind confidence or rash action
The difference between the barbell strategy and the real barbell is that (the barbell needs to be the same weight at both ends to balance when lifting), and the deeper meaning is to prepare multiple hands and allocate their time, energy and resources reasonably.
Only in this way can we calmly face the suffering, and sum up the experience, so that our mentality and ability to deal with things can be accumulated. Internalize external energy into your own inner strength.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >03 The light that can be touched is the insistence of our hearts on hope</h1>
The English name of Flying Backlight is Touch of the Light. The director has several clever designs about "light" in the film: the first is after Yuxiang's mother sent him to the university to help him clean up the dormitory, she subconsciously prepared to turn off the lights, but she still walked out without turning off the lights; the second is on the school performance stage, when the community band is playing, suddenly the lights are all extinguished, everyone stops, only Yuxiang is not affected to finish the repertoire; the third is xiaojie before preparing for the competition, she looks at the light shining in the glass, and then closes her eyes to feel the feeling of no light. This was followed by a dance performance without a soundtrack.
Taking the workplace as an example, we are often hindered by various external forces in our work, and the obstacles at this time become inner pressure for many people, leaving us wandering in a dead end. It's like a person with complete vision who suddenly can't see anything.
There is such a passage in the movie, when Xiao Jie accompanies Yuxiang home during the holidays. On the way, she closed her eyes and felt the feeling that her eyes could not see the world. She quickly discovered all the places the two of them had passed, and Yuxiang could tell her exactly. In the flower garden of Yu Xiang's family, he can tell what each flower looks like and the name of the flower. In a later recording of Xiao Jie to Yu Xiang, she said:
In a world without light, every step requires a lot of courage.
In a world without light, all knowledge and action need to be dealt with by oneself. In this process, stumbling or even bleeding from the head can be commonplace. However, in everyone's heart, we still have to take hope as the light to be cared for in our hearts, even if the light source is very weak. Nor can we give up moving towards it. Just like YuXiang, even if the light of the external world has been extinguished, the light in his heart will still illuminate the path of his dreams for him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >04 The power of others is an important boost for us to constantly surpass ourselves</h1>
In the film, the director deliberately designs the scene where the male and female protagonists meet, showing the process from strangers to friends and their interaction so far: the first encounter between the male and female protagonists is Yuxiang and his mother on the way to school, Xiaojie is handing out leaflets on the side of the road; the second encounter is at the school club recruitment activity, Yuxiang hears Xiaojie's voice in the crowd; the third encounter is when Yuxiang is preparing traffic lights, Xiaojie comes forward to help.
Each encounter is a different stage of the plot, and Yuxiang and the members of the society, Xiaojie, the teacher, and the children of the welfare institute make up for their own shortcomings through the shining points of each person, not only supporting each other, but also surpassing their previous selves in the end. This mutually accessible force is the "power of others."
Relationships affect life and personal performance, and that's the long-overlooked truth: relationships have real, tangible, and measurable power.
To obtain this power, we need to reach the fourth level between people: the real connection relationship - the real connection relationship between people is to be able to complete their self-improvement through the relationship with each other, and at the same time, they can also share their hearts, thoughts, feelings, and needs without reservation, and they can understand each other and support each other.
How to build the power of others , the following methods are available for reference:
1. Take the initiative to ask for help: Face up to your own shortcomings and take the initiative to ask others for help.
2. Exposure needs: Be honest with yourself and others.
3. Avoid the "Bermuda Triangle": A contradicts B, but says something about B with C. That is, maintain effective and direct communication.
4. Learn to choose who to trust: Screen in terms of understanding, intention or motivation, ability, character, and "performance" record.
The pre-Qin Lisi wrote in the Book of Expulsion:
"Taishan does not let the soil, so it can become its big, the river and the sea do not choose the fine flow, so it can become its depth"
Meaning: Taishan is tall because it does not reject the soil, and the reason why the rivers and seas are vast is because it embraces the rivers that merge into itself.
Only by not rejecting the power of others can we surpass ourselves.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > summary:</h1>
FlyIng Backlight is a typical inspirational movie about dreams, it is not hot or dazzling. The whole film is just presented in a peaceful shooting style, and the soundtrack is just right to embellish and sublimate. But when these are combined, they can hit the softest part of the heart. Let every audience think after watching it, and when they think, they can touch the light in their hearts.