What can you do in a minute? Maybe it's just the time of the computer, maybe it's just the time to post a microblog. If you only had one minute in your life, where would you go? But for a fly that has only one minute to live, that means a hurried life.
In the short film "A Minute of Life of a Fly", German animation director Michael Reichert spends four minutes depicting the hurried life of a fly. You read that right, the film is only 4 minutes long, with no narration, no subtitles, no vocal dubbing, only sometimes soothing, sometimes hasty background music.
And an anxious and hurried, but without losing sight of the fly.
It is such a short animated film, but it has won many international awards, and the score on Douban is as high as 8.8 points, a very high score.
When many people watch this animated short film, they will be laughed at by the plot inside, but after laughing, they feel mixed feelings. The fly is only a drop in the ocean for sentient beings, so small that people do not want to face its existence at all.
In real life, if there are no accidents, the lifespan of a fly is about one month, but in "One Minute of Life of a Fly", the life of a fly is only one minute. But in this short minute, director Michael Reichert can see the big picture from a fly to reflect the reality of life.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > one minute of life for a fly</h1>
At the beginning of the story, on a quiet morning, on a humble turnip leaf, a whole new life is about to be born—a fly egg.
The fly broke out of its shell, as if it had been isolated from the world for thousands of years, and it was impatient and excited.
Just like the birth of a human being, all living things are full of curiosity about the world from birth, and flies are no exception.
But the fly found that its life span had been set from birth - ONE MINUTE.
For a newborn fly, it doesn't know what a minute means. This fly, which doesn't even have a name, doesn't know the concept of time at all. It wasn't until he witnessed another fly in front of him whimpering for the countdown on his head that the fly realized the preciousness and brevity of life.
Although such a thing happens to flies, it reflects the attitude of most people in real life towards time. The average human life expectancy is 78 years, and before the age of twenty, many people are like this fly, unaware of the concept of time, and most people do not think much of the passage of time. After the age of twenty, they gradually began to contact some life, old age, illness and death, and realized that life was so fragile and short.
People perceive the concept of time, which can take years, decades, or even decades. But for flies that have only one minute of life, one more second of awakening is a sin.
The fly was overwhelmed by the dead fly in front of it, and the countdown to life overhead had begun to read the seconds, and it began to panic.
And the life plan left by the last fly, "TO-DO LIST", pointed out the direction for the rest of its life.
This list lists a series of things that flies need to do in their lifetime.
Seeing this list, I believe many people will think of the classic American blockbuster - "Bucket List" starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.
People always feel that life is very long when they are healthy, but when they know the end of their lives, what is the difference between them and flies?
After understanding the brevity of life, the fly begins a busy life.
First of all, you need to fill your stomach, because to achieve your goals, you need to have a strong body.
Drunk once, because of the geometry of life, you always need to sing about wine.
Attend parties and experience the joys of life; fly to the highest part of the jungle to see where you were born;
Dodge bird attacks; swoop down and challenge yourself;
Talk about a relationship, fly-making sports;
Go to the sea; save the lives of the wounded;
Make friends; escape spider attacks;
Singing, eating the last meal of meat, painting, forgiving someone, bearding, despairing, looking up at the stars, becoming famous.
By the last second of life, the fly had done most of the things on the list. But only looking up at the stars and fame has not yet been achieved.
There is a saying that starlight does not ask passers-by, and the years pay off.
In the film, at the last second of life, a drop of rosin drops down, enveloping the fly. It saw the starry sky it wanted to see, and although it was only the crystallization of rosin, it was exhibited as amber, and the last wish to become famous was realized.
The fly's life has come to an end, it has accomplished all the goals on the life list, and its life is short but brilliant!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > some people say that flies are too stupid, life is short, and they should be happy in time</h1>
After watching this short film, people have their own thoughts.
In the eyes of most people, the one-minute life of a fly is simply not comparable to the lifespan of humans for decades or even hundreds of years. In the face of a strong gap, many people will laugh at the flies for being too stupid. A minute is fleeting in the blink of an eye, so why let yourself live so tired?
In a limited life, tiredness is also a lifetime, suffering is also a lifetime, happiness is also a lifetime, and sorrow is also a lifetime. There are too many people who think that after a lifetime of fatigue, flies can not hide from death, such a life can not help but make people feel a little sad.
As Julius Caesar has been praised to this day: "After I die, please put my hands outside the coffin, so that the world may see that the great one who is as great as I am Caesar will die empty-handed." ”
Life is too short, no one can do everything, everyone to the last moment of life, more or less will have unfinished things, will still have regrets.
Life is too short, instead of being busy to death, it is better to "idlely watch the flowers blossom and fall before the court, and follow the clouds outside the sky" to be comfortable.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > some people say that flies do not live out their own lives, do not realize the true meaning of life</h1>
While "A Minute of Life in a Fly" is very short, there are some details that can be explored in depth. Let's say a fly gets a "TO-DO LIST" from another fly.
In the eyes of many people, "TO-DO LIST" is not the fly's thinking about their own life, it is just taken from other flies as their own life plan. So the fly never lives out of itself.
It is sad that such a fly has only one minute of life and has not lived out its own life.
Many friends, after watching this four-minute short film, think that this is not an inspirational film, but a work with ironic colors.
It satirizes the well-behaved people in life.
People are great, but there are many people who can't get rid of their fate. From birth, people will also have such a list of "TO-DO LIST", which reads:
Going to school, working, getting married, having children, buying a house, buying a car...
It seems that this is the trajectory of life that everyone should have. Each of us is modeling on this list of unknowns, day after day, year after year, until we get old.
Man is great, but sometimes he is as small as a fly.
The life of a fly seems to be busy, but in fact, it does not know why it is so busy, it does not live for itself, it only lives for this list that does not know how many flies have been busy.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > we cannot determine the length of life, but we can change its width</h1>
In the author's view, a minute of life for a fly is very meaningful.
Fill your stomach, sing and dance, challenge the limits, avoid predators, fall in love, save lives, make friends, and even become famous.
There is a difficult detail at the end of the film: the countdown to life on the head of the fly is only one second left, but the director of the film does not let it go to zero, and the low fall of the rosin solidifies the fly and seems to freeze time.
I think the reason the director did this was to tell people that some people are dead and he is alive, some people are alive and he is dead.
If a man spends his whole life in inaction, then after death he may only be hung on the wall and engraved on the tombstone, and after a few years, people may only remember his name, and after a few years, perhaps no one will be able to remember his name again.
But if a person's life can be full, realize their own value, and even become famous. Perhaps it can be passed on for hundreds of lifetimes and admired by future generations.
We cannot say who is right in these two very different lives, because life is personal and everyone has the right to decide how they want to live.
But in fact, more people still want to live a meaningful life. And the meaning of life is not in the length, but in what is done.
In contrast, at present, "timely pleasureism" has become the "poisonous chicken soup" for contemporary young people to comfort themselves. Many young people feel that a lifetime is very long, and what has not been done today can continue to be done tomorrow, and what cannot be done today may be achieved tomorrow.
Waste time as "open-minded" and "casual", and "life is not only about the present, but also the poetry and fields in the distance" as a negative excuse. I don't know when, those who once occupied the circle of friends have gradually become self-deprecating, self-exiled and depraved "poisonous chicken soup". Such an environment is very unfavorable to the development of today's young people.
Time is fair to anyone, we can't decide the length of life, but we can expand the breadth of life and increase the tolerance of life, like the little fly in the film. Even if there are regrets at the last moment of life, you can also say with a clear conscience: just try hard!