"At the source of misfortune, there is always an accident. At the source of happiness, there is always a coincidence. ”
This is what the philosopher and sociologist Jean Baudrillard wrote in his book Cold Memories.
An accident can be a disaster or a surprise, but the only certainty is that once it arrives, it will travel through all of your existing life as quickly as possible and with the greatest impact, it will not leave you with any opportunity to communicate with it, and all you can do is to rehabilitate or rebuild, for better or worse.
The Life of Zucchini is a stop-motion animation film about such a group of children who have been accidentally selected by misfortune, who have no ability to resist and no opportunity to choose, just as they can do nothing about their birth. They packed their bags and moved into a home called an "adoption home," trying to imitate what a family member should look like.
As the writer Wang Xiaobo said, unfortunately, everyone has their own destiny, and if I can choose, I do not want to live here and now. In this story, these children, who should have lived in the family role itself, have no choice but to embark on the family life of role playing. If you can, who doesn't want to go to bed, have a good night.
The protagonist of the story is a boy named Ika, who likes to be called zucchini because that's how his mother calls him. He lost his hand and killed his mother, who had been drinking all day and ignored him. He has a kite, and the kite is painted with Dad in Superman's clothes. Unfortunately, whether it is an imaginary father or a real mother, it will never appear in his life.
Simon, the barberious boy in the adoption camp, has a never-ending haircut, he likes to bully others, he steals the kite of zucchini, so the two wrestle and get closer to each other. "We're all the same, no one loves us." When a stubborn child reveals his cowardice, it is particularly poignant. If they could, no one would like to wear heavy armor all day, all rough, just because they want to be strong, and all the strong, just because no one can protect themselves.
Like Alice, a girl in the adoption who had been violated by her father, she always covered her forehead with bangs, blocked one eye, and covered half of her face. No one is born without liking the sun and afraid of glaring. It's just that when misfortune comes, no matter how ignorant the age, you will feel the change, and when the light of life withdraws little by little, everyone will begin to shrink back.
We haven't started to grow up yet, so why is life always in the shadows? If one day I become unfriendly, it's not because I'm like that, but because I can only do that.
Those who have shared each other's wounds are like bloodthirsty beasts and bleeding prey, and their encounter has only one result, that is, they will eventually become one. The same is true of the children of this group of adopters, who no longer have reservations about each other, even the most deadly vulnerabilities and insecurities. And before you know it, they've become the same person.
There is a fragment in the story where the group of children comes to a ski resort to play, and when they are having fun, a warm mother and son make them all stop, although one of the children mutters, "Maybe that person is not his mother at all", but no one can move their envious eyes. In that moment, they are the same person, a person who longs to be loved.
There is a line in the movie "Under the Tuscan Sun": "Needless to say, good things always come." And when it comes late, it is also a surprise. ”
A new girl from the adoption center, Camille, whose father killed her mother and chose to commit suicide, saw it all with her own eyes. However, life did not force her into a person who only complained and was negative, she was optimistic, she was strong, she was independent, zucchini liked her, just as she was still attached to the sun.
That night at the ski resort, Zucchini gave Camille a colorful boat that she folded herself, and they knocked on the ice at their feet and placed the paper boat on the water. Just like their fate, even if the world is cold, they can finally find a home. And sometimes, it's not far away, it's all around.
"I came to see you not because of work, but because I liked you." This is what the police officer Lehman said to Zucchini, who was in charge of the zucchini case, and in the end, he decided to adopt zucchini and Camille.
When Simon heard the news, he acted frustrated and angry, and he hid alone. But when zucchini promised him, "Or we won't go, we'll stay here." Simon fought him again and told him, "You must go, it is rare that anyone is willing to adopt a child like ours." ”
Simon, who was abandoned because of his parents' drug use, was the first acquaintance in this group, he refused everything kindly, but he did not want to be disappointed, he bullied all the weak, just hoping that they would learn to resist, he resisted all the good, just because he never had it, he had to continue to pretend not to care.
At the end of the film, The adoption manager, Rosie, gives birth to a child named Antoine, and the children surround her and ask:
"Will you let him come to the adoption house and live with us?"
"I think, I won't." Rosie replied.
"Unless you don't want him anymore." Simon asked.
"It's definitely not going to happen." Rosie said firmly.
"Even if he keeps crying?"
"Even if he wets the bed?"
"Even if he's doing badly?"
"Even if he's messing around with pictures on the wall?"
"Even if he had a giraffe neck?"
"Even if he's a piece of crap?"
……
One by one, the children kept asking questions. This assumption is like their uneasiness about the survival of life.
They were born, they were abandoned. It just happened, no one consulted them, but the final result was always for them to bear. Fortunately, they grew up. The only fair thing that time is left for them, perhaps, is that they will grow up.
The Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai wrote a passage in "Human Disqualification": Today, I can't talk about happiness or unhappiness. It's all going to pass. In the so-called "world" so far, the only thing I am willing to regard as the truth is this sentence. It's all going to pass.
Everything will be fine,
We will go with the wind.
Everything will disappear,
We'll go with the wind.
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