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What gardening means to one person may be different for everyone, some to pass the boring time, some to pass the time, some out of everyone's hobby, but can you believe it? The meaning of gardening to some people is redemption, the value of life, but also the dream and the courage to live. This is not a fantasy, but a story told by a film.
Back to sunny days
The name of the movie is "Return to the Sunny Day", also known as "The Green of Life", which is a very old film. The film tells the story of a prison inmate played by Cliff Owen who participates in a labor camp program where inmates are free to move freely and participate in vocational training. Cliff discovers that he has a talent for growing flowers and plants, and a master florist encourages him to join four other prisoners in the National Florist Competition, resulting in a series of stories.
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Cliff's protagonist, who is imprisoned for a crime, is taught by a famous female gardener when designing gardening, and falls in love with the gardener's daughter. Because of his good performance in prison, he was released on parole early, and he lived with his girlfriend and was very happy. At this time, the Queen of England held a prison gardening competition, and he deliberately smashed the glass window of the small shop and returned to prison to help his companions make this effort. In the end, although he did not win the prize, he was received by the Queen. In later competitions, they finally won the highest prize in british horticulture.
This is the story of a group of prison men, searching for God with their own hands and rebuilding the psychological world. The story of their wives and children, their lovers, waiting for them to come home in the bright sun. Gardening is no longer just a delicate flower for them, but a faith, a symbol of self-redemption, and they want to be like these flowers, trying to grow towards the sun, looking forward to returning to that free and sunny place one day.
This is a symbol of the film, the violet, which survives through the hands of a horticulturist in one of the most unlikely places. The experience of this little violet seems to symbolize that some people in prison can still obtain the power of regeneration. What can't we overcome as we live in the present?
We have seen all the human feelings in the world, and we have also seen the joys and sorrows, suffered all the sneers, and tasted the sour, sweet and bitter, even if it is difficult, we have also come. It's like those flowers that are uplifting, trampled on, plucked, and played with. In fact, the garden is also a microcosm of our life, life is a gardener, you say, is it?
After watching the movie, I was reminded of a poem that reads:
Fade away the glitz and carvings
The vastness of the heavens and the boundlessness of the earth
Render the joy of the clouds landing on the ground
Greet the smile of the sun with the smile of the sun
Full of conversations
A wisp of serenity collided
Plain dialogue requires no words
It is often a journey of one flower
Blown or rolled by the wind
They all run all over the mountain pass
The rain gave pure blood
Slender branches
It is also the backbone of the head
The poet stirs up life
Stretch the wilderness
But the soul of the wilderness was lost
Something wonderful
Wet in a place away from the hustle and bustle
After watching the movie "Greenfingers", you will have a deeper understanding of how powerful gardening is. The words of the Queen of England in the play best sum up the magic or charm of gardening: "There is no other profession in this world that can attract almost every class of society." Yes, gardening comes from life, what an ordinary but beautiful thing it is, it makes our lives full of fun, it makes desolation full of life, it makes monotony colorful, it makes our lives and emotions more three-dimensional and gentle!
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Let's enjoy life and enjoy the happiness brought to us by gardening, it is a paradise, it is a beautiful garden of Eden.