There is a saying:
I want to be by your side until you don't need me.
Like the story to be told in today's film —
Brisby Bear
An independent film, not many people watched it, and the story is a bit strange. But when the dean saw it, he inexplicably felt healed.
The protagonist of the story, James, is 25 years old.
My favorite thing to do every day is to watch a children's show called "Brisby Bear".
His love for the show reached an almost faith-like level.
As for how attractive the show really is?
The style of painting is roughly like this:
Brisby Bear and Rainbow Sisters fight the Sun Raiders together. (Very good barala little magic fairy sense of vision ~)
At the end of each issue, you will also be taught some life knowledge.
This sun grabber is very much like the memes I'm familiar with
In addition to watching the show regularly, there are some weird things about James's life —
Locked up at home every day.
Occasionally sneak up on the roof at night to bring a gas mask.
It was still the same the next day.
The third day was the same.
……
Until one day, his life was completely changed -
His parents were taken by the police and told:
He was kidnapped from an early age, and the so-called parents were actually kidnappers.
In this way, the cookie-cutter life just now has a reasonable explanation...
So James returned to his birth parents.
However, he cannot quickly accept his current life.
Faced with the new world in front of him, James's heart is full of dominated dazedness and fear.
At this point, all he could think of was the Brisby Bear.
However, when he mentioned Brisby Bear to everyone, no one understood what he was saying.
Because, that's just a show that the kidnappers made specifically for him.
He was the only viewer on the show.
The Brisby Bear is gone—
With james' memories of 25 years.
Traces of one's own existence are erased as if they were "captive careers."
James wants people to admit that Brisby Bear isn't just a fake TV series, like his previous life — even if it's poor, it's not fake, it's alive.
So he had a bold idea:
Make a movie.
He and his sister's friends revealed their thoughts.
Although everyone does not know brisby bears.
But young people unexpectedly think that this idea is really a dick!
A group of people went out to shoot together.
These were his new friends.
During the filming, James began to slowly accept the world around him.
He also gradually changed somewhat.
But james who have lived in different environments for a long time sometimes have brain circuits that are still different from ordinary people.
For the sake of the realism of the film, he did something —
Make a real bomb.
This bombing blew everyone up to the police station.
The parents of the original family want James to give up the film.
For them —
It was a pain that I didn't want to think back on.
Therefore, they also hope that james will not be retrieved.
There are thousands of beautiful things in this world, so why waste energy on a non-existent bear?
However, James was stubborn this time.
For him, it was no ordinary bear.
It was his life.
It was this sentence that made many viewers cry.
Perhaps, in that instant, many people think of yourself at a certain moment...
When people around you say to you, don't dream, it's impossible.
You grit your teeth and insist, you think about waiting a little longer.
Even no one can understand this insistence.
Of course, the end of the story is very old-fashioned —
An obvious happy ending.
The family helped James complete the premiere of the movie, and Brisby Bear entered the hearts of more people.
However, compared to the ending, James's process from confusion to determination, from pain to enjoyment of dreams, is more important.
In him, you will find:
Doing whatever you want is the most cherished happiness.
What James has accomplished is not only his childhood dream of making a movie, but also a farewell to his 25 years of life, a way to perceive society and integrate into society, and a spiritual medicine for self-healing.
That wonderful adventure of light and shadow brought him and everyone back to the purest world.
A world of black and white, forever evil prevails.
The wonder of this movie is —
Obviously, it is a very cruel thing, but on the contrary, the creators use the warmest strokes to depict it.
Whether it is some strange otaku james, or the people who appear around him, they are flesh and blood and thoughts, so that the development of things goes in the direction of warmth and humor, and the audience gradually relaxes.
Like the couple who kidnapped James:
Their kidnapping was unforgivable, but from James's point of view, he had a childhood he enjoyed.
The couple respected his wishes so much that they even fabricated lies for 25 years to create a non-existent Brisby bear to accompany James growing up.
In the film, you can hardly see the kidnapped person's hatred for the kidnapper.
James even approached his adoptive father to ask him to voice his film soundtrack.
The moment the other person opened his mouth, everything was forgiven...
When James was first "rescued" and returned to normal life, all his actions were regarded as "weirdos".
His biological parents had been trying to change him and stop him.
But in the end, the boy calmly bid farewell to the past through the way of filmmaking, and more understanding and tolerance of the imperfect world, bravely facing the unknown tomorrow.
He became his own hero.
And the parents, in the process, slowly entered the inner world of James.
They understand that, not like everyone else, is called "normal."
If you really love a "weirdo", you can see his beauty...
Why don't we —"
There is also a Brisby bear in his heart, waiting for someone to find and understand, and waiting for him to grow up, laughing and waving goodbye.