When I was still living in a small town in my hometown when I was very young, my neighbor Ashan Ge said to me a very simple sentence: Movies can make us learn a lot.
This sentence is still remembered by me.
However, it is a long time before this sentence is truly appreciated.
In my impression, Ashan Ge is an authentic movie enthusiast, and now I am ashamed of myself compared to it.
At that time, computers were not yet widespread, and movies were watched with DVD projectors. Ashanko's bedroom bedside, bookcase, and wall are stacked with DVD plastic boxes. I can still remember the pleasant sound of hard plastic shells colliding with each other as he sorted out the CDs.
I still remember watching several Harry Potter films at his house one summer in junior high school, including Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
At that time, my experience was not rich enough, my understanding was limited, and I was only excited by the novel magical world with exotic characteristics of Harry Potter, the exciting broom flying, and the adventures of shadows. That said, I only look at it as a story of curiosity.
This year's National Day holiday, after many years of social life that is not pleasant or unpleasant, seems to come from some kind of inspiration, I re-watched the "Harry Potter" series of movies, and I have some new understanding of this series of movies.
The Prisoner of Azkaban is the third film in the Harry Potter series.
Azkaban is a prison for prisoners from the wizarding world. Among them was a notorious prisoner named Sirius Black. One day, the newspaper ran and Sirius escaped from prison.
Twelve years ago, sirius betrayed Harry's parents to Voldemort, causing their parents to die.
The newspaper also mentioned that Sirius would seek harry potter after escaping from prison to avenge Voldemort. The Dementors guarding the prison also set out to search for Sirius, and they also stared at Harry Potter for no reason.
With multiple fears, Harry Potter began his third year of magical school life.
To find out what happened next, or that sentence, please watch the movie.
The Buddhists have a saying that the world we live in is actually a projection of our hearts, and we can only understand the world by understanding the heart.
I'm not Buddhist and I don't know if this Zen phrase is correct, but I like it, so for some things, I often interpret it from this perspective, and movies are no exception.
We can think of the world of Harry Potter as the inner world of a person.
Harry Potter had two good friends, One hermione and the other Ron, as well as a nemesis, Voldemort.
Harry Potter represents a person's bravery and tenacity, Hermione represents the wisdom and hard work of this person, and Ron represents a person's friendliness and weakness. Voldemort represented the selfishness, arbitrariness, and desire for power of this man.
Harry Potter's battle with Voldemort can be seen as the triumph of good over evil in human nature.
Harry Potter had many reasons to become Voldemort, after all, they had too many things in common: they were orphans, both had a cold childhood, were both intelligent, and were extremely curious about the knowledge of magic skills...
But Harry Potter lived to be a wonderful child.
The reason is that Harry Potter was able to have close contact with his parents for more than a year after his birth, and received ample love from his father and mother. Although his parents died later, this love poured fertile nutrients into his later personality growth.
This is also in line with psychological assumptions. I once read in a book called Psychology and Me that a baby who has just come out of her mother's body needs intimate contact with her mother very much within a few hours. Although the baby does not understand it yet, it can feel it. This had a great impact on his later self-confidence and resilience.
There is also a psychological survey that shows that people who also encounter setbacks and are loved by their parents from an early age will be more active in coping with difficulties and have a more positive way of troubleshooting, such as through exercise or other more meaningful ways. People, on the other hand, tend to falter and escape by drinking more alcohol and smoking more cigarettes.
There is a great scene in the movie:
Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher Lupin teaches Harry Potter the "Patron saint" spell. This spell is very powerful, and when encountering enemies, it will protect itself like a shield. To summon the power of this spell, there must be very happy memories in it. Harry Potter successfully harnessed this magic by remembering his relationship with his parents.
On the one hand, this scene illustrates why Harry Potter has faced so much adversity but remains indomitable; on the other hand, it is a metaphor for the adversity we face in real life.
We can read it this way, and the enemy compares this difficulty in our lives, and this difficulty sometimes makes us miserable and hopeless. We were able to overcome this difficulty because we experienced happiness and the love of others, which made me more resilient, stronger and more indomitable.
Of course, friends' love for Harry Potter is also one of the most important reasons.
The question I get asked the most is, what's the use of watching so many movies?
It doesn't teach us skills to make a living if we do business, how to make money, how to program, etc.
But through film, we can recognize what qualities such as bravery, sincerity, kindness, and indomitability are. Although this is very abstract, and I have always despised it, the longer I have been in contact with this society, the more I feel that these seemingly useless qualities are really important.
It is because these stories (including, of course, movies) are metaphors for our lives, presenting the abstract psychology of life to us in a figurative way, helping us to find the fragments of the self that have been lost at some stage of life.
Livelihood skills only guarantee your survival, and these abstract qualities can make you live this life well.
One day, Asange's father, Lin Bo, returned from a part-time job. A few days later, we heard an argument in his house. Then, a tired DVD was spilled by Limber from the fourth-floor balcony downstairs. The deafening sound was terrifying.
Later, I heard that it was because Brother Ashan did not study well and did not do well in the college entrance examination, and Lin Bo was angry.
Later, Brother Ashan and his father went to work in other places. Brother Ashan and I also gradually became estranged. When we returned from the new year, we occasionally met between the corridors, but only nodded in a hurry, and the gulf between us was so big that we could no longer find a common topic to talk about.
Later, later, I left the town and went to Guangzhou to study at university.
Later, the residential building in the hometown town was expropriated and demolished, and the birds in the forest flew separately. I couldn't buy a house in my hometown, so I became a rootless flying tent. Those people and those things became white and clean.