Although the wonderful times of the past cannot be recovered,
We don't sigh,
To find the power in the remaining time,
With the deepest pity.
The past can no longer be possessed,
Think comfortingly,
From the pain of man,
Faith that can see through death;
Thanks to the heart that keeps people alive,
Thanks for its softness, excitement and fear,
For my most meaningful flowers,
It can remind people of tearful things.
One of my favorite passages that my daughter and I enjoyed the movie "Big River Love" together on the afternoon of June 1st, was that Norman and his father were reading a passage in the study together, just as they liked these sentences together at that time, and we liked them. The movie is slow-paced, and we watched it at 1.25 times the speed, but the two of us watched it once, and played it back at normal speed, watching it more and savoring the taste of this passage.
"Big River Love" is almost a two-hour movie, which is very literary and artistic, very poetic. Opened in melodious country music, it shows the natural beauty of Montana, family, love, marriage, life, religion... All the emotions that can be touched in the real way of growing up are well presented with this style of prose poetry.
We couldn't help but watch a lot of film reviews after watching it, looking for more resonance. Learn some of the stories behind the film, which was actually the autobiographical novel "A River Flows Through the Water" written by the original author, Chicago Literature Professor McLean, in his seventies. Originally, I was still lamenting, why did the screenwriter have to let Norman's lovely brother Paul lose his life early? It turns out that this is what the real life is.
Introduction:
Movie | "Big River Love"
Directed | Robert Redford
Starring | Brad Pitt / Clegg Shevor / Tom Skerit
The film | 123 minutes long
Norman and Paul grew up together, his father taught him to read and write from an early age, to be concise and beautiful, in the process of revision over and over again, the younger brother waited at the stairwell of the room, and then went fishing in the river together, they ran outside the courtyard together, and his mother's advice sounded in his ears: "Norman, wait for your brother...".
The two brothers jumped together in the fields, played under the blue sky, and played pranks together in the town's crowded bazaar. But the two brothers have different personalities since childhood, Paul has been rebellious and uninhibited since childhood, his smile has always been pure and bright, and it is difficult to change things that he believes, just like he resolutely does not eat oatmeal.
Then, Norman and Paul lie on the grass together and ask each other, in the future, what kind of person do you want to be? The younger brother did not hesitate to become a professional fly angler, and the older brother thought of becoming a priest like a father, and then they laughed silly together, laughing very simple and innocent in the sun. This slow rhythm allows people to see life, see what they look like when they are growing up, and see the beauty of nature.
Growing up in high school, the two brothers went rowing together to challenge the rapids, and when they returned, their mother stayed up all night, and the father blamed them, and the two brothers fought once, which was the only fierce fight in their lives. The mother was knocked to the ground in order to pull them apart, and they all said that the other party hit the mother harder. Then Mom stood between them and said, "I slipped myself." The brothers fight, there is no victory or defeat, and then the melodious music plays, and the father takes the two of them fishing again, and this one is turned over. It's a real scene of a family where no matter what happens, the mother is always in the middle.
They grew up and had their own lives. Older brother Norman left home to study, and then taught at the university, becoming more and more restrained and stable; younger brother Paul loved fishing, worked at a newspaper near his home, and always had a pure smile. However, there will be loneliness in their eyes, the older brother may have always been concerned about the brother's freedom and uninhibited, and the younger brother will occasionally care about the image of the brother's good child.
Paul belongs to nature, and the beauty of his life is forever fixed at the moment when the father and son fish together and catch the big fish and show a bright smile.
Father's last sermon goes like this: Each of us will have that time when we look at our loved ones so helplessly. In fact, we rarely give a helping hand to the people we pity and don't know what to give them, or what we can give is often not what they really need, but we can still love them and love them at all costs.
The light and shadow are mottled, the river is babbling, and the years are clear. In his twilight years, Norman stood in the shadows of the canyon and continued to fly fishing. All his cherished ones had left him one after another, but he still thought that he could confide in them in this way. Those memories that accompanied the depths of his soul, with the sound of babbling water in the river of years, came slowly and slowly...
The whole film is flashbacked with Norman's memories of the old man facing the Big Black Foot River, without great joy or great sorrow, which is a unique feeling that the elderly have after years of precipitation. A picturesque nostalgic literary film, a breathtakingly beautiful natural fantasy.
And what we can resonate with is the hymn to life.
Not false, not hypocritical, perhaps the meaning of life. It is the best life to give yourself.
When you are as old as Norman, when all the people you loved when you were young, including your lover, are gone, when you are the only one left in the world. In the face of the great river that has flowed for hundreds of millions of years, the memories of a lifetime slowly pass with the river.
--- you know that the brevity and smallness of life are but a speck of dust in the sand of the Ganges.
It is not time, but us, that drift away.
And about our joys and sorrows, love and hate.
The ancient river rushes through the blue-brown rocks, and there are deep and shallow marks on the stones...
Where did those who once wandered in this world end up?
May we walk out of half our lives and return to be innocent teenagers!