We come to the world alone, and we will eventually leave alone. What is important is not the final destination, but every day we live in the world.
The movie "Oath in the Morning and Evening" is roughly about this story:
In a land far away from the hustle and bustle, the Ioluf race lives quietly.
They maintain the appearance of boys and girls and live forever. While weaving daily events into a cloth called Xibiol, they were called the "Farewell Clan" because they had witnessed many ancient deaths.
Maquia, an Ioluv girl who has no parents, always feels "alone" and envies her companions who have families.
But their daily life also collapsed and disappeared in this moment.
The king pursued Iolulf's blood of longevity and sent an army to attack them with an ancient beast named Mezat. Taking away all the women in the village, only Macchia was lucky enough to escape.
When Maquia was about to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff, she heard the baby's cry and adopted him, renaming him Ariel.
Ariel gradually grows into a young man. I discovered that my mother still looks like a girl even as time passes.
When Ariel’s life came to an end, Macchia appeared in front of him again, saying softly like when the two got along long ago: I’m back. Ariel responded silently on the hospital bed: You are back. It was as if Maquia had just walked out the door and never left.
After going out, Maquia recalled all the time spent with Ariel: Ariel called her mother every word, wanted to protect her mother sentence by sentence, and declared her love for her mother again and again. Maquia finally couldn't help crying, and kept saying sorry, because she had promised Ariel: she would not cry anymore, because she was a mother.
The title of the film includes "Decorating the Promised Flower on the Morning of Farewell". I didn't understand why it was called this at first, but later I found out what the flower was, it was a dandelion. The first time Ariel called her mother was in the large dandelion field on the farm. The last time they met was on that farm, Ariel's granddaughter gave Maquia a bouquet of dandelions. This is the flower promised by their mother and son.
Dandelion seeds grow up under the nurturing of dandelions. When mature, they fly away with the wind, break away from the mother's arms, and start their own new life, which is like the best witness of the encounter and separation between mother and child.
From this movie, we can also see more universal and familiar images.
Ariel relied on Maquia when he was young, and loudly declared to his friends: I like my mother!
When he grew up, he became melancholic and rebellious, and his relationship with his mother became awkward. He wanted to escape from her mother...
Isn’t this corresponding to every person in reality? Human growth trajectory?
Looking at Ariel’s growth, it seems that we can all see our own shadow at that time.
Children will grow up, slowly fall in love with others, leave the arms of their parents, start their own families, and have their own new lives. You will suddenly find that your parents are no longer your destination...
I slowly and slowly understood that the so-called relationship between father, daughter and mother only means that your fate with him is this life. This life keeps watching his back fade away. You stand at this end of the path and watch him gradually disappear at the corner of the path. Moreover, his back silently tells you: there is no need to chase him.
We, like morning flowers, strive to raise our heads towards the sun to welcome our own brilliance, but they face the setting sun and swear an oath to protect the flower in front of them for the rest of their lives until their own. The end.
Perhaps this is what belongs to us and them - morning flowers and evening oaths.
Don’t dare to love because you are afraid of losing, don’t be alone because you are afraid of being tied up, live wonderfully and hard, so that your life in this world is not in vain. Believe in love, love will always be there.