Wen/Vulcan Ji
How we live. Behind us. In what form will we be remembered by future generations.
-Vulcan era. Inscription.
[1] written in front
Many times, perhaps, we just want to prove and tell the world. We have come to this world and lived in our way for some time. Maybe not wonderful, not prosperous, not beautiful. However, all this once really existed. Perhaps there is another great fact, at least, we have tried to be great.
All the seemingly flashy things we have experienced. Is it true?/You don't say. Maybe sometimes we can't tell ourselves clearly: everything; Hallucinations still exist. But at least we know that we once existed in this world. What we don't know is how we will be passed on by future generations.
If you can choose. I hope everything is beautiful; I hope we are great.
[2] My fairy tale: the fairy tale of dying in the present and your highness.
All fairy tales seem to happen to princes and princesses. So I always have an illusion that when I am not old enough and still listening to fairy tales, we will be ignorant and stubbornly think: I will think about calling Dad; Call mother the queen mother; My lover will be the most beautiful and considerate princess in the richest kingdom in the world. My father is the bravest king. Years of fighting won him fame and praise. Then, all this will be passed on to me. ...
If I was born in the middle ages, if I was born in a beautiful fairy tale, if I were the handsome prince protagonist in that fairy tale; Perhaps, my story will start like this.
Of course, one day I will grow up, and then I will begin to understand something. At least, I began to understand that I didn't live in the Middle Ages, and I began to understand that I was not a prince, but ten years old. Then I began to understand that the pattern of the world is not occupied by one person's courage, but more often involves more things, which I began to understand when I looked at the world history and political pattern. I was fifteen years old that year.
Should I start to despair of life? In the existing pattern, my grandparents left me nothing; In the future, I can't occupy my territory with my so-called or imagined bravery. Life, as a man, hehe, the shameful idea of never being possible is enough to destroy all hope.
So should we start to reflect? Fairy tales. Fairy tales that we have been watching and listening to since childhood.
When will people start telling stories that are not so lofty? In the process of growing up, I began to understand that those painful discoveries that could change my outlook on life actually originated from the fantasies of these fairy tales. The reason for the pain. Because these are unchangeable realities. And reality will never have anything to do with the great words in fairy tales.
My first painful discovery is that there are not so many princes in this world. The second painful discovery that followed was that the few remaining Wang Zizhong in the world could not have my name.
About my fairy tale, the framework of the whole story collapsed under such a premise. I gradually began to understand: my parents are not royalty; I won't have a beautiful princess waiting for me to marry; I won't have vast land waiting for me to rule; I won't have all the great glory in fairy tales; I can only live so humbly; When I was old enough to understand, I found a more terrible reality, negative assets.
The story in fairy tales, the great prince. Will all this die in the present? Nobody knows. I only know that it is easier to die in this era.
Is this the end of my fairy tale? I don't know. My life is still very long, so I can still fight. Even so humble. I am trying to make the world remember me in some way, maybe in the future, after I leave this world.
I promised myself that I would do my best. Just, who can tell me all the answers. Perhaps, after doing my best, I will still die so quietly without any sound. Nobody remembers.
This is just a crazy exploration with no answer. A hundred years after my death, it will always be revealed. Some people will always remember me. Ha ha. Just at the moment, no one can be sure of this answer.
[3] Father's Fairy Tales: Seemingly bleak software and self-greatness
The story my father left me is just the story of a declining businessman. My father's best days were completely forgotten by history before I began to understand.
Before I went to bed, my father never told me the story of his good times. I can only piece together my father's history from a few words he occasionally chats with his elders.
I know that in that era when I didn't understand the concept of a prince, I once lived as happily as a prince. At least my father gave us a feeling of abundance. And after I gradually understood the so-called prince, I began to understand some facts that I might never want to understand: for example, I am not a prince; For example, the father is not royal or noble; For example, my blood vessels are full of desire and ordinary blood, which is not noble; For example, my father's career has been frustrated one after another; For example, negative assets; For example, I'm not smart or have some amazing talent. Wait a minute.
Father's story is actually quite tortuous, sad, touching and helpless. I once thought that if I could master novels one day, I would write a book for my father. If one day I can master poetry, I will write an immortal epic for my father; If I can master movies one day, I will make a sad movie for my father. However, it seems that I can only control the film reviews now. As for me, it seems that I can only watch movies, then sigh, and then write seemingly helpless and groaning words.
Father is not a royal family, not a noble; Me neither.
Many times we can't even find our place in society. We must work very hard to get some attention and some positive appreciation. This is the civilian population.
In the dictionary of ordinary people, father is very tall, as high as a mountain to rely on.
My father told many stories, but he never told me. Whether before or after the age of five.
Father is a sad and tragic nocturne, which will disperse before dawn and cannot walk for three days. So what will happen to us after dawn? We pray to be remembered by the world; In what way will the world remember us? We are afraid of being forgotten, but maybe I will be forgotten by the world soon.
Some people are destined to blink forever after birth. Obviously, this has nothing to do with us. We are not princes, nobles, handsome or smart. We are not even outstanding, or even far from outstanding. That is the reality.
My father is not good at talking, and neither am I. So my father and I seldom talk. But in my eyes, my father is still great, because he gave birth to me with his mother and gave me everything. And I am trying to prove that he is greater, so I must first prove my greatness, and then derive his greatness because of my greatness. I'm actually pretty scared. If I accomplish nothing, then his only greatness will be lost forever.
This is the cruelest fairy tale for us, my father and me. I don't know if my father's fairy tale ended like this. I don't know whether my father will personally prove his greatness in his lifetime, but I know that his belief in trying to prove his greatness has not stopped.
My father is past the age of knowing his destiny. Can he do whatever he wants? All I know is that my father is still doing the past. What a sad reality. However, in my opinion, at this moment, my father suddenly became immortal. After all, the real people are still struggling at the age of 30, and I suddenly feel a little sad and want to cry.
My father is at least great and has never given up his life for many years. Even though he never told me his story, whether before or after I was five years old, I believed that my father was actually great, almost stubborn and almost superstitious. Great souls never show off the prosperity they once had.
Father's fairy tales are almost always sad. I tried to condemn those who framed my father and took all his efforts and property, but in the end I didn't.
Because condemnation can't make the world remember us, condemnation can't change these realities, and condemnation can't get back anything that my father lost. I used to be very close to those who might have been almost condemned by me. I feel a little sad when I watch them enjoying everything that should belong to me.
Father's fairy tale ends in the glory of others. My fairy tale hasn't started yet. Civilians, there's nothing to be sad about. There is nothing to be sad about being framed by civilians who have been deprived of everything. What I mourn is neither the injustice of heaven nor the fickle feelings of the world, because these are real, and this is the real sorrow.
[4] Off-topic: midway statement
Before I started writing movies, it seemed to be the first time to write so many irrelevant words in such a long space. Perhaps, all this is just because of my vanity madness.
Perhaps, more often, movies are more like some form of self-expression to me. So it seems that my film criticism will never be more professional. Long-winded, with a strong personal subjective consciousness. Film criticism has become a way to express other words, which I know is unhealthy. But I am narcissistic that this impure film review will win me fame and everything. At least for now, my words can only express themselves completely in this way. This is my way, good or bad, but at least I can write, be noticed and live. I am obsessed with this metaphysical self-compromise.
Now that we have come so far, let's go further. In fact, these words are addressed to Liu Jin, a lovely child who is completely superstitious about me. Writing, movies, life. The so-called erosion I pray for is the harmony and precious balance of the three. Even if this balance is temporarily very incomplete.
[5] The Big Fish: a magnificent epic of a civilian father.
Back to the movie. The movie "Big Fish" tells the story of a father who likes to tell his own story constantly and a son who is looking for his father's story. The reason why I like this movie so much, and why I used such a long space to describe other things before writing this movie, may be just because this movie gave me some moving opportunities and some suitable fantasies.
Everything his father described about his life, from birth to the end, is full of myth and seems to be an adventure hero. For my son, the heroic story that he was obsessed with before he was five years old seems to be just a seasoning before going to bed. After the age of five, my son's voice is no longer so beautiful and yearning. He began to doubt and think about the credibility and authenticity of his father's story.
Maybe, as my father's doctor, Dr. Bennett, said, the true story is boring and meaningless, right? If I had to choose between a boring and true story and a beautiful story about fish and rings, I would choose the imaginative one.
There is nothing wrong with choosing exquisiteness and imagination.
Giving my son an eternal and beautiful life is a way to be remembered by future generations. After a person has told his story countless times, he will also be compiled into the story by others, and after these stories have been told countless times, all the stories will become true.
Casting a family myth for later generations to tell, this is a man as a father to a man as a son to express a deep warmth.
This movie is beautiful, full of imagination, the dark and pure beauty in magic movies.
The first-person perspective and numerous narratives describe a man's legendary life. Many times, I don't have time to study whether all the stories are true. After all, it doesn't seem so important to a bystander like me. More importantly, I saw more restrained affection in these stories.
Edward is a person that everyone likes, because he is sociable and enthusiastic about it, because he is brave and kind, and because his mind is full of imagination and novel stories all the time. However, for Will, it seems that this is not the case at all. His father seems to be more like a virtual hero living in an illusory fairy tale. All he wants is a more real father besides fairy tales.
Perhaps, he doesn't understand his father's affection. This misplacement in understanding makes the film slightly sad. Between the two generations, it seems more like a common fault of modern people that father and son can't communicate.
Perhaps, as Edward was angry: I have always been so real and so ruthless to show you everything about myself. If you can't see the real me, it's your failure, not mine.
As fathers, each has his own expression. How to show my true self to my son in a self-centered way, but my son can't understand it. Is it because my son didn't try his best to understand his father?
Edward's life can be fully shown in the film with rambling narration, although there are some subjectivities and heroism. Whether all this is true or not, if Will is keen and careful enough, he may find that all legends contain the same real father, but he doesn't. This is really Will's failure as a son.
The true story that Will has been looking for is about the truest side of his father. The film reveals all this at the end: the witch; The world; Ghost town; Poet; Big fish; Circus; War; Twin sisters ... these things actually exist, but they are re-reflected by Edward's own way and rich imagination. I don't know whether Will is satisfied with this answer, but in my opinion, this ending makes me very satisfied and happy.
In Edward's story, he will eventually die unexpectedly. But he never told anyone how he would face death in the end. He left the last story to Will. He may know that his story can only be told by his son and his descendants in the end, but in reality, he can only lie in the hospital and die peacefully.
Maybe all stories can only end with will. Everything Edward said was just laying a heavy foundation for his beloved son. Even in Will's eyes, he is just a trivial footnote in his father's story. But when Will finally understands all this, he may find that he doesn't really understand what his father did for him.
Of all the stories in the film, perhaps, the story that Will told to the end moved me the most. What moved me was not the story itself, but when Will finished all his father's legendary stories, in my opinion, he had fully understood his father and he had begun to touch the looming real father.
Perhaps it should be said that the sincere feelings between father and son have completely influenced me.
This film is more about exploring the way of communication between father and son. And only when we get to where you want to go, is such communication expensive?
Compassion is the biggest footnote of this film. Although this footnote has been hidden in sincere feelings and prosperous aestheticism, when compassion was excavated, I suddenly had nothing to say.
[6] Ending: Any fairy tale must have an ending.
Birdman once told me that this movie made him deeply fall in love with everyone who tells fairy tales. He once joked that he would go to Vietnam to raise pigs. I don't know if he will see these words or when he will see them. I wanted to tell him when he saw these words. When he told me that he loved everyone who told fairy tales, to me, he was already a fairy tale teller himself.
Before and after the age of five, my father never left me any stories about himself. So in 2008, it seems that he can only piece together his life by talking to his elders unintentionally.
Around the age of five, Will's father kept telling all his stories, even though his stories had been repeated thousands of times. But his father's will can be described. Even if he doesn't believe everything his father said, he can only repeat the stories his father told. At the end of the film, he said that some jokes were no longer funny after hearing them for thousands of times, but one day when he suddenly heard them, he had a brand-new joy.
This may be life.
All fathers are doing the same thing, no matter what kind of people, success or failure, they are trying to leave something for their sons. And all the sons are doing the same thing, no matter what kind of person the father is, success or failure, they are trying to piece together a real father.
This effort itself has been as touching as a fairy tale.
It seems that men can only express their affection to another closest man in this way.
All fairy tales will eventually have an ending. The ending of the movie and the ending of the fairy tale overlap so well. Everyone was laughing and seeing Edward off sincerely, without sadness.
Finally, some seemingly sincere smiles began to appear on my hypocritical face. Such a smile means redemption and pious happiness.
Fairy tales in movies must have a forced ending; My fairy tale is still being explored; My father's fairy tales are still waiting for me to piece together. Let's end this long article with a quote from Birdman.
I love everyone who tells fairy tales.
2007-0 1-09; This is a sad and ugly month. Gold foil is unintentional.
Note: Movie information.
■ Title: Big Fish
■ English title: "Big Fish"
■ Director: tim burton
■ Starring: albert finney
Ewan McGregor
■ genre: fantasy/plot/adventure/comedy
■ Film length:125min
■ Country: United States
■ Language: English
■ Question: Columbia Samsung Film Co., Ltd.
■ Release date: 65438+February 2003
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