Get out of the island and embrace the colors

Krystina 2021-12-17 08:01:17

Thank you Zi Wendong for your recommendation, otherwise I won't encounter this movie. I couldn't stop watching it at the beginning. After watching it, I gave it 5 stars without any doubt; if I could give one more, I would never be stingy. Writing this is not a film review of any nature at all, just slowly explaining to myself why I like it, I like it so much. Just like it. I really like the lines inside: any writer can attest, in the luckiest, happiest state, the words are not coming from you, but through you. To say feelings, this is the greatest feeling.

The protagonist Otaku, although he is very successful in writing novels, has no friends around him, so much so that the psychologist forced to ask when he saw his friends last time, and he was not allowed to talk about his brother, because his brother is a family member, not a friend. The female protagonist also understands the situation of the male protagonist very well. Other people around him, his mother and her boyfriend, friends in the publishing circle, etc., all know his loneliness. He knows better himself. He can be regarded as a typical mental illness, even though this disease is quite common now; otherwise, he doesn't need to see a psychiatrist. This doctor was very good. Although he couldn't break through the convention and understand the whole magical story as reality after the novel was published, his firmness and concern made people warm. He asked the talented male protagonist to write about his dog, just as it is. At this point, I just clicked on the theme of the whole film, that is, accepting one person and one thing as it is.

The story is about deduction of transformation and counter-transformation, although it is a bit magical. This magical illusion actually shows the topic better, so as to force the protagonist and all the audience, if you can really transform the other party as you wish, would you be willing to accept such an opponent? Would you be willing to accept such a self? Would you be willing to accept such a world? In a non-magical context, we are often frustrated by the hardship of transforming the other party and the opposition of the other party, complaining about the other party’s ignorance and willfulness, reflecting on the clumsiness of our own methods, and being more affected by the feelings of resentment and frustration. Occupy, rather than being forced to reflect on it, whether it makes sense in itself and whether you can accept the result. And the film has been given magic, so that this kind of transformation behavior can be done at will, with one line.

I thought of the lonely child I had written before. Although it was a bit blunt, I might as well move here to meet the occasion. "Children don’t actually feel lonely. He has so many toys. One day, he thought, if toys could talk like me, it would be great. At this time loneliness will arise. One day, the toys suddenly speak, and the child Frightened, he quickly sealed his mouth; but for a while, he felt lonely again, and then tore off the adhesive strip, frightened, and sealed it again... The child finally discovered that his toys are actually alive. In fact, it was another child. He felt that he was so cruel, so he stopped sticking the tape. So he grew up. He learned what love is."

In this Me era, everyone is more or less constructing themselves On the isolated island, when you’re done, you sit on the island and call for loneliness. No one wants to leave their island, but they are all very afraid of loneliness, longing to be loved and cared for. The male protagonist is just a typical representative of the islanders. The visit of outsiders is of course a heartfelt welcome, but soon after the other party arrives on the island, the island owner will implement the island rules, hoping to assimilate outsiders into islanders. So I remembered those little planets in "The Little Prince". Speaking along this line of thought, it can be said that it is very far; but no matter how you say it, it seems to be an unsolvable chess game. Like the child above, the island owner must accept the fact that foreign visitors do not need to be islanders of the island, and in the end, the island owner does not have to stick to the rules of the island or even the island itself. But this fact is not always so easy to be realized. Or not so much that it is not easy, it is better to say unwilling.



Nerd male protagonists can also be portrayed as other types of workaholics. They both admire and reject the joy and color in life. The heroine happens to be the opposite; she ignores so many careers or achievements, does what she wants, and embraces everything that is colorful. Her life itself is color. If she is allowed to settle in a certain hue, no matter how beautiful it is, it will kill her. There is also the paradise between mother and boyfriend, which is full of vitality; the male protagonist hides upstairs and reads his endless books. Can't help thinking of his endless list of books. Of course, the book also has the colors in the book, but from a distance, it has only one color, which is gray. So I thought of the madness and vitality in "Unreachable". Gray is to make people moldy. People in gray robes are always worried that they will lose their direction in the wild, but they don't know that only in these arbitrary colors can they find themselves; instead, they are in gray and don't know where to go.

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  • Lacy 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    One more star for the heroine. The experience of watching the movie is very unpleasant, full of narcissism and self-righteousness, all kinds of scratches. Such a high rating fooled me into going to the cinema, there's really no need to watch it in the cinema.

  • Hellen 2021-12-17 08:01:17

    In fact, this film can be called "Fantastic Typewriter". To some extent, I still think that the male protagonist loves himself, even if he falls in love with the character he created, he actually loves the one who can write such a character. In fact, there are many places in the middle that can be turned. I originally hoped that the heroine would find the manuscript by herself. It turns out that this film, which is a golden dog blood series in China, was written by the heroine herself. Wouldn't it break when the couples played such abusive scenes together?

Ruby Sparks quotes

  • Calvin Weir-Fields: The only reason girls ever want to sleep with me is that they read my book in high school.

    Harry: So?

    Calvin Weir-Fields: So they're not interested in me, they're interested in... some idea of me.

    Harry: That's why you have to work out. So they'll want you for your body.

  • Calvin Weir-Fields: I had a weird dream last night. There was this girl...

    Harry: What'd she look like?

    Calvin Weir-Fields: ...Like a normal girl, someone I made up.

    Harry: Did you have sex?

    Calvin Weir-Fields: No, she just talked to me.

    Harry: That's fucking depressing.

    Calvin Weir-Fields: It was actually really nice.

    Harry: Seriously? You don't even get laid in your dreams? That's just sad.