"Me? Forget? Never."
Which fairy tale is the most memorable for you? If someone asks me this way, the answer must be "Peter Pan". This fairy tale is rare without princes, princesses, witches, and cookie-cutter endings. It is replaced by the unquiet but wonderfully exciting Never Island: fairies, Indians, mermaids, pirates, crocodile swallowing pocket watches ticking all day... And what every child infinitely desires and quietly experienced in their dreams-flying.
Love and castles have never been children's dreams. When I was young, what I looked forward to most was a letter from Hogwarts, and the boy who flew in through the window with no baby teeth. It's a pity that I'm a Muggle, and I happen to be bad at storytelling, so I have to grow up ordinary, not without regrets.
Nowadays, "Harry Potter" is often read, but "Peter Pan" has long been forgotten by me. When I was a child, I didn't notice Peter when I was growing up. I was jealous of the boy who was let off by time, and felt that the other people in the story were all ironically reflecting his-if it were more tragic-tragic destiny. In this way, "Peter Pan" does its duty as a fairy tale very well: it only brings joy to the children. And I, from a certain day, no longer a child, it stingyly made a face on me.
The dusty fairy tale just lay quietly in the corner, so that the secretly hidden wish in my heart has nowhere to hide. I didn't even know the existence of that wish before. It carefully hid itself very well and deep, fearing that it would never come out to blow the night breeze in the middle of the night. It was really hard to think about.
"No need to grow up"-it turns out that I also have such a wish.
This secret wish I discovered by chance when I grew up surprised me. I was a little confused and depressed, but I couldn't help but feel sad when I thought about it carefully. When I watched "Peter Pan" when I was a child, I remembered some beautiful and mysterious things. At this time, in my heart, Peter became a synonym for luck... "No need to grow up", such a good dream.
This sorrow and envy lasted for several years, making "Peter Pan" from the "favorite fairy tale" in my heart to the "most unforgettable fairy tale".
To this day, after seeing the movie version of "Peter Pan" by accident, and then eagerly reviewing the novel, I dare not call it a "fairy tale" anymore. I don't envy anymore. In fact, I never feel as sad as this for another moment.
——All the children were in the brightly lit room, but Peter Pan stopped outside the window, silently witnessing the only happiness he could not get.
He turned and left, but was noticed by keen Wendy.
"Peter, you won't forget me, will you?"
"Me? Forget? Never."
When the smile at the corner of the boy's mouth disappeared, and his clear eyes slowly dignified, I couldn't help crying. When he turned and left, he felt even more soft-hearted, as if he had a thousand words, but he didn't know where to start.
Compared to movies, Peter Pan in the novel is more like a child: he doesn't understand love, and he is "naive, happy, and carefree", even though his sadness is never lasting. And Pan in the movie is closer to a childish teenager. This characteristic is especially obvious at the end of the film: when he made the promise of "Never", his outline has already belonged to the perseverance of a man; at the end he looks back and smiles and seems to be a joke. Such a picky tone is still childlike and childish.
Just like in the movie, the vast majority of children choose to grow up, even as a price, they have to give up the joy of being children. Those who insist on being children are Peter Pan in the fairy tale, Holden in the novel, but in reality they are considered patients. This is always the case. We must give up accordingly when we make any choice.
Peter probably understood this, so he said "living is the greatest adventure".
No one likes to be alone, including Peter Pan, of course, but he is even more afraid of disappointment. The first time he made a decision, he didn't know how much he would pay, but the second time, he embraced loneliness again without hesitation.
You must know how great the child's forgetfulness is, and they have so much joy and novelty that no one thing can occupy their minds for a long time. Therefore, Peter Pan will soon forget how big a decision he made and what a price he paid-as it should have been.
However, he seriously looked at the girl who looked at him with tears and made a promise forever.
How timid and brave he is.
At the end of the film, the audience was told that Wendy never saw Peter Pan again. When she grew up, she told the story of Peter to her child, and her child told the next child. In the book, Peter Pan occasionally returns, flying to Neverland with Wendy's children from generation to generation.
In fact, movies and novels are two very different stories. Peter in the novel regards Wendy as a friend and mother, but Peter in the movie loves her...So even if he makes an eternal promise, the boy in the movie still has to forget Wendy, but not in the novel. Love is too heavy, loneliness is too heavy, they should not be remembered by children.
Maybe it's for a happy ending, or maybe it's because I grew up to obey the rules unconsciously. In short, how much I hope Peter will stay.
But at the moment he saw him go, happiness and sorrow came together...
Only Peter Pan was different, he was always naive, happy, and carefree.
He is so different...but the world needs a wish, a dream.
I can't and don't want to be a child forever, but, just as Peter has a kiss that will always belong to him, I have an eternal dream.
Thinking of this, I was relieved with a bit of sorrow.
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