This legend, Rodriguez, is a spanish name that I had never known before. The whole film is full of emotion. Never thought that I would suddenly burst into tears when I saw Rodiriguez shine so brightly on the South African stage and the 20,000 people in the audience cheered wildly. Life has played a big joke on Rodriguez, a superstar who is more popular than Elvis in South Africa, but in his home country - the United States, no one cares, no one even knows his existence. The albums released were not bought in the United States at all, and his songs, which became an inspiration and inspiration for the revolutionary forces against apartheid in South Africa, were not listened to in the United States. And the singer himself doesn't know all this. He only knew that his songs, in the United States, no one listened to.
So the so-called rumor came out, this down-and-out wandering singer, at the end of his last club performance, amidst the boos and abuse from the audience, committed suicide by drinking bullets. Dramatically, that's not true as well. This is exactly what "Sugar Man" wrote on the record: We know nothing about him. The world thought he was dead, but in fact he has been living in Detroit silently, living a The lives of lower- and middle-class workers. A person who is full of perception and enthusiasm for life, and has great artistic talent, has become a brick mover, and may occasionally help people paint the walls.
The world thinks that someone so unhappy will probably end their life, but Rodriguez, as he said, has to bow his head like reality and find another way to make a living. Even as a worker, he is very serious and always does things that others disdain or won't do. Music is his life, and he who is immersed in music creation and performance is the real him, the most energetic him; but in the face of life, he chooses to live, live on and hides the dream in mind. Maybe sometimes escape It's very simple, death is a momentary thing; but choosing to continue to live, to live for a living, to live for life, is more difficult for a person who cannot realize his dream.
There is no right or wrong choice, and there is no difference between good and bad. The magic of life is its ups and downs, you can never predict what will happen next second. Living in life is like drifting on the sea. Maybe only you and the oars in your hand can control it. But you can't control the weather, and you can't determine the direction of the wind and the flow of water. You can not choose destination, but you can choose how to face it, the one given by life.
I think Sixto Rodriguez probably thought he would be such a quiet poor blue-collar worker all his life. But the miracle of life happened again. He probably wouldn't have thought of that bloody and crazy night in South Africa, a concert of more than 20,000 people, ten minutes of cheers, and hours of autographs. Maybe everyone hopes that in this life, even if only for a few minutes, they can shine in front of the world like this. Rodriguez did it. He was back to who he was, a pop singer. But once again, he still chose to return to his past life, or to return to Detroit and continue his life as a worker. It seems that the concert is just an episode in his life.
Sometimes, life really gives us unexpected things and takes us into a different landscape. How to choose is only in our hearts. Going forward, stopping, or going back to the past; accepting it and not admitting defeat, or, let's see, often create different endings in life. Therefore, from a dialectical point of view, it seems that we are being carried away by life. In fact, every next step and every new life problem we face stems from our previous choices. In fact, how we live is ultimately up to us to decide.
When I went back, I thought about my trip to Myanmar in the next month, and I felt a lot easier. What an amazing place life will take me. When people are young, they should go out more often. Living in a small city like Hong Kong for a long time will limit your horizons and vision, and people will become more and more concerned about life. Although I didn’t grow up in a very developed country, it is still the capital, and life is full of everything; living in such favorable conditions, people will naturally wear tinted glasses, or stick to the same labels to see those “very different” places , always associating them with very bad things. Maybe we've lost a lot of fun. To understand the joy of different cultures and different people's lives. We have become more and more the same, what we long for and what we aim for is just the same dull and boring material life. It is we ourselves who frame ourselves in a small circle, burning souls until they become empty.
Choose to lead an interesting life, and gonna carry the courage on.
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