Spanning two centuries and 150 years of history, the fate of a family and five generations has changed, from the high-grandfather village chief, to the great-grandfather brewer Enmanuele, to the grandfather justice Ignatz, the father of the Olympic fencing champion Adam, Finally, Ivan himself, the narrator of the "Sunshine" story. This long journey, but witnessing a truth, raises a question-one era has the absurdity of one era. What human beings do is to go from one absurdity to another absurdity. The so-called belief, should it be placed on religion or should it be placed on doctrine? What is our salvation? Or will it lead to our destruction? Black horror, white horror, red horror, will there be more horrors in succession? When our hearts are imprisoned by doctrine and doctrine, do we still know how to breathe freely? Hands open their insides, and they are all filled with hypocrisy, falsehood and sin. politics? It is always the farthest thing from truth, truth, beauty, love, and the pure joy of life.
In Chapter 2 of Milan Kundera's Book of Laughs and Forgetfulness, his son Carlisle often laughs at his mother's eyesight. They looked like a boundary marker, and in the eyes of their mother, they were just ordinary houses. "But the weakness of the mother's eyesight actually seems to express something more essential: they look at big things, and she feels small."
"When tanks from surrounding powers invaded their country, it was so shocking and frightening." But my mother only worries about the ripe pears in the garden in August. In the past, Carlisle would think that his mother was only thinking about her own business, and they quarreled about it and accused her of being narrow-minded. "But is the tank really more important than the pear? As the years passed, Carlisle realized that the answer to this question was not as obvious as he always thought. In the mother's vision, the foreground is a big pear, the background A little farther up, there is a tank not much bigger than a ladybug, which can fly away at any time and disappear out of sight. My mother is right: tanks are perishable, and pears are eternal."
Since a pear can last forever, how could the "sunshine nectar" of the Sanahia family be lost?
Is this secret recipe of Sunshine Nectar from the family motto left by the great ancestor on the yellowed paper?
"My dear child, you have left the family that sheltered you to pursue your goals in life, become a judge, make laws like Moses, perform justice like David, use the power bestowed by the Almighty Lord, or be a guardian. Thousands of years later, you have entered a world. Knowledge determines your success or failure, and learning is always our Jewish rule; Jewish civilization teaches us to doubt the world and recognize the connections between different things. If you feel your own power, That is your illusion. If you think that you can surpass others because you know more, then you are wrong. Keep yourself away from vanity. Vanity is the most evil and the source of all evil, and you will always stick to your beliefs. Not for the sake of God, God represents all beliefs. You will never be happy if you spend your whole life pursuing the recognition of the outside world. Although beliefs are flawed, it can steadily carry you to the other shore. Life is like a boat floating on the waves, vacillating. When you judge others, you must first understand: everything they do is life peace, they are mortals just like us. Don’t judge people by appearance, avoid slander, don’t be credulous, everything needs to be practiced by yourself; stay away from power, despise authority, and keep a low profile. Our wealth is actually worthless. Wealth cannot withstand fire and flooding, political plunder, no pie in the sky, ill-gotten wealth makes people ugly, and we must have principles.”
This teaching is of course the most reasonable. Good words. But sunshine nectar seems to be something else.
At the end of the film, Ivan smiled calmly, unloaded his mind for the first time and walked in the sun. He realized: "I walked on the street, the first time I felt that I don’t have to dodge. Probably only my great-grandfather Enmanuere had it. Live this kind of life. I understand that the only way to find meaning in life is to be honest. I remembered the words of my grandmother: Record all the good things in life. When I finished telling this story, the third tragedy of the 20th century was over. After the monarchy and fascism, communism also disappeared. As for the lost secret recipe, I suddenly realized that the secret of the family is not lost, but sealed by my grandmother. The only one in our family who naturally knows how to breathe freely people".
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