Dutch director Michael Dudwit’s short animated film "Father and Daughter" (2000), although only 8 minutes, it is touching enough, but it makes me always have a doubt. It seems to say that the love between father and daughter is actually Slowly reveal the truth of a life, that is, the daughter has stepped on his father’s bicycle since childhood, and has to come to the shore where his father left every day. She wants to bridge a gap in her life.
Only one day, when she walked to the beach, she was shocked to find that after experiencing the great changes in Cangsang, the boat her father had rowed had sunk on the shore, but she didn't pay attention. In other words, after she watched her father leave in a small boat when she was a child, her father may have been devastated by a storm or some other reason, but said that her daughter had never known it, so that she had to wait for a lifetime. Looking forward to the return of his father.
The doubts I mentioned, of course, include the meaning and value of this lifelong waiting.
This is enough to show that the fate of people is unpredictable. The beginning means the end. The short film is poetic. Although her daughter is still dying to see her father, she took a nap on the shore, dreaming of her father who had left as a child, and hugged him tightly. This is the final farewell ceremony of life.
The wheel on which the girl is stepping on keeps spinning, and there will be a day of wear and tear. People, isn't it? Because life is so fragile and short, life is so precious, and it is worthy of our full protection.
What viewers want to think about is that people will never return after they leave. This is very similar to everyone's life, from the beginning to the old age, always looking for, looking forward to and experiencing everything with hope, no matter the pain and happiness, but in the end, they will return by different routes and still cannot escape.
Everything in life is in vain. Many expectations are actually just illusory bubbles.
My daughter tirelessly stepped on the bicycle every day to check in, which also shows that most of the life in life is going back in vain. In other words, life is like a dream, which is an illusion. Any encounter, even a loved one, is a fluke and accident, and the only thing that is inevitable is to leave.
Furthermore, the long-term hope of how many people is actually due to an inadvertent negligence. If the daughter left later and watched her father disappear from the field of vision, perhaps there would be no waiting for her life, but there are no assumptions in life, and everything will only follow her own habits. Negligence is part of life, otherwise there will be no regrets.
In the short film, the father insists on crossing the sea to earn a living or travels far, obviously ignoring and violating the changes in weather and ocean tides, causing sudden changes, and even keeping his daughter on the watch for a lifetime until the end of his life. This unfortunate result was formed by the superposition of the habitual internal factors and external forces formed by that father back then.
It just means that we are still touched by our daughter's lifelong waiting. Touching itself is also a necessity of life, just like air and water that must be indispensable. Father and daughter have deep affection. This is the compassionate love that is always in the heart, and it is also the path that the benevolent walks in his life. In this way, the profound codes of life contained in "Father and Daughter" may be difficult to understand without careful understanding.
2020.10.5
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