There is also life, which has properties that are very similar to eternity: lengthy, complicated, and gradually moving towards nothingness, which cannot be observed or even predicted. Or maybe because there is love, together with the betrayal, forgetfulness, and indifference that come with love, it makes people deeply powerless. It was like an inflatable doll with a pierced hole, gradually drying out.
Today, I will watch Father and Daughter, an animated work co-produced by the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands. Eight minutes. The eternity and life that come through in eight minutes are like a string. I think this is the reason why I like literature and art. Things that are too difficult to master in reality become clear as soon as they enter the text and music on the screen, so clear that you can easily feel the heaviness and softness of this huge volume, just like being Tugged the heart, pain and tingling.
The film’s perspective is actually very simple. Death, life, reincarnation, life, and love are all keen to discuss performance issues. There is no big difference. The discussions are nothing more than truths that everyone understands. They are not mysterious at all. , Do not go around. But this is exactly what I like about it: plain, simple, and powerful. Things that seem huge and complex are actually the simplest, simple and straightforward, and they need to be simple and direct to express. The father and daughter in the film, I still can't see their faces clearly. The producers simply made it easy on purpose. The faces of people are not important in this big and vast river of time. They are just two hazy figures, wandering in the mottled time, from birth to death, from childhood to old age, with fateless expressions.
The film has many memorable things. For example, when her daughter was a little girl, she rode past a rickety old woman. Many years passed. When her daughter became an old woman, she still rode her bike. It's a little girl, her body shape is no different from her back then. In a short film, she repeats the action of cycling, passing by all kinds of people at all ages, and those people are actually her at other stages of life. Did she pass through her life or someone else's?
This is a kind of reincarnation.
In fact, life is nothing more than these routine actions, the same riding, the same passing, which can be simplified and saved long ago.
Only love, the desire for love, cannot be simplified, nor can it be simplified. Love cannot be scribbled. Just like the father who the daughter has been waiting for all his life, the dead father, this remembrance and hope are necessary, and there is no room for discussion. When she (us) is a little bit old, everything becomes a pale passerby, what was once solid and reliable gradually becomes emptiness, only the most imaginary things become the most solid, that is feelings, only feelings.
I always firmly believe that people need such a kind of emotion, which is about eternity. This is not the ordinary friendship, love or family affection like that passing by, but the love that can connect life and death, love, just love.
In Father and Daughter, love, death, and life are equal to each other, and the sum of their meanings is equal to: endless life. This kind of sadness is a kind of power, and to tap this sadness is to tap the power of life.
I can't forget the intimacy of the father when he kissed his daughter in the film. He lifted his daughter up high, kissed her blushing little face, and shed tears on her delicate little body. Of course, these are really my imagination. In fact, I haven't painted it so carefully, and there is no need to be so detailed. Every daughter's imagination of his father is endless, because what they have experienced personally contains all these imaginations.
Father's love, at first, was like light.
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