Although I often watch "Naruto", "One Piece", and "Bleach", three long-length animes known as "Shueisha's Big Three" to pass their free time, the grand story structure and distinctive themes often make people lost in chasing the plot. on the road, thus forgetting to think.
Until yesterday, Mamoru Hosoda's "Son of Monsters" just released the resources, it happened that he had a story, I had time, and we hit it off.
"Son of the Monster" stills
Slight spoilers ahead, please watch selectively.
1. Both teachers and friends, the monster and human
mother who loved father and son died in a car accident, the whereabouts of his father are unknown, the protagonist Lian who wants to become stronger, and the arrogant, rude and lonely master candidate Xiong Che in the monster world, Two people who belong to different worlds but have similar experiences and emotions meet by accident. At the beginning, Xiong Che’s cynicism and Lian’s rebellious rebelliousness seemed to be irreconcilable, and even showed an intensifying trend. At this time, because Lian entered the monster world, Xiong Che and another grandmaster candidate Zhu Wangshan duel. became a turning point. Through this duel, Lian saw Xiong Che's isolation and helplessness, but at the same time he saw his self-improvement, as if he saw himself fighting against fate, the same loneliness, the same refusal to admit defeat, that roar "Don't lose!" Not only at Xiong Che, but also at himself. This constitutes the bond that exists between them.
Before meeting Lian, Xiong Che's ability and character were a wild and original existence. He had no parents and no master since he was a child, so he worked hard to make himself stronger. ability, but also his misfortune."
This reminds me of one of my long-term friends: he is several rounds older than me, and there are three brothers and sisters in the family, and he is the eldest. His father died when he was a teenager, and his mother sent him to his uncle and aunt's house to support him early because of the unbearable pressure of life. He has been relying on others like this, and has lived for many years looking at people's faces. No one told him how to face the choices in life, how to manage his love and life.
When he was applying for college, he chose a normal school without understanding the situation at all, which was a profession he swore never to engage in since he was a child. But if he doesn't go to college, he has to go back to his hometown to farm, because his uncles and aunts can no longer afford the cost of repeating his studies for another year, so he has no right to choose again.
After graduation, he was assigned to a middle school in the mountainous area as a math teacher. In order to be able to live independently from his relatives as soon as possible, it took him only six months from falling in love to getting married. He chose an English teacher who was assigned together and brought his girlfriend home. The first time he saw his parents was also to see his aunt. It was not until they had a child two years after their marriage that his mother saw her daughter-in-law for the first time.
After having a child, because he doesn't listen to anyone, he naturally doesn't know how to give reasonable advice to the child; he doesn't know how to communicate with the child, so he can only look for his father to educate him from his only remaining childhood memories. The way to raise their own children - "a stick makes a dutiful son". Once he drank too much, and told a story from his childhood: his father always beat him for no reason, and once wanted to kick him, but as soon as he ducked, his father kicked on the wall and broke his foot. . When he finished telling this story, I could understand why when his child was just over two years old, he couldn't count from one to ten and his nose bleeds from a slap in the face.
After all, Xiong Che is a character in an adult fairy tale. He can grow up with Lian, help each other, be spiritual support for each other, and finally achieve mutual sublimation. Reality has not given me such an opportunity as this year-old friend. He has already lost to the idealistic product called destiny, but he hopes that his children can control his own future.
2. Jointly embark on a journey of exploring and powerful.
When Xiong Che and Lian encountered a bottleneck in their practice, the master Mr. Bai appeared in time, so they embarked on a journey of seeking what is powerful with the help of Mr. Bai. To sum up the following items:
1. Illusion (dream)
If you want to become strong, you should first be strong in thought. I personally think how great the dream is and how powerful the idea is. To use Xing Ye's classic lines: "If a person has no dreams, what is the difference between them and salted fish?"
2. Mind Power (self-knowledge)
If you want to become strong, you must know yourself Where are the boundaries, as said in "Dunhuang Song He Manzi Four Songs": "The golden river has a thousand journeys, and if you want to go to the horizon, there will be more heaven." Then keep breaking the boundaries, surpass yourself, and never stop on the road of learning and cognition. content.
3. Remaining in the shape of hidden records (forgetting oneself without self)
If you want to become strong, you must learn to forget time and things in the world, in order to be able to make yourself detached from other things, cultivate yourself in the realm of selflessness and selflessness, and let yourself be The spiritual power is tempered.
4. Don't lose the opportunity (courage)
If you want to become strong, you must have enough courage and guts to seize the opportunity, instead of pushing and resisting and hesitating. To paraphrase a vulgar saying: "Don't miss the opportunity, the time will never come".
After completing this journey, Xiong Che's conclusion is crucial: "It is up to you to discover what the meaning is!" The
powerful meaning not only depends on hearsay, but also needs to be found by yourself with the goal of success.
3. The sword in his heart,
when Xiong Che taught Lian how to learn swordsmanship, when faced with Lian's clumsiness in his first sword practice, he would inevitably become irritable, and he said, "Hold the sword in your heart!" At that time The young Lian still didn't understand what the sword in her heart was.
When Xiong Che finally became the sword in Lian's heart, Lian suddenly realized at this moment: the previous loneliness and hatred formed the darkness in his heart, and Xiong Che's love as a master and a close friend, forged into him The sword in his heart, he burned the darkness, gave Lian a sound personality, and realized his own immortality.
Many years later, a long conversation between my young friend and his child completely eased the father-son relationship between them. He said: "I'm old now, and I can't touch you anymore; you're too old, and many things are beyond our control. But I hope you can come home often to see, your mother was always in her heart before she had you. With me, when she has you, her world revolves around only one person. We all hope that you can watch us grow old, just like we used to watch you grow up." After he finished speaking, the child gave him A deep hug, he was a little caught off guard, and when the child let go he pretended soot got into his eyes and wiped away the tears.
This year-end friend is my father.
Love is the sword in the heart, it can always guard us, no matter how hard or far the road ahead is.
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