We are not an island

Maggie 2021-10-22 14:35:01

I just watched this movie, which is very similar to the Chinese movie "The Two of Us" that I watched recently.

A big man and a little boy changed each other, warmed each other, and influenced each other.
Opened the window of the soul, changed the view of the world, and changed the view of the world of itself.

All this is so simple and natural.

Really, as the line says, maybe each of us is an island.

But when these isolated islands are connected, the feeling is so amazing!

At the end of the film, my wife and I couldn't help but applaud, for this good film, and for the beauty of human nature!

Really, I long for this kind of communication, this kind of friendship, this kind of mutual spiritual encouragement, this kind of strayness and warmth!

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Extended Reading
  • Daron 2022-04-20 09:01:22

    It's a warm story, Nizi has been so handsome since he was a child

  • Hayden 2022-04-20 09:01:22

    Milky Nicolas Hoult is still a grinding goblin

About a Boy quotes

  • Ali: I tell you, if your dad goes out with my mum, then you're dead. Really, dead.

    Marcus: Oh, don't worry. He's all right.

    Ali: I don't care if he's all right! I don't want him going out with my mum. So I don't wanna see him, or you, around here ever again, OK?

    Marcus: Well, I'm not really sure it's up to me.

    Ali: Well it better be! Or you're gonna die.

    Marcus: [voiceover] I was beginning to get the feeling that this kid Ali was a serial killer.

    Marcus: Can I have a go on your computer? What games have you got?

    Ali: Are you listening to me?

    Marcus: Yeah, it's just that I can't really do much at the moment, can I? I mean, Will - that's my dad - well, he likes your mum, and I think she's keen on him.

    Ali: [shouting] She's not keen on him! She's only keen on me!

  • Will: [thinking] Every man is an island. I stand by that. But clearly some men are island CHAINS. Underneath, they are connected...

    Marcus: [thinking] I used to think two was not enough. But now things are great; there are loads of people... I don't know what Will was so pissed about. I don't think couples are the future. The way I see it now, we both got back-up now. It's like that thing Jon Bon Jovi said: 'No man is an island.'