Voloa, 11, explained to Leah, 13, why he wanted to jump off the bridge.
Do you think this boy is joking?
No, he did kill himself in the end - though he swallowed a lot of pills.
Do you think this boy is extreme?
No, everything around him sucks—decayed, broken, cold, cruel, abandoned, hopeless—if you're in his place, you can't do better than him.
Do you sympathize with this child and think he should choose to live strong?
No, sympathy is worthless, he can't "choose" to be strong - no one in the world tells him how to "choose", and the world is not in a world where he doesn't even know where Sweden is The Moscow boy has the openness it deserves.
"So, do you think this kid made the right choice?" you ask me rhetorically.
No, because even he himself regretted it, and he, who had become an angel, said, "I went to heaven after killing myself, and that's good. But I regret it, because I want to live a little longer on earth. Death is Eternity, but life is only a moment." However, it should be noted that the boy regretted suicide not because he later found out how good the world was, but because he found out that heaven is just like that - remember? The boy's greatest hope for heaven is to "play basketball all day and get as many points as he wants, ten thousand times better than Jordan." When the dome of a child's dream is nothing but ordinary, how can his heaven be any better?
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"It's very windy... foggy. It's cold. And the world is not good."
Leah confronts the gift from Voloa - her dream land "America" , doesn't feel good.
This reminds me of Milan Kundera, the most famous Czech writer who yearned for the Western world when he was young, but when he went to the West after "going through a major change in sophistication", he found that the West was nothing more than that, but he also Unwilling, or unable to return to the former motherland, in the end, this brilliant writer slowly turned into a nihilist.
We can't imagine what it would have been like if she went to America with her mother in the first place, but everyone saw what happened when she went to Sweden, which was equally expected.
Thomas Hardy once described women in Jude the Nameless:
"Half an hour later they were all lying in their little bedrooms, tender women's faces turned up to the blazing gas flames, From time to time the flames illuminated the long collective dormitory; every face bears the imprint of the legendary "weak" on which gender punishments have been cast, and no matter what will and ability they may have, they cannot. Make themselves strong, as long as there is an irresistible law of nature in them. They form a beautiful, revealing, sad sight of which they themselves are unaware, until A few years later, when they have experienced the storms and hardships of life, and the pain of grievance, loneliness, childbirth and bereavement, will they remember the scene at this time, and will find that some things are in their ignorance. It slipped away without knowing it."
I had no intention of blaming Leah's tragic fate on her gender. But, obviously, when the world abandons someone's fate, or stands by while that person suffers, then when that person is a woman, it tends to take on a deeper ordeal. No one should ignore that in the movie "Landscape in the Fog", which is also composed of a little boy and a little girl, when the little boy wants to get food, he only needs to exchange it with the bakery owner by labor, and the bigger one is bigger than the boy. When the girl needed food, she was brutally raped.
The world still doesn't know how to honor the woman who gives birth to life, beauty and hope.
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"There is a custom in Athens that it is forbidden to pick up bread crumbs from the table, because they belong to the heroes." Image master Walter. Benjamin warned humans not to pluck "the unripe fruit from the tree because of endless greed."
And Thomas. Hardy, by "arranging" the suicides of three children in Jude the Nameless, reminded the world that the following sentence should always be remembered:
"All the children of our time are, as a whole, the adults of our time. children, who deserve our general attention."
If only once, humanity would prove to posterity that this paradox is not true: the only lesson we can learn from history is that we can't learn any lessons from history .
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