When I was bored, I turned on the TV again, picking and choosing among the film and television works in the sky, just like an old glutton, facing the feast every day, and finally lost the enthusiasm of Xia Quan. Suddenly, a dark and mysterious gothic watercolor animation on the screen, combined with a deep and magnetic voice, attracted me, and I watched it endlessly. It is not a pure animation after watching, but a tearful fantasy film "When the Monster Knocks on the Door". It suppresses sadness but not despair, and the healing power is hidden in the emotional collision. This is a story about "letting go". After her mother unfortunately suffered from cancer, little Connor was plagued by nightmares all day long because of her fear of losing her mother and the blame for her longing for relief. My mother once used her own growth experience and love to draw a picture book together with little Connor, so that he summoned a yew tree spirit with great strength and life wisdom in his pain, and used three stories to help him gradually face the need to live with him. The grandmother's life is against alienation, she sees the kindness and deceit of mutual comfort with her mother, and she resists the bullying and bullying of the tall classmates. The fourth story was told by Connor himself. Under the aggressive questioning of the dryad, and in the tearing of his self-denying soul, Connor finally shouted out the secret that was pressing in his heart: "I think this will end soon!" At that moment, he let go of lies and paranoia, and broke his weak and closed self; what he held fast was faith and belief, and what he gained was the courage to reconcile with reality. As little Connor abandoned his forbearance of silence and burst into piercing cries, he was finally able to deeply embrace his dying mother with a sense of relief, and my breathing finally relaxed in the agonizing exhaustion. Many excellent children's works are not only suitable for children, just like the calm sea, hidden under the blue and clear surface, is boundless vastness and indescribable depth. I like this movie, for the warm care it pours, and the compassionate transparency it reveals. When I have time, I will watch it again with my son. The film is full of metaphors, and there is a lot more to tell us. For example, little Connor is reluctant to be invisible in the crowd, but when he desperately seeks to be noticed, he feels even more bone-breaking loneliness. I also remembered a saying that I have seen constantly in recent days - "The joys and sorrows of human beings are not connected." The words are as cold and sharp as a scalpel, but the person who speaks is clearly like fire in his heart. But on the other hand, only when human beings share joys and sorrows, only when everyone's life is respected, and only when everyone is not easily regarded as a number, as a pawn, as a price, the world It will become more peaceful and beautiful, won't it? Salute to Sisyphus! Salute to those who worked hard to build the Tower of Babel!
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