Can't choose fate, but choose life

Kurtis 2021-12-01 08:01:26

Wild is also a film adapted from a book. The original work is Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. What's more fascinating is that this story is Cheryl's real experience. Because it is real, it is even more contagious. It’s not an exaggeration to compare the love that a single-parent hostess received from her mother to the sunshine in her life. It should be the only brilliant thing in her life, lighting up the entire cramped room and also lighting up her life. . After the death of her mother, she fell into endless despair, used drugs and promiscuity to numb herself, and then divorced and had an abortion with her husband... The greatest pain in life, when she is less than 30 years old, can be described as the overall stage. When she knew that she was pregnant and unable to raise her children, she had to be cruel to get rid of the collapse, Cheryl accidentally saw a book about hiking on the Pacific Crest Trail. It was this book that guided her to a thousand kilometers hike, looking for Self, freedom, and the path of salvation.

It is conceivable that a movie with this kind of plot will receive two extreme evaluations, because it is an extreme story in itself. There must be many people who think Cheryl is fragile, immature, and pretentious. Husbands who have good things don't just go for drugs and promiscuity, but they want to go hiking for good days. However, if a person is truly in despair, he cannot see the sunshine of life. To live for him, it may be more painful than death. Every day I wake up, I feel like I am carrying a heavy burden on my body. I have no energy to do anything, so what kind of energy do I have to face life? If you can't take the step of death, you can at least enjoy a moment of rest when you anesthetize yourself. There are so many sorrows in the world, I have never experienced it personally, and I never know how it feels. Don't take it for granted, thinking that you will definitely do better than him. Imagination and experience are biased, and experience is always more complicated than imagining, because life is full of accidents, and you don’t know whether the step forward is gold or a sharp knife. Don't blame him, he also wants to live a good life, but he really doesn't have the strength to live. Can you imagine how difficult life should be when breathing becomes a burden?

Fortunately, Cheryl didn't let herself sink and die. She set out to find herself with a backpack as heavy as her life. When people really feel that they have nothing, they are the most powerful. Anyway, if you have nothing, you are fearless to lose. As she said in the sunset conversation with the only female traveler she met on the road --Will

you feel lonely if you have been alone for so long?
-Actually, my original life was more lonely. This loneliness is not because I have no friends.

The long walk, the unknown and lonely road ahead is surrounded by dangers. There are strangers with good intentions, wild animals that stare at each other, some are dying from water shortage, some are hungry to madness, and some are bloody and bruised. She is no longer afraid of these. Nothing will be worse than your own life, so what is there to be afraid of? It's better to bet your life on the future. There are only two endings, one is death, the other is rebirth, no matter which one, it is better to live like a walking dead.

The only thing that scared her should be the dark and fragmented herself, the herself who had deviated from the life track of her mother's hope.

The role of mother appears as a flashback memory during the journey. I think everyone has the experience of seeing things and thinking about people. Something, a certain song, a certain sentence, a certain scenery, a certain book, a certain movie, may bring us back to a certain time in the past. The past is the past. Only once in the past. Whether happy or sad, it can only appear in memories and dreams. People in the past, whether they love or hate, some will never come to you again. Because of the non-replicability of memories, it is always better than reality. When a person becomes a memory forever, everything seems to be marked with a delicate soft light, the shortcomings disappear completely, and even the unhappiness at the time may become a sweet burden. The longer the time, the softer the light, and one day when you recall this person, you will be surprised to find that the unhappy memory has completely disappeared, leaving only the shadow like dream singing, smiling at you in reality.

Flashback should be the best way to express this feeling. This is true of ordinary memories, not to mention this mother who is almost Cheryl's entire world. Being abused by her drunk husband, she led Cheryl and her brother to lead a poor life. Every time she plays, I really feel that she seems to be shining. The poor life did not make her feel bad, but instead allowed her to show her love more splendidly and devote this love to the children wholeheartedly. She always wears a beautiful dress, thin and optimistic, and sings when she cooks. She and Cheryl went to College to continue their studies. No matter how bad life is, she is always finding beauty. She was even so optimistic that Cheryl was going to question her---

what are you happy about? Your husband is an alcoholic and he abuses you. We are so poor, we may not have all the houses someday.
-If I can go back in time, I will still choose to marry him. Because he let me have you and your brother.

Yes, whether life is bad or not is a gift from God. Lose a little, gain a little. Lose a lot, gain a lot. Cheryl, who had found herself back, also felt that if she could go back to the past, she might still choose the present life. Life is such a unique thing, maybe this is where its beauty lies. Happiness is beauty, and destruction is also beauty. Every life is different. Pain and happiness are the works of the Creator. Pain makes people grow and feel life more deeply; while happiness makes people simple and easier to feel happiness. All this makes the world complex and more fascinating. As Cheryl said: "The problem will not always be a problem. One day it will become something else."

As the hike passed day by day, Cheryl's eyes became more determined. At the end of the journey, she met a child in the forest. Behind the pretending to be mature, she had a childhood similar to her. He sang a song to her. After the child left, Cheryl finally cried. All the hard work, there is only stubbornness and stubbornness in her eyes, and she has never seen a single tear shed. Too much love is nowhere to be placed, and I can only say I miss you to the sky.

Cheryl should have found herself now. After so much suffering, I think she must be extremely sensitive and cherish happiness. I have always felt that the person you love the most, whether by your side or not, will watch you live in a certain time and space. If you live a bad life, he will not be happy. How are we willing to let them feel sorry for us? Therefore, you still have to work hard and try your best to live a short life, live your life to the full, like a moth darts to the flame. Even if it is not for yourself, it is for the person who loves you.

Just like my mother said. I know your hard work, but think about it, there are so many people who love you with me and dad, whether they are by your side or not. So you are still happy.

The reason why you are brave is because you have lost too much.
The reason for fear is that there is still concern.

I wish all the lost people find their true self. No matter what method is used.


04:15 5/2/2015

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Extended Reading
  • Jackie 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    Three and a half. Maybe everyone who walks the PCT is a person with a story. As a person who doesn't have many stories, I can't experience the pain that flashed back in the film. Compared with similar works, the wild survival situation in the film is not as impactful as "Wild Survival", and the plot is not as exciting as "127 Hours". Reese Witherspoon's "semi-single-man show" contributed to the film's credit.

  • Jess 2021-12-01 08:01:26

    The way of salvation begins at the foot.

Wild quotes

  • Cheryl: [voiceover] What if I forgive myself? What if I was sorry? But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if I wanted to sleep with every single one of those men? What if heroin taught me something? What if all those things I did were the things that got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

  • [last lines]

    Cheryl: [voiceover] It took me years to be the woman my mother raised. It took me 4 years, 7 months and 3 days to do it, without her. After I lost myself in the wilderness of my grief, I found my own way out of the woods.

    [pause]

    Cheryl: And I didn't even know where I was going until I got there, on the last day of my hike. Thankyou, I thought over and over again, for everything the trail had taught me and everything I couldn't yet know.

    [pause]

    Cheryl: Now in 4 years, I'd cross this very bridge. I'll marry a man in a spot almost visible from where I was standing. Now in 9 years, that man and I would have a son named Carver and a year later, a daughter named after my mother, Bobbi. I knew only that I didn't need to eat with my bare hands anymore. That seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water would be enough, that it was everything. My life, like all lives, mysterious, irrevocable, sacred, so very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be?