Le hérisson

Marcus 2022-04-21 09:03:23

"What matters is not death, but what you are doing at the moment of death, and she was just ready to love." The

elegant hedgehog finally calms the mind. Everything is not what it seems, behind the vulgarity, there may be extreme elegance. Unconsciously, I thought of a piece of clothing, made of a flat mirror, with countless edges and corners spelling out an elegant shape, which carries the opposite of this world. Everyone needs to have a hiding place. To be a concierge, with many books on the walls, maybe I can say that I can keep quiet here and meet my soul.

Death, the word that appears in the mouth of a little girl at the beginning of the film, is what attracted me. Someone could love death so fervently and pursue it. When I was a freshman, I remembered that I wrote a dark myth in one of my articles: "Death is just as common as sunrise and sunset, what's so strange." Maybe it was at night, standing alone on the top floor, the breath of darkness dragged you from behind Embrace each other, then you deeply hope that death, the deepest part of your soul, will occupy you like this, what are you doing at the moment of death. Wouldn't it be best to just diffuse into the night?

An elegant hedgehog, something that can be clinging to, perhaps feelings. When we take off the disguise and expose the softest part, is this considered love ~ "The End of the World and the Grim Wonderland" mentioned the lost shadow, haggard, when it exists, I don't know its function, I just see it slowly Fading away, there is a deep sadness in my heart. Emotions, is that the case?

It suddenly occurred to me that I recently chatted with Brother Jun (the so-called super weird) about the books I read recently, from Peng Haoxiang's "If You Don't Fall in Love" to Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Life", he said lightly, I feel that I am still living in the student days. I just read books and watch movies when I have nothing to do~ I suddenly thought of a topic: Women who read are dangerous/Women who write are dangerous. This is the kind of girl and woman that the movie talks about. One was too smart, and planned to die on his birthday; the other, because of love, just wanted to get out of the foolish illusion, died on the first day of departure. Perhaps the film is not about the story of a woman and a book, but about the relationship between people, which unfolds slowly and delicately in life. When Sabina and Thomas embraced, looking in the mirror, naked with only a bowler hat, like a clown, mocking herself. Tereza faced her mother, hated the opposite of all the world's beauty, but was tortured by the truth and attracted by the ugliness. Everyone has a strange existence, or faces a strange world alone. Our distorted feelings and the love we pursue may be the unbearable lightness in the heaviest life, and the self in the mirror of the whole body is a hedgehog, although it is not known whether it is elegant or not.

The heaviest burden oppresses us, makes us yield to it, and crushes us to the ground. But in the love poems of all ages, women are always eager to bear the weight of a man's body. Thus, the heaviest burden also becomes the image of the strongest vitality. The heavier the burden, the closer our life is to the earth, the more real it is. On the contrary, when the burden is completely absent, man becomes lighter than air, floats up, and is far away from the earth and the life on it, and man is only a half-real existence, and his movements become free and without significance. So, what to choose? Is it heavy or light?

Is it a vulgar swan or a graceful hedgehog~

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The Hedgehog quotes

  • Paloma Josse: Planning to die doesn't mean I let myself go like a rotten vegetable. What matters isn't the fact of dying or when you die. It's what you're doing at that precise moment.

  • Renée Michel: Happy families are all alike.

    Kakuro Ozu: Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

    [Quoting from Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina']