"May you be treated gently by the world."
I believe many people like me have heard this sentence more than once.
Why do we always talk about this sentence as a blessing?
Is the world not gentle enough?
Or is there too much unkindness in this world?
An Amway documentary "Long Live", because the answer is here.
This film tells the lives of 15 ordinary people, and shines on the real world with 14 stories without intersection. There are single mothers, lovelorn dancers, sick doctors, blind singers and couples, and veterans who read love letters to their dead wives ..... They may be very hard, helpless and bitter, but everyone has not given up, and they are silently persisting and loving this life.
This is also the most touching part of this film.
The characters in the film obviously have only 60 points of life, but they have a heart that lives 90 points.
Life is hard, but they all have their own light.
They are ordinary little people, but life can surpass all acting skills.
This is the story of a single mother.
Her job is to be a taxi driver at night. She goes out at 5 pm every day and goes home at 5 am the next day. Because she doesn't want to miss every time her child grows up, she always takes her child with her. So I have to take care of the children while working.
"The child has no father, and the mother is the father."
This is a lovelorn dancer.
Life is unhappy and love is frustrated. But in front of her parents, she pretended not to care. However, when she was drinking with her friends, she burst into tears for a while and was full of pride for a while. She said, "It's nothing. I have never served anyone. I don't believe in heaven! "
This is the story of a doctor.
In a hospital in Sichuan, a doctor dressed as a clown in the hospital to amuse sick children. But few children know that the doctor himself has cancer.
After he takes off the clown costume, he will complain about the unfair fate: "I didn't do anything wrong in the first half of my life." Why? "
But when he makes others laugh, joy can also infect himself. It turns out that all beings are suffering, and it is better to laugh than to cry.
This is the story of an elderly blind couple who usually sing in the street.
The old lady likes to sing Teresa Teng's "I would like to go upstream". Just like the countercurrent in their lives, they haven't seen each other for more than 20 years, and they can't touch each other when eating, drinking and clinking glasses. But they didn't give up their lives. They still have love and are still grateful.
"There are many lives in the world, including cows and horses ... Now I am a life, and life is rare." At the Mid-Autumn Festival "family banquet", the old man said to his wife, "Anyway, my side is almost finished, and time is running out. As long as I am here, you can't let yourself touch around, buy things everywhere and get food everywhere. I tried to take care of you, man. When we come together, there will be no afterlife, right? "
This is the story of a veteran.
He sewed medals one by one on his military uniform and recited love letters at his wife's grave every day.
His wife, son and comrades-in-arms have all passed away. He can only watch the news and look through old photos. He would whisper to his wife at the grave, "Don't worry, I'll find you soon."
This is the story of an old man riding a tricycle in Lhasa.
At the age of 66, he still goes out early and returns late every day to meet guests. He never asked the price, but let the guests "give it at will".
He said, "I don't believe in money. I still have a conscience. "
Although he was born in Lasse, he has never been to Potala Palace.
"I didn't want to go to 100 yuan (tickets) before, but now it's more expensive and even more reluctant to go," the old man said.
I also want to bring a takeaway brother who has experienced wind and rain, a courier brother who is running around, and a "Spider-Man" between tall buildings. ......
They seem to be far away from us in the film, but they are so close. Being so close to you, I may have eaten the takeout he gave me, sat in the rickshaw he pulled, and cleaned the glass outside the office building ... They have their bitterness, but in fact, you and I also have our difficulties.
The director of "Long Live" summed up the belief that the play wanted to convey in nine words: "Enter the narrow door, take a long way and see the light."
The door that life gives us is not always open, nor is it all a thoroughfare. When we enter this narrow door, our next road will be far away, and there will be black land in the road, but we must go on, so we must find light and glimmer on this road.
Everyone's life is a very narrow corner of this city. What you see in front of you is your own life and these three or five people you know. You usually can't see what the life of other people in the world is like. You know how lucky you are when you see the pressure from others.
"Don't think that people in the story are poor. Sometimes, their wealth is much more than yours. " Ren Changzhen, one of the directors, said.
There is a saying that "life always makes me kneel, so I shout long live." In fact, we have to do more than "shout" long live.
Shout long live is not an appealing slogan, nor a stupid shout, it should be:
When you wake up, you find the light is warm.
You are very excited after drinking.
You made the right choice. It's hard, but it's comforting.
You stick it out, you are rejected, and then you continue with a smile.
You said I loved you.
You said thank you.
Thank you, life brings us ups and downs.
Thank you. I am still alive.
Thank you. Life still needs me.
May you be treated gently by the world,
I hope you will be gentle with life.