Chapter 12 long journey

The pain shown by images is actually not pain, and it is even possible that the pain is just missed. Because the video has its shortcomings, it is for the third party to watch, so it is narrative, broken, jumping, and outline.It only grabs those plot points that are useful to it, because the viewer only needs those points that are useful to him.Just like "Deep Sea Sleep" and "Butterfly", the protagonists are paralyzed on the bed for various reasons. In their prototype characters (both films are adapted from the experiences of real people), time must be very slow. The main part of their lives is Quiet time in bed and those unspeakable inconveniences.And once it becomes a movie, what we are interested in and what we see are only their interactions and emotional entanglements with the people around them. Their sentiments are like poetry, and their time passes quickly. Five, ten, thirty years, Just type a line of words as a reminder, and it's over.The real pain is actually missed by the images.

Just like the Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan, it is only those episodes that are suitable to be presented in the video: the comforted sadness, the grateful smile, the scene of carrying relief supplies, and the joy when shaking hands with sympathizers.And these scenes are just plot points, they will all pass, and the people in them have to face the long suffering after the heavy trauma alone. Most of life is suffering without plot.Sometimes, I really want to know how other people get through those plotless and meaningless sufferings.For example, in those worst and most extreme moments, those who have experienced the first World War know that this matter is endless, and there will be a second time; times worse.How did you get here in the intervening decades?How do people who are regarded as war epics by later generations face the trivial daily life and all kinds of troubles that were not exempted because of the war?Will that kind of suffering even form a kind of inertia?As Duras said of her mother: "I have been storing caviar all my life for the Third World War." She never waited, as if the second shoe upstairs never fell off, and she lived in fear all her life.

There are birth, old age, sickness and death, and the worst encounters in life, and my own wrong decisions. That is not World War III, nor is it alien invasion, which will definitely come, sooner or later.And this isn't a movie, it can't be finished in just a few shots, the sun and the moon in the middle, every moment, have to be endured.The tide of visits and condolences has left, and I still have to stand on my own for a longer period of time, with pain and sorrow, all of which are truly on my own body.How do people who have gone through this survive?It's not on me, so I can't think of it. When it comes to me, I understand that people's endurance is really unlimited.In the past, when Pink was tenderly leaning against her parents, those things that she couldn't think of, those things that would never be tolerated in the black and white world view, finally endured.

People can see the results of what they spend their energy on, but most of them don't see the results when they spend their energy on endurance and suffering.Most of the bravery and strength of human beings are not used in the charge and battle, but are used in these invisible places.Life, as Eugene O'Neill said, is "a long journey into the night".So we need images of all kinds, because even when they represent pain, it manages to miss the real pain.