Chapter 65 Where can I find such an old home?

The movie "The City of Souls" shows the terrifying prospect of the future for mankind. Aliens have occupied the earth and left the world in permanent darkness.They tamper with human memory, making people's hometown sink in the maze of memory, which can never be traced. In fact, there is no need for aliens to do it, and we have no homeland to return to.Our old home has been wiped out in the demolition frenzy. The land use right of our newly bought house is usually between 50 and 70 years. After deducting the land transfer and the time taken for development, it is in our hands. There are not many years left.I once bought a house with a land use right of 46 years. There is a kind of malicious speculation in it, that is, people predict that you will no longer need a house on the ground after 46 years.Living in such a house feels like being written in the book of life and death by the king of hell. If my children wish me a birthday and wish me a long life, I always feel guilty.When I live for forty-five years, I am afraid that I will kill myself due to excessive mental stress.Of course, the premise is that the quality of the house is good enough to live in for forty-five years.

But the people in the movie don’t seem to have this trouble. When they are old or sad, they can always go back to the house they lived in when they were children, look at old photos, and recall the past like smoke. The story of "Paradise Cinema" begins when the great director returns to the old house after hearing the news of his mother's death; The same is true for "The Heart of Atlantis". Even the Vietnamese restaurant waiter in "Returning to New Jersey" has a house in his hometown to go back to live in when he is most confused.Not to mention that the old house in "Golden Pond" was built in a scenic area. I don't know how to get the formalities, and when I came back decades later, the house is still there. It has not been leveled or occupied. You can move in after cleaning.The house is surrounded by forests, where you can pick wild flowers and fruits, and there are wild birds singing on the lake at night.

Although there is no hometown directly in "L.A. Confidential", when the police asked the rescued weak woman "Is there any place to go?" two women, one had just been beaten by her husband, and the other had just finished being beaten by a gangster. Although she has a life controlled by the old man, she still dares to nod her head, indicating that she has a place to go—perhaps it is an old home at the end of the country road surrounded by chamomiles.Even in such a dark movie, that moment is heart-shattering. And none of our movies dare to start with returning to their hometown. If there is a hometown in a domestic movie, it will definitely get more laughter than a domestic martial arts blockbuster-nothing is more surreal than this.In reality, where can I find such an old home that is worthy of my clear life?

So it makes people feel better to see people in foreign movies lose their hometown. I gloated over the heroine of "Home in the Dust and Fog" who lost her lawsuit and lost her house; the heroine of "Fried Green Tomatoes" just finished telling Kathy Bates the story of her passionate years in the hospital, and our hearts are rushing During the ups and downs, when she returned home, she found that her century-old house had been demolished.After feeling sorry for her for a moment, I began to gloat again.Even the people in the movie are jealous, it's hopeless.