Film Review | return to the original Wonderland

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for a long time, no movie can afford to be relaxed and happy.

for several months, I have interrupted the update of film reviews because I couldn't find the right film material. There are also several game reviews in the middle to support the scene as a transition. Sometimes I wonder if my desire for expression in the film has been exhausted, but I can't have new feelings about a new film. It was not until yesterday, when I saw the film by chance, that I put an end to this idea. It's not that I don't have good inspiration, but I don't see good material.

this is the 2015 version of Heidi and Grandpa.

my biggest regret for this film is that I didn't watch it all at once.

this is a movie that can be immersed in only watching posters. It is about family, about friendship, about hope and attachment, about dream and reality; it unfolds a great story from a very small pattern, and endless bright spots burst out from a simple plot. With delicate strokes, it draws a magnificent scene with an understatement, and silently outlines the changes of the next year in time.

I must say that it takes a lot of strength to calm my mind if I want to write down my feelings in an organized way.

Let's start with the story.

this is a story about a little girl.

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this little girl named Heidi died of her parents when she was very young and depended on her aunt. Her aunt always regarded her as an encumbrance and gave her to her grandfather, who lived alone in the Swiss Alps, when she was seven years old. Grandpa is withdrawn and lives in seclusion. People in the village at the foot of the mountain are prejudiced against him and regard him as an alien.

and the little girl didn't care about this. After several contacts, Grandpa was moved by her innocence and purity and gave up the idea of sending her away. Soon, she became infatuated with life in the mountains and the days when she and her grandfather depended on each other. During the day, he and the shepherds of the same age walked the sheep on the green grass, watching the sunrise and sunset, and sleeping on the second floor of Grandpa's cabin at night, pillowing hay on his head and looking up at the stars.

as the days passed, she fell in love with the best time of her young life.

on this day, her aunt, who had abandoned her before, suddenly appeared and took her away from her grandfather and boarded a train from Switzerland to Frankfurt, Germany, where she was sold to the home of a rich family in the city. to accompany the rich lady who is disabled and unable to walk. Heidi's life changed dramatically when she left home. She sat at the window more than once, looking at the endless buildings in the big city, thinking all the time about the endless meadows, the rocks on the meadows, and the springs by the rocks in the Alps; she missed her grandfather, who had not had time to say goodbye until she hurried away, and his small but wonderful childhood cottage.

the sun rises and the moon sets and the stars shift. In a twinkling of an eye, it's another year.

Heidi has gone from an ignorant, reckless country girl to a natural, well-bred girl. Her naive character made her not only the closest companion of Clara, the rich lady, but also the housekeeper, the lady's private tutor, and the full-time doctor. I don't know since she has been completely integrated into this new world.

but only she knows that in the deepest part of her heart, she still yearns for the carefree paradise of her childhood. She learned to serve the soup with a spoon and cut butter with a knife, but she could not forget the pleasure of holding a basin full of goat's milk and drinking it; she wore a gorgeous skirt and elegant shoes, but could not forget the freedom of running barefoot on the hillside when she was ragged.

A bird that has soared in the sky cannot be caged after all.

it's just that she never mentioned it to anyone.

the yearning for her hometown makes her get up sleepwalking every night and become haggard day by day. Finally, one day, the doctor and the young lady's father found out about her condition. They couldn't bear to let her stay here and decided to send her back to her hometown and her dreaming grandfather.

Clara, who had no only friends, locked herself in the house and refused to come out for a long time.

finally, Heidi set foot on the land that she had been worried about for countless days and nights. She shook off her shoes, took off her cumbersome skirt, and ran freely again on the endless hillside, as she had dreamed of for years.

No one knows how excited Grandpa was when he heard Heidi shouting that she was running from afar. They hugged each other tightly, enjoying the moment they had been waiting for for a long time. The green grass under the blue sky, the green lake without clouds, wildflowers in full bloom in the wind, butterflies flying in the lawn, gray masonry huts, squeaky wooden doors swaying in the wind.

until now, Heidi realized that nothing had changed. It was like a long dream that I couldn't wake up. When I opened my eyes again, I was still the smiling country girl sleeping on the hay on the second floor of my grandfather's cabin.

she has gone home.

she returned to the purest paradise in her heart.

using what she had learned in the city, Heidi wrote to the distant Clara and told her everything here. And Clara finally stopped staying in the city full of high-rise buildings, so after several twists and turns, she came to Switzerland and came to Heidi: the home of her best friend. Growing up in a big city, Clara never thought that life could be so simple and beautiful. They can throw hay freely, they can watch sheep walk all over the prairie, they can talk and laugh loudly, and they can pick up clear mountain springs and drink freely. For the first time in years, she got rid of her companions with their ties every year, I found my long-lost self in the most innocent nature.

at this time, she found that she could stand up. Her feet seemed to be eager to run freely on the boundless green grass, to chase wildflowers and butterflies, to feel the moist and soft soil.

everything she had feared and worried about had finally turned into happiness and hope in this paradise.

this is a story about a little girl.

this is a movie that makes me feel relaxed and happy.

many times, I thought the plot would take a turn for the worse and become a tragedy so that the audience would always regret the good memories. Because pain is often more unforgettable and unforgettable than happiness. But I was wrong. From the beginning, it was destined to be a simple and beautiful fairy tale. With the beautiful and brisk music of the film, sometimes he strolls in the lush woods of the Alps and sometimes in the busy morning breeze of Frankfurt. Whether it is the rhythmic movement of rapidly sliding down the hillside on a sleigh or the vast silence of overlooking the masses on the tallest tower in the city, it is reflected incisively and vividly in the director's excellent camera language.

it's about the family. Even do not need the most basic contradictions and conflicts, just with every little thing in daily life, a bunch of expressions, can make the most mellow and profound feelings between Heidi and Grandpa leave an indelible impression on the audience. Its family theme is deep and realistic, there is no separation between life and death, only parting and reunion. A parting without saying goodbye and an unexpected reunion are enough to move everyone.

it's about friendship. The kind of feeling that only exists with the two most innocent children, the purest and sincere. Maybe we come from a very different world, and there is no intersection before this moment. But just a few words, a game, will become an invincible friend. From not knowing each other to playing an important role in each other's world, across the limits of distance, to bring the world they yearn for to each other so that feelings without any impurities can be encountered and cannot be sought. Things have changed many years later, when you think of the dusty past again, it is still full of relief and pride.

it's about hope and attachment. Like an aesthetic version of the book thief, Heidi's yearning for childhood paradise is the soul of the whole movie. Since she was dragged by her aunt to leave Switzerland and come to her new home, a few shots flashed by, looking back again that times have changed and the stars have changed. However, the hometown that she longed for most in her heart has never become blurred with time. On the contrary, every scene and picture that she has ever lived has gradually become more and more discernible. Some places only left, will miss.

it's about dreams and reality. If I like this movie with any selfishness, then I feel vague that this movie has made me feel the same way when I watched "five centimeters per second". In a long time, with a small dream, but also have to try their best to integrate into the reality, secretly sigh that the years fly away, looking at the original heart does not change. When it's over, go back to where you started, and in the blink of an eye, it's as if life is a real dream, Baiyun Cang Dog, as before.

the world is so big that all people can do is peep at the tip of its vast iceberg and enjoy things they have never seen before. After experiencing the outside world, what I miss and miss is still the purest and most beautiful piece of pure land at the end of the day.

this is a movie without villains because life itself is like this. Fate will unwittingly lead a person's life track to a completely different place so that she can see new things and get new feelings. Every detail is an integral part of life. If Heidi had never been to Germany, had not known Clara, and had not experienced all this, she would not have cherished the value of life here so much. What people yearn for is not the consistent stay, but the beauty of looking back again after going through all the twists and turns.

if I want to use one word to summarize the theme brought to me by the movie, I choose the word "return". The return of dreams, the return of the state of mind. In the same place, when you stand high and overlook the panorama and then return to the ground, such a state of mind is incomprehensible to people who have never left here.

it is hard to imagine that this fairy tale, after more than 70 years of adaptation, can still have such vitality and charm. Things have changed, too many people and things have been different, but human beings in the pursuit of that simple and simple aesthetic dream have never changed with time.

it suddenly occurred to me why I like the sketch game "Strange Life" so much. Not because of the good gameplay, not even because of the plot and characters, but simply because of the kind of return after everything, filled with a faint sense of nostalgia, walking in a seaside town full of stories to explore gradually, watching everyone's life change slightly, that kind of relaxed and comfortable satisfaction.

I have seen too many heavy and dark works. "Heidi" makes me feel bright after watching "tiny Times" and then watching "palpitating Heart".

this is the charm of healing culture. People in this era, life is too complicated, many times, the lack of this is the cure. Even if it is a temporary cure rather than a permanent cure, it is excellent.