Bill Porter wrote in “The Orchid in the Empty Valley”: “I can understand why some people want nothing but a simple life: living in the clouds, under the Panasonic, outside the dust lane, by moonlight and taro.Apart from the mountains, they don’t need much: some soil, a few straws, a melon field, several tea trees, a hedge of chrysanthemums, and a short rest in rainy days. “There is a kind of life that people yearn for
From “The Peach Blossom Garden”, which is very narrow at the beginning, only accessible to people, and then goes through dozens of steps, and suddenly becomes clear “, to” The Little Forest “, which is surrounded by water mist and green mountains in four seasons, such works always attract people’s attention and make people yearn for the life described in it.
Escape from the hustle and bustle of the city, without deceit, and come to a place where there is no competition with the world. Plant a ridge of vegetables, and find a basket of wild fruits in the mountains. When sweating, pick up vegetables and fruits soaked for a long time from the well water. “In the morning, it is filthy, and you can take the moon and hoe back”. In the evening, looking at the starry sky, you pour yourself a glass of iced rice wine.
Therefore, when “Little Forest” slowly unfolds such a life like a paradise in front of people, it has a warm power. Even if you can’t go there, just look at the market that you work hard, and it will be enough to cure the heart.
Xiaosen is the name of Shizi’s hometown. This is a village far away from the city. Except for a few daily necessities, most food can be self-sufficient.
After escaping from the hustle and bustle of the city, she returned to Xiaosen, whose daily steaming mist and the rest of Lusi in the woods gradually soothed her fatigue caused by urban life.
But after the short escape, more and more bills let her know that the escape is only temporary and life will continue.
In order to make a living, she began to try to raise vegetables and grow rice. She found her mother’s image in her memory, and made one food after another, which she randomly named. With each meal, Congee and rice, she had a new understanding of life.
As a food film, the food in “Little Forest” is not exquisite, but it is especially full of flavor of life.
The stove takes away the moisture in the room, and the residual temperature of the stove after burning is just right for baking bread.
Canned tomatoes can be kept for a long time.
The bearded fruit, which has grown up hard, will only end up rotting in the ground. Then use it to make jam.
The seemingly simple food is actually the most test of patience. In the increasingly fast pace of modern life, it has become the most luxurious thing to calm down and seriously cook a meal for your family.
Most people can only reply to non-stop work information while eating fast food.
Some people say that the truth implied in “Little Forest” is cruel. The protagonist Shizi fled to his hometown because he couldn’t keep up with the pace of urban life.
Shizi’s mother is not a native of Komori. She loves reading and thinking. She can’t integrate with Komori people who are industrious and frugal and are accustomed to living on land. She also escaped from Komori.
It seems that the theme of the whole story is “escape”: Shizi fled from the city to Xiaosen, and Shizi’s mother fled from Xiaosen to the city.
But in real life, it is impossible for us to leave our jobs and return to the countryside like Shizi back to Komori.
Because we have responsibilities on our shoulders. Lovers, children and parents do not allow us to escape.
The cruelty and nakedness of real life have turned the “escape” like life in the film into the nihility and unreality in the Peach Blossom Land.
As some netizens commented:
I am tired of the busy life and complicated interpersonal relationship, but I am greedy for the bustling and lazy life.
I am infatuated with the quiet life and down-to-earth life, but I am afraid of loneliness and tiredness year after year.
In fact, we can interpret this film from another angle. Xiaosen is like a space belonging to each of us. It exists in reality and in everyone’s heart.
Since we can’t find a place in real life where we can grow flowers and vegetables far away from the noisy pure land, we should leave a space for ourselves in our hearts. No matter how busy we are, we should give ourselves some time to do what we like, even if we just stare at the sky in a daze.
In life
We often see some
“Strange” people,
They desperately squeeze time out of their busy work,
Use these precious time to
Do something that others think is “meaningless”,
People who enjoy mountaineering, traveling and having their own interests
Always love life,
These seemingly time-consuming hobbies
It always gives people endless spiritual inspiration.
In fact, these seemingly meaningless things,
It is the small forest that each of us can have.