We all know that something is eternal.
It’s not houses, names, earth, even stars….
“Our town”
the graduated drama of NCTUFL. First I saw the post I was fascinated with the simple name of the drama.
Simple usually means meaningful.
And it is.
Parking our scooters and walking through chilling winds, Cjoy, Cprchen, Chenyian and I took seats with excitement and expectation.
walked into a imposing building,
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It’s a story about Grover’s Corners, a town of New Hampshire.
The plots are simple and normal.
It’s talking about George and Emily (child of two different families) experienced their whole life, including growing up, marriage, and death.
When they are little,
they went to school in the morning and back home on time in the evening,
they did argue for something unimportant,
they played like innocent children,
and above all, just as common children, they took their parents love and concern for granted.
When they’re in their juvenile,
they fell in love with each other and got married as soon as they graduated.
Just like common people.
(Director flashbacked this action AND I LOVE IT. The flashback made it more vivid.)
Then the cinestrip jumped into the action few years later.
All their parents dead, their aunts dead, friends dead, villager dead,
Poor Emily dead, too. Bcuz of dystocia.
In the death’s world, Emily misses the real world and got a chance to come back for one day.
and it comes to the CATASTASIS.
She went back to the date her 12th birthday.
She saw her parents, friends and of course George, but depressingly found that all of them ignored her, just kept doing their own business and, worst of all,
Her mom and dad do their best and pour extensive love to prepare the lovely 12th birth-Emily, but didn’t even give grown-up Emily a glance.
Not until Emily couldn’t bare it anymore didn’t she realize that,
all living people, even when she was alive, are overdriven by themslev to earn, to work, to live without thinking.
They never stop and think about the details in their life, even a glance or a signal.
Never Noticed.
Finally Emily came back to the death’s world, sadness filled to her heart’s capacity.
And the end.
Claps louds a long time.
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During th scene that......
Emily back to find her parents but only had fallen on dead ears, her mom busying preparing her birthday with eyes shining of love, Emily tried hard to capture her mom's eyes but in vain......
I almost burst into tears.
Not bcuz story is so heart-stirring, but bcuz
I suddenly found that,
for me, in my real life,
I always take my parents’ love and wut they did to me for granted, they never ask me for repay.
And I never do something for them.
Oh how dare I am.
Ashamed.
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I realize.
Something eternal is something ephemeral.
Now I have to remind myself,
At the time i'm working hard, creating my own way and trying to do something significant,
I have to stop for a while and to taste the savor of life,
to feel the little tiny but interested and variable change of my life,
to notice the details in my life,
to enjoy the feeling of existence of my life, and NOT asking WHY.
Just think of nothing.
To do so, I get opportunity to break the limit of myself.
And find the meaning why I am here.
i think,
Everyone born, grow, get older and finally winds the way.
How I look at my life causes wut my life will be.
我要加油。
Everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal;
And that something has to do with human beings.
All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us
that for five thousand years and you’d be surprised
How people are always losing hold of it.
＝＝＝交大外文97級畢業公演--小鎮。＝＝＝
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