Today, let's do a multiple choice question:
If the ear can't hear, the eye can't see, and the mouth can't say one of the three, which one can you tolerate the most?
Of course, this is a tough question.
In the editorial department of the small fresh movie, everyone chose to say it almost at the same time.
So what about the ear that can't hear and the eye that can't see?
In the end, most people choose not to hear with their ears. The invisible eye became the most frightening flaw.
So, how will you choose to never see and gradually become blind?
This assumption is not made out of boredom, but because of the thoughts generated from watching a biopic about the world's top card magician Richard Turner.
Life of Cards
Richard is a legend in the world of cards, known as one of the world's greatest card magicians, performing for more than 40 years, and can use cards to do things that no one in the world can do.
He started playing cards at the age of 7, and now there are more than 6,000 decks of playing cards in the card cabinet, and there are tens of thousands of decks at home, which used to be 3-6 packs a day, and now 2-3 packs a day, practicing for 16 hours a day.
Every number is staggering!
Maybe every top-level card player has such a string of numbers behind him, but there is one thing that is unique to Richard.
When we watched his close-up performances, he was humorous and skillful, and we laughed at him as a fool again and again, but careful people will always see something different.
Can't his eyes see?
If someone asked a question like this, Richard would get angry: Does this have anything to do with what I'm doing?
He hated the word "blind" so much that he didn't learn Braille, didn't use a cane, didn't want a guide dog, he hated being sympathized with, and he didn't like the inspirational stories of people with disabilities.
But inevitably, the showrunners, newspapers and magazines, always pretended to be blind "by the way" and mentioned that he was blind. It seems that this "identity" will add greater meaning to what he has accomplished, and the average person mostly thinks so, but he never wants to be treated that way.
At the table where he performed, he always looked just right where he should be, and the cards in his hand never left his "sight.". It's hard to detect that he's invisible.
But even though you'll be deceived, even though he won't admit it, he's really blind. Perhaps in pretending to be able to see it, he did as well as playing cards.
In a class in 1963, 9-year-old Richard suddenly noticed that the blackboard was a blur, and the camera was distorted and could not be focused.
A few months later, a black hole appeared in front of my eyes, with only black in the center, "like a hat that blocks your view while you look at things."
Finally, macular dystrophy was diagnosed.
Richard was gradually invisible, and the black hole in front of his eyes followed for many years, and by the age of thirty or forty, he was completely blind, and now, there was no sense of light.
Coincidentally, Richard's sister also began to lose sight a year after he developed symptoms, and it deteriorated rapidly.
But the two have a very different attitude towards this matter.
Unlike Richard's escape, the sister quickly adjusted herself and accepted herself, she didn't care what others thought, she just wanted to have as much freedom as possible.
She can cross the street on her own, go shopping at the mall, and admit that being blind is the most inspiring thing of her life.
They once went to a school for the blind together, where Richard once gave up on himself.
He struggles even harder with blindness, he gets mad at his sister and friends playing the game of "blind bat", he is very hurt in his childhood by being called "Mr. Off the Line" by his classmates, and the name of his most hated game is called "I Stuck Out a Few Fingers", and the children ask him with their fingers in front of his eyes, and they always raise their middle fingers at him.
The sensitive Richard not only felt this malice on the outside, but at home, the occasional inattention of his family could also touch his wounds.
Once, he was reading a very large book, and his mother looked at him and said, "Can you not keep your eyes so close to the book?" ”
He remembered it until now.
These traumas made him even more reluctant to admit that he was special.
Richard loved to watch Westerns, which piqued his interest in cards. Especially for "Ma Huali the Gambler", when Ma Huali's back appears at the end of the film, the sentence "You will live as a bodyguard and an empress" became a prophecy for Richard's life.
At the age of 11, he was taken to a room called "VH", which stands for visual impairment, and in it there was a large tape recorder that recorded a book about how to make a thousand old cards in the game of cards, "Card Table Expert".
These became important initiations for Richard's addiction to solitaire.
Richard loves anxiety while experiencing exuberance, like a perpetual motion machine. He had to keep exercising, he worked out, he even joined karate classes, and finally won the black belt with amazing willpower.
Playing cards alone allowed him to eliminate his anxiety. So much so that, in everything he does, he holds a deck of cards in his hand.
Anywhere in the house, during workouts, at bedtime, before he opened his eyes in the morning, or even when he was snapping with his wife, he could hear the clattering of cards in his hand.
When Richard's wife, Kim, talked about this paragraph, there was still some shock on her smiling face.
For Richard's family, they are not only facing a blind man, but also a stubborn, self-conscious blind man.
When Richard and Kim met, he could still see something, and although he knew he was going to have complete darkness, he didn't tell Kim all this.
After marriage, with his blindness, his family also changed several times, but fortunately they loved each other deeply. But King occasionally wonders if this love and dependence is a form of exploitation, like his guide dog. Because it's unbelievable that when he occasionally needs Kim, he will whistle to summon her.
Richard's family is a poker-themed style, his son's name is a combination of two playing card names, the room he was born in is full of playing card decorations, and each group of exercises must be 13, 26, and 52, because they are 1/4 deck of playing cards, 1/2 deck of playing cards and the whole deck of playing cards.
With the birth of his son, the role of the "guide dog" is played by the son. Before the age of ten, Richard continued to teach his son card magic in an attempt to let him inherit his career, but this became more and more like a punishment for his son, so it was naturally difficult to see results.
At the age of 18, his son went to college, and Richard suddenly fell into the loneliness of an ordinary old man, but fortunately he still had playing cards.
At the AMA Awards Ceremony, known as the "Oscar of magic", Richard was nominated for the Best Close-up Magician of the Year 3 times before finally winning the award and having his own role in "Magic Castle".
And here, there is the famous "Corner of Devon". DeFernon was the most important man in the history of magic in the past hundred years, correcting details that Richard had not noticed, and teaching him the skills and truths of his life.
Richard considered himself not a magician, but a card mechanic. In sorting it should look like this:
The illusionist - the indoor magician - the close-up magician, but the most difficult action is the action that controls the outcome of the card game, and the magician can't control the cards like he does.
He probably likes the feeling of being in control, because he says:
"Losing sight and losing independence is a shame to go from a disabled person who can stand on his own to a disabled person who is dependent on others."
"I already have what I have, and I can't accept having less, even if the loss will continue to come."
Presumably, this process of gradual blindness may be more painful and frightening for the stronger him, so he evades, disguises, and rejects the standard of blindness, as if he will not become a blind person in the true sense of the word.
But over time, Richard slowly changed, learning computers, using mobile phones, and sharing his experience of blindness as never before in the show.
His wife, Kim, encouraged him: "You can never overcome what you can't face. ”
Richard is accepting the fact that he is blind and is getting a little happier. He began to accept and embrace his own world full of darkness.
"I don't think that if I hadn't gone blind, I would have achieved what I've achieved."
A very common saying about magic is that it helps remind us that things aren't always the way people look, and that restrictions aren't always limiting. And Richard proved perfectly that there aren't as many limits in the world as we usually think.
Richard was blind, but he saw cards better than normal people.
Richard took a bad hand, but no one could stop him from playing the world's top king bomb.
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