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A person's life is a process of continuous growth.
From the body to the mind becomes more mature.
Looking back at your former self, it feels like you are standing at a higher stage to examine the past.
Filling in the limitations of the past, their own experience and vision have reached a new height.
I feel that myself has become more omniscient and omnipotent, and I have a sense of pride that is not the same.
But jumping out of personal thinking and feelings, the author expresses the gradual stage of life growth in the form of stick figures.
The animated short film won the Adobe Design Achievement Competition that year.
It tells the story of a man who grows in a flower pot.
At the first glance, I saw a man confined to a flower pot.
The pot in the close-up splits open, drilling out a rhizome.
The pot could not bear the man's weight at this time, and the man began to find ways to get out of the shackles of the pot.
Various tools are used in this process to help themselves ascend and move forward.
Finally come to a higher level of land, break the flowerpots under your feet, and root into the wider world.
In the end, the pot man broke the shackles of the pot and grew freely without restriction.
As the camera zooms farther away, we can get a glimpse of the flowerpot man in its entirety.
When we see the end, we will find that the line is not an endless horizon, but the contour line of another larger pot.
At this point, the story in the short film becomes a kind of cycle, and the next one is a larger pot.
Philosophies on the broader level of life become clear.
The process of our growth has not reached complete freedom as we thought, and restrictions have always existed.
Just jumping from a small pot to a large pot, the range of activity becomes larger, but still within a limited area.
This moral of the author also applies to our lives.
When we were students, we felt that graduation was already free, and when we really entered the society, we found that we were not as free as we thought when we were students.
In fact, society is that big pot, the capacity becomes larger, and there are more choices.
But correspondingly, being there is much more complicated than a school.
You think you have broken the shackles of your previous body, and at the same time you break free, you are actually in a larger circle of constraints.
It's like a Russian matryoshka doll, nested in layers.
In this way, the meaning that the short film wants to convey seems to cast a pessimistic tone on life.
The short film punctures the illusion of life, we are forever confined to one world.
But from another perspective, it's also a story of limitations and self-transcendence.
Our whole life is to continue to grow, break through the fixed framework, and go to a larger space.
Humans from the African continent to all seven continents of the earth can also be seen jumping from one pot to another larger pot.
This is a process of self-breakthrough, and it is also a trend of continuous improvement.
It's like we can't build a grand skyscraper in a day, but we can start from the first floor.
In The King's Speech, the prince, who suffers from severe stuttering, undergoes a series of trainings that are subjected to both physical and inner torments, and finally successfully delivers an inspiring mobilization speech, breaking through the shackles that were once tied to his body and reaching a new world.
Even people who grow in pots don't stay in fixed pots all the time.
In order to grow up uneasy with the status quo, with a coat comparable to the four-dimensional pocket of the ding-dong cat, he pulled out a tool to help himself move forward and go to the larger world.
Life is constantly breaking through its own ceiling, maybe not reaching the best, but always better than the last moment.