It is a short German short animation of less than four minutes in length, starting from the most annoying and smallest fly, watching the short and pitiful one-minute life journey of the fly from the perspective of a human onlooker.
In one minute, it was all the flies of a fly, and while we sighed at the flies, we gradually turned to examine our own lives.
First, life is a race against time
At the beginning of the short film, the fly is born before it is too late to immerse itself in the joy of life, and then receives a "fly list" handed down by a predecessor before his death, and the "one minute" of life countdown that begins overhead.
Yes, the whole life process of the little fly is only one minute, and it ignorantly takes the list and begins to exercise its first fly mission, "biting a raccoon", which is the survival instinct of life and the most basic condition for survival - full stomach.
Each item in the list is completed downwards in order, with a small fly drawing a tick in front of it and then running non-stop to the next destination to complete a new mission. The list is the "fly birth guide" of flies, which guides their lives, and is passed down from generation to generation.
Each task is designed at various stages in this minute, with its established trajectory and planning, and a race against time to complete all the tasks on the list.
It's like our lives, from birth there is only a constant effort, a race against time, to do more in a limited life, always have hope for "tomorrow", let our life have expectations, because never know what will happen in the next second, what kind of experience will be experienced, all this becomes both surprising and exciting.
Every second of the little fly has also become all the expectations in the only minute of his fly life, he strives to live his life according to the plan on the list, constantly flapping his wings and flying to different places to do different things, just want to do all the things on the list before death comes, only by racing against time and grasping every second, can he make himself regretless in this life.
Schopenhauer once said: On the one hand, human life is fooled by "hope", and on the other hand, it jumps into the trap of "death".
Because every moment in life is always hopeful and cannot escape the end of death.
Things to do before you die
The end of life is worthless, but the process is meaningful
Schopenhauer has an article called "The Theory of The Emptiness of Existence", which summarizes the following six points:
1. Space-time itself is infinite, but what the individual has is finite.
2, the only way to survive in reality, is only "now". This is the same as the Diamond Sutra's phrase "the past mind is unattainable, the present mind is unattainable, and the future mind is unattainable", teaching people to always cherish the present.
3. All kinds of things in the world are intertwined, and no individual can exist alone.
4, only change is eternal.
5, desire is always endless, can never be satisfied.
6, impermanence and difficulty is the norm of life, people must continue to fight to eliminate obstacles.
This short film is based on the life of the little fly, vividly showing Schopenhauer's theory of the emptiness of survival, the little fly in its own limited life, but in this big world to do infinite possibilities.
His strength is very weak, he is constantly in contact with everything around him, in order to reflect the value of his own survival, but in the process of pursuit, there will be a lot of uncertainty, the little fly can only complete all the tasks by himself, but he has never been separated from this world, and he is independent but has always been connected.
Schopenhauer believed that life was worthless in terms of the end, because it was all the same fate and fate, no one could escape, no matter what the process of life was, from this aspect life is indeed meaningless. However, if you only think that the meaninglessness of the ending ignores the meaning of the process, then you do not really understand Schopenhauer's "theory of the emptiness of survival", the life process of any individual is different and colorful, and the changes in the world drive the continuous change of the individual, including the change of mentality, the change of behavior, and even the change of life pursuit, etc., but the process of these pursuits is full of expectations and infinite possibilities.
Although there are too many possibilities, but always the same way, this contradictory and unified view is the real Schopenhauer's theory of "survival and emptiness".
The life of the little fly is also in this short minute for us to clearly perform what is the time rush and wonderful infinite. Each of us is a small fly, living an ordinary life, but doing our best to spell out an extraordinary life for ourselves.
Third, live out the infinite possibilities in a limited life
We see that in this short film, the little fly has a life, it is everywhere embodied as a life instinct: foraging, avoiding predators, reproducing offspring, when all this is satisfied, the little fly begins to pursue the spiritual height, which is also in line with human beings' survival first, and then life.
The little fly is busy living his life according to the plan on the list, when the timer above his head keeps ringing, the little fly is full of fear and anxiety, he is afraid that he does not have enough time to complete all the tasks, and he is afraid that he cannot appreciate the full meaning of his life, he wants to seize every second to live his life, the bottom of the short film constantly appears a line of subtitles, flashing fast, this is the psychological reflection of the little fly, but also represents the rush of time:
"Bird's mouth escape, spider web escape, frog mouth escape, escape from carnivorous plants", the little fly seems to face the crisis of survival every once in a while, he constantly avoids the threat of natural enemies to his own life, as if we often face the danger of impermanence while surviving, learn to protect ourselves in order to go farther, see farther scenery, and make better friends.
"Grow a beard, get drunk once, attend a party, fall in love, breed offspring", all of this is what the little fly slowly grows up to do naturally, and when we grow up, we begin to have our own social circle, start to try to experience a different life, we will also have our own love, and then go to the sustenance of the next generation of life.
"Fly over the tallest tree; watch the jungle on the tall tree, make a stunt shape in the air, watch the whales, bungee jump, shower under the waterfall, paint a picture, sing a song, plant a tree, send a letter in a bottle, see the stars", this series of "tasks" on the list let the little fly live an extraordinary life, which made him realize the infinite wonderfulness of life, let him feel the beauty of having life, it turns out that not only the previous survival, but also a more beautiful pursuit, can live a more meaningful life, It's so fulfilling and unlimited.
"Save a life, find a friend, exert creativity, find an opponent in life, forgive someone", these behaviors of the little fly are like the world of each of us adults, pain and hate, and finally forgive someone, have enemies and friends, save people have also been saved, the world is so interdependent existence, pay at the same time in the demand, take but also in the infinite pay.
"Relax, be happy, eat the last meal", see here we already know that the little fly's life is short, gradually a little sad, and feel desolate, the original life is so short, it seems that there are still many things that have not had time to do to go to the end of life, life always has a place, but do not forget to know how to love yourself at any time, make yourself happy, relax, and finally do not forget to take good care of your stomach, eat a good meal.
The little fly has no life when it comes to the end, but at the moment his list does not seem to be completed to the end, he hurried to complete, but still did not have time to see what kind of mission is to be completed later, the subtitle of the short film reads "Fame, despair, make a movie", after a lifetime to find that the end goal was originally to fame, but it is desperate, which represents the purpose of the short life of the little fly, and also hints at the significance of the director to make this short film, The little fly's final fame was actually that after his death, he became a piece of amber and was known to the public in the newspaper, and it was both ridiculous and ironic to become famous in this way. The purpose of our lifelong struggle is to have a day of fame, which is not a pursuit of real life.
I admire the director's use of a minute of life of a small fly to allude to human life, how similar and full of comedy, we feel that the little fly is small and sad at the same time, but when we humans are in front of other lives that are dozens of times longer than our lives, a hundred times longer than ours, compared with this vast universe, are we not the little flies in their eyes, and feel that human struggle and busyness are so ridiculous and meaningless.
With the vicissitudes of the sea and the passage of time, each of our lives can only make unlimited meaningful possibilities as much as possible in our own limited life years. Although life is short, like a small fly, even if it is only a minute, he has achieved the limits of his life, colorful, experienced all kinds of things, and died without regrets.
Although all life has only one ending, I just want to borrow this sentence: don't ask about the future, but ask for no regrets!
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