Two tigers, two tigers, running fast, running fast.
This is a lyric from a song "Two Tigers" that everyone would sing in childhood. When we were young, we were carefree. When we heard this song, we could understand that the two tigers ran faster than anyone else, but we could not hear or feel the emotions and expressions of the two tigers and their pain. The lyric behind
is "One has no tail and the other has no ears, so weird, so weird!" The lyric of
actually comes from a historical story.
Zheng Chenggong took two tigers with him when he went to Taiwan, and was accidentally run away by the tigers. So Zheng Chenggong went to the street to look for them. When he found two tigers, they had been injured by the common people on the street with a sharp weapon. One lost its ears and the other lost its tail. Zheng Chenggong later composed a ballad, so there was this song "Two Tigers". The tiger was injured by a sharp weapon, but the lyrics did not mention the cruelty of the people holding the sharp weapon to the animals, nor the pain when the two tigers were beaten, but only mentioned a funny scene like watching a joke. The funny appearance of
actually implies a cruel story.
This has something in common with the recently released movie "Two Tigers".
Recently, the movie "Two Tigers" co-starred by Ge You, Qiao Shan and Zhao Wei is currently in theaters. Ge You played Zhang Chenggong, a successful figure, and Qiao Shan played Yu Kaixuan, a kidnapper who was forced to desperate by life. The two developed feelings from the kidnapping relationship, and later experienced some absurd stories together. Zhang Chenggong in the film
talked about his thoughts of suicide in the last letter. He has succeeded and failed in business, experienced ups and downs, and made a lot of money. But when he was about to jump off from the top of his unfinished building, he met Yu Kaixuan. Yu Kaixuan's appearance saved his life. The
movie itself is a story of kidnapping. The more it develops, the more we can see that this is actually an absurd comedy. And under this absurd comedy shell, if we look closely, we can still see an "undercurrent", which is the story of tragic characters hidden under the comedy shell.
We have seen the tragedy from Zhang Chenggong's life experience. He saw some regrets in his love, friendship, and family relationships. The three things Zhang Chenggong did before his death were to make up for the three regrets in his life. It is a pity that what I finally get is not the joy after making up for regrets, but the "If you can live, you will live" persuaded by Yu Kaixuan. We can see a similar tragedy from Yu Kaixuan's life experience. Zhang Chenggong believed in Yu Kaixuan's life attitude of getting along in the face of trouble. To some extent, they were all defeated by reality.
is like the two scarred tigers mentioned in the lyrics of "Two Tigers", one without ears and the other without tail. Zhang Chenggong and Yu Kaixuan are like these two tigers. They were defeated by reality, and their lives left them scarred. ideals are always full, and reality is always cruel.
The cruel reality left two tigers scarred; the cruel reality also made two people unbearable. Any seemingly simple story may hide an unfathomable whirlpool behind it. Just like the story of Zhang Chenggong and Yu Kaixuan in the movie "Two Tigers", what we see is absurd and nonsensical comedy, but when we look back and think carefully, we will find that all this is so careful. Fear!
A thousand people have a thousand Hamlet in their hearts.
is like a thousand "Two Tigers" in the hearts of a thousand people.
treats real life, some people think it is cruel, because the competition in society is too cruel, too fierce; while some people think it is too beautiful, because living a life full of creativity and possibilities. Everyone's attitude towards real life is different, and everyone has their own thoughts and judgments.
We chased the surface happiness of "Two Tigers" together during the day, but we thought and felt the depth and weight of it alone at night.
