"My Lover in Babylon": The seemingly absurd plot, but the metaphor behind it is heartbreaking

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"My Lover in Babylon" is an absurd comedy directed by Zhou Nan and starring Feng Xiaoyue, Bu Guanjin and others.

When Chen Meiru (played by Bu Guanjin) was 12 years old, she visited an exhibition on the ancient Babylonian period. She first fell in love and bought a diary printed in the ancient Babylonian language. She imagined a perfect Babylonian prince and fell in love with her deeply. She was born to love her. So, I wrote a story in my diary. The story took place in ancient Babylon. The protagonists were Chen Meiru and the Babylonian prince Murong Jielun (played by Feng Xiaoyue). After meeting classmate Jiang Huizhen (played by Zhu Yanmanzi), a new character Ouyang Wenshan (played by Wang Ruichang) was added.

Such a fantasy story suddenly became true 12 years later. The people from the ancient Babylonian era in the story came to modern times and broke into Chen Meiru's life.

But that was just Chen Meiru’s dream a long time ago. Since reading her diary in public, she began to stay away from these fantasies and even hated it all.

Back then, with the heart of a girl, she carefully described the perfect lover in her heart, and described the sincere and strong love. These were once her dreams and all her hopes for love. But, all this was destroyed that day.

The class teacher was the second aunt, but when he discovered that she had mistakenly handed in the diary as homework, he did not carefully protect the secret thoughts of a girl.

In this way, everyone in the town knew the contents of this diary, and some people even recited it. Chen Meiru "became famous in one battle."

Perhaps the dull town gained a touch of color out of thin air because of this diary, but Chen Meiru’s colorful girlhood suddenly turned gloomy.

She was afraid that someone would mention the diary, and her second aunt's rough voice always echoed in her mind, saying that it was a colorful story, especially "*** went to Wushan".

After Murong Jielun arrived, every time there was a spark of love, they teleported to the top of Wushan Mountain together, which was a bit ridiculous. At this time, Chen Meiru felt like a basin of cold water was poured on her heart, reminding her The humiliation I suffered back then. Going to the top of Wushan Mountain also hints at Chen Meiru's rejection of love. Every time when there is a spark, it stops abruptly and avoids what is about to happen in a funny way.

Murong Jielun is not so perfect. He is a half-blood prince, so he does not get attention. After traveling to 2019, he lost his memory. He only remembered that he was deeply in love with Chen Meiru and lived to love her. Slowly, he seemed to awaken part of his memory.

After Chen Meiru accepted the existence of Murong Jielun, she seemed to be less confrontational and serious about herself and the people and things around her, and became softer.

Jiang Huizhen saw all this very clearly. She told Chen Meiru at the birthday party that she must be truly happy.

She likes Ouyang Wenshan and quickly accepts it. She wants to be with him because she has no grudges and lives her life freely. Unlike Chen Meiru, who lives in so many rules and regulations and closes her heart, Not daring to face one's own emotions and resisting close contact with others, especially the opposite sex.

Jiang Huizhen felt heartbroken when she saw Chen Meiru like this. She said, Chen Meiru, I still said the same thing, I hope you are happy, at least a little happy, don’t be so hasty to refute me, and don’t talk about yourself. Well, you just look good.

When you were twelve years old, you at least knew about Huaichun. You read here and there and wrote those words that made people's hearts sway. You were cuter at that time. We can't use other people's mistakes just because we were hurt. Punish yourself, other people's values ????are not that important in this world.

Don't stay in the 12-year-old pit and pretend to be a master. Just start from that damn diary, fight it, defeat it, can we treat the disease?

Chen Meiru did not pretend that she was fine in everything as before. She replied, you are the only one who is sick. After Jiang Hui admitted it generously, she smiled, yes, maybe many people are sick, but they are not. Just willing to admit it. If she faced it bravely, then everything might be different.

In the world of ordinary people, there are not so many adventures, but only a tougher mind after years of tempering. But even so, there are still more or less scars in everyone's heart that cannot be revealed. Midnight Dreams Going back always erodes the current happiness.

This story is absurd, maybe just for entertainment, but it tells us that those beautiful hearts as delicate as flowers are often destroyed by unscrupulous ridicule and disclosure without regard for privacy.

People in the small town may not have thought this was anything, and would have even laughed it off as an after-dinner pastime, but for a 12-year-old girl, this scene was disaster.

The arrival of Murong Jielun is Chen Meiru's redemption, and it is also a confrontation with the world. It is also a hurdle that every hurt person must pass through.

It's just that people who have been hurt in reality don't have Chen Meiru's bizarre experience. Most of them lick their wounds and wait for time to heal.

In another absurd comedy "Charlotte", Charlotte (played by Shen Teng) is asked by her teacher to read a love letter in public. This plot is very similar. However, the difference is that Charlotte did not listen to the teacher, but ate the love letter.

This relationship that disappeared before he could express it became Charlotte's biggest regret. Therefore, he tried his best to attend the wedding of the girl in his dreams decently, but ignored his Wife, and their current happy life.

After traveling back to high school, he could start over, only to find that those things he thought were beautiful had too many dissatisfactions behind them, while the ordinary life he ignored had precious happiness everywhere.

Chen Meiru grew up to be 24 years old, but her mind remained at the age of 12. As Jiang Huizhen said, she pretended to be a master in the pit of 12 years old. Charlotte also focused her emotions on the love she had never confessed in high school. As she grew older, her mind had already been killed. If it hadn't been for subsequent healing, they might have been fearing and escaping for the rest of their lives.

Think about it from another perspective, overcome fear and stop escaping. Everything will pass and life will be radiant again. This is the ladder to happiness.

Finally, I end with a sentence from Chen Meiru's diary, "The more I want to escape, the more indelible it becomes. This is what happiness looks like."

I wish all Beauty and simplicity can be treated with tenderness. May the injured be healed and find the entrance to a happy life.

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