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△ 338｜The time has come and the farewell sentence pattern
This bad story should have appeared in many magazines, and it was used as a model for “thought-provoking” and “regret”. Anyway, the first time I saw it was on “Story Club” a long time ago. Later, I saw someone who said he saw it from “Reader’s Digest”. among.
This story can be summed up in one sentence: a husband who never said “I love you” to his wife said “I love you” to his wife for the first time before going out, and it turned out to be the last “I love you” because Her husband died in a car accident that day.
Although there is no curse on “I love you”, if the phrase “I love you” is not spoken under such a plot, or it will trigger a more dramatic story, it should not be recorded as Literary works will not use this contrasting and heart-wrenching method to make readers re-understand the sadder emotions in the sentence “I love you”.
In Chinese philosophy, there is a very subjective, yet extremely objective, metaphysical, and unfathomable philosophical term—”The time has come.”
For example, if a terminally ill person wants to write a suicide note one day, then this suicide note means “the time has come” to him; When someone expresses his feelings for his wife, it seems to indicate some kind of drama; another example is not so heavy, a woman suddenly changed her social network avatar. Although there is not much change, she has actually changed Make up your mind to leave a relationship…
At this time, “The Time Has Come” has become a very metaphysical existence. The writing of a suicide note by a terminally ill patient is not necessarily related to his death, but it is also affected by another philosophy of “living to death” – because ” The end of “The Time Has Come” must be “death”. And this kind of death is not only physical, but also interpersonal, and even a process of disheartening.
So when you connect these two strange philosophies, when you understand a very outrageous statement, you can understand the mystery: how to reduce the divorce rate? The answer is not to marry.
I’ve written drama scripts before, but I’m not a pioneer writer after all, so I still can’t break away from the “formula” of the drama itself. These formulas are actually easy to understand as an audience——
Whether you are watching novels, dramas, or movies, you can also predict in advance that “the story is about to end” through the characters’ lines, behaviors, and even some music or scene switching. The more you read and watch movies, the stronger this “ability” will be, and the more you will know that the plot has reached the “time has come” node, and you can infer a character’s temporary or permanent exit.
When this character officially enters the exit plot, you can also carefully find out whether he really exited the plot, or whether he was left behind and intervened in the plot again at a certain point in the future. Until he reappears, you can reverse the details of your position at that time to prove your judgment— these “capabilities” are plot formulas. It is the most natural way for a character to leave the scene, but it can also leave a secret.
A villain suddenly starts a big speech, explaining why he has hatred and why he became a villain—that means he is leaving the scene. In layman’s terms, it means “the villain dies because of talking too much”; In the collapse of being betrayed, he began to sink and destroy, until the last ray of light was blocked, because of the most inconspicuous thing—such as a photo of his lover in his pocket watch, or the memory of his daughter hidden in the diary No birthday card to himself – where he would wipe away his last tear and officially return to being a hero.
You can say that these are “routines”. I think this is a “formula”, but it is also a “time has come” between philosophy and metaphysics. Because their ultimate goal is to pile up all the plots to the highest climax, and then reverse it or be strangled at the moment of the outbreak, leaving endless silence.
A husband said “I love you” to his wife before leaving. This may be a very common plot. If he still leaves the scene later in the plot, then this “I love you” will not be worth recalling Evidence, because every sentence “I love you” he said may be the last sentence of his life. But if we presuppose a condition that the husband has not said a single word “I love you” since he met this woman, then this confession will become the swan song of “It’s time”, and people read this contrast. , I realized that “he’s going to have an accident.”
When people realize that “he is going to have an accident”, his plot will be promoted logically:
He may walk away and become a pity in the story; it may also be that he followed a planned car accident, died in the accident, and then started a new life incognito; or he was involved in a car accident. There is a bigger conspiracy, and he is actually the mastermind of the whole accident… When the audience goes back to the original plot, they will read a completely different sentence from the simple “I love you”, and even cover the entire plot. The beginning and the end of the content, and these are impossible to tell you by the creators, actors, or even narration barrage.
I call this kind of content “farewell sentence pattern”, there will be some “time has come” elements, but it is not all “curse”.
I have a friend who always sends his wife a few messages before the plane takes off on a business trip, and they always end with “I love you”. His wife is actually very “scared” about it, because she adds more emotional color to the “I love you” every time. Because he would “disappear” on the plane for a while after saying I love you, which gave her a strange anxiety-they both knew that “I love you” might have more meaning, but None of them wanted to say that result—because it might be a “farewell sentence”, which is the last sentence “I love you” that this man said to a woman.
There are actually more scenes about “I love you” that can be expressed in “farewell sentences”, please move to “Shocked! Punctuation marks have depreciated! “ .
Of course, the “farewell sentence pattern” sometimes or often fails in the real world. Not all terminally ill patients will die immediately after writing their suicide notes, and not every sentence of “I love you” will involve a sad ending. But in the backtracking link of the review, people will find out these “farewell sentence patterns” and group them as “it’s time”.
And when everyone is staring at these “time has come” plots, some people have self-tortured “stop eating because of choking”.
For example, when an old man learns that many old people who passed away before him will think of his past at the last moment of his life, and always talk about things that happened a long time ago with his family – this old man will have fear and “superstition”. He never mentioned his past to others, and even allowed his brain to recall the past for himself. In this kind of competition with himself, the old man will often enter the collapse faster.
At this time, I have to say a theorem that many people “oppose” because I think it has no practical value in itself-but I think this is where its fun lies.
The “infinite monkey theorem” refers to a monkey who randomly presses keys on a typewriter. When the time of pressing the keys reaches infinity, it is almost certain to be able to type any given text content.
Many people deny this theorem because they consider it from a practical point of view. First, they cannot find a monkey that can press the keyboard forever; it is also impossible to make the time of pressing the key reach an infinite state. So this theory itself is a “joke” – but let’s go back to the prototype of this law, which itself comes from a very realistic satirical novel – “Gulliver’s Travels”, when Gulliver travels to a In a country where knowledge is the foundation of the kingdom, the professors here actually asked the students to operate the robotic arm to automatically generate some random sentence patterns to build a list of all subject knowledge.
In other words, according to the determination of the infinite monkey, any kind of “tragedy” is possible. Although the probability is extremely low, it must not be zero. A “I love you” as a “farewell sentence” can pull out any sense of the plot, good or bad, unfortunate or fortunate. But people who are good at capturing “imperfections” use their lists to collect the tragic stories involved in “I love you”, so that today’s novels and drama formulas come into being.
Because such a scene is very likely to happen!
A husband cheated on another woman after saying “I love you” to his wife for no reason.
Some readers who were “knocked in the catalog by the monkey” will think: Oh, what kind of plot is this? Isn’t my husband such a person?
As a result, you added a premise. This husband never said “I love you” to his wife, but today he said it for the first time, and then went to have an affair with another woman.
Readers will curse again: You fucking cursed me, didn’t you? !
Heh, don’t be in a hurry to take your seat!
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