? The author Michael Ender is too good at telling stories. A story is a series of stories.
The protagonist Mao Mao is a magical child, because she is a listener. Ender knows the magical power of listeners very well, so in the first movie "Mao Mao and Her Friends", as an excellent listener, Mao Mao used her silent power to let her friends rediscover the calm and happy mood that was covered by negative emotions such as impulsiveness, anxiety and hostility caused by various desires or misunderstandings. A listener has a broad spiritual world, and only in this way can he become a listener. This is Mao Mao. ? The gentleman in gray officially appeared in the second part. Who are these characters? Always running around in a hurry, don't want people to see their true colors, remember them.
Shi Tiesheng described a kind of "mortgage syndrome" in Asking the way to Rotary: in order to live in a big house, he saved money month after month and even mortgaged his freedom and happiness; Do it at sunrise, but don't dare to rest at sunset. It's quiet for several nights. The day when this mood ends is the time of exhaustion in this life. The fairy tale version of this story is the gentleman in gray in Mao Mao of Ender. They come from the time bank, holding briefcases and smoking cigars. In the name of "time management", they persuade everyone to make the best use of every minute until there is no gap in time.
When more and more people accept this view of time, all people are no longer free to choose their own way of life. The fast-paced life forces all people who are willing or unwilling to be fast to get busy again. Efficiency is everything, and time is money. Are you scared by the familiar slogans in our life? Mao Mao's friend, tour guide Gigi, old cleaner Bei Bo and the children, although they knew Mr. Gray's plot, they couldn't escape. This is a net, a net on the head of all mankind. Where is the time? Look at the second gentleman in the story, and you will understand. There is a magical thing in the book called "time spent". What does this mean? I'm not sure, maybe it's a purely free part of the mind. It's not utilitarian, but free and unrestrained, so let your life be free and unrestrained, even arrogant.
Mao Mao, like a single-handed knight, took Casio Paya, the tortoise, and with Don Quixote's fearlessness, wiped out the gentleman in gray. Why can Mao Mao be one of them? Mao Mao is a listener, a broad-minded listener. Use the free and unrestrained time still in your heart to fight against the dead time and Mr. Grey. Only your own heart can save you. But can we really?