I was watching “The Dream of Robots”
When I saw a puppy playing games with its paws to alleviate its inner boredom, yet still feeling a sense of lifelessness, I knew this movie was not simple.
It vividly portrays urban dwellers’ desire for vitality while lacking the skills to communicate with the outside world. Thus, what is called social interaction is merely a self-directed and self-staged struggle.
Everyone confines themselves within a predetermined box; every ball we hit is merely a reactive response. Even how the other party responds to us is within our design.
If the other party responds this way, it makes me feel bored; if they don’t respond this way… then let’s not respond that way, after all, it’s exhausting for most people.
Thus, a duet turns into a solo performance.
When hungry, I look for something to eat, surrounded by instant food, showcasing the creed of just surviving.
Before dining, I catch a glimpse of my own reflection and hurriedly turn on the TV, constantly searching for programs that can help me escape from my current sense of existence, likely because I don’t know how to face my own existence.
By chance, I see a loving couple in the opposite building igniting the puppy’s inner desire for real relationships. But where can real relationships be found? How do we build genuine connections? This is a question that confuses many contemporary youths.
It’s not that we are not lonely; it’s that we don’t know how to escape loneliness.
So, I ordered a robot.
Hoping to drive away this loneliness.
Then, a colorful life arrived.
However, the problem arose…
Even if I cherish this relationship and enjoy our time together, it still cannot withstand some uncontrollable forces that separate us.
The robot was trapped on the beach, and the puppy tried every possible way it could to bring the robot home.
But the rabbit easily accomplished it, bringing along two little brothers, and they toppled the robot’s legs just to take a toe.
The garbage collector not only managed to get in but also dug the robot out from the sand pile and took it away intact.
Is it that the puppy does not cherish the robot, or the robot does not cherish the puppy? Clearly, neither. The two parties in mutual pursuit seem to lack not sincerity, but skills.
The puppy continued living, marking the opening day of the amusement park, while the robot continued to exist in dreams filled with reunions…
The puppy tried to establish a real relationship but failed—ridiculed and “abandoned”… After much anticipation for the amusement park’s opening, it couldn’t find it after searching for a long time.
It’s like many relationships; not knowing how to maintain them leads to misunderstandings, with one party waiting and getting hurt, while the other party tries hard and eventually chooses to give up…
It seems no one can see the “efforts” of the other.
Later, the robot also encountered new relationships…
Reactivated, but that “home” it longed for, it never took the initiative to return.
(Since in dreams it knows how to return, let’s assume it knows how to return.)
Until one day, when the robot saw the puppy again, it rushed over without hesitation. How would the four of them face this chaos?
Fortunately, it was just a dream.
In the end, the robot played a song in the house to commemorate their beautiful past memories, cautiously, so as not to be discovered, finally letting go of this relationship.
A silent drama that left me emotionally scarred…
Enough said, I need to take a breather.