|Drama | Ep.8 Tape

"We kill our loved ones and live"

Forgot where and when I saw this quote, it came to my mind after watching episode 8 of The Magician.

At first, Ah Ho asked Xiao Lan, he didn't understand why he and Xiao Lan had changed quietly, just like he didn't understand why the train had to turn here (Zhonghua shopping mall). I think the metaphor here is that sometimes there is no reason to build a road, and the construction is purely based on the needs of the environment at the time, because of the terrain, because of architectural needs, because of strategic considerations, or sometimes there is no reason at all, so the road is paved like this. Well, the train just runs along the road. If the road is straight, the train will go straight. If the road is curved, the train will have to turn.

Later, Xiao Lan recorded the voices around the mall and wanted to listen to Ah Hou, the vendors hawking food, cooking the food, and the neighbors ranting, because the days in the Zhonghua mall were the best time for them, until everything changed.

So it all sounds ironic, as unbearably harsh as the sharp metal collision of the train rubbing the track and the tough (brake) when the train turns.

Xiaolan said in the tape: "The train is coming, people who come to Taipei will encounter this corner first, and later, the train will pass this corner again very slowly, so that those who leave can take a good look here. After that, it’s a different landscape.”

Taipei is the place where everyone is chasing. Every train stops in Taipei. It is the place where everyone wants to arrive. It's just that there is a return and a return. Regarding the journey, arriving means preparing to return. No one can say how long you can stay in Taipei. Xiaolan and Ahou met in the most Taipei's Zhonghua shopping mall. It seems that the train that is about to arrive in Taipei is going slowly here, which makes people look forward to being full of joy. Later, they gradually drifted away, just like the return train is slow here again. Yes, full of sadness and sadness. People arrive at each other and then leave again. The Chinese shopping mall is still prosperous, the people and scenery are still the same, but the mood is completely different. Life continues to extend like a railway. landscape.

Although Sun Shengxi's "Reading Carefully" seems to be the theme song set for Nori, I think the story of Ah Hou and Xiao Lan is the most interesting, even more than Brother Sheng's "The Last Tenderness".

Or, in fact, all regrets look very similar, like the trains that come and go,