Once, there was The Little Match Girl. On Christmas, she had not sold a single match. Cold and hungry, she decided to strike one for warmth, and then she saw a fragrant roast chicken.
When she lit the second match, she saw a beautiful Christmas tree. When she lit the third, she saw her long-lost grandmother. Yet when the match went out, everything vanished.
In her fantasy, she flew with her grandmother toward The Paradise, seeking a life without cold, famine, or pain.
But in reality, she froze to death that night, while families gathered indoors and it was cold and dark outside.
In the film The Pursuit of Happyness, the male lead first lied to his son, saying that the bone-density scanner he sold was a time machine. Perhaps he truly wished it were one, so he could return to the past and stop himself from making the wrong decisions.
But even his son did not believe that lie. Then he told another one: when his son closed his eyes and opened them again, he would see dinosaurs. They pressed the button together, only to discover that there really were dinosaurs in the subway station.
Like primitive people, they needed to find a cave where they could safely spend the night, and so they ended up in a restroom.
The male lead held his son and let him sleep in his arms. The boy soon fell asleep, but he himself could not. Then he heard a knock on the door.
He did not open the door for that person, as though he feared the person outside was a dinosaur.
It was a very simple matter. Anyone who went into a restroom and found someone sleeping inside would surely find it strange. If that person had mocked him as wantonly