According to secular standards, my sister is an eccentric person, and some of her behaviors can't be overstated. She doesn't follow any external dogma except her inner passion. In the eyes of "normal people", she is a person close to "autism". My sister has never been socialized in character and always lives in her own world. She and the real world ignore each other and repel each other. Work, chastity, fame, marriage, all these things are almost contemptible to her, and she is willing to sacrifice all these things for even the smallest freedom. Just like my mother who refuses to speak in piano class, my sister is telling the audience to what extent people can live a pure spiritual life. However, my sister cried behind her back, but she had flesh and blood that the latter could not match. As long as there are people like my sister, the audience will know that the world is not hopeless. Although mentally retarded, my brother's behavior is the easiest to understand among the three brothers and sisters, because all thinking based on reality is the most familiar to ordinary people. But my brother's reality is the reality of lacking strings and tendons, so there is no market popularity. Therefore, my brother's "stupidity" was endowed with Forrest Gump's "great wisdom", so he was "smarter than a fool". My brother married an ugly but smart wife, and the young couple lived a quiet life diligently, with a better ending than their sister or brother. If a person must be realistic in the world, then my brother's reality may be the best one: kindness, loyalty, humility and a little cleverness.
In Peacock, the younger brother's personality changes the most. However, due to space or other reasons, my brother has the least scenes, and some plots are not very convincing and embarrassing. Such a young man, who spends his time buying food and cooking, watching people play chess and taking care of children, is called "Laogao". In a sense, it is an inevitable continuation of my sister's "idealism" and my brother's "realism". Since nothing in life can arouse his enthusiasm and interest, all that remains is indifference and ridicule. This "birth" is a kind of Chinese nihilism. When we adopt an indifferent and laissez-faire attitude towards fate, we reserve a private territory for ourselves to the greatest extent.
Many people saw their past days in Peacock. Nostalgia is often a mixture of sadness and joy. The story of Peacock happened in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which was the last planned economy era in Chinese mainland. The most profound memory left by the planned economy to contemporary China people is the lack of materials. However, for many people who have experienced that era, the greatest pain is not material lack, but comes from a planned life, or an arranged fate.
Peacock shows three attitudes towards life in the face of this arranged fate, without pretense and beautification of the protagonist's ending. In this sense, Peacock is a work full of courage.