When I went to the library for self-study today, I happened to see this week's video posted on the door, which happened to be played. The sentence [Little Plum, Depp] was added in the brackets, which suddenly felt funny, as if a friend whispered something to encourage you to do something. So I just went with the flow to see it. When I think about it, it's actually funny to me. I clearly have a decision in my heart, but I have to get some encouragement from others to do it.
The film begins and ends with the American country road. It's ordinary, run-down, with occasional vehicles passing by, as unremarkable as any country road, and very much like the ordinary and rather helpless first half of Kibert's life. Such a desolate opening seems to remind us spectators that it cannot give a twisted plot, nor can it carry tragic feelings. Just like a Buddhist innkeeper, it is entirely voluntary to hit the tip or stay in the inn. Even if you want to leave, I wish you a smooth journey ahead. After all, watching a movie is just a matter of one willing to fight and one willing to suffer. In fact, after watching the entire film, I was a little disappointed. First, it is about Kibert taking on the burden of the family for the obese and autistic mother, the mentally handicapped younger brother, and the disobedient younger sister. It seems that he didn't live as Kibert, and even the young woman who had an affair with him said that the reason why she chose him was because he would never leave here. He was trapped. How sad, so sad that everyone thought he would never escape. The only consolation may be the girl named Becky, who is alive, free and magnanimous. Gibbert didn't have the courage to grab her from the beginning to the end. Even the night before Becky left, he only dared to watch from a distance. If Becky hadn't discovered it, the story might have ended like this.
In the end, the mother chose to leave after the youngest son's eighteenth birthday. In order to maintain the last dignity of the mother, the children set fire to the house where they had lived since they were born. Together with their mother and their memories, they also stayed there. . At this time, Kibert finally started his life as Kibert. The whole film seems to encourage people to pursue personal value in life, but it also shows all kinds of fetters, love and responsibilities in life. In the face of the contradiction between the two, the film does not give a reasonable answer. How should personal pursuits and family responsibilities coexist? The video doesn't give an answer. In the end, it was actually Kibert who escaped and fled to another sky, and everything seemed to be rationalized, and all the contradictions disappeared in that fire. Perhaps in the face of the relationship between self-pursuit and responsibility, the benevolent see benevolence, and the wise see wisdom. This is a multiple-choice question, there is no right or wrong in itself, but no matter which one you choose, it is regrettable. Therefore, the film is too soft-hearted and can't bear to let Kibert make any choice, so it created such a plot and fulfilled the life of this young man.
When I just watched it, I felt that it was an escape, not frank enough, not naked enough, and lacked the courage to face it directly. Now think about it, isn't that what life itself is like? There is nothing absolute, just coincidences, emotions, impulses, ignorance and self-acceptance. If you try too hard to understand life, you may not be able to see that different sky.
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