I panicked when I was idle, pulled out the folding chair to nest in it, curled up, and dragged the blanket around me-
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English subtitles ...
But I have all set my posture ... I'll just
do it...
just as "Midnight Cowboy" is the background music, anyway, it will be over after a while... ...
Obviously it was wrong~~This old movie from 42 years ago threw me into a heart spasm, and the spasm lasted until 12 o’clock in the middle of the night. Even after eating half a slice of Zopiclone, I couldn’t sleep. I
heard that it was an Oscar. The most rebellious film in the movie, it’s forbidden to watch until the age of 16-but there is no
flashback, repetition, contradictory picture stitching, or scarlet or dark gray; it reflects a weirdness. In the age of 1989, there was also a pair of sordid, humble, and greedy people
. The beginning of the story is inevitable:
JOE, a young man in a small town in Texas, is unwilling to wash the dishes all day, and wants to go fishing in New York with his good skin. When an old and wealthy woman thinks that she can live a comfortable life~
He betrays his hue, but he is kind, optimistic and hopeful. These characteristics can appear in the same person without any contradiction.
JOE is full of pride and feels good about himself and gets on the bus to New York with his precious radio.
However, New York is not a paradise.
JOE failed to "debut" well, and was cheated of $20 by a prostitute. When he was extremely frustrated, he met the dirty and dirty lame RICO,
a man who was dying and struggling to survive on the streets of Manhattan. My own insignificant and humble days.
But it was the lame played by Hoffman that finally reborn the confused cowboy.
The delicate relationship between the two began with deception and being deceived: RICO said that he would introduce a pimping boss to JOE, and charged him a "mediary fee" of $20, but he deceived him into a gay home.
But the enemy’s road is narrow, and the fate of short-handed encounters in the gap of life seems to be not uncommon~
When the two men met again, JOE actually sympathized with the ill cripple, and the cripple invited the unsuccessful male prostitute back home. ~Because at that time JOE had no money to pay the rent.
I saw their "home":
In order to prevent the landlord from collecting rent, the front door was nailed with wooden slats to prevent entry and exit. A world like a garbage dump blocked by old barbed wire is their "private enter";
the door inside the house Without a door lock, in fact, there is no need to use a door lock—the so-called door has been ruined into a rotten wooden board full of holes;
all "furniture" is scrapped or stolen, and there is no glass on the window. One piece is complete. The so-called "doors" of the box cabinets are all hung on the hinges, as if they will fall apart completely with a light touch; the
sink is full of ocher stains. When RICO turns on the faucet, I was amazed that it could still flow out fragmented water; the
three-legged chair fell in a corner of the room, with some dilapidated old magazines next to it, and when RICO limped and moved them away. , I realized that what was revealed was a "bed"
-a crumbling bed frame plus a dirty black mattress that I did n't know where I picked it up from;
when JOE was lying on it exhaustedly, RICO was serious about it. He tenderly drew the "curtains"-half a piece of kraft paper full of holes and torn...
But even in such a dirty home, there is one luxury that we cannot ignore: stickers A poster behind the door—with "florida" clearly printed on
it—is the hometown RICO wants to return to.
RICO said that Florida has two of the warmest things in the world: sunlight and coconut milk.
Even if this cripple was so down and out, he never doubted that he would come back there, because he always confidently said:
"New York winter will be very cold, but it doesn’t matter, because at that time I have returned to Florida to enjoy the warmth. The sunshine
is coming ." He was so sure when he said that, I almost believed it-but then I heard a huge suppressed cough from him.
So the two people who live at the bottom depend on each other in the place called the paradise of the winners:
they cheat or steal food from the vegetable market,
they use their skills to stuff dirty clothes into other people’s laundry buckets, wash them for free, and
pretend that they have money. Sitting at the shoe-shining stall on the street, while the stall owner was not letting RICO squat down to polish his shoes in
winter, they picked up the frozen vegetables thrown in the vegetable market and went home and baked
them on the fire. Everything that was pawned was pawned-including the radio
that JOE was darling all the way. At the end, JOE sold blood in order to buy medicine for RICO. RICO
stole a coat for JOE so that he was not frozen-but when he knew JOE I do not like it when he angrily put the coat back also - although at that time he had RICO terminally ill, although he knows he can bring a coat of many sick body warmth
finally in a bizarre There was a woman in the underground bar that valued JOE and promised to give him money to let him follow.
I guess RICO's heart was also convulsive at the time-otherwise he would not roll down the stairs and completely broke a pair of lame legs.
Then JOE came back. , Saw RICO sitting on the bed, sweaty, and he said hey, I brought you aspirin~~ At
this time, RICO said something distressing: "Hehe~ When you were buying aspirin, I guess I'm already dead." With the
same resentful tone of anger and ambiguity, both of them are a little unnatural.
RICO said that his deadline is approaching, and he just wants to return to Florida-I was thinking that maybe everyone is actually facing death. Is sensitive and direct
But they don’t have money.
Actually they just need money for two tickets. So JOE killed a gay and got the money.
They boarded the train to Florida.
RICO kept coughing and even had urinary incontinence. So JOE changed his pants and threw it away. In the trash can—throw it away together, as well as JOE’s own cowboy costume.
JOE sat beside RICO happily, talking to himself like a chatterbox:
"Hey~~ I think about it. When we get to Florida, I will find a serious thing to do, anyway~ I am not a cowboy anymore — I think it may be an outdoor job~~
Let’s live a good life — OK?”
No sound.
RICO died quietly-a man who can be quiet like that, you would think that he just fell asleep, fell asleep without sorrow and joy.
I suddenly remembered the time of the filming-at that time the Vietnam War was still being fought. Well, haha,
it seems that the hard life is not only in Vietnam, but also in the gorgeous New York.
Maybe that era was a movie in itself.
In that era when dreams are nowhere to be placed-they are the outcasts of society.
They are humble, poor, nasty, and dirty.
They live in corners out of the sun, experiencing insults and being insulted, and accustomed to cheating and being deceived.
I can’t tell whether those flashback episodes are ideals or memories.
I didn’t want to fall into the clichés,
but when RICO died, I was crying and crying, but I just thought badly. I’ll be in Florida in a few minutes. So why do people always lose happiness in the place closest to heaven?
Fortunately, RICO sent JOE to a new starting point in life, and his dream can be reborn in JOE.
I pray that all the people I love can have enough strength to rush to the sunshine of florida in their hearts.
(PS: I’m wondering if I’m psychologically perverted to like Hoffman, this nasty and dirty character, and suddenly I saw a lot of people commenting that Hoffman is very similar to Al Pacino in some moments-
I was relieved in an instant~~ ~Oh~~~ It turns out that it can touch a person’s inner image, no matter what the image is, there is really often overlap in nature)
(PS2: Many people are wondering if these two people are gay or not-can they be? , This is different from "Happy Together", people's own orientation is okay, it's just the emotions produced by relying on each other)
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