Harold is a tax collector with an old-fashioned personality and a meticulous life, but also boring enough. His inner hobbies and feelings are unconsciously suppressed. The only special thing is counting the steps, brushing his teeth one by one, and catching the regular bus...... ...until a certain Wednesday when he heard a voice recounting his life and his actions at the same time. The voice followed him, followed him to work, followed him to meet the girl he wanted, and then predicted his death... A literature professor began to help him analyze this strange thing, it turned out that the protagonist of a new novel by a female writer Karen is almost Harold, So fictional stories and real life hook up. And this female writer is known for her pessimism and decadence, and the joy of writing is to "kill" the protagonist. Harold, who has just started to re-examine himself, has just gained happiness and discovered the joy of life. Naturally, he is reluctant to die....
First of all, I really like the setting, and I like some of the things that are described in it. Because I am also a novelist after all - I don't think I am a writer if I don't have any life experience and only rely on the little books I read and my own spirit to write something weird. On the contrary, I am just writing novels, so it is called a vegetable seller. The principle of "selling vegetables" is what I call novelists. Those things I wrote in high school, no matter what the theme, what the characteristics of the plot, are, in short, I like to "kill" the protagonist. I like to read "Tianwen" but despise myself for writing "Tianwen" really is a selfish bastard. At that time, when I was young, I liked to pursue cool things. At that time, when I was a teenager, I always felt that when people died, their love was consummated and their life was sublimated. It's like a female writer in a movie, thinking hard just to give the character a great, splendid, and moving way to die, and likes to freeze the beauty at the happiest, most satisfying, and most beautiful moments in the character's life. I remember that one of the most ridiculous endings was that the heroine had a terminal illness, so she went to a foreign land and planned to die. In order to prove the struggle, she planned to challenge a different ending and went to Tokyo Tower to commit suicide, but she died in a car accident on the way there... ... I despise myself! Another ending is that the heroine's plane crashed. The hero was lying at home and dozing off and dreamed that he was pulling the hand of the girl who was about to fall on the cliff. Maybe he didn't catch the girl and died, maybe both of them fell, maybe It's just like this, you can't go up and down, only the wind blows... The key is if you are arranged to die by yourself, what do you think? My idea is that if I have to die, I will not die, and if I cannot die, I will choose the method of death by myself. The story in the movie can't happen in real life. Although miracles happen all the time, I don't think there will be such a thing. However, looking at Karen's novels from this angle, I think it's really beautiful. Like the professor said, a very beautiful ending. I think that novel must look very moving.
I especially like what the professor played by Hoffman said in it, "There are only two endings, either the continuation of life or the death, tragedy is death, comedy is marriage. ...... From your situation, your It's a comedy." I like Harrold, who is dull, clumsy and old-fashioned, and Maggie Gyllenhaal, who bakes cookies and bullies honest people. Hua said that I was looking for this movie for her. I don't like neurotic female writers very much. Although I have a quirk with me, I still don't like it very much. After all, I also turned my interest in writing short pseudo-sweet essays instead of being dragged down by long stories and having a nervous breakdown and killing the protagonist. .
After all, there is still flesh and blood that looks moving, and this movie can be understood in this way: as if we were reading Karen's novel, and then we were drawn into feelings because of the real protagonist who appeared beside us... . . .
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