Thousands of lights, warm-colored bars, gentle music like wine in a glass, beautiful and handsome young men and women, flirting with each other, drinking and flirting and talking about ideals - scenes that can be found in every corner of the earth, the difference may be only The girls are not as beautiful as Kate Winslet and the boys are not as handsome as Leonardo DiCaprio (Actually Leonardo was not as good looking as my dad was when he was young, photo as proof). This is the most ordinary life, and the whole movie presents the most ordinary life, a peaceful and beautiful life. Is not it?
Young boys are smart, witty, and can make pretty girls laugh with a few witty words every now and then. Regarding life, there is always the naivety of a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, but he does not understand what he is talking about. Young people's words are always unbelievable, but young girls are always deceived, sigh!
After marriage, maybe 5 years and 10 years later, April became a soap opera actress, as she originally wanted, but the performance was depressing. As Frank tries to comfort her, the conflict erupts for the first time. Frank's reasons, citing NO.1NO.2NO.3..., reminds me that many people have the first, second, third... reasons to accuse me with solid evidence, "You shouldn't , you shouldn't...you should, you should...", including my dear mother, my kind ex-boyfriends.
"How kind of you, how terribly terribly kind of you!" "you`re always so wonderfully definite on the subject of what you do and don`t deserve."
"Just because you`ve got me me safely in this little trap , you think you can bully me into feeling whatever you want me to feel!"
"You pathetic, self-deluded little boy. Look at you! Look at you and tell me, how by any stretch of imagination you can call youself a man?"
April's remarks are quite heartwarming! I can't help but laugh! Simply delightful!
Frank inherited his father's business and became a small employee in the company. The salary is enough to buy a beautiful white house, raise a wife and two children. This all looks really good, the white house, the green lawn, and the sofa and bed in the house where you can sit or lie comfortably belong to yourself (buying a house in China seems to have legal ownership for 70 years, Don't know what's going on in the US, but certainly not forever, because people are going to die). Although the job is boring and inexplicable, what a fun life it is to be able to flirt with the company's lovely female staff, or even have an exciting one-night stand! On the day of her 30th birthday, I had a drink with another ignorant girl, sighed about my past ideals, and lightly mocked myself about my existing happy but still flawed life. A little bit of melancholy made this mature man so attractive! - Shit! Men may never understand what they say, they are just pretending, and young girls are always deceived, sigh!
"All I want is to feel things, really feel them." This is a sentence that Frank touched April, Recalling the phrase rekindled April's love for Frank, April made the "crazy" suggestion - move the family to Paris.
A wife is willing to help her husband realize his ideals, move the family to the city of her husband's dreams, and go out to work to support the children, so as to create a free environment for her husband to realize his ideals. April is an absolute good wife. A wife is not just a tool for cooking, doing housework and having children, not just a senior nurse who can take care of her husband's diet, daily life and maintaining his health, not just a friend who can say a few nonsense words of care and verbal support. The wife also needs to enter the depths of her husband's mind and heart, become a man's soul mate, and use practical actions to help men find the meaning of life and the true meaning of life. what is life? Is just being? What is the most important thing in life? Is living just to maintain its existence?
Frank agreed first, excited and excited about it. Facing the surprise and puzzlement of everyone, he felt that he was different from the mediocre colleagues and neighbors around him. He was noble and special. He said that he finally found the feeling of going to the battlefield for the first time. It is said that women are vain, and men seem to be more than enough in this regard. When the vanity passed, the excuse came into being: April was pregnant, and the leaders gave him a promotion and a raise, what a good reason! It can't be so unrealistic; a man needs to support his family, this is a responsibility, how can he let his wife go to work for his own ideals; how can he kill a fetus, that's a life! ..."you`re always so wonderfully definite on the subject of what you do and don`t deserve." There are always many reasons to stop us, the real reason is just fear, fear of losing control of life, but In fact, when have we ever been in control of our lives?
The appearance of the mad John is a little far-fetched for the plot, but it does advance the theme and is ironic. John can tell exactly what kind of wine in what kind of glass he wants, and he's going to be sent to a mental hospital. "What do you do that for?" This lunatic asked the question about a job like a sales assistant, and answered it himself: you want to play house, and you got to have a job; you want to play a good house, you got to have a job you don`t like. (“play a house” translates to “play a house” in Chinese) This lunatic is very sharp, his sentences are to the point, but he has been treated with 37 electric shocks ! shit! What did those people do to genius! Even his biological mother! People always want others to be the same as themselves, afraid of losing control of their own life, and afraid of seeing other people's differences because they are guilty, their stable, safe, and taken for granted life is actually at stake, they can feel it, but Don't dare to face it, and don't allow others to expose it. When someone comes out and speaks the truth out loud, they become angry, the weak like the neighbors will cry in panic, the rough will use electric shocks to "treat" their sons, and the powerful will use the army and war. Eliminate aliens. There is no essential difference between fifty steps and one hundred steps.
“we are running from the hopeless emptiness of the whole life here”
“plenty of people are on the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.”
Frank was shaken by the high salary, "But I have the backbone not to run away from my responsibilities." "Responsibility", yes, that's the word, like everyone's death gold medal, it has been given out countless times, a person first has to deal with himself Responsibilities to parents, to others, to society second, and ultimately to trying to unify these responsibilities. If you put your ideals and inner feelings and desires aside by putting up with boring work, and disregarding the euphemism of supporting your family is called responsibility, it is simply tarnishing the noble and sacred word "responsibility". Survival is neither so easy nor so difficult, and the whole point of life is more than just surviving! As more and more wealth is created, the original intention is gradually forgotten.
"It takes backbone to lead the life you want, Frank."
They had another heated argument about aborting the fetus. Frank could argue against April on this basis, and it's reasonable enough to accuse a mother of killing her own child. But can every new life bring new hope? Does not every new life continue to be reduced to endless despair and emptiness? Every life is born, grows, and dies. If it cannot be awakened, it can only be repeated, repeated, repeated of this endless emptiness and despair, repeated of birth and death.
"Do you really want another child? Do you? Tell me the truth. Do you remember? We used to live by it. Everyone knows what it is, however long they`ve lived without it."! !
"April, a normal woman, a nomal sane mother dosen`t buy a piece of rubber tubing to give herself an abortion so she can live out some kind of a goddamn fantasy." - normal, I hate that word.
"I wanted in. I just wanted us to live again...That we would be wonderful in the world. I didn't exactly know how, but just the possibility kept me hoping. How pathetic is that?....I can`t stop thinking it. Can`t leave, can`t stay."
Then the lunatic came again, and I nodded sharply when he said something.
"That is the money. But ti`s`hardly ever the real reason."
"That way he`d never have to find out what he`s really made of."
“I feel sorry for you. Still, maybe you deserve each other. I mean, the way you look right now, I `m beginning to feel sorry for him too. You must give him a pretty bad time if making babies is the only way he can prove he`s got a pair of balls." - yes, April should have known earlier, to see if a man is really her husband before marriage. Women are always prone to fall into their own imaginations and ignore the truth, and the truth will surface one day. After so many years, that lovely young boy who was full of vitality has become accustomed to a stable life, has lost the ability to dream, and it is too late to start a new life again. This is where April is too naive and helpless. How can young people wake up so early and understand so early? After experiencing all kinds of regrets, most of my life has passed, and I have more than enough strength.
"I am glad about one thing. I am glad I`m not gonna be that kid." - This sentence may be the direct cause of April's final abortion and death. She was desperate for the new life in her belly. She was desperate for the rest of her life.
Let's take a look at how normal man defines insanity: It`s the inability to relate to another human being. It`s the inability to love. When I heard this, April couldn't help but laugh, and so did I. "I don`t love you. You were just some boy who made me laugh at a party once." ————So happy! In a word! I don't love you, you're just some boy who made me laugh at the dance. How ridiculous and pathetic, this is the truth.
At the last breakfast, looking at this man who was on the verge of collapse, I no longer hated or even hated him, but felt pity and wanted to go up and hug his head gently. I can't help but look up and say to God: Your children, your lost lamb, guide them to find themselves and find their way home.
The last scene is quite good, unlike the din of the warm conversation with the warm music at the beginning of the film, the old man slowly turns off the hearing aid amid the old lady's constant criticism, and the world gradually becomes silent. Faced with the truth, so many desperate people chose the old man's way, keeping silent and turning a deaf ear...
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