15 minutes before been numb, with an icy look on mood, as if he said to himself, "Well, you're unemployed, so what? Nothing but destruction and suffering encounter someone cheered up blabla ..."
When the woman The protagonist comes out and walks into the office lifelessly, with a face full of boredom and disdain for work and life, and said to her colleagues (I prefer to understand it as her self-talk about her own situation) "when was the last time you looked in your life and saw nothing but fraud?" I also silently answered "now." in my heart,
maybe the resonance started at this time. I started to watch this movie with a lot of people saying that the plot is clichéd.
Larry, middle-aged, divorced, unemployed, indebted, without education, bumping into walls, the real trough in life, seems to be cliche. But there is no complaint, no cynicism, no sorrow through wine. We just watched this chubby middle-aged man with a simple smile sell unnecessary furniture, hoping to find jobs everywhere, replace the gas-guzzling cars with small motorcycles, and go to community colleges to start learning with young people. Courses, meet new friends, join small groups of young people, happily roam around on a motorcycle, new hairstyles and dresses, find a job as a part-time chef, study hard, and use the knowledge of economics to throw your debt back to the bank ... Finally embraced the beauty.
And the whole process above is done in a very brisk tone. This movie is not about preaching, nor is it about educating you heavily on how to grit your teeth and forge ahead in the face of adversity.
This movie is showing what a down-to-earth life is.
Life is actually very simple, if we are willing to face its splendor and bleakness. It is nothing more than looking for a new job if you are unemployed, living in a small house if you have no money, and doing everything you need to do well. But too many people seem to be unwilling to believe that life is ups and downs. They think that the sun should always be bright. Therefore, when the dark side comes, they will face the enemy, unwilling to face it, and passively avoid it; those few dare to face the bleakness. The person in his life becomes a hero. In fact, there is no such thing as a hero, just a down-to-earth.
This Larry-style attitude also reminded me of Phoebe in Friends. She had a drifting childhood and was always trapped in a difficult situation. She accepted that she was happy every day. For example, once she talked about seeing a neighbor’s child riding a bicycle when she was a child, and when she couldn’t afford a bicycle, she could only sit in a box with a bicycle printed on it and was dragged by her stepfather to walk around. She said happily, Ross
Phoebe said "it's so unfair" sympathetically, and Phoebe replied "it's fair, sometimes I let him sit in and I will drag the box." Ross' attitude represents most of us ordinary people, and we feel that life is all unfair. Phoebe doesn't have this concept. Just play with cardboard boxes without a bicycle, and he's equally happy.
The heroine in the film has the job of a university teacher, has talent and beauty, but is exhausted and disappointed in life. Her hypocritical husband is of course an important reason, but not the whole reason.
An interesting phenomenon can be found by comparing the attitudes of larry and the hostess towards others. Larry always speculates about others with good intentions, or no speculation at all. He treats people honestly and believes that others treat him honestly. To the new friend who suddenly broke into his life, he accepted with a simple smile, and did not resist any changes in his life brought by the young man, but raised his hand to welcome. Even for the old colleagues who had fired him, he was kind to and tipped.
The hostess looked at the people and things around her with suspicion. Indifferent, alienated, and polite. Seeing Larry and the young girl buying snacks together, he immediately concluded that Larry was a malicious pervert. When Larry enthusiastically greeted her on the road to help her adjust the voice navigation in the car, she seemed uncomfortable with the enthusiasm and thanked her politely.
Her skeptical attitude may be due to her disappointment in marriage and life, but it is not the reason why she is deeply disappointed.
How many of us are not like her. After experiencing some things, I began to learn to touch the world with heavy precautions, but found more coldness. But he thinks he is a mature expression, and disdains the undefended enthusiasm of others.
Over time, we can't help but find that life has become more and more illusory. Everything is so incapable of grasping, not close. It seems to see all the warmth in this world through the glass, but it has nothing to do with me.
That's why when I saw the hostess drunk and the conflict between her husband and sitting alone on the street late at night, when I met Larry, he was still careful at first, and then he took off his precautions and really sat behind Larry's motorcycle, bursting out happily. When I laugh, my heart suddenly becomes so warm. That kind of laugh from the heart is so contagious, it made me understand instantly that the original pure happiness has never disappeared, but the indifference and defensiveness made us temporarily lose the ability to be happy. If we are willing, we are fully capable of regaining warmth and beauty.
In fact, none of us has ever been disappointed in life. But the important thing is not to be blinded by disappointment and block your eyes. When the larry in your life appears, don't hesitate to sit on his motorcycle and laugh presumptuously at those failures, and then leave.
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