17 Again: Back to 17

Wayne 2022-04-19 09:01:36

What is it like to be 17? Youth is flying, the future is boundless, I love spring, and it is brilliant. 17 years old is the flowering season, no matter how much rain it is, it will be moisturizing; 17 years old is the rainy season, no matter how beautiful the flowers are, they will not wither. At the age of 17, he was so arrogant that he ignored the world, and at the age of 17, he was so innocent that he married his first love in one go. A 17-year-old will never do anything wrong, because he doesn't know what it means to be disappointed and regretful; a 17-year-old always takes it for granted, thinking that the future is free to gallop.

Of course, when I was 17 years old, I could not have imagined so much, and all my time was spent profligately. The 17-year-old is only full of brilliance when looking back, because the person who misses the 17-year-old can never go back in time to the past.

Who would always want to go back to the past? It is nothing more than men and women who are experiencing a frustrated and helpless mid-life crisis. Like Mike in the movie. It seems that his career will never improve. Hou Lang slaps Qian Lang to death on a rock and smashes his bones to pieces; the family is on the verge of disintegration, the wife no longer tolerates Mike's complaints, and the children deliberately avoid their father. With that said, it seems that Mike has achieved nothing, except that he has a hard-core buddy who takes him through the crisis. Some people want to say that Mike is so pitiful, why is he so down? As the saying goes: poor people must have something to hate. What is there to hate about Mike? Have to go back 20 years to find out why.

At the age of 17, the microphone Hua Zhengmao is not very good at basketball. He still has leisure time in the third year of high school, and most of them have already played well. Mike is so good that he can get a scholarship to study in college just by playing football, but he didn't expect his girlfriend to fail the college entrance examination. The 17-year-old boy, on impulse, gave up college to accompany his girlfriend. This has been with me for 20 years, and now the child is 17 years old.

It would be wrong to say that Mike has never regretted it. In the past 20 years, when things went wrong, Mike regretted the decision at that time. The impulsive punishment hurts not only himself, but also the wife who caused the impulsiveness at the time. People, when you are unhappy, you look at everything, and the atmosphere at home makes your wife and children very depressed. After 20 years of polishing, the handsome guy on the basketball court has gradually become a middle-aged man with a frowning face. Once there is no pursuit in life, the pace will inevitably stagnate. Middle age is a crossroads where it's difficult to decide where to go, especially for Mike, the resentful man who looks back from time to time.

Middle age is actually an unsolvable predicament. The only thing you can do is to put down your burden and move forward lightly. It's just that admitting such a fact hurts more than the fact itself. You must know that a bleak life needs illusory fireworks in the night sky to light up, even if it's just a short moment. So, magic came into being, and Mike was back at the smug 17-year-old, and everything could be pushed all over again. However, this 17-year-old has more experience and maturity than the previous 17-year-old, and is less arbitrary and absurd. Back at the age of 17, Mike can finally spend time with his son to practice basketball and teach his son to chase his girlfriend. Back at the age of 17, Mike can finally examine and appreciate his wife who still has charm, comfort his broken-hearted daughter, and make another choice. In the face of giving up college again to choose a wife.

This kind of comedy is a little bit absurd, a little sad and a little enlightening. It is absurd because it will never return to the past, and it is sad because youthful arrogance must be at the expense of middle-aged frustration. What is the revelation? Oh, the wine made at the age of 17, sweet and bitter.

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17 Again quotes

  • Ned Gold: [speaking Elvish] So how's your salad?

    Principal Jane Masterson: [speaking Elvish] Good, the arugula is really fresh. So, how did you learn to speak Elvish?

    Ned Gold: The Learning Annex.

  • Scarlett O'Donnell: [Looks at Mark] Wow.

    [Scarlett starts walking towards Mark]

    Scarlett O'Donnell: Wow!

    [Scarlett grabs Mark's face and starts playing with it]

    Scarlett O'Donnell: You look just like my husband.

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