Many comments are nothing more than trivial ridicule. Minutes subversively returned to the life that was insane at the beginning, and said the ridiculous "Life, here I come." to a broken Mini cooper that had crashed the bumper. Then the movie cut to the black screen, and the young female voice sang. "We don't have to change at all."
Jason Reitman is an old child who is not growing up. Shooting Juno, Up in the air, Young Adult, it seems that they are all living in different bodies. The same person’s heart is higher than the sky and life is thinner than paper. In the midst of suffering, he thought that he would be saved by conforming to the traditional values of the masses. Own fragile soul.
Watching Mavis's life at the beginning of the movie, I was almost shot. Young mom and Kim and Kourtney take New York buzzing on the TV and Mavies, who was lying on the bed without makeup and no corset, sat in front of the computer without makeup and wrote a couple of drafts. They couldn’t help but check their mailbox and saw The Boss reminder email pretends to be ignored, and the bluefly shopping site is still open on the desktop. I can't help but exclaim Diablo Cody how can you expose the life of an unmarried young girl in an older city so naked and so explicit!
When you see Mavis without makeup, you can’t disagree that she is a loser, living a boring life in the city, living in a high-rise building, and a stranger ONS, a gunman writer, whose sales are too poor and will soon be over. . Even Friend laughed at himself with contempt for this so-called "good life" in the eyes of others. At this time, Mavies naturally felt that life was boring, but everything hadn't been broken yet, it was hazy.
When she received the EX's mail, everything heralded something, and she began to question it. She thought of her high school life. She is the popular girl that everyone hates, but you can also replace hate with "jealousy" in the same context. Compared with her 20 years ago, this 37-year-old young woman always feels that something is missing now, what is it, is it Buddy Slade? She is not sure. She wants to see him, wants to redeem something to fill the current emptiness, but also feels that Mercury is also a rotten life, trap in some crappy job, wife and kids. At this time, she is still standing at a higher psychological advantage. The same is a bad life, and my bad life is brighter than yours. So, Buddy, I'm here to save you, and also to save myself.
So she returned to Mercury, naively thinking that she was still the popular one 20 years ago, and Slade was still the crazy Slade 20 years ago, until all kinds of unreliable efforts finally resulted in someone telling her you personally. When she should solve her mental issue, she completely broke down. This collapse is not just a question of love or not, but a question that does not exist in the world.
The admiration that has been surrounding Mavis has long ceased to exist when she comes back to Mercury. Everyone leads a peaceful life. No one seems to envy her anymore. Her beauty, her intelligence, her success and glitz in the big city Life. As Mavis said in her writing, life wasn't unfair. At this time, she endured tears of anger at Yingying's computer screen and shouted: Do you think I live well in the big city? Do not! No, my life sucks! But if there is still a little fairness in life, you should give me envious eyes so that I have the hope of living in a rotten life. But no one came to affirm her anymore. Everyone has moved away from the noisy school context of high school, living an independent life, and being satisfied in this small town. When she listened to a song that only belonged to two story situations, she sang it from a plain-looking woman and was admired by the male protagonist. Mavis, who hated her teeth, couldn't be envious and jealous.
If Mavis has not grown up, it is indeed the part of her that always needs others to approve and her inner approval mechanism is not sound. Her growth environment did not give her any opportunity to learn to affirm herself, because all the affirmation from the outside has already satisfied her vanity needs.
She really began to doubt, doubt her original judgment, doubt her ideals, and doubt whether all the expensive pursuits of life had any meaning. She doesn’t know if she should, like most of Mercury’s, grow into the type of person who no longer has the pursuit of fanatical agitation and turns to accept life peacefully. She doesn’t know if she should be like a normal adult. It belongs to the mainstream values of society rather than the crazy bitch who was ridiculed on the lawn and was poked in the back.
When she was lying on the bed, Matt asked her: Why do you like Slade so much.
She said that others are nice.
Matt said, isn't everyone else okay?
Mavis said the truth, saying: The me he met back then was the best me.
Seeing this, I can’t help but think of the phrase in "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years", "I also like the me who liked you back then."
Yes, in fact, until not long ago, I felt that I was liked by someone back then. That me is the best me at the best age, kind, and innocent. But suddenly on a clear morning, on the way to school, when I waited for the green light to turn left, I felt that I was wrong before. The me who really likes myself is the best.
And through a series of questions and the "enlightenment" of the unreliable sister Matt, perhaps Mavis realized that everyone is not beautiful, yes, they may be happy, may be unhappy, may be envious You may despise you, but the lives of these people and their attitudes towards you cannot define yourself. We live not to compare ourselves to others, not to make a lot of effort on the surface. Those so-called practical and fulfilling feelings are not different because you live quietly in a small town or the noisy glitz of a big city, nor because you are famous for the work you do or remain unchanged.
If the Fuck Mercury that Mavis said was a response to all the so-called mainstream values who mocked her and cursed her, then finally driving the crashed Minicooper back to Minneapolis is definitely a brand new Mavis. She has grown up. She has learned to affirm her life, and other people always think this is simply a piece of shit. She finished Waverley's last book, facing a broken car and saying "Life, here I come", she actually It's already different. You can say that she continues to be naive because he has not returned to life. Most of the people who continue to think that Buddy is a fool who got lost in the ocean with his ugly girlfriend after sailing, but there are too many people whose mentality is just " The person you most envy and hate in high school is not as good as me." However, I always think that life should be like this. If you feel happy, you are happy. Live your life without killing or setting fire. Do what you want to do, meet people you want to meet, and enjoy everything you have-suffering or Thrilling, and fuck the rest.
PS Seeing that the heroine is always watching Kim and Kourtney take New York, I can’t help but laugh. Didn’t Kim divorce Kourtney for the big city? So even if the heroine pulls the hero up The city is nothing but the fate of a divorce. Therefore, please say goodbye to somebody and move on.
PPS thought of Wang Cailing in "Li Chun", one is to compromise with life, the other is to continue to be rebellious. I don't know why. In short, comparing the endings of the two movies, I feel very flavorful. In different era backgrounds and social value systems, the sense of conflict is always interesting.
PPPS Actually, looking at it the other way round, there are other things in this movie. When you enjoy what you enjoy together, don't even think about taking up other things.
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