Each of us is a captive of youth, gradually fading, even bleak, lacking confidence, doubting everything. The past and memory are the only medicines that can save one's own pessimism. Tried to go back in time, tried to escape from the present, tried to indulge, tried to deviate from nature, but kept failing. Even, even the courage to try, is a failure.
In fact, this is the real midlife crisis. Because you have lived through the dream of youth, faced the pressure of growth and maturity, your career has failed completely, and your marriage cannot be looked back. Defects are added to the body, beliefs are ignored, and the whole person is ignored by society. I want to escape, but I don't know where to go; I want to give up, but there is no way out.
How painful.
Miles was such a tragic loser, his dream of being a writer was shattered, his marriage fell apart, and all that survived was his passion and obsession with wine. But this is not life itself, he is also a mediocre English teacher. Jack, on the other hand, is an unknown actor who doesn't even get a chance to act in a supporting role, facing marriage and a family role he doesn't want to enter.
They all have such a tradition that, on the eve of marriage, they want to end their single life gracefully. So two good friends from childhood to adulthood are ready to go on a wine tasting tour along the rural route of the United States. Get drunk once, you see, this is so much like us, even if life is unsatisfactory, we still have to get drunk to relieve thousands of sorrows. Maybe at a certain moment of drunken waking up, life will take a turn, or a book will be published, or a little romantic encounter.
Alexander Payne used a very long space to express the disappointment in the process and the different emotions of the two good friends. One is a mad venter, facing the fear of the unknown, making a final struggle; the other is a dazed person with a future, seeking the possibility of redemption in this short journey.
One is a pioneer, solving problems quickly; the other is a slow person, looking for answers from low self-esteem. It's just that all this is not the point. The point is that when each of us faces all the times, when we are faced with fear, when we are faced with crises, when we are still feeling failure in the past half a lifetime, can we still muster up the courage to continue?
Or, just living in the memory of the past, it doesn't matter whether you fail or not. Because you have experienced, because you have been successful, because you have had such subtle emotions, because of friendship, because people see you, and always have good intentions. Because of all this, is it not shameful to live in the past?
In fact, this movie is boring and full of pessimism. Even if the ending opens up the arrival of new hope, there is still a sense of loss. But it is true, every experience or the reality that is being experienced, it is not the romance of the past, but the plain sadness.
It goes by like water without a trace.
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