It’s not about humanity, it’s about self-confidence

Nigel 2021-12-31 08:02:25

This movie was highly recommended to me by a movie star, and then asked me how I would choose after watching it. I thought that there were a lot of human complexity that made it hard to choose, but I didn't expect that I had just watched the movie after half an hour. Not to mention the logic of the story itself, the choice of the hero and heroine really makes me anxious. From the beginning of debt to going to the casino, it is a choice that has gone to the end. I didn’t expect to continue to go to the casino the next day. Not enough, what a stupid man can do to lend his wife to someone else, this is not enough. It was not until the emergence of one million that the actor finally realized his stupidity, but it was too late.

From the perspective of the heroine, I still sympathize. After all, her original intention is love, but even if you love, you must never love blindly, and you cannot love without sacrificing self-esteem. This kind of love will end up with an unbalanced miserable defeat. Finish.

As for the male protagonist, he is the protagonist to be discussed in the whole film. Let me ask, if Gage is not a millionaire, but a poor boy like him, would his attitude be different. The answer is yes! Even as outsiders, we have the same feelings. Why do we tolerate millionaires' use of every means to pursue Diana and think that he is very romantic, instead of accepting that an ordinary person is also robbing love?

Some people say this is the vanity of a woman, but Diana in the film is definitely not a vanity. It was David, the cowardly male protagonist who contributed to all this. Because of the contrast, he thought he was inferior to Geki. He gave up. It was not Diana's love that lost, but his self-esteem and self-confidence. A man without self-confidence will only live in doubt all day long. He lives carefully in the lies he weaves. He has lost all his demeanor and even himself. This is the reason Diana left him.

When David finally realized this, he began to find his original self, began to teach, and talked about the buildings he liked. He also said from the bottom of his heart that I am poor, but I am no worse than Gage. ! This is why Diana is back again.

I suddenly remembered that when the media interviewed Wendi Deng a long time ago, if she was not a billionaire, would you still be with him? That was Wendi Deng who gave an answer that shocked everyone, no. When everyone was ready to criticize her power and hypocrisy, she went on to say something that I still remember now. I like him because I like everything about him now, including his wealth, not just wealth. And wealth represents self-confidence, charisma, ability, etc. If lost, he will not be the whole person.

In fact, there is no money in love, it is just an accessory to self-confidence. Not all girls who like rich people are called gold worship girls, but the confident courage and constant struggle that they like. So if the man I love is a pauper with that self-confidence, I will never leave it, because love has nothing to do with money.

In general, the story of buying one million for one night is really unreliable, because once a man makes such a choice, he has already lost, where there are so many stories behind, and he can still return to him. Diana is already a wonderful wife.

As for the story itself, it could end when Geki wanted to pay a million.
If I were the actor, I would say, thank you for letting me know that I have a million.
If I were the heroine, I would say that when you bought me with a million, I already knew that I was priceless.

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Indecent Proposal quotes

  • John: [reading through the contract drawn up by Jeremy] Do you want to elaborate on the "Verification" clause?

    Jeremy: Verification? That means you pay even if the relationship isn't consummated.

    John: You mean if I'm impotent?

    Jeremy: It's important for a lawyer to cover contingencies.

    John: I can live with that. The "John Garfield Clause"?

    Jeremy: That's if you die in the act.

    John: I have no problem with that either. Could I have your pen?

    [signs contract]

    John: You're pretty good, you know.

    Jeremy: Thank you.

    John: You should come and work for me.

    Jeremy: Ooh!

  • Jeremy: For a million bucks *I'd* sleep with him.

    [David glares at him]

    Jeremy: ... Maybe not.