"Yeah. What happened?"
"Life." When
this passage first appeared, I smiled lightly, thinking it was a kind of funny pun. Unexpectedly, the film immediately followed the story about how the successful writer and life are incompatible, three in total.
"Words ruin everything." Clay said this sentence I wrote a long time ago. I have no doubt. After all, words are just an attempt to preserve the emptiness of time and space or thoughts, and dreams about words are nostalgia for non-time and space. When you re-contact the life at that moment, think about it, write it down and become the eternal reality on paper, that moment has been permanently deformed.
Fictional, unreal. So from the moment they get the text, the old man loses the ability to give happiness to his lover, and Rory and Clay lose sincerity and trust in their lives; from the moment they try to grasp the most accurate depiction of life, they are out of substance. Life itself. As Clay said at the end, "But at some point, you have to choose between life and fiction. The two are very close, but they never actually touch." How beautiful the words are (let him see "a new world" in France) and how expensive are they (after great grief), for great works, the author must always be hollowed out and devoted to this paper. Illusion. For Rory, although his work did not originate from painstakingly writing, he made an unalterable choice for it, which is also "You take those words. You take the pain." According to Baumeister's theory, people are up to him. Defined by the various options. From an abstract point of view, what Rory sacrificed for the text was not only the trust between him and his wife, but his Faust choice.
After listening to Clay’s confession about the incompatibility between life and the novel, Daniella gave up asking and began to kiss him, as if persuading this lonely person deprived of life at this moment: I stand with you, I understand and even choose your choice. But Clay will let Daniella go in the end. I don't feel surprised that women have always represented some of the most true, sincere, and straightforward truths of life in this film. As he said to her: "Why is a beautiful and smart girl like you so stupid to want to be a writer?" Looking at Daniella, would he think she is too lively to be drawn to this? Just like Dora and the old wife's former wife. Finally, Daniella asked Clay what he wanted. The picture cuts from Clay’s face to Rory holding his wife and saying sorry. Such a blue hue is the most appropriate hue to thaw memories and wishes, coldly unable to get realistic responses and forgiveness. .
After watching the film, I was sweating like watching a horror movie, because I just wrote this to my friend before watching it: "Fiction, past, future and beyond is reality to me, it is the water of fish life. Phase In contrast, daily life is an adventure to an unfamiliar reality, a control experiment conducted in a narrow and limited reality. "
But God knows how much I love such daily life.
The writers in the movie, they also love, love their wives, love the love their wives promised them and live a solid life.
But there is a thin line that can never be crossed. On both sides of Fiction and Life, you can only stand at one end.
Hurrying to bed is messy writing. Let's talk about it if you have a chance to rewrite it.
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