"The Ballad of Drunken Township" is the representative work of the Coen brothers. The success of the film is obviously not only due to the brainwashing song "five hundred miles". Many details of the film allude to the hero's lonely state of mind and helpless embarrassment. The most prominent, when It's that cute and slutty kitten.
On that day, the kitten left the house and met the male protagonist—everyone who likes small animals knows that cats like adventures, rather than resting on the life given by their owners. And the male protagonist has just left his hometown, gave up his career as a crew member, put on a guitar, and ran for his dream. Two unwilling, ambitious creatures met.
Kitten's first night quickly found a place to stay: he was taken in by the male protagonist and boarding at the male protagonist's friend's house. Interestingly, the male protagonist also just left home, and his boarding place is the same as this cat. The male protagonist is very concerned about this cat, and the cat often snuggles up with the male protagonist—they are both wanderers, so they probably understand each other.
However, in order to fly away, the cat left the male protagonist, and the male protagonist also left his friend.
The male protagonist tried his best to find the cat: for the original owner of the cat, and for himself. However, he failed. He retrieved a cat of the opposite sex, and the original cat was abandoned by the last person who cared about him. The male protagonist also had a dispute with his sister, and a conflict with his friends, so he simply put on the guitar and walked further away.
What happened to the cat, no one knows. But it is worth mentioning that the male protagonist accidentally hit another cat while driving at night. The male protagonist tries to find the injured cat, but the night is too dark, and the male protagonist is left with nothing: So, the cat is not only injured, but also nobody cares. At the same time, the male protagonist was also insulted and bullied, and the male protagonist was deceived with only a sum of money.
The male protagonist returned to the owner's house again, only to find that the cat he had been searching for had returned home by himself: it had played enough, it had witnessed the dangers of society, and it was better to be home. It lay lazily in the nest again, enjoying the peace. What's even more helpless is that music is not a dream for the male protagonist. He hysterically said: "I live by it, not for fun." The male protagonist is mature and pessimistic, and he begins to pursue reality instead of dreams. A folk singer disappeared from the world.
The male protagonist and the cat are so similar, and both the male protagonist and the cat are so disappointing and sad.
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