you are the only one

Alaina 2022-04-19 09:01:55

I couldn't help but struggle until I wrote this review.
After watching many films, people ask, is it good? Nod, nice. Where is it good looking? Shaking his head, no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't say why, and he was mostly speechless.
It's like a mess that can't shed tears a lot of times but is still sad.
Struggling because it is true.

Film background culture, shooting skills, actor skills? The benevolent sees the benevolence, the wise sees the wisdom, and it is not good if you don't want to say more. When I read it, I always get stuck on one sentence, you are the only one.
A woman keeps repeating this sentence. It was the pain that lived in the deepest part of Jon's head, a cry that seemed to be on the verge of despair. It was a dissolute woman, and they were banished from the world.
The woman lived in his memory, in the past, in his life as a cowboy not a cowherd.
That's how the story seems to develop.

actually not.
The woman was actually himself.
Chased by the police naked, surrounded by barbed wire, Rico with a broken wine bottle, a crowd full of contempt and disdain, and Jon woke up sweating... It seems to have made this clear.
Jon, he was actually scared, so when he told the woman with the dog that he was a pimp, he looked so embarrassed, even though it was his first job.

In that turbulent and morbid era, Jon's various psychology also conformed to the sense of nothingness and wandering that belonged to that era.
His essence is kind, he is simple, optimistic, and even pursues an elegant quality of life.
In his subconscious, he rejected or even despised that kind of pimp.
That's why I have that sentence, shouting my own cleanliness, grabbing the last straw in my heart, and standing on a shaky cliff.
you are the only one.

In the decadent era of material desires, a huge smiling face card with steak for everybody every lunch and dinner reflected in the cold wind, reflecting two thin figures, shivering.
Such a government and society is always ridiculous.
People with masks and posers are always hilarious.

Under such a social background, Jon chose to survive.
In order to survive, he chose to give up.
Although struggling.

That's why there is a picture of the mother-in-law and those perverts who are laughing and torture Jon.
There is a picture of a cripple who is even lower than himself laughing at the picture with a cigarette in his mouth.
He became the most lovable whore.
In fact, this not only compares the uneasy Jon with the dirty society, but also reflects the helplessness and misery of current life.

you are the only one.
In fact, it represents the only innocence and conscience of this and that society.

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Midnight Cowboy quotes

  • Joe Buck: I like the way I look. Makes me feel good, it does. And women like me, goddammit. Hell, the only one thing I ever been good for is lovin'. Women go crazy for me, that's a really true fact! Ratso, hell! Crazy Annie they had to send her away!

    Ratso Rizzo: Then, how come you ain't scored once the whole time you been in New York?

  • [At the gravesite of his father]

    Ratso Rizzo: He was even dumber than you. He couldn't even write his own name. "X," that's what it ought to say on that goddamn headstone, one big lousy "X". Just like our dump. Condemned by order of City Hall.