Diary of the Edge: Belief in the Future, Fearless Sunshine

Jasmin 2022-06-27 12:27:24

Sometimes I feel that youth without stories is not enough to miss, but watching Jim's youth with stories is different and full of confusion. Jim said that the boys on the street didn't think they would become addicts who couldn't quit; they just wanted to try. But seeing his degeneration step by step clearly, and seeing him lost in thought and unable to change the status quo, was only distressing. If Jim is a heinous and thoroughly evil person, he will not make people feel pity and then reflect on what went wrong.

Seeing Jim surrender step by step due to reality, he wanted to go home, but his mother couldn't save him. After the quarrel, Jim ran away from home. He's smoking drugs in that shitty place where so many addicts gather. At this time, if he was detoxifying at home with the help of his mother, then he would be able to pull himself back from the precipice and stop degenerating. But Reggie, whose mother is still kind-hearted, can't help him start over until his not-too-late awakening in prison gives him a chance to start over. Get out of that bottomless abyss. Sometimes my homesickness may be more important than I thought. Whether it is wandering in a foreign land or lonely and helpless, as long as we have a family and a family, we can always let our minds find a harbor to stop and rest. No one wants to be a person who has fallen to the bottom. Our ideals when we were young were scientists and lawyers. We want to be successful and we want our parents to be proud of us. When he got kicked out and didn't know what to do, when he sneaked back to see his mother, when he was on the street, when he had nowhere to go home, Jim wouldn't have been there if we had given him warm care. Will get lost sooner. The dignity of the law is to make us fear, that the law will punish us but at the same time give us opportunities. Laws still protect rights after atonement.

We should give ourselves confidence and believe in the future.

If the heart is sunny, there is no fear of the sun.

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Extended Reading
  • Evangeline 2022-04-24 07:01:07

    The film is based on the autobiographical novel of writer and musician Jim Carroll, but the time setting is changed from the 1960s to the 1990s. Jim is a bad boy. He and McKee are all students of Father Menotti. They make trouble everywhere, steal, and refuse to accept any discipline. Jim's mother tried to lead him on the right track, and he was even more mischievous. Unexpectedly, a homeless person actually changed his attitude towards life.

  • Annie 2021-12-10 08:01:24

    Similar to guessing the train.

The Basketball Diaries quotes

  • Father McNulty: [wakes Jim up from his dream by slamming his cane against his desk] Wake up, Mr. Carroll, it's later than you think!

  • Jim: [Is continuously getting hit by the Father's cane. The bell rings and the Father stops hitting him] Too bad, Father. I was just beginning to enjoy it.

    Father McNulty: We can do it again tomorrow if you like, Mr. Carroll.