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Camila 2022-04-19 09:02:03

Happily ever after? That's not cool. The best thing is, some baffling rustling and excruciating pieces of shit, they just sort themselves out like the ending part of this film. No apex, no "a great dawn after great suffering" routine, no resolute mind of changing oneself. That's life, isn't it? It changes, and you just walk with it. You don't change much, you are still there, possibly remaining unintentionally tentative, unconsciously diffident. Marvelously, you feel better at some moment. Maybe that's a message from someone on your mind saying "I miss you too", and a subsequent rejoicing dance. Is it that your life goes brand new from now on? No. Should have known that it's still that buzzer, but there are, in the future, maybe from time to time, maybe once in a decades,a moment that can make you feel you can laugh and bounce for a few seconds. Alcohol is but an instance, so is the ending of that marvelous dancing.

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  • Amelie 2022-03-25 09:01:09

    Uh... In the second half, after getting drunk, my wife and I broke up, and then the fragmented narrative really broke down... I tried to explain the dilemma of mid-life crisis with an alcohol experiment. Alcohol is not harmful to people, and life is not harmful to people... The result The conclusion seems to be that you are the killer? And what is the conclusion? I feel like the writers and directors didn't think about it well. The role of Uncle Mai should be the "heroine" of this film. He kept smiling and restrained and watched the three men come and go, and finally stood in a high position without taking guilt. I saw myself like a mirror. It's a bit unpleasant, but the few golden sentences brought out by my wife and myself are also good, and the dance at the end is also good. In short, 3.5 is 3.

  • Angus 2022-03-26 09:01:06

    The last crazy dance is my favorite in the whole movie. People seem to like themselves in a state of madness, because they are more confident that way, so their mistakes can be attributed to alcohol, fooling themselves can fool some people, but it is only one step away from alcoholism, it is too harmful

Another Round quotes

  • Martin: Josse, there's an election with three candidates, so who do you vote for? No. 1: He is partially paralyzed from polio. He has hypertension. He's anemic and suffers from an array of serious illnesses. He lies if it suits his purpose and consults astrologists on his politics. He cheats on his wife, chain-smokes, and drinks too many martinis. No. 2: He's overweight, and he's already lost three elections. He suffers from depression and has had two heart attacks. He's impossible to work with and smokes cigars non-stop. And every night when he goes to bed, he drinks incredible amounts of champagne, cognac, port, whiskey, and adds two sleeping pills before dozing off. The last one, No. 3: He's a highly decorated war hero. He treats women with respect. He loves animals, never smokes, and only has a beer on rare occasions. Josse, who do you vote for? Josse: The last one. Martin: The last one, No. 3? And the rest of you? Students: Yes, No. 3. Martin: Oh boy! You just discarded Franklin D. Roosevelt... Winston L. Churchill... and thankfully you elected this guy.

    [reveals a photo of Adolf Hitler]

    Martin: Students: Hitler? Martin: Focus! It's funny, but there's a point to this, which is important and which I hope you'll understand someday: the world is never as you expect.

  • Sebastian: The conception of anxiety was it? Well, Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety illustrates how a human being deals with the notion of failing.

    Peter: And even more importantly?

    Sebastian: With having failed, you must accept yourself as fallible in order to love others and life.

    Peter: Sebastian, can you give us an example?

    Sebastian: Yes, I myself have failed.