What is youth? Nanke is just a dream. What is love? Just a creation in a dream.
This passage is the title of the whole film, from the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard, the pioneer of existentialism. Although the film tells the story of the mid-life crisis of several middle-aged teachers who try to use alcohol to improve social and professional performance, and the result is the collapse of their lives and careers due to excessive drinking and alcohol dependence, it is full of teenagers who are symbols of the Danish nationality. In the chorus song, when the protagonist quarrels with his wife, he says "People in this country are used to drinking like this". I have to say that it contains a metaphor for the current situation of Denmark and even the Nordic countries - the country will also face a mid-life crisis, and the citizens also need some stimulants to boost, but too much will still lead to collapse. At the same time, the beginning and end of the film echo the scene where the child's me sings and dances around, the adult's me dances in a mess, and finally jumps in the scene, the child introduces Kierkegaard's explanation of anxiety during the interview, "admit failure, in order to better life”, all revealing a kind of philosophical thinking. This kind of thinking has something in common with "Rick and Morty" - the universe is disordered, events are random, fate is unpredictable, and life can be disillusioned. In the face of the grand and random universe, we are small Individuals are meaningless. However, we can still be drunk at the moment, and we can still grasp some constant factors within a limited range, to fight, to work hard, and to give meaning to our short life. Today, works that advocate mourning culture and the meaninglessness of life are becoming more and more popular, and existentialism is becoming more and more valuable. I was at the center of the eye of the storm in Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic, and the existentialist master Camus' "The Plague", which I quietly read, also gave me the same feeling - since fate can't be stopped, why should it be a car? However, after appreciating such works, we will not really "lie down" and "surrender", but will have the courage to live. Since everything is unknown, who knows that good things will not come. If heaven and earth regard all things as cud dogs, why don't we live a good life and dream a dream. Just let me exist and fight against all the meaninglessness of life.
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