What is youth? Nanke is just a dream. What is love? A creature in a dream. - Kierkegaard (Danish philosopher)
A bright line in the story is the drunken experiment of four middle-aged men.
The four of them are teachers in the same school, all of them are middle-aged, and all have different but similar predicaments.
History teacher Martin, his class is not popular with students in his career, and his wife and children are very estranged from him emotionally. Psychology teacher Nicola, whose wife is beautiful and wealthy, is the calling ruler of the family, and he has three lovely children who have to revolve around parenting. Physical education teacher Tommy, his beloved dog is getting old and needs help to urinate. Single Tommy begins to have a fear of his future life. Peter, the music teacher, also lived a lifeless life.
They are all going through a pain that most people go through, accepting the trivialities of life and accepting themselves as mediocrity. In a most ordinary gesture, say goodbye to the youth and passion that I once permeated with.
Mid-life crisis, probably only when you really get to middle age will you understand that every day when nothing happens is also a kind of consumption and consumption. The boys and girls participating in the drunken run around the lake will never believe that one day they will also face a mid-life crisis, and their bodies and spirits will begin to age.
One of the symbols of the story is dancing, and from the time four men sat around at a birthday party, they encouraged Martin to dance. At first, Martin rejected them with a backache, then reluctantly twisting slightly, then bouncing and swinging on the bed at Nikolai's house during the drunken experiment, and finally when the students were raving In the crowd, they danced ecstatically and vividly, only this last time was a real dance.
From the numbness of life, Martin tries to repair himself through the alcohol program to find the passion he once had, and finally stumbles back to the lost self after stopping the alcohol program.
Life is bad, but a little better than we thought.
Annika could not always wait for Martin where she was, but she might miss him again, miss him very much. The kids came out of the field and they remembered Tommy, not only Tommy but the songs they sang together. Amalie and Nikolai will form new bonds, and their young children will always grow up. And Peter, also dated a beloved girl. You see, we can still dance again.
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