A road movie, a movie about love. A movie that looks at life.
Tang and his friend Winston co-operated in the computer business, and life was uneventful. He was a bachelor who occasionally went to Winston's house for a meal. When he was young, he was a man who was a provocateur. He had many ex-girlfriends, but none of them died peacefully.
An unsigned pink letter broke Don's life. The letter came from his ex-girlfriend, telling Tang that he was pregnant after breaking up and that his son ran away from home to find his father. The letter was not signed and had no return address.
The son he had never met was looking for him, and with the help of Winston, Tang also embarked on a journey to find his son.
The pink stationery and the printer became the only clues. According to the list of ex-girlfriends listed in the memory, with the help of Winston's computer technology, the current address was found.
Tang got on the morning flight and went to visit his ex-girlfriend in turn. After a lapse of 20 years, he brought a bunch of pink flowers.
Laura, a cabinet designer, had a daughter, Lolita, whose husband died in the explosion. Tang was warmly received by the mother and daughter, and even stayed overnight. Dora and her husband run a real estate business and entertain Tang with a little vigilance. Girlfriend No. 3 is a pet therapist. She has a full working time. She took time to meet for a while and chatted about the past. She used to be a lawyer, then a crime, and then she had a talent for communicating with animals. She was married and divorced, and her daughter is in Spain. Girlfriend No. 4 lives in a dilapidated recycling facility. When asked if she has a son, she was stabbed in the sore spot and slammed home. His girlfriend No. 5 passed away, Tang went to the cemetery and left a pink bouquet "Hi, Beauty".
This concludes the journey of discovery, with plenty of road trip footage. With the purpose of searching, Tang visited these ex-girlfriends, observed whether there were two clues of pink and typewriter, and inquired about each other's marital status and whether they had sons. The first sentence of every ex-girlfriend meeting is, "What are you doing here?" And the reunion situation is related to the current life situation. And Tang replied to every ex-girlfriend, "I'm a bachelor and I don't have a son."
At the end of the trip, he returned to his home and found another pink envelope in the front hall, from Shirley, and suspected that the whole incident was a prank, and complained to Winston about it, Winston said that he went back to verify the two envelopes. Whether the handwriting is the same.
At this moment, a shy, tired and hungry young man appeared outside the fast food restaurant. He also met him at the airport yesterday. Tang seemed to feel it, pushed the door to greet the young man, and asked if he wanted a sandwich. Facing the alert of the other party, it means that he is not a robber or a policeman, but an ordinary person who sees a hungry person and wants to provide him with a sandwich. Young people express their acceptance. Tang went back to the store to buy vegetable sandwiches, cheese, oversized fries, two cups of coffee, two bottles of water, and sat opposite the young man at the corner of the store.
The dialogue at the end has no meaning. The two seemed to have feelings and tacit understanding, and chatted with restraint. Tang found the pink tie on the young man's backpack, and the other party replied that it was a lucky thing tied by his mother. Ask each other about each other's situation, "about computers and women", "about philosophy and women", a relaxed chat atmosphere. Don said, I'm sorry I can only eat these here, and it's good for the young man to express his gratitude. The young man then asked Don, what does it mean philosophically for a stranger to serve a sandwich to another stranger? Tang replied, the past is over, the future has not yet arrived, and only the present can be grasped. The young man expressed his gratitude more than a sandwich, and more than a so-called father said. Tang couldn't help himself, and asked the young man what his father thought of him. The young man wanted to leave in a hurry. Don continued, did you already know that I was your father. The young man fled quickly, and Tang chased two streets, forgetting the back of the young boy. The end of the play.
——A self-righteous interpretation (＾∇＾)——
Towards the end, Don says, I'm sorry I can only eat these here, and the young man asks what is the philosophical meaning of a stranger serving a sandwich to another stranger.
Do not have a meaningful dialogue, both sides are tacit.
The answer given by Tang is that the past has passed, the future has not yet arrived, grasp the present. It is also full of deep meaning, and almost all his emotions are restrained. From his various reactions after receiving the letter, it can be seen that he values this son, but he has missed 20 years. The so-called search is doomed to be futile. Therefore, out of his father's love, he restrained his emotions and answered this The child who seeks his father for thousands of miles carefully protects his shyness and sensitivity, and draws a ceremonial end to his journey. The young man understood the meaning and said that this sentence is more reasonable than the so-called father said.
At this moment, Tang couldn't restrain his emotions and asked the young man's impression of his father, and the young man fled. Unexpected and reasonable.
Don's entire journey, as he told Winston after his return, was all in vain. That's true, going to see his ex-girlfriend after 20 years must be filled with doubts, joy or alertness about "what are you doing here". The whole journey demonstrated one point: times have changed!
At first, the audience was full of expectations, what kind of situation and emotional collision would the father and son find and reunite. Finally a reunion outside the fast food restaurant and a few short conversations and fleeing. Some are unexpected, some are still unfinished, but after careful experience, it is reasonable, and life is like this. The 19-year-old son is looking for his father. The long journey is actually to find himself, or to solve a knot in his heart, not to find the father's love that has been missing for 19 years. Maybe some searches will stop abruptly when they are found. Just like the ex-girlfriends who visited, this search between father and son is in vain after all, a waste of time and energy in the current life.
"The past has passed, the future has not yet come, and we can only live in the present."
This is the heart of the movie.
At the beginning of the film, Don is hesitant about the letter, and Winston repeatedly says, this is very important, it is related to you having a son. And the letter reads: I didn't tell you about my son's existence, because our love was over at that time, my son was shy and sensitive, and of course very imaginative, I didn't tell him anything about you, But he's smart, he ran away to find his father, and I have a hunch he'll find you, and I feel compelled to let you know, if your address hasn't changed.
The content of this letter has foreshadowed everything, or what this letter says is reality and a view of love. When our love is over, this child has nothing to do with you, I will not mention you to him, nor leave a signature and address to reconnect us. When the child grows up to find his own father, I will not stop it, and I will tell you if it is reasonable. This is probably what adult love looks like when it comes to gathering and dispersing.
From the complicated feelings of knowing that I have a son, many expectations, to after a futile search, I realize that the past is gone. Don is a bachelor with no son.
Like the first sentence every ex-girlfriend asks, "What are you doing here"? In fact, it points to what is this search for? It doesn't really mean you have a son. Although we greet each other, time has passed and we can only talk about each other's current situation. There may be short-lived charms, memories, surprises, doubts and reluctance to part. Different reunions are equally short, and in the end, we have to return to our own lives. The only thing you can grasp is the present, only your own life.
The film uses this search to show the different aspects of American society, as well as various views on love. The journey originating from the pink envelope, this search between father and son, no matter what the initial excitement, it will be shattered by reality, no matter how many imaginations we have at first, we will eventually find that we only live in the present time and space , life doesn't take so long, don't meet again, as first seen. But there is a time to gather and disperse. After years of this past, each of them is well, and it is impossible to really meet again. "Live in the moment" This is the truth revealed by the film.
Although the director is an American, he always likes to jump out of the way and express American society from the perspective of a bystander.
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Cherish the light at the intersection of life, there are many people we can only meet in a period of time and space, please cherish it when we meet, and don’t miss it when we separate. Since then, there have been lives in different directions and different directions. No matter how splendid the meeting time was, it can only be placed in the fleeting years. So let the past pass, and cherish what is happening now. Time and space are unique, time flows in one direction, and life only exists once. Cherish the people you meet in each time and space, don’t be greedy for delusions, live in the moment, and live in the life you have. This is the true meaning of life.
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