Movie Diary - Paris, Texas

Dawn 2022-04-24 07:01:06

Travis, why are you like an ascetic? If you want to see the essence of life and love, you have to face loneliness, so Bodhidharma has to keep walking, and then face the wall without saying a word for many years. It's easy to understand that he doesn't speak. Normal people usually don't say a word when they're in a bad mood. They want to be quiet, and then they'll be fine. I just don't understand why he stayed silent and wandering for so long. It may be that he is too sad and lonely, but I am not very satisfied with this explanation.

Paris, Texas is a place and a joke, only ironically his father later withholds the second half of the sentence and wants to really think his mother is from Paris in Europe, from that glamorous fashion capital. So, this really became a joke. People want to escape from lonely and desolate places, and those who can't leave it just fantasize about living in that gorgeous city. The Paris of Texas is in Houston, in the city that never sleeps, where Travis has love. The purer the love, the easier it is to be disturbed by life, and the result is mutual torment. Travis has become a man who longs for a simple life and pursues romance like his mother, but Jan is not, she pursues Paris, Texas, the mirage in the desert. The beauty of the new life can't resist Jan's desire for illusory freedom. She wants to escape, and the two are already scarred.

So one went to real Texas, the desert, and one went to fake Paris, Houston. Is Houston really that beautiful, and can all those seductive things that look shiny and shiny really make people happy? Just look at the emptiness of loneliness in Houston, where men need to talk to women through the glass and look at their bodies for comfort. This is the real desert, terrible loneliness, not only loneliness but also suffering from all kinds of fantasy. It's really better to escape into the desert and face the essence, which may be easier.

Travis didn't have amnesia, but he just didn't know how to talk about the past. It seemed impossible to start. . The intervention of his younger brother and son made him think what to do, especially his son's love. He could no longer return to Jan completely. After seeing Jan, he knew that Jan was also in a desert, and only love could make him. She is better. So it was decided to let hunter come back to her. (I also don’t quite understand why today’s women don’t want children in order to enrich their material life. Raising children is the most instinctive meaning of human beings. , learn those useless pianos, just love them. The poor thing is that those material girls have lost their instincts to be women and mothers, sad!)

Travis's failure to return to Jan is not because the past has hurt too much, but because there is a social gap between the two. Watching his woman flirt with other men in the city to earn money to survive, that is Travis's love, how can he bear it. But his beloved wants to pursue freedom in society, and of course loving someone must give her what she wants. Then don't look back, let's go Travis.

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  • Demond 2021-12-11 08:01:17

    The truth of love is the naked meeting of two souls, loneliness and coldness, bone ecstasy, bone frustration and ashes.

  • Shanna 2022-03-25 09:01:09

    8/10. Memories are presented entirely by confiding, starting from the emotional ups and downs within the action, such as Travis walking in the desert from the eagle's point of view in the opening scene, unhurriedly sorting his shoes on the balcony, walking home in a suit and his son along the street etc., it is natural to observe the raw material of the lazy state. It is not difficult to find that Paris, Texas, which only appears in the photo, symbolizes Jane. She has a strong possessiveness towards Jane and hopes that she will always be in his sight. He wanders because he cannot find the happiness he once had with Jane, like crossing a highway. The maniac who spoke ill of the long bridge above was unable to return to the civilized world. When the family watched the video on the sofa, Travis looked back at his son hiding behind the fish tank from the staring screen, and finally buried his head and cried; when he found Jane's job In the building, a huge wall painting of the Statue of Liberty suggests that he wants to give Jane freedom. In the second conversation in the pornography booth, Jane turned off the lamp that expressed her pain, and Travis, who was sitting with her back to the glass, was with Jane at this moment. Examining each other's souls, he watched Jane hug her son's joyful spin like in the video in the parking lot, knowing that in order for Jane to have freedom, he had to leave her and continue to wander.

Paris, Texas quotes

  • Walt: I thought you were afraid of heights.

    Travis: I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of fallin'.

  • Walt: We live in the suburbs, but I've got my business in town

    Travis: Oh yeah? What's your business?

    Walt: I make billboard signs for advertising.

    Travis: Oh yeah? So *you*'re the one who makes those signs, I love those. Some of them are beautiful.

    Walt: I'm not the only one who makes them, Trav.