Life brings all cruelty and laughter to everyone at the same time.

Suzanne 2022-04-22 07:01:31

The pain that can be said will not hurt.

Willing to tell, itself is the beginning of recovery.

Those real pains are unspeakable, I don't know how to say it, let alone say it.

At this point, even the slightest sign of concern or assistance can easily turn into spiky sympathy, irritability, and a sense of invasion of privacy.



This is a sad story shrouded in smog, and perhaps a little sunshine, hidden far away.

Charlie Fineman is a man who lost all his family in 9/11 and fell into depression and autism. Alan Johnson is a dentist who has a successful career and a happy family but is full of life pressure by secular standards. The story begins when Alan Johnson accidentally Met college roommate Charlie Fineman...



a couple of really touching shots.

Charlie roams the house alone with a pistol in his hand, and the sweet moments that flash before his eyes - three bouncing daughters, his wife turning her head and smiling at him in the bathroom...

Charlie ravages over and over with what he thinks are irreparable regrets Own.

Before the 9/11 incident, he had a little quarrel with his wife and daughter over the renovation of the kitchen. In the past five years, he smashed the kitchen countless times and rebuilt it countless times. It was a heartbroken self-struggle. Struggling with reality, bloody.

Charlie refuses all psychological assistance. As soon as he noticed that a professional was trying to test him, he became furious with allergies, and scolded him inarticulately and fiercely.

When a person is so painful that it is not that they do not want to come out, but that they cannot come out at all, all struggles are in vain, and they are stuck in a quagmire. How to struggle?

On which street you go, every woman you see is the face of your wife, every child is the face of your daughter, and even every dog ​​is exactly the same.

He doesn't need any carrier for nostalgia at all. These living pictures have never disappeared before his eyes, so that he can't distinguish the past from the present.

Living this kind of life for many years, constantly swinging in the past sweet dreams and bleak reality, what kind of torture it is.





When the young lawyer kept showing everyone pictures of the whole family and finally put them in front of Charlie on purpose, he had already put on his headphones to seek music asylum, and he finally got out of control and screamed, screaming "reign over me" like a madman and was escorted out of the courtroom all the way. The scene is very sad.

In the face of someone so deeply hurt, any condolences seem pale and ridiculous.

The reason Charlie was actually willing to accept Alan was probably because he didn't offer the careful sincere condolences or sympathy that he had when he was a patient, but just openly, despite all the tricks he had to pull him off.

When a man loses the most needed person in his life and the right to be needed at the same time, his soul cannot find a place to settle at all; even if it comes very late, what is more precious than a sincere and pure friendship?



Life brings all cruelty and laughter to everyone at the same time.

This is an inseparable gift that can only be accepted.

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Reign Over Me quotes

  • Judge Raines: What's that man's name?

    George Johnson: Brian Sugarman

    Judge Raines: ...I'll see you Monday morning, DON'T BRING SUGARMAN!

  • [first lines]

    Melanie: New patient?

    New Dental Patient: Yes, I was referred by my lawyer about veneers.

    [big grin]

    Melanie: You're a new patient, that's all I need to know. Fill this out so we know who to contact in case we loose you in the chair.

    New Dental Patient: [speechless]

    Melanie: That was a joke, sweetie, I was being funny.

    [abruptly slides the window closed]