First published on WeChat public account: The heart is the host and the body is the guest (shenshike-HK)
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I watched two movies on the plane, one was "Before I Met You" (me before you, the English title, I couldn't spit it out.) played by Long Ma.
(Picture: Long Ma's eyebrows often make me play.)
"Before I Met You" is simply the British version of the French film "Untouchable".
"Unreachable" tells the story of a rich man who was paralyzed from a high position due to a skydiving accident. Hired a black caregiver. The eccentric tycoon and the black caregiver develop a deep friendship.
"Before I Met You" tells the story of a financial elite who is paralyzed due to a traffic accident. His wealthy parents invite the heroine to be his caregiver. The heroine's colorful and wonderful dress gradually moved the eccentric male protagonist, and the two fell in love.
"Before I Met You" is nothing but a Mary Sue mutated story of "The overbearing president fell in love with me". The president is paralyzed, but he is still the president, with a handsome face and a lot of money. It doesn't matter if he is paralyzed, the money is still there. Moreover, if you are paralyzed, you can travel around the world with you, without touching you with a finger, and at the end, you will be given a lot of money to let you live the life you want. Is there such a good thing in the world? !
This kind of fairy tale imagined by a poor and crazy little woman is embarrassing, so I turned to this "Broken Life" and thought it was a new film by Jake Gyllenhaal. When I came back and looked at the information, I realized that it was a 2015 film, but I didn't notice it.
Jake Gyllenhaal, please keep an eye out for this actor. At first, watching "The day after tomorrow" (The day after tomorrow), I paid attention to him playing the son, when he was very young. Later, "Brokeback Mountain", the acting skills have been proved. The most important thing is that he, like me, is also a bad film filter. He never misses a film, and he can bring me one or two good films every year. And this "Broken Life" is known as Jake Gyllenhaal's best performance since "Brokeback Mountain".
The film is labelled "Comedy", and I'm gobsmacked after watching it. It can be compared to "Manchester by the Sea". How could it be a comedy?
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Davis, played by Gyllenhaal, works as an investment advisor at a financial firm owned by his father-in-law. Although it is a company run by his father-in-law, Davis is not an idler because of nepotism. He is an excellent investment advisor himself.
He gets up at 5:30 every day to exercise and take a bath. Take the 7.15 train to the company. He was full of financing, acquisitions, and refused to chat with the people in the car; he didn't pay attention to the tools his father gave him; the plants in the yard were fertilized and dewormed. People and things, turn a blind eye, turn a deaf ear. ...like all of us.
One day, when my wife was driving and taking him to work, she said to him, "Have you seen the refrigerator at home?" "The refrigerator?" "Yes, the refrigerated thing in the kitchen, the refrigerator. There have been two water leaks. It's been a week." "The refrigerator is leaking?" "Don't repeat what I said, it looks like you've heard it." …
It can be seen that married life is also lackluster. The relationship with his wife, he should not feel how much he still has feelings for her, it is just a habit and numbness. Still, day after day, living together. With each other, they no longer care about each other, let alone pay attention. ...well, still the same as all of us.
A car accident happened.
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"She's dead."
His father-in-law announced to him his wife's death.
There was a dead silence all around.
Davis looked around the empty hospital bed in the emergency room, the blood-stained gauze on the floor, and slowly squatted down to wipe the blood on his shoes. It was his wife's blood.
He got stuck in the hallway of the hospital, vending machine, coin-operated, chocolate and didn't fall out.
During the entire funeral, Davis was expressionless, with no intention of crying. The day after the funeral, he still got up at 5:30, exercised, and showered. When he walked into the office with his briefcase as usual, and instructed the secretary to work as usual, his colleagues looked at him like hell. He crunched data, held meetings with investment managers, and even teased everyone.
He said: "I don't love my wife, she passed away without grief or pain.
However, he couldn't sleep all night, staring blankly at the animal world, the monkey video. On the train, take the initiative to chat with the passengers who once refused to chat. He also pulled the emergency brake of the train and was taken to the police station.
He began to notice things he had never seen before. Cocktails are too expensive because of the upscale environment. Staring at someone else's luggage for two hours at the airport, wondering what's inside. On the wife's comb, find the wife's long hair. ...
He kept writing to the vending machine company, saying that he wanted to claim the package of chocolates that didn't fall out, but he was talking about everything about himself.
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A vending machine company with only one customer service representative, Karen. She is the customer service, the boss's girlfriend, and a single mother. Davis's letter aroused her curiosity, very unprofessional, called Davis at two in the morning, and followed Davis on the train...
(Photo: Karen. Naomi Watts (Naomi Watts), "Mulholland Drive", "King Kong", "The Veil"..., the goddess is still a goddess when she is old.)
Two eccentric men and women meet and intersect through chatting, stalking, and anti-stalking. Davis and Karen's 15-year-old son Chris ("looks 12, acts 21", I'll add: prettier than a girl.) became friends.
...Afterwards, falling in love with Karen, forming a family with her mother and son, a chicken soup movie for soul healing?
Don't think so simply, say, this is a "Manchester by the Sea", some heartbreak, there is no cure forever. When he met someone who was the same strange person as him, Davis intensified.
He took apart the leaking refrigerator at home one by one. Because my father-in-law once said: If you wanna fix something, you have to take everything apart, and figure out what's important .
He dismantled the coffee machine and laid the parts on the floor one by one.
He got out of hand, put the tools in the briefcase, and dismantled them wherever he went.
Disassemble the broken wall lamp in the bathroom of my father-in-law's house. Disassemble the door of the company toilet, which is making a squeaking noise. Disassemble the company's own computer. The father-in-law was so frightened that he moved the grandfather clock that was placed in the company and his ancestral home to prevent him from being poisoned.
(Picture: After losing his wife, Davis's various explosions.)
Davis was ordered to leave by his father-in-law for a series of abnormal behaviors. He simply went to the dismantling company, paid for it, and begged others to let him work. Swing the big iron hammer and smash the wall.
And that wasn't enough, Davis, along with Karen's son Chris, smashed his shiny, funky home.
The title of the film is "Demolition", which means demolition, demolition and destruction.
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All this to no avail.
The appearance of his wife, still, from time to time, flashed back in his mind. While Davis was taking a shower, having breakfast, losing sleep, chatting with people...
The way she met her for the first time, the way she made love, the way she wore a wedding dress at the wedding, the charming look in a camisole in the bathroom, the way she looked back and smiled at the beach, the way she gave him a gift with love...
Does he not love her? Or do you not know that you love her at all? As a result, after losing her forever, her whole life fell apart, like a trapped beast, unable to find any way out except smashing things.
Davis' father-in-law also said: Repairing the human heart is like preparing an automobile, just examine everything. Then you can put it all back together. )
The way to repair people's hearts by dismantling is obviously ineffective for Davis. He even felt that his chest was empty and he had no heart.
Karen asked him why he wanted to marry his wife. Davis said: "I don't know, maybe it's easy.
Love that is too easy to get, and people around you that are too easy to have, will not be cherished. When his wife lived with him, he didn't realize that this was happiness. At that time, he didn't care about his wife at all, not to mention caring about her, understanding her, and not even listening to her. - Until I lose her, forever.
This reminds me of another movie, "Breakthrough", because I especially hate Wong Kar-wai's ranting about white-style, dimly lit, low-cost indoor shooting methods. Abandoning same-sex themes and seeing it as an intersexual love of all genders is a story of not cherishing the people around you, leading to forever losing the love of those who love him, and regretting it beyond your reach.
He Baorong knew that Li Yaohui loved him, but he did it vigorously, the big deal, and said, "It's better for me to make it through." Li Yaohui would definitely come back to him. However, he never thought that people would one day be made to die by him. When his heart is dead, he has no feelings for you. No matter how much you cry or cry, you will never look back.
In "Breakthrough", in the end, Li Yaohui was obviously attracted by the Taiwanese brother played by Zhang Zhen, and moved his heart there. He Baorong cried bitterly while holding Li Yaohui's quilt in Li Yaohui's dwelling where they once lived together.
The meaning of writing this article is very preaching: don't despise the people around you, don't cherish the people who love you, until you lose him/her forever, you realize that you can't bear such a loss, and it's too late to regret.
Such a simple truth, many people, it seems, do not understand.
(The picture comes from the Internet)
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