I watched "Broken Life" on Tencent Video, the English title "Demolition" (demolition, demolition), starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
Demolition and demolition are metaphors in the film, but it is actually a bit hypocritical to translate into broken life - although it is tragic to lose a wife in a middle age, but the work is rich and well-dressed, strong and handsome, and lives much better than ordinary people, there are many Resources to help oneself through the difficulties, the so-called brokenness is nothing but incompleteness, and the heart has no possessions. The practice of cracking the demons by demolishing one's own mansion is not a reference for ordinary people, and it is very extravagant.
This is a heart-wrenching journey of a middle-class handsome guy.
This loss of heart is actually a pun. On the one hand, many of Jack's behaviors after the loss of his wife are indeed like a heartbreak. On the other hand, Jack imagines that part of his heart is missing. If you lose a part of your heart, you naturally lose your perception of a part of your emotions.
Jack didn't show any sadness on the surface after the loss of his wife. Whether it was a heartache beyond words, or the loss of love was just numbness. Jack himself was also looking for the answer.
1. The wife drives, Jack sits in the co-pilot, and answers the phone call from his father-in-law and boss (Jack holds the mobile phone and turns on the speakerphone), the two have a little quarrel over trivial matters (the wife thinks that Jack is absent-minded about family life), the wife is distracted , a car accident occurred. His wife died and Jack was almost unscathed.
2. Jack was stunned, but he didn't seem to be sad or tearful. I bought chocolate chips from the vending machine in the hospital and was swallowed, and I wrote down the complaint channel.
3. Jack's parents came from out of town to comfort him, but Jack was still dumbfounded. At the funeral, he appeared calm, and everyone around him was in pain, especially his father-in-law and mother-in-law. At the family reunion after the funeral, she pretended to cry in front of the mirror, to no avail. After the funeral, Jack went to work normally.
4. Jack wrote a paper letter (remembering that many businesses only accept e-mails) to complain to the vending machine manufacturer. Facing the unspeakable feelings of relatives, on paper, facing strangers, he can't stop talking.
5. The customer service staff of the vending machine manufacturer is a single mother. She read the letter and became curious about Jack. She would call him at two in the morning and follow him.
6. Jack also started to call her to talk about the current situation of life. On the city train, Jack found a woman staring at him all the time. Jack took the initiative to talk to him, and opened up his heart and confessed that he would marry his wife because he thought it would make life easier. Jack had also confessed on the train to a man he often met but had been contemptuous of that he didn't love his wife.
6. The woman on the train is the customer service staff, the single mother. A single mom with a 15-year-old son (looks like 12 and acts like 21), Jack visits the single mom's house frequently and gradually plays with her son. Boys are rebellious, full of words beginning with F, confused about sexuality, and secretly wear women's clothes.
7. Jack's father-in-law once told him: If you want to fix something, you have to dismantle all its parts and find out what's important and what makes you stronger. Repairing a human heart is like repairing a car, it's checking everything, and then you can put everything back together.
Jack began to practice, dismantling the leaking refrigerator at home (Jack and his wife were arguing about this when the car accident happened), dismantling the lamps in his father-in-law's bathroom, dismantling his office computer, dismantling the toilet door of the company's bathroom, and dismantling the coffee worth two thousand dollars at home. They even paid construction workers for the voluntary help of demolishing houses.
Can it really be restored after disassembly? However, it seems that Jack did not restore them, and they were left behind when they were dismantled. The pure desire for destruction can bring emotional release.
Dismantling the old one and buying a new one may be more healing.
8. The hearts of Jack and the single mother are getting closer and closer, and they become ambiguous. Single mom admits to smoking marijuana without a prescription (previously lied), admits she's with company boss but doesn't love him. It is estimated that it is the same as Jack, in order to have a support, let's make life easier.
9. Jack put on a body armor and let the single mom's son shoot him, experience the pain, or just die? Jack felt the value of letting go of himself in the boy. The sign of Jack finding his true self is listening to music with headphones, and dancing in the subway and on the street regardless of other people's eyes. Be yourself, and you don't have to be teased by others' suspicions. Maybe it's not a drama, and you don't seem to be tense.
10. The father-in-law loves his daughter deeply, and is very angry at Jack's "not sad", forcing him to leave his job temporarily. The father-in-law decides to create a scholarship in honor of his daughter, but Jack refuses to cooperate. At the dinner where the scholarship list was announced, Jack brought a single mother to his father-in-law. However, one of the winners carefully selected by Yue Yun was a young man who frivolously wanted to have sex with a single mother at a dinner party.
11. Jack took the single mother's son to demolish his mansion frantically. Jack found a document and learned that his wife had been pregnant without telling him. At the dinner, Jack publicly questioned his father-in-law and mother-in-law. The mother-in-law said that the reason why her daughter was hiding from Jack was because the child was not Jack's, but was killed by her mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law hoped that her daughter would keep the child... which meant that the mother-in-law also treated Jack as well. Not satisfied, it means that the wife had cheated in marriage.
12. The son of a single mother was violently beaten by a group of young people because of his sexual orientation, and he was beaten to pieces. Therefore, the mother and son reconciled. The single mother said that her son can be brave and be himself, and she will protect him.
13. Jack finds an old car stalking him, and finally meets the driver in front of his wife's tombstone. Jack thinks this man is his wife's lover, but the other side confesses that he is the perpetrator of the car accident.
14. Jack gradually realizes that he has feelings with his wife, but he neglects to feel it. Jack decides to get a carousel for his wife, which he thinks is more memorable than a scholarship. At the same time, he confessed his intentions and reached a settlement with his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
15. The son of a single mother gave Jack a gift: guide Jack to see the building blow up. A building collapsed instantly and smoke rose, but the haze in my heart was swept away.
16. Jack races with the children in the street, laughs so hard, then freezes, and the play ends.
Gyllenhaal's performance still has content. A pair of blue eyes is very suitable for melancholy. After losing his wife in the film for the first time, when he felt that he also loved his wife deeply, he contributed a nude scene.
After reading the whole story, I still feel a little ungrounded. Maybe I think "broken life" is too exaggerated. It is the broken capitalism of the middle class. I, such as ordinary socialist people, have experienced, seen, and heard more. Much broken life.
After experiencing a car accident that claimed human life, how can you not find the driver of the accident, or ask for a sky-high compensation to pay homage to the deceased and comfort the living? This is a noble practice, because there is no shortage of money.
In order to cherish the memory, in order to make the sadness have a place to attach, create a daughter's scholarship with the same name, rebuild and restore an amusement park facility, etc. This is very advanced, because there is no shortage of money.
In order to lead from the behavioral orientation to the spiritual orientation, demolishing so many things (three seconds of distressed mansion), no need to be responsible, not afraid of future troubles, this is a very smart approach, because there is no shortage of money.
Broken is broken, what is perfect, let go of myself, I can fly high.
More broken than broken, is unable to restore, and even less able to buy new ones.
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