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Life is to be a sorry dog
Maximo 2022-11-18 20:57:05
After being fortunate enough to watch this movie, I saw a comment on the game "Life is Strange": Everyone's life is full of countless possibilities, and we can only see the one we choose. Every possibility that is not selected will make you look different, and there may be many, many futures. The ending of life is just one of the thousands, but those unseen futures are the blanks of youth. Many years ago, you brushed past your future self, and you felt that his choice had many regrets, like a dog. Many years later, you pass by your old self, and you feel that he wants to choose perfection, but he dares not even hug and kiss. What a pity.
Extended Reading
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Sammy Barnathan: I've watched you forever, Caden, but you've never really looked at anyone other than yourself. So watch me. Watch my heart break. Watch me jump. Watch me learn that after death there's nothing. There's no more watching. There's no more following. No love. Say goodbye to Hazel for me. And say it to yourself, too. None of us has much time.
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[over radio]
Millicent Weems: What was once before you - an exciting, mysterious future - is now behind you. Lived; understood; disappointing. You realize you are not special. You have struggled into existence, and are now slipping silently out of it. This is everyone's experience. Every single one. The specifics hardly matter. Everyone's everyone. So you are Adele, Hazel, Claire, Olive. You are Ellen. All her meager sadnesses are yours; all her loneliness; the gray, straw-like hair; her red raw hands. It's yours. It is time for you to understand this.
Millicent Weems: Walk.
Millicent Weems: As the people who adore you stop adoring you; as they die; as they move on; as you shed them; as you shed your beauty; your youth; as the world forgets you; as you recognize your transience; as you begin to lose your characteristics one by one; as you learn there is no-one watching you, and there never was, you think only about driving - not coming from any place; not arriving any place. Just driving, counting off time. Now you are here, at 7:43. Now you are here, at 7:44. Now you are...
Millicent Weems: Gone.