I just watched the old 1999 film "The Story of Mr. Street". In fact, the plot is not complicated, even a little boring. It was an old man in his 70s who learned that his brother who had been divorced for many years suddenly had a stroke, so he drove a lawnmower to modify it. The tow truck, slowly drove for a few months to Wisconsin, which is 300 miles away. The most terrible thing is that the story ends at the moment when the two old men meet. Except for the old tears, there is no explanation for the reason why they broke up with each other for ten years.
After watching it, I can't express my feelings accurately. I don't know if I'm really old or my heart is hardened. It's hard to be moved now. I thought I was the only one who was perverted. She had just been married for a year, and she said that she just wanted to eat casually after get off work every day, and watch a no-brainer sweet drama or variety show to pass the time. We looked up the photos in the past five years and found that she was dejected with the naked eye. The girl who taught me to write accounts, cook red wine, and share niche music suddenly had a tired and helpless look, but she was born in the 90s. Of course, I'm not much better, because recently I've been thinking about a question, am I lazy or depressed, and why do I suddenly lose interest in everything?
Going back to the film "The Story of Mr. Street", I suddenly thought of a paradoxical angle, what if this story happened to us? If all of Old Street's children were in contact, their first reaction would be, "Dad, what are you going to do at such a young age?" In case you have bad things on the road, we are not allowed to take leave and miss work to give you that? The subtext is that when you are old, you should grow old in a stable manner, be a reliable old man, and do not cause trouble for your children. Even if he worked hard all his life to raise all his children, and when he was about to meet God, he still did not have the freedom and could not be the master, because what he needs to do now is to live in peace, to wait honestly, even if all Everyone knows that there is only one thing he is waiting for, but as long as he carries the banner of filial piety, no one can refute this desire for control.
In fact, even though there are 8 children alive in the film, only one daughter lives with the old Street, because her brain is not very bright, and because of an accidental fire accident, she burned her own child to death, so she can only go back to her parents' home. Father. In the film, when Streit bought a second-hand weeding machine, it was obvious that the economy was very poor. If it were a reliable three-point view, the daughter who had mental problems and was abandoned by her husband's family would come back to eat her old age. Taking in, there are inevitably all kinds of humiliation in the words, such as, what sin did I do to give birth to a daughter like you? At such an old age, I have to worry about my daughter, and so on. It is absolutely impossible to praise her daughter to her neighbors like old Street, saying that she always misses her child, that she has been taking care of her child and the fire is just an accident. Although she is not very smart, she is a good mother. Our father-daughter relationship must also be deep, but it is always mixed with tears, and there is always a knife that is a hundred times more ruthless than outsiders, who will stab the knife day after day, year after year, in the name of you. Because there are such parents who hope their children will become dragons and their daughters will become phoenixes, their children have grown from angels with apple faces to middle-aged people full of calculations. If they meet an old father who is in his 70s to visit relatives thousands of miles away, they will never care what the dying old man is thinking and what he wants.
As for the purpose of this fool's trip, in fact, according to the logic we are familiar with, it is impossible to exist at all. After all, there is no inheritance waiting to be inherited. How much is the useless stroke brother really worth? Enough gas to drive out of town?
Forgive me for writing such a dark rant, there is nothing worth watching at first, how can there be onlookers watching net red beauties, little fresh meat idols come to the top, in our film and television dramas, how can there be old people as the first point of view work? Even if there are older people, they are still from the perspective of "my father" and "my mother". After all, even young people think it is too difficult to be a human being, but it's a dog, let alone the elderly?
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