"We had dreams then, about literature, about love, about traveling across the world. Now we drink late at night, the cups meet, and it's the sound of broken dreams."
This is when I saw the ending when everyone shouted Mirarez, my heart suddenly sank little by little, and I suddenly remembered Bei Dao's poem very calmly. Also a HE, the coach car Mirarez became a dark horse in racing, and McQueen also laughed at himself as the head of the logistics team, but he still did not retire.
This ending is plausible. At first, McQueen praised Mirarez's speed. Later, Mirarez said frankly on the road that racing was his dream and trained with McQueen, and he still surpassed McQueen in the last training before the competition.
McQueen's loss of being overtaken at that time may have made him understand what others said "you are getting old". His achievements, his heroism are all defeated in the impossibility of surpassing Lightning Jackson, at least not now, and it will be more difficult in the future. So he embarked on the old path of Dr. Lantian. "This is my last, let it be your beginning," he told Mirarez.
He was relieved.
So some viewers were outraged. They longed for a heroic routine—McQueen successfully counterattacked and defeated Jackson himself. The previous episode also reflected that, McQueen was unwilling to be surpassed by Jackson. So he trained with modern techniques, went to the old ink to fill Dr. Lantian's chicken soup, and strengthened his flexible skills in the field. In the end, if he has two words on the court, and then surpasses Jackson, it is not impossible. Yeah, isn't that the case with most inspirational chicken soup slices?
Movies can be shown like this, but reality will not easily agree. Just imagine that in any aspect of life, you will not encounter terrible offspring, and you are more of a powerless role. An ending like "Cars 3" has less passion, but more integrity. Integrity with reality.
But recognizing the reality is definitely not a compromise.
McQueen still chose not to retire. I think that's the biggest highlight. Along the way, he has grown from being pampered by achievements to being mature by realizing the reality, and he still has a love for the arena. Once his heroism was not reconciled to his failure, and now he understands that his powerlessness is still not turning back. This is his tragic heroism. As Romain Rolland said: "There is only one heroism in the world, that is to recognize reality and still love life."
Someone said before: The so-called growth is just to understand that you have to learn to strive for something, and then you find that you can't get something even if you try hard, but you still choose to strive for something even if you try hard. This ending is not the success of Mirarez's transformation into a racing car, but the growth of McQueen's tragic heroism.
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