"The Weather Man" has long been heard to be a generic and too niche movie. Since you are already fascinated by Cage, you should come and watch it. A film about a middle-aged divorced man who saves himself from a terrible life.
I don't know if the real middle-aged life will appear as expected. If there are no accidents, our life in ten years will be the same as Cage, but it will be less successful than him. He has a well-paying job, but loves to write, unfortunately no one appreciates it, maybe he should give up. He laughs at his job: it's simple, two hours a day. Basically just reading some weather alerts and every few months people throw something at me and I get paid handsomely for doing almost nothing. He is married, but divorced, a daughter who is extremely fat and is learning to be laughed at, and a son who is admired by homosexuals.
Occupation is a set mode, seemingly infinitely bright on the screen, talking to the green board about some weather conditions that are never quite certain. Surrounded by junk food every day, the ideal will never be realized. If this is bad luck, there are many such people in life. So I watched him start to practice archery, with melancholy and decadent eyes, a greyhound-like expression, no matter how hard he tried, he was always far away from the bullseye. He was walking in the city with many buildings, he struggled and worked hard. Fortunately, life is not in vain, and finally slowly develops in a good direction. At the end of the film, he and his hope are getting closer and closer to the bullseye. The style of the film, the coldness, the plain life, and the plain characters, in the end, inevitably went straight towards the so-called successful model.
I like Cage's eyes, and I have seen a very apt description in a comment: messy hair, eyes like someone with a severe cold, carrying a long bow and quiver through the crowded sidewalks of the city. It's not just middle age, it's like the life that most people have or are experiencing, absolutely and bleak, panic and beautiful.
The last words of Cage's father are not very deep: This shit life, we must chuck some things. We must chuck themin this shit life. There&aposs always looking after. You have time. No one can live exactly like everyone else , the perfection of others is not necessarily your perfection. So we must choose to drop some impossible dreams and become a little more realistic. Maybe that's what the movie is trying to tell us.
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