"Weather man/weatherman" is a completely different type of movie. It has strong realism features, with a novel-like narrative language, which makes people feel a touch of sincerity in a Hollywood film of war and guns. Layers of floating ice on the sea surface, looking from this side, the city across the sea reveals a desolate desolation.
Some film critics said that this is a film that reflects the midlife crisis. I think this kind of post-viewing feeling is too superficial. The loss and helplessness revealed in the film is an emotion to be expressed universally. Whether it is the protagonist, his father, two children, or a person who meets by chance in the city, there is a sense of guilt on everyone's face. The irrelevant expressions, there are no hugs and cares here, but indifference and ridicule. He didn't have a mid-life crisis, and as a TV weather forecaster, he paid a lot of money for little money, and he had nothing to worry about losing. He just wanted to reorganize his family and stop thinking of himself as an asshole until his father died.
The fuck and shit in the movie are not just lines, it is the release of their anxiety and restlessness, the hysterical dissatisfaction with life. Watching the movie, I was constantly worried that Cage would suddenly go insane or break down. It was only from this film that I understood why it was so necessary to speak out. In this world, no matter how hard you try, you will find that you are not good enough, you are a failure, you are just an insignificant person. And he just hoped to have an opportunity to change his state of life, maybe an opportunity to reunite the divided family and let the two children grow up happily.... He tried and got a new job at "Hello America" in New York, An opportunity that looked like it would change his life.
It's not a romance movie, it's not a comforting movie, it's plot and reality: you think you can create a new life, but you still can't grasp it. You can only hope that you can do better - as his dad said, in a shitty life, you have to learn to let go - so,
you
know
you have to
lose something (hehe)
and those you have All the qualities that a dream wanted to have are lost in the passage of time, and it is at the end that I find myself a weather forecaster.
This is not one person's destiny, but a shared experience of people living in the city. Nicholas Cage carrying a bow and arrow on the streets of New York is no different from people walking on Dunhe Road. People wear the same black trousers, hold the same brand of cell phone, listen to the same pop songs, and most importantly, have the same dream of success. Maybe you are very, very hard, very close to success, but often at the end, you find that you still can't grasp life and yourself. And we also need to find the motivation to keep pursuing for ourselves. We motivate ourselves with the dreams we create. This is the "American Dream", and this is the true meaning of "Hello America".
Somehow, there's only a little bit of positivity at the end that's a bit hopeless.
Some say this is a tragedy, and it is.
PS: Is there any other meaning to the bow and arrow in the film? Although I don't like to explain it, the large number of close-ups and props used in the film make me have to think that the bow and arrow in the film have a different meaning.
Perhaps the bow and arrow is a reference to the attitude of life. You can't hit the whole target with one arrow. You can only aim and hit a point. If you don't exert force, the arrow can't even reach the target. And when you hit a point, it means you lose all other possibilities. And more importantly, everyone has a common goal - the bullseye, the moving "American Dream". And is Cage's miss from the beginning to the heart hit at the end a hint of this kind of life transformation?
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