How unhappy a person can be. Daughter is obese, lacks self-confidence and loses interest in everything, cheats Duff to buy cigarettes, sits alone on a cold park bench and smokes; son gets drug early and decides to quit, but does not want to be sexually harassed by drug counselor; marriage is out Problems, I haven't been able to accept the reality but find out that my wife is already dating other men; my father is diagnosed with terminal cancer and will die soon, but he is uneasy about Duff's condition; Chicago's weather is changeable, and boring people will be angry with the weather because of it Forecaster, Duff is therefore often attacked by milkshakes, coffee, etc. on the road. In the face of all this bad, Duff seems to be powerless, and can only vent his depression with a mouthful of foul language.
How unlucky a person can be! Duff also worked hard, trying to do something, but his efforts always brought things to a more embarrassing situation. He took his daughter to participate in outdoor activities, in order to stimulate her confidence and interest, but he injured her leg during the activity; he sincerely hoped to go back to the past with his wife, and asked his wife to participate in psychological counseling, but the relationship was messed up. Even he threw a snowball to make his wife happy, but he just hit his wife's eyes and broke his glasses; he accompanied his father to see a doctor, but because of the old problem of not carrying cash, he could not meet his father's request for only a newspaper , causing his father to worry about him; after his father died, he wanted to give his father a decent funeral, and the power went out as soon as he started to speak. When the power supply was restored, people had forgotten that he still had something to say
... The background is the ice and snow of Chicago, the lake is frozen, the sky is snowing, the road is muddy, the traffic is congested, everything is calm like water, and the waves are not disturbed. It's a mild movie, and it hurts my heart deeply.
How many problems do people face when they reach middle age?
Parents are getting older and their health is deteriorating. They want to live with them, but they have their own world, and they need their own space; trying to do something for them seems to be in vain. We worry.
A child's education is like a big rock that weighs on the heart. In an age where everything is changing with each passing day, I have gradually become suspicious of many mature judgments of right and wrong. I am increasingly uncertain about how to guide children and what parents should do. The unreasonable teaching system and examination system, which were widely questioned by society in my time, are still tormenting children. You cannot agree with them, but you are also powerless to object. The pressure of further education and the choice of school are full of responsibilities and troubles.
Marriage is not so satisfying. Many people around you are divorced, and many people have serious problems in their marriages even if they are not divorced. Yesterday, the loving couple who were still enviable, today came the news that they parted ways. In today's ever-changing world, what is eternity, and whether there is eternity. We walked together for more than ten years, but "when we came to the fork, you turned left and I turned right, and we were stubborn and never looked back." The newspaper said that more than 90% of Chinese marriages are maintained. Everyone seems to be in harmony, but in reality, they have already drifted away. Although they cannot "support each other", they cannot "forget each other in the rivers and lakes".
There are also work problems. In the era of economic downturn, a little bit of trouble can make people feel frightened; personal health problems, only when people reach middle age, the functions of various organs and various organs have already declined significantly, and where is the foreseeable future? There are still many problems. Just like a stock, it will fall when you buy it, and it will rise when you sell it. What is wrong with what you choose, what is wrong with what you do?
Duff in the film has this monologue: I remember when I was, imagine what my life would be like, what would I be like. Strong, positive... I describe all those qualities that I can think of. But as time went on, I really did very little and I faced a lot. Those qualities that I fantasize about also decrease year by year, until it returns to a point: my true self, that is who I am - the weatherman.
This is actually a process that each of us must go through, drawing a blueprint , planning for the future. But reality has poured cold water on us, how to face it, how to solve it, or how to escape.
After the director listed a series of mid-life crises, he must have been unable to solve them, and made a big jump in the film. Duff failed to save his father's life, failed to save the family, failed to really solve the troubles of the child, he chose to give up. He wanted to take his family to New York to start a new life, and ultimately left alone.
"In a bad life, there are some things we have to throw away", it makes sense, but it is a helpless choice. At the end of the film, Duff Cage was dressed in a neat suit, carrying a huge bow with a dozen sharp feather arrows in the quiver, and then walked proudly on the streets of New York, no one dared to throw ice cream and ice cream at him again. Apple pie. This middle-aged man seemed to be bravely facing the road in front of him. No matter where he was going, he would only walk on with a sharp and determined attitude. And in his heart, will those things that have been discarded no longer bother him, and in reality, can we ignore these things and travel through time and space to achieve such a leap?
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