Apologize for shit

Ottilie 2022-04-22 07:01:40

Three writers, I can't remember their English names, so let's call them: old man, young man, successful

man. The old man: The cruel war brings unexpected happiness, the happy life collapses with the death of the daughter, and the collapsed life brings creation Inspiration, excellent works bring back the wife, the returning wife lost the work, and the loss of the work led to the disillusionment of happiness...Life is a roller coaster...In the end, the lonely old man no longer pursues who the work belongs to, and he still looks to the young People tell their stories. What I never forget is my own fault: I love my work more than my wife. Something has happened that can never be undone.

Youth: The ardent expectations of the parents, the eager eyes of the wife, the dreams of many years, the embarrassment of real life, all these are temptations, huge temptations, and the price is just a lie. After taking this step and getting all this, I found that I couldn't go back. Faced with moral torture forever, can you sleep peacefully in the middle of the night? Can you still believe in yourself?

Successful people: Success is only in the eyes of outsiders, with money, reputation, a life in the upper class, a big house, and female fans... And when I come back home, the only feeling is: emptiness. Empty house, empty heart. The wife has left, but the man still has a diamond ring on his hand. Use everything you have to deceive yourself, but you can't resist simple torture. What do you want?

At the end of the film, the man said to the woman, I'm sorry. These are the words that the three men wanted to say, and they tortured themselves for the rest of their lives, but they found that they couldn't say it, and it was useless to say it. A mistake is a mistake, and an apology can't undo anything. And what we can do in the face of mistakes is probably only an apology, which can never be made up, and life cannot be rewritten.

You can't just make things right, things are just things. No matter how you try and martyr yourself.

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The Words quotes

  • The Old Man: He should've been somebody everyone knows.

    Rory Jansen: Yeah... but what happened?

    The Old Man: Life.

  • The Old Man: You choose the words, you choose the pain.