As old British actor Michael Caine said, he can clearly feel the passage of time. "I once accepted a script, and after reading it, I returned it to the director and told him: This role is too small. Later, the director sent me the script and said, I didn't ask you to play the lover, but I asked you to play the father. "
Many things that were once easy can no longer be done after that day. All pursuits in life have already passed their peak, and if they continue to pursue them, they will be doomed to fail. So the only thing worth thinking about is that in this age of aging. How to raise the white flag with dignity and dignity, withdraw from the battlefield, keep the former glory as much as possible, rely on countless young memories, and continue to survive in this world.
Every major character in the film is more or less entangled by something—the nostalgia for his demented wife, the loyalty to emotional sustenance, the persistence of self-doubt, and even the bondage of failed love. Fortunately, all the characters come out of the gray haze at the end of the film. This is exactly the theme that the director wants to convey, and it still needs some desperate exploration of the future when he is young and energetic. In the film, Mick uttered such a line: "everything seems really close, that's the future. And now everything seems really far away, that's the past.", suddenly seemed to be awakened, not thinking about the past and chasing the future. This is the most important theme the director wants to convey.
Everyone in life is confused in the uncertainty of the future, and many people look back at the happy life in the past after experiencing unsatisfactory life. In the process of sorrow and joy, we can always find self-worth from the most basic survival contradiction, whether it is a difficult and difficult life, or a happy life. Hormonal impulsiveness and ignorance fade away over time.
An unsatisfactory life often makes people unable to avoid doubts about their self-worth, and the existential values in their hearts magnify cowardly emotions infinitely. Realizing that emotions are out of control, will everyone choose to end like Mick? Obviously not, Sorrentino did not exaggerate the end of Mick, the bland action, the fixed shot, it is not difficult to see the director's disdain and indifference to it from the photography. No matter how life treats you badly, what you need is not only to reflect on yourself, but more importantly, to have the most correct plan for the future within your reach. Even as Mick said: "Emotion is everything", the shaky under the emotional blow will not always rain and wind.
I used to have a habit of finding a theme for something, especially watching a movie, but after watching this movie, not only could I not find the theme, but I felt that it was too silly to find a theme. There are too many themes, friendship, family, love, marriage, ideals, aging, implicit and deep love, crazy and seductive sex, so what is the theme of life? Remember the scene of a climber in the film, he once climbed a mountain and found a bedside table at the top of the mountain! How can there be a bedside table on the top of the mountain? This is undoubtedly a "surprise" for him. So you must want to know what is inside, open it and see, there is nothing, so all of a sudden the surprise is gone. The plot is like this, it gives you a little surprise, but when you look forward to a bigger surprise because of this unexpected appearance, you find that there is nothing. This is not life, but life.
Life is sometimes dull, just like each of us will experience "young and vigorous" and enter old age, there is nothing to be surprised, even if this thing itself makes people feel helpless, but it is really its most authentic looks like.
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