Will you give up on this?
"Homework" When I saw George's sobriety and loneliness, I finally couldn't hold back the depression that I had accumulated in my heart, and let the tears rustled down, no longer blocking, no longer deliberately pretending. I like this movie, even if it is not as tight and dense as the American blockbuster, with interlocking details, and even if the story still falls into the cliché of American youth movies at the end, it is not exaggerated but delicate emotional catharsis, sober Cruel but real life thinking and transformation, of course, and the clean boy and girl, make me feel good.
George is a very strange boy. From the perspective of others, he is a strange person, and in his own words, he is a "fighter among lazy people". He is a naturally intelligent and gifted man, and as long as he can follow the path of the world, he must be a "great man", and he will be the elite of the American Republic. However, his fate is like a broken line, and suddenly that part is gone. George read a sentence when he was a child, "We live alone, we die alone.Everything else is just an illusion." We live alone, we will die alone, and life is nothing but nothing. He suddenly realized that everything around him seemed meaningless, everyone was doomed to death from the day they were born, and no one had a choice. So since this is destiny, this is the route that God has arranged for each of his children, isn't all the rush and hard work we are doing now in vain? Gorge began to give up the so-called hard work, the most obvious giving up was not completing any homework for the year, but also often skipping class, and then drawing like a crazy artist, filling a book full of himself with a pen imaginary picture. George is like a locked black box, walking at his own pace in the sober world he has set.
However, he was in pain. A sober person often walks with pain, a pain that is tangled and uncontrollable.
In a busy world, there is no time for everyone to think carefully about living and dying. Maybe even God has not given every child such a qualification. Perhaps, this is "as soon as man thinks, God laughs". What is more to do with infinite time and our finite lives that can die at any time? This is a topic of life and death, which flows like blood everywhere in philosophy, religion, and the meditation of every life.
This question is the beginning of the movie. The movie begins with a question, but does not end with an answer.
The film begins with a philosophical topic, and the story develops slowly until the end without giving the philosophical question a final point. This is also a point I regret, but, in fact, there is no answer to the philosophical question.
Movies, in the end, inevitably fell into the path of American youth cinema. A chance encounter on the top floor, George resisted the danger of smoking fine for Sally, so Sally began to pay attention to this boy who was hopelessly strange in the eyes of others. George's heart is sensitive and complex, and no one can touch and understand the world in it; but his world is very simple, so simple that maybe only the melody of a song is walking. As Sally slowly seeps into his world, George begins to fall in love with this girl who is very special to him. Introverted and silent like him, he never said it, and never revealed it clearly. Sally has always been a very confident girl, who can distinguish between what she wants and what she wants, but when facing George alone, it becomes difficult to calm down, because her own feelings for his existence are too complicated, and she has never met 's look.
On Valentine's Day, George and Sally make up a pair, pretending to be a couple to eat a couple's meal, and Sally asks George if he has ever thought about having sex with her. Ambiguity tends to be pierced. When George hesitated to express his inner feelings about Sally, Sally suddenly seemed to be afraid of the answer, and started to use Just a joke to bring up this sensitive topic before. Sensitive as George, he felt cheated by Sally, even though it might have been a joke, he ran away from Sally and never got in touch. I've always wondered why Sally ended up with Dustin, a painter who is also George's friend, and Sally took the initiative to get close to Dustin. When George was finally notified by the school, he got into a fight with his stepfather when he got home, and his stepfather hit the door and was injured. George shook off his mother helplessly and rushed out of the house. He rushed to Sally's house like a madman and kissed her at the door of Sally's house. The shocked Sally made George realize that something was wrong. When he opened the door, he found that his painter friend Dustin was inside. . George returns to his mother after a night of wandering the dark city alone. At the end of the story, George saw his mother divorced for him and faced the dilemma of going bankrupt and buying a house alone. He spent the last three weeks driving out the homework left over for a semester and was able to graduate smoothly. Sally, who had originally decided to travel to Europe with Dustin, returned from the airport and returned to George's side.
The ending of the movie, after all, returned to the positive and hopeful tone of American youth movies. This made me face the ending with the smile of an ordinary audience, and at the same time I recalled the question raised at the beginning of the movie, and my mind and eyes began to contradict, which made me feel very regretful and disappointed with this movie. I even imagine that if this movie becomes a deep and cold movie like Germany, it will be another afterthought.
The quicksand of time has taken away the last trace of our memories. If you remember, you can't help crying against the rose-colored sky.
The question mentioned at the beginning of the movie made me fall into deep thinking for a while. Our lives are busy, we are busy studying for academic achievement, we are busy running for work and income, we are busy fighting for the house and car, we are busy praying in our distant or near death, we have been Busy. Walk in a hurry, do not ask whether the direction is correct, do not ask whether you are good at the field, and do not ask whether you like the state. This is what our life tells us: don't linger in place, don't deviate from the track, run at full speed, become famous, be like him or her, want a house, a car, and more face. We are not philosophers, but ordinary living individuals, so we have enough reasons to stop the operation of our thoughts and stop the way we talk to ourselves with our hearts. We live without thinking about whether we live in the same way.
When George's female teacher collected the homework from George, she was faced with the embarrassment that George did not complete the homework, and said to George that life should be like this. I couldn't help laughing to myself, originally? What is originally? Everyone is the same pace, others are like that, everyone is like that, so you should be like that? That's what it was, isn't it?
This is like returning to the category of postmodern philosophical discussions, breaking tradition and classics. When our thoughts and behaviors are different from the life steps and rules advocated by the surrounding society, or even run counter to them, we will suffer strong criticism or even attack. ”, so all we can do is stay in this small circle of “original” and do what we should do?
But what is it that we "should" do?
I don't know because I'm not a philosopher either.
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