Is he the one who discussed the ultimate theme of life [existence]? Or are boredom, desolation, and goofing time the main content of life that truly reveals the meaninglessness of life?
When I was working through Jack Kerouac's manuscript version of the original book, a friend advised me to watch the film and warned me that the film had changed the original book.
Yes, the two-hour video must have cut the nearly 300 pages of text, and what he cut was precisely the most exhausting, boring, and powerless part of the journey. He cut Dean. his third marriage, his third child and yet another cowardly escape. The irony is that these boredom and meaninglessness are the most space and main content of "On the Road", and Dean's irresponsibility for his own and others' lives is the golden thread that ties the "On the Road", but Jack Without making any evaluation, Jack wrote those words with a feeling of reminiscence and even admiration, and then left all these doubts, thoughts, and puzzles to future generations.
leave for what?
When Dean got tired of living with Camille at home, he left; when Dean couldn't find more pleasure in Marylou, he left; when Sal got dysentery and became a burden in Mexico City, Dean left.… again and again. When he abandoned one close relative and friend after another, he was also abandoned by everyone. When he encounters difficulties, he walks away and runs away. He went back to the road again and again, to find the truth of that life, but finally escaped his own life. Because his life started from being abandoned by his father, which is a defect that all subsequent abandonments cannot make up for. poor lost child, he will regret for the rest of his life.
To leave is to escape from life.
Not just Dean. Marylou, Carlo...the bewildered eyes on their young faces, unable to find where the future is or where the past came from. Although they walk tirelessly on the road time and time again, they seem to enjoy it, but under the lens of director Salles, except for Sal, they are all lost children and have long been tired of this tiring journey.
Dean once thumped his chest and said, I don't know what's wrong with me, I always have strange thoughts, I held my head with a gun for three hours...; Want a house, a child... If Dean wasn't so crazy... In
"Breakthrough", when Tony Leung met Zhang Zhen's parents while passing through Taipei, he finally understood why Zhang Zhen could walk so far alone without being afraid. Not alone, because he always has a place to go home.
Sal always has an aunt waiting for him in New York, such a pair of kind and forgiving eyes locked on him, and there is always a writer's dream waiting for him in his heart, so Sal is on the road, he can go far without fear Throw your soul on the road; on the other side of the road, poor Dean, on the contrary, is like a wandering lonely soul, no matter where he is, there is no place for his soul.
So, leaving is still looking for life.
Today's Chinese society is very similar to the "Beat Generation" in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. The most frequently heard sentence is that if you don't go out for a walk, you won't know how big the world is; you can only see it all over the world. Only by going abroad can you truly understand China; only by searching all over the world, can you truly know what you want; only when you have suffered setbacks can you know how good your home is...
So , wave after wave of people hit the road. Middle school students who are exploring their lives, college students who perform their coming-of-age ceremonies, office workers who are taking a gap year, middle-aged people who come back to make up for their youth... on the road...
It seems that after a long journey of self-abuse, life can enter another realm. Those search for "truth", those for "meaning", they are all on the road waiting for us to play games and clear customs to pick them one by one.
On my way in Yunnan, I met a young graduate who took a ride to Tibet and said to me: I can ride to Tibet on foot, what else can I do in the future? What difficulties can't be overcome? ...I just want to get stronger...Yes, he succeeded, he went to Tibet, however, like many of his peers who were unemployed after graduation, a year later, this "strong" Young people are still unemployed at home.
In fact, after saying so much, I still can't answer the question that I have been thinking about for a long time: what is the reason for leaving?
However, I am certain that leaving is ultimately about coming back.
Although some people may be on the road forever and lose their way back. But every traveler on the road has that desire in the bottom of his heart.
Because I firmly believe that life is never there.
live here.
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