This is a self-written and self-directed film, so when the film opens with a bunch of thoughts from the male protagonist, I was a little stunned, thinking it was a tidbit. And I didn't really understand this part. Is role-playing self-questioning? One is a daily job (the male protagonist's job seems to be related to admissions), and the other is pretending to be the one who went to college? After reading it, it shows the image of the bookworm of the male protagonist, reading while walking, reading at the checkout at the bookstore, and still reading after breaking up with his girlfriend.
The whole film gave me the deepest feeling is about the theme of "aging". The male protagonist wants to go back to his favorite college days, and everything on campus makes him ecstatic. It's a wonderful thing to be young. Even if the young and bright Zibby has her immature childishness, she looks beautiful and cute. Even if the wise old professor is highly respected and has both virtue and art, he has to face the sadness of life.
People who admire young people lament that young people do not know happiness in the midst of happiness, but young people know that it is good for them to be young, and maybe they also understand the things that make them extremely painful at the moment, but in the future, they will look back on it as a trivial matter. But the present is the present, no matter how trivial the small hurdle is, it is the gap that cannot be crossed.
The male protagonist said to the depressed teenager who attempted suicide: Don't be a genius who died young, die when you are old. Getting old is a wonderful thing. Getting old and dying is so much better. Listen to me, everything you're feeling right now is just a footnote.
Everyone has their own troubles, and every age stage has troubles at that stage. The troubles may really be accompanied by a lifetime and endless.
Very cool female professor: I'll only tell you so much, (I can) unlike you, I'm not that "let me tell you all the filthy details of my life" generation. I do things carefully and hate self-remorse. So let's put it this way, people are really helpless these days.
["Let me tell you the generation of the filthy details of my life" is so black and beautiful! To tell the truth, we are really in this generation. We don’t have much time to calm down and listen, but we keep expressing, as if we want everyone to understand their thoughts and emotions, and be willing and eager to share everything in their lives. . ]
Old Professor Peter: "I wanted to turn back time. But it didn't work (laughs). Now I'm just... somehow waiting to get stronger." Then jokingly compared the school to a prison, to myself offenders who have been released on parole but may not be able to adjust to their new life. The male protagonist was stunned after hearing this, this is what he thought was the most beautiful place in the world. So the coach said seriously, "Any place you can't leave can be called a prison.
" For example, it is a piece of cake to change jobs or change cities when you just graduated, and there is almost no loss. But as you get older and your responsibilities grow, you need to be more cautious, don't you? ]
Anna: I'm actually starting to try to read less. I began to feel that my life from the book was taking up too much of my real life time.
[Life itself is a most wonderful book. ]
The young and beautiful heroine Zibby: Sometimes I despise myself, as if there is a more mature and wiser "I" watching my 19-year-old draft, even though this draft has unlimited potential, but But had to live a little more fulfilling to be able to catch up with another self. While I'm also confident that one day I'll become that wiser version of myself, I hope this process will be quicker. Do you understand? And maybe I think, you're a shortcut.
[Actually, this paragraph makes me feel a little blunt. Although this paragraph itself is very insightful and profound, it always feels a little paradoxical to put it in Zibby's mouth. Because the perspective of extracting the "shortcut" point of view is really too "bystander" perspective. ]
Anna: I think getting old is really good.
[When I saw this, I was inexplicably moved. What kind of open-mindedness must I have to have such an experience? ]
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