Just need to grow

Percival 2022-04-23 07:03:33

A genius with social disorder, a lively and kind children's book writer, works as a neighbor in a quiet apartment. With such a character and situation setting, it is not difficult for people to guess what happened next. After a love-themed movie combines these elements, if there are mistakes in performance or details, it will immediately become an ordinary fairy tale: it gives a beautiful fantasy, but does not leave a trace in the heart of reality.

What's great about this movie is that it's born between emotional cues and yet creates inspiration beyond love. In the touching tone, it does not forget to use the frustration of the protagonist in reality, the hesitation in Beth's eyes and the beating of his father, so that the final separation tells the audience the reality of the romantic story and the hardships of continuing.

Of course, as a good love story, there are preconditions for this story to happen. Although Adam is socially handicapped, he is an out-and-out genius who loves the stars and animals; Beth is a normal beauty, but a cheerful children's book writer who has also witnessed the deception of his successful father and the deception of his mother. sorrow. If it wasn't for Beth's beautiful face, Adam might not have an inexplicable affection for her; if it wasn't for Beth's cheerfulness, they wouldn't have a conversation at all; if Adam wasn't a genius, Beth might not find him interesting; Adam loves stars and animals, and Beth may not be moved by him; if Beth had not just experienced the betrayal of her excellent boyfriend, perhaps she would not have such a great desire for honesty. And all of these conditions combined together made the two of them together after all. The father's lawsuit also prompted Beth to need Adam emotionally, and it gave her a good opportunity to tell herself how much Adam wasn't like her father.

And after the freshness of the conflict, the sweetness of support and the evolution of the relationship after the quarrel, Beth still didn't go with Adam. It wouldn't be realistic if the ending was so that Beth went with Adam in the end to avoid repeating his mother's mistakes and live with a better Adam. In any case, for most people, living with someone who is not in a world with them is unlikely to be a sensible choice, nor a happy choice. In addition, why can't Beth find a kind and normal person in the future?

Although I don't know what the relationship between the two will be and what will happen in the end, Adam has grown up because of Beth. Maybe this movie was originally more of a documentary about growing up. Adam worked in the right place and became a better person; Beth wrote the story of the raccoon into a beautiful book.

And Adam received the book from Beth at the workstation and smiled happily.

that's enough.

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Adam quotes

  • [last lines]

    Beth Buchwald: Adam, his mother, and his father were a family of talking raccoons that lived in the middle of New York City. They didn't really belong there, but there they were.

  • Harlan: Liars is all you gonna run across in this world. A man's gotta learn the difference between just plain liars and liars worth lovin'.

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