There will be answer, I hope

Otto 2022-04-20 09:02:17

1. Real and fake
Real life is the original impulse without TV and values, happiness before dopamine and love before hormones, no answers and absolutely true feelings.
The sense of loss comes from not knowing where the answer comes from, not knowing there is an answer but having to keep accepting the nonstop questioning every second of life.

2. Misunderstanding and Pretentiousness
As mentioned above, in the process of asking questions in life and constantly encountering others, the appearance of choosing an answer at a loss can easily be incorporated into another set of logic and distorted. In the existence of others, consensus appears to be So unreal. (Consensus, which was originally a truth that should be there, is also absent at the moment. As mentioned in the previous point.) Because of this, the debate between brilliant and normal will not and will not come to a conclusion.

3. Love and self-doubt
In the infinite doubts and fears, the understanding and love of the opposite sex are as far away as consensus. Love in my opinion: Two people who have no hope for the world, still have a little empathy for each other, and solve all misunderstandings with external logic before they happen.

Self-doubt is eternal. is unresolvable, an unbroken line of thought that is forever interrupted by misunderstandings, explanations, and rules.

4. American lifestyle
should send notes after reading other people's books, and express excitement and gratitude when receiving other people's books.

The other thing is not American, but it's okay, it's speaking out when you're angry, like "what the fuck with you?" in this movie.


5. Going back to the film, the scene where David and tape recorder talk at the end perfectly and innovatively makes this character finally enter a happy ending both in plot and emotionally, which is innovative and touching.

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Extended Reading
  • Sam 2022-03-20 09:02:35

    Gide said: "You will never know how much effort we have put in to make ourselves interested in life." The brief encounters wonderfully revealed Foster's loneliness, fear of the emptiness of life, and anxiety about life. The conversation is long and trivial, but the sincerity that suddenly appears will make people move deeply and can't help but feel sad. Foster once gave a speech about facing trivial life, about facing life, he finally chose another path.

  • Marianna 2022-03-25 09:01:18

    Hit hard by the last "We are both so young. He wants something better than he has. I want precisely what he has already." The reporter wanted to have as much material as possible, and the interviewee was always worried about misunderstanding and understanding, resonance and suspicion, with an invisible media (a tape recorder) in between. It is rare to meet a few people of the same kind in a lifetime, and the final disappointment makes people infatuated.

The End of the Tour quotes

  • David Lipsky: Nice view.

    David Foster Wallace: Thank you. I can't take credit for it.

  • David Foster Wallace: This piece would be so much better if it was just you. Just keep talking, you'll save me a lot of trouble.