——Ferris Wheel: The endless cycle of life is also very depressing——
I also find it incredible to be able to finish watching "Ferris Wheel". The heroine's neurotic nagging forced me to fast-forward several times; when Justin appeared on the stage, I thought he should bring his own BGM "Sexy Back" and dance sexy and hot, but he No. In it, he plays a seaside lifeguard with a dream of being a writer. His artistic temperament can hardly be seen. I think it may be that the director deliberately set it up like this, implying that in his role, it's okay to coax girls with rhetoric, and it's impossible to be a serious writer .
The story is not complicated. The heroine cheated when she was young. After she got divorced, she married a vulgar man and lived a down-to-earth life. At the beginning of the story, the stepdaughter who escaped from the gang returned to her father's house, the seaside paradise, behind the Ferris wheel, and in the cramped hut, the life of the four people intertwined and contradicted. The heroine who was disappointed with life and the young and beautiful stepdaughter fell in love with the same person, a romantic and unfamous writer, a young man with good looks and eloquence.
I used to think that watching movies was for fun, not for purpose. Now there is another understanding, that is, seeking a solution. Woody Allen's focus on human nuances is an interesting one. In people's life, where is the worldly sophistication, especially family, love, and the most daily life. Doesn't it mean that every family has a sutra that is difficult to read? Look at what other people's sutras are like and how they read them. While discussing their experience, they reflect on themselves.
The love triangle between the neurotic heroine, the silly white sweet stepdaughter, and the romantic young man is not an ordinary love triangle. It involves love, morality, and ethics, which is very rich. Under the speculation of gossip, there is a 90% chance that the youth will fall in love with the stepdaughter, and will abandon the neurotic heroine for her. But I can't be 100% sure, and there may be a reversal in the next plot. The development trend of a film is also a reflection of the director's personal will. People like a director, often just like a certain plot in his movie. Some people like reversal, while others like a sense of reality. The ending of "Ferris Wheel" is very realistic.
In the movie, the heroine makes a bad move in order to keep the writer by her side. The stepdaughter knows some secrets of the gang, and the gang has been chasing her. The heroine could have saved her, but stopped at the last minute, and the stepdaughter was taken away, and there was no news, maybe she was killed. The writer knew the whole story, and was extremely disappointed with the heroine, so he resolutely left her, and the three-player game ended.
There is no good solution to this three-player game. Think about it, let the stepdaughter and the writer fly away? Or did the heroine and the writer fly away? If the writer doesn't take the initiative to stop the two relationships, it's useless for both of them to do anything. Paper can't wrap the fire, and the fire will burn after all. The most fundamental solution is that the heroine never started the relationship. She has been wrong once, and goes on to be wrong a second time. Maybe a third or fourth time...
If people want to be happy, they cannot base their happiness on others. The heroine was ruined by cheating in the first half of her life, and in the second half of her life, she hoped to be rescued by a male writer, and failed again. The love between people may disappear, not to mention the enthusiasm that comes and goes quickly. Since there is always dissatisfaction and mistakes are always made, first of all, there must be the capital to make mistakes. The second half of your life is immersed in remorse for the mistakes of the first half of your life, what is that? The heroine has lived most of her life, and she does not understand this truth. I only wanted to cheat for a while and forgot to clean up the mess in the future, and I repeated the same mistakes like a Ferris wheel.
However, the most tragic thing is actually this: I understand a lot of truth, but I still can't live my life well.
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