What kind of life do you choose?

Kayleigh 2022-08-19 17:33:48

Brad, the hero of the film, lives an ordinary life and works in a non-profit charity organization. His son has graduated from high school and is facing college choices. At this age, life is basically stereotyped, and life basically loses many possibilities. However, Rad found that his college classmates had already achieved success, some had retired on the island and lived a prostitute life, some had become speech politicians, some had their own private jets, and Brad had Discounted tickets purchased on cheap websites are not eligible to be upgraded to business class. Even if my son goes to Harvard University, he needs to pay the tuition fee. Compared with his successful classmates, he seems to be a failure. The college classmates get married without notice. He, even his favorite college teacher died, he couldn't attend the funeral. It was obvious that he was not in the same circle as his successful classmates. In the film, the male protagonist tried to tell the Harvard female students not to be idealistic, but to face reality and be real. The society seems to recognize economic success more, but the male protagonist is telling the male protagonist that those students who look at success have their own misfortunes. The male protagonist, from a certain level, has a happy family. You should know how to be grateful, your wife is virtuous and filial, and you should be proud of your wife and son, but the male protagonist is confused by the dazzling world, loses himself, and can't find what he really wants. It is a relief to realize that he still loves this world, but he will never be able to own this world.

I feel that the theme of the film is conveying to us that all kinds of things in the world are full of lust and money is lost. We should be able to never forget our original intention, remember what we want, what is meaningful and valuable, and then pursue our own goals.

But I personally think that when we live in reality, we still have to chase what the world wants us to chase, such as money. Money is not a burden. Having money can indeed make your life better, and it can also achieve you. the ideal, the key is to implement it every day and go all out to chase your dream

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  • Brad Sloan: [narrating] Her friend, Maya was equally captivating, equally compelling. I suddenly felt a deep grief... for all the women I would never love and all the lives I would never live. I imaging running away with them both and starting again and what that might look like.

  • Troy Sloan: When we were walking around today and you embarrassing me, I kept thinking, like, you know, if I go to this school, everybody here's gonna remember this and I'm never gonna live this down. But... you know, they're not gonna remember. Because, everybody's just thinking about themselves. You know? Nobody cares. Like, the only person that's thinking about you, is me, so... the only person's opinion that you should really care about is mine.

    Brad Sloan: Yeah. What's your opinion?

    Troy Sloan: Well, I love you.

    Brad Sloan: Thank you.