to feel the life within

Louvenia 2022-09-15 13:05:09

I am very fortunate to have encountered such a film at the crossroads of life. As far as I know, the director is not famous, the cast and plot are not that amazing, the characters portrayed are not surprising and extraordinary, and the background music is not outstanding, but it made me look so immersive. Occasionally paused during the period, and chatted with my mother about relatives and acquaintances, but even this did not make me miss the plot of the movie, but let me learn and sell now, and let my mother have a chat partner during this time period. I understand that although movies are higher than life, in the final analysis, movies always inspire life, and this movie is just like that.

Some people say that he likes a person to say one thing because he sees himself in it, and I think this movie does exactly that for me. First of all, I would like to make a suggestion for the translation of movie titles. From my understanding, the literal translation of movie titles is better. Because after watching the movie, due to the consonance of natural people, the translation of 'Hello Brad' is a bit too much. In addition, I want to say that the influence of a movie on people does not have to be too deep, nor too shallow, too deep to show off, too shallow to entertain people, and this movie is just right.

The things that are told in this movie are like what happens in every ordinary family around me, and it doesn't make me feel unreasonable in the slightest. Although a movie is a dream factory, for me sometimes I wish it was a simple camera, without dazzling special effects, without proper editing, without expensive clothes, and without a star. The kind of film I am talking about is different from the public documentaries: it is a large-view type, such as recording the rise and fall of countries, wars and military affairs, the lives of great people, natural scenery, and group portraits. But it's just the life records of some little people, like you, me, and him around you. These people should have the right to be put on the screen. At the same time, such similar content is being mined more and more in the film world.

Now let's talk about some related things in the movie. First of all, the director of this movie plays a gay (marginal person) in the movie. Assuming that he happens to be gay or related to it in reality, I think he must be under pressure, inferiority complex or sympathy before gay marriage is legal. So there is a gay marriage in the movie, and he looks so happy when he is with his other half. It was at that moment that the little man got his first real taste of the long-lost nectar in the movie.

In the Declaration of Independence, there is a clause that all men are created equal, and indeed they are created equal, but then what? Most of the movies are similar. Driven by the box office and profit, they have written too many heroic epics and dug too much entertainment and hilarity. Even if they occasionally involve the portrayal of small characters in the ordinary world, they are not always hurt. The world cannot run without these people, but the eyes of the world never pay attention to them.

We try to think of such a movie: as a father, he is approaching his age, and he has achieved some success in everything, but he is far worse than the classmates with whom he once lived. He couldn't even pay for his son's college tuition, so he only thought about how much the house left by the death of his father-in-law and mother-in-law could be sold. His wife, once so idealistic, ended up taking a job in the government. He felt unwilling for his son because he missed the time to apply for Harvard. He called his so-called high-profile friend and found a relationship to meet his mentor. Fortunately, he also passed the interview in the end. During this period, he was proud of his son surpassing him, and humbled himself for his son surpassing him. The son gave up Harvard and chose the campus where his father was originally because his mentor did not love music as much as he thought. His son didn't think the school brought him anything other than being impressed by one professor. In the end, after meeting with a well-respected friend, he found that the friend was ruthless and unscrupulous, and lost his original blood.

In the end, he held his son's hand in a concert with his son and shed tears of excitement, realizing that he no longer needs to waste his life on others, but to feel his inner life.

At the end of the movie, the son said this to his father: that time outside the school gate, I cared about other people seeing you yelling at me and worried about being shameless at school, but in fact no one cared because they all had their own troubles ; as I have always cared about you, and you care about my thoughts. He asked: what do you think? Son said: I love you.

This movie is too ordinary to be ordinary, but it touched my bones. After reading it, I laughed at myself as a dark person, but I have been thinking and evolving, trying to live my life well. Make parents and family happy, and make future wife and children happy.

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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.