Midlife crisis?

Colin 2022-10-16 14:01:25

After reading it, I deeply feel that middle-aged and old men also need care. When people reach middle age, they will inevitably miss their previous life and summarize their previous hopes for themselves. Seeing that the people around them have made small achievements, but they are not. If you fail to achieve your goals, let alone keep pace with the people around you, you will inevitably feel sad in your heart, which will lead to psychological problems, and people often ignore these problems and think that middle-aged people have experienced many things, especially Chinese people have great feelings for men. It can be said to be prejudice, that men always break their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs, so they think that they have a certain psychological endurance in middle age and will not be so vulnerable. However, this is not the case. Many middle-aged men are not satisfied with their lives. For example, Brad, he said that when he was in school, he used to be the heart of group, but now, his class reunion will not call him again. , he felt very lost, and even felt that his classmates looked down on him because he was not successful, that is, he did not have a lot of money or power, but he ignored what he had, which was the source of the mid-life crisis where. He has a healthy kid, maybe even a little musical genius, he does what other people think is a cool job, and he has a contented wife, which is enough to make his life great. But he always compares to his friends in high society, even he thinks they are his rivals, but his friends don't think so, because his friends are too busy to think about these nonsense matter. He wasn't so poor that he couldn't eat but he still had a lot of complaints.

In fact, I think this film reflects not only the mid-life crisis of those "unsuccessful" men, but the general mentality of people now. Blindly compare and ignore what they have, but they don't think that what they have may also be the envy of others. In fact, the world needs idealists. So, cherishing the moment is the source of happiness. Look more at what you have, instead of blindly comparing, you will be much happier.

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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.