At my age, only a bland but profound drama like this grabs my attention because I know this is what happens in life.
The movie is actually very simple. It tells the story of the male protagonist, Brad, who became anxious because all of his college friends were successful in their careers and compared himself with "nothing at all". During a trip to accompany his son to visit the university, he discovered that he was actually living a life that others envied. Thus changing the concept of the story.
Look how easy it is! But the director took more than an hour to show it, and most of the film was conducted in Brad's psychological dialogue, which is completely a middle-aged man's ramble, but I don't find it boring, not only because of Ben's Wonderful rendition, and that's --- too real!
Who doesn't envy other people's lives? When you find that there are endless sufferings under the bright appearance of others, are you surprised that everything is just your own imagination, and that your vanity is at work? There is another kind of person, for them: you're totally not give a shit! You are still thinking about the former classmate friendship and trying to get closer to each other, but the reality is to be hanged and beaten by others, even the things you asked for Able to blurt out a joke with disdain.
What kind of life did the director experience in order to express this delicate feeling vividly through the lens? !
The whole article is very bland, there is no climax, but the last paragraph touched me the most! After hearing his father talk about the changes in his mood in the past few days, the son did not respond directly, but said a paragraph casually, and it was this sentence that made my eyes wet.
"You embarrassed me when we visited today, I kept thinking, if I go to this school, everyone here will remember this, I'll never get over this hurdle, but they won't remember, Because everyone only thinks about themselves, you know, no one cares, the only person who thinks about you is me, so if anyone's opinion needs your attention, it's mine."
"Really? What do you think?"
"I love you"
His son is an angel without a doubt! ! !
Brad lost sleep again that night, fantasizing that the scene many years later was not as pompous as before, but would actually happen in the future: the father and son walking side by side on the beach. Real and beautiful!
Moving!
The reason why I wrote this movie review is because I was in the trough of my life when I watched it: old wounds were not healed, my mother was sick, and I was isolated at work. I have experienced pressures that I have never experienced before: insomnia, hair loss, crazy thinness, and increasing social fear, closing the circle of friends, unwilling to take the initiative to contact friends, more and more inferior, annoyed, compared to Brad, I seem to be able to continue to be decadent The reason, but this movie undoubtedly gave me much more warmth than I imagined when I was lonely and helpless, and made me deeply understand to cherish what I have, don’t think about what others have but I don’t have, try hard to love, go Give warmth to those who warm me. The world is very big, time passes between my fingers every day, troubles are my inner demonization, I want to be my inner exorcist.
PS Brad Pitt is actually on the co-producer's namelist at the end of the credits
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