human nature

Ewald 2022-10-04 06:50:44

The film reflects that the mid-life crisis is because of money, people of the protagonist's age group are basically stereotyped, and the success of the surrounding will bring such people a sense of inferiority, and this inferiority psychology is spontaneous. People in this age group who are short of money and have no achievements are extremely fragile physically and mentally, so the whole person is dark, and their inferiority complexes take advantage of the emptiness.
In the end, the protagonist uses his soon-to-be-successful son to bring comfort to himself, which is also a kind of self-help attitude in society.
On the one hand, it shows the cruelty displayed by the society, and at the same time, it makes human nature clearer. In this cruel social reality, everyone is kidnapped and bound by morality. The rich become kind because of their money, and the poor or the people at the bottom of the society. Full of darkness, standing on the edge of moral society and reality, unable to extricate himself, struggling.
At the end of the film, I really didn't expect to play that humorous song at this moment, just right!
A very good film, worth watching.

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    Brad Sloan: Yeah. What's your opinion?

    Troy Sloan: Well, I love you.

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