Classmate X told me that in her husband’s hometown, a boy is 10,000 yuan per catty. If there is no boy at home, just go and buy a baby with a weight of seven or eight catties. The family’s dream can be fulfilled within 100,000 yuan.
In the city, it doesn't matter what money can solve.
As far away as the United States, Brad's distress is that he is 47 years old, and he is still quite mediocre, while his college classmates are Hollywood directors, fund-rich slickers, and sold the company and retired early in childhood. Dao An spent his later years, and he worked in the White House and was on TV every day.
Brad felt that the world was against him.
He took his son to participate in the art test interview. Silver members had to line up, and only gold and platinum cards could go through the barrier-free passage. He wanted to upgrade to business class, he hesitated and made up his mind to take out a thousand dollars, and was told special tickets Can't upgrade, and moreover, there's not enough money in the card.
In the economy class where the baby was crying, Brad, a silver member, apologized to his son, but his son didn't care.
Brad was desperately trying to figure out how other people traveled around on private jets in the air, thinking with self-pity: This world is a playground, a dream factory, and a wonderland in the eyes of those people. And myself, I can only buy potato chips for seven yuan for my son. When told later that a classmate remarryed without inviting him, he imagined the wedding scene in despair and firmly believed that he had been marginalized.
There's no harm without comparison, and Brad couldn't stop that mental inertia.
When he was in college, he loved the world, and the world loved him. Now, I am so humble that I can only pin all my hopes on my son. In Brad's view, his son is a talented keyboard player and can compose his own music, so he is very sure of getting into Harvard. He had already thought about what happened after his son was on the cover of TIME magazine.
In turn, will he be spurned by his son, a useless father, and then start to be madly jealous of his son.
Brad's crux of the matter: caring about what others see or think of as a LOSER.
The son comforted him: Oh, no one cares about you, everyone is too busy with their own affairs.
After watching "Hello Brad", you will feel that the world is really integrated, and the mid-life crisis films "American Beauty" and "Life with a Glass of Wine" from ten or twenty years ago are more American.
So Brad's problem really can't be solved by money, at least it's not a simple money problem. Many rich people also worry that others will underestimate themselves, and it is not uncommon for poor people to be megalomaniac.
After Brad YY finished his son's prospective seniors (two pretty girls), he tried to tell himself that I could always love them without possessing them, just as I could always love the world without possessing the world .
A bowl of chicken soup, no way out.
Middle-aged people, look away.
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