This group of people is so strange

Chet 2022-01-05 08:02:34

Ah, in order to do field watching, when the leisure activity of bird watching meets the big year, its most fanatical side came out. The movie chose the big year to show the fanaticism of bird watching and the other parts of life it caused. Contradiction. I have always felt that the birders have an unhuman temperament, and I saw it in Bostic—their eyes will never be on people, they will always look to the sky. I still like the last soothing thing: Brad put down his binoculars and looked at his girlfriend, the CEO walked in the snow with his grandson and told him stories about birds, Bostic who came to China alone as a top-notch The birdwatchers also made sacrifices—at least the director thinks so, otherwise why would he show regret when he sees the baby in the arms of visitors. I hope we understand these weird people (nerds). Actually, they are not that weird. There are some commonalities in replacing fitness, star chasing, and Bundi, such as avoiding the pressure of the role, or simply gaining pleasure from classification and identification. Although the characteristics of bird watching itself, such as the fact that when you hear the bird news, you leave your hands behind and rush to a strange place, etc., they are treated as jokes by the movie, but they are also what constitutes the practice of bird watching. Fun is not for outsiders. In addition, bird watching in daily life is not a strictly hierarchical relationship with other things in life. The movie is really exaggerated, and the bird people are actually very cute~

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The Big Year quotes

  • On Screen Text: [first lines, the text that appears on screen] This is a true story.

    On Screen Text: Only the facts have been changed.

  • Stu Preissler: [Sitting in a bar] Bostick saw snowcocks.

    Brad Harris: I can't afford snowcocks.

    Stu Preissler: Snowcocks are on me.

    Brad Harris: I can't even afford this beer.