We just grew up like this

Leonard 2021-10-19 09:48:49

I watched "Guessing the Train" again yesterday, and it was hard to let go.

Although I have passed the age of angry youth, the first paragraph brought me back to the scene of shaking and chasing when I was rebellious, in conjunction with Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life": choose life, choose work, choose occupation, choose family, Choose the nasty big color TV, choose washing machines, cars, laser disc players, choose health, low cholesterol and dental insurance, choose building mortgages, choose your friends, choose suits, casual clothes and luggage, choose installments and three-piece suits, Choose to watch boring game shows, eat snacks while watching...choose your future, choose your life...too many choices, what do you choose, I choose not to choose.

This paragraph is too damn good.

I still sound like my heart beats, let alone who I was 10 years ago.

I can’t understand anything, cursing this society while relying on it to survive; spurning such a life, but not knowing why I spurned it;

rock, film, cheating, singing, train guessing, clockwork orange, Beijing Hybrid, QUEEN, GUNS & ROSE. . . . . . Anyway, I just don't want to live a normal life, because I feel that I am not that kind of person, that kind of life does not belong to me, a bit like what people say now, my life is my master. The pleasure of rebellion reached a climax at that time.

I know what I don't like, but I can't find what I like.

It’s just that I’m more fortunate. I finally found more. I have experienced rebellion, confusion, tossing, and finally fell exhausted under the banner of the mainstream of society, and finally converted to the system and society they had resisted, and became one of them. A member of the.

Just like the final attribution of the protagonist:

Why did I do that? There are a million answers, but they are all wrong. The reason is that I am a bad embryo at all, but that will change. I want to change. This is the last bad thing. I want to change my mind, move forward, and choose life. I Already expecting. I will be like you, work, home, big TV, washing machine, car, CD player, electric can opener, health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, loan, home purchase, casual wear, luggage, three-piece Suits, DIY, quiz shows, junk food, kids, walks in the park, nine to five, golf, car wash, sweatshirts, family holidays, pensions, tax-free, clear water ditch, just look forward until you die Until that day.

Seeing this passage, I saw myself, listened to Tsai Chin’s song that I used to despise, and like many people who used to like this movie but have grown up, smiled knowingly and turned off the computer. Boy, no matter how rebellious, angry, ambitious, or bad you are, in the end, you still can’t escape the society you rebel against, generation after generation reincarnation, this is life.


Another: In the end mine found the life I wanted. Although the rules of life were established, I knew that my soul still held up its head proudly: I did not surrender.

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Trainspotting quotes

  • Begbie: [to Renton] You better clean up your fuckin' act, sunshine. Cut that shite out forever.

    Mrs. Renton: [Nodding her head] You listen to Francis, Mark. He's talkin' sense, kid.

  • Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: [to Mrs. Murphy] I'm sorry Mrs. Murphy. That wasn't fair Spud goin' down and not me

    Begbie: [to Mrs. Murphy] Well it's not our fault! Your boy went down because he's a fuckin' smackhead! And if that's not your fault, then I don't know what is.

    [Mrs. Murphy turns to walk away]

    Begbie: I was the fuckin' cunt who tried to get him off it.