There are a few detailed problems that are easy to notice:
1. This crazy and lively old woman who is nearly 80 years old is a Jew who once escaped in a Nazi concentration camp. This is reflected by the number on her arm. It can be seen. For such a person, she has experienced a disaster that is close to death, and her outlook on life will be rebuilt because of this experience. Her contempt for many rules comes from her desire for the true meaning of life.
2. The work of the three blind date partners introduced by the teenager by his mother included several factors in sequence: the first is politics (current affairs and housekeeping major), the second is economics (handling invoices), and the third is culture ( actor).
The first girl to represent politics, you can see from him that politics is the gossip interest of three aunts and six women. Such serious topics suddenly become very boring. It seems that playing politics and caring about politics are no different from being enthusiastic about gossip.
The second girl who represents the economy, you can see the epitome of all the people who are engaged in business activities in the scene from the apparently proud and boastful and humble contrived speech in her words. The kind of feeling that I want to sneer in my heart when I see this kind of talk.
The third girl who represents culture is an actor. She was not frightened by the juvenile suicide performance, but she joined him in performing with him, so her performance overturned the first two girls. But she still left, why? Take a look at her exaggerated performance in the music room, that is, a facial makeup of the exaggerated performance of vain and love for people in the literary and art circles. If you have been in contact with such a type of person, you can feel sympathy in the movie. Because of their incomparable hypocrisy, not only that they always want to attract your attention, but they are also extremely selfish people. Although they are engaged in culture and literature, they are more popular than others.
The three girls here not only represent themselves, but also the irony of politics, economy and culture that the people who made this movie want to express, and the irony of these meanings.
3. The opening song and the ending song of the movie are the same song, and this song also runs through the movie, it expresses the center of the movie. The main idea of the lyrics is that there are millions of roads in the world. You can go any way you want, and you can go anytime you want. It tells us that how people want to live is their own business. As long as you want to do it, you can do it while you are alive. Whether you are a teenager or an old man, this does not prevent you from facing life and choosing the life you want.
4. This old woman said something that resonated with me very much, that is, don't care too much about what others think of you, everyone can do silly things for self-entertainment. The old woman also said a lot about things like this, such as breaking morals in order to live a truly interesting life. So the young man who listened to these words was fascinated and his eyes gleamed. The old woman was accused of stealing a car. In fact, she drove someone else’s car on the side of the road every time she went out. This behavior seems to be illegal, but we all know that the old woman didn’t want to take other people’s car as a car. In terms of own ownership, she never wanted to take anything as her own. She said that she did it to remind others to let them know: You don't really own anything, and nothing belongs to you. It's like that little tree, that car, that axe, the best gift the old man has received in years (the boy gave the old man a game currency, and she threw it into the water). You must remember that when you are alive and when you die, nothing is yours. You come and go naked. The meaning and value of life does not lie in these external vulgar objects at all.
5. The old woman stores odors, such as the smell of snow on the avenue. She collects all those scents in a jar, and also creates a strange-shaped device by herself to emit the scents. The old woman also explored the sense of touch. The weird woodwork was alive and reminiscent of a woman, and the hole in the middle could even make people feel like the hole in a woman, but in fact it is very far from a woman. But the old woman asked the boy to caress it. When the boy caressed the wooden product, his breath became thicker and thicker. When he buried his head in the hole, it was clearly a kind of sexual pleasure. If you can have sexual desire for wood, of course you can also for the old woman with sagging breasts and wrinkled skin. When a teenager looks at an 80-year-old woman, we can see a so-called old-fashioned love, that is, when she is so old, I still love her, as if her age is not a problem at all. She is a woman, and a woman must have been from childhood to old age. In such a process, whether you met her in old age or when you were young, she is the same woman. From the feeling of the old woman looking at the young, we see that the old woman is rejuvenated, and we will feel that the old woman is a naughty little girl, and age has become meaningless in love and life and death.
6. The young man's uncle was an American soldier who participated in the war against Germany. His patriotism and patriotism led to a ridiculously wrong conclusion that we like to kill. So this corresponds to another conversation of the old woman, that is, the country, the nation, the patriotism, etc. are all bullshit. She used to fight for magnificent concepts such as rights, justice, and freedom, and participated in demonstrations, but now she uses her personal little way to change what she can change. Whether it’s a German, an American, or a Jew, what country or king does it matter? The old women who have gone through hardship, with the great contrast of bereavement, from court life to life in concentration camps, from the killings of Jews by the Nazis, to the war between American and German soldiers, ironically express that war is a country that has nothing to do with it. The classification of meaning leads to the extinction of human nature.
The whole story takes the acquaintance and love of a teenager and an old woman as an absurd appearance, but in essence it wants to express that it transcends various serious and grand social problems of politics, economy, culture and military, and returns to the smallest of how people spend their lives. But the most profound issue of faith.
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