We have to fight depression, but also be careful of the confrontation itself

Wilfred 2022-11-21 03:55:59

A person who takes action as his criterion will inevitably face the problem of how to face the mediocre and stupid world. The feeling of powerlessness, frustration, and emptiness can only be relieved by acting and conquering again. However, it is not a cure.

After reading it again, I found that the written comment was not appropriate. Originally, I laughed at Abe a little bit. Faced with the boring and boring life and lack of coping methods, I created this ridiculous end. However, I thought about it again and felt that he was the epitome of everyone, and of course I was included.
No matter what his profession or status, when you lack a sense of control, accomplishment, and fulfillment, people will always fall into emptiness and depression. I am still on the road tonight thinking, what is the point of being alive? For me personally, I learn design, meet various challenges every day, design good works, meet good teachers, good opponents, break through myself in the process of collision, discover ignorance, and then crush them. Being able to contact many people, many places, and understand many processes and stories... These are certainly very happy and fulfilling, but after all, people will gradually get used to and adapt. Challenges will end with graduation and the end of the project, and new experiences will follow. As the frequency increases, it becomes accustomed. In fact, in the final analysis, what people need to focus and excite themselves. Otherwise, we will face plainness and depression. And frigidity.
The film is divided into two parts, the depression and after the depression. I will find Abe in depression more vivid and attractive. And the murdered Abe laughed and joked like a fool all day. Therefore, depression is not a completely bad thing, at least, it makes people look less blindly optimistic and inattentive. But the heroine is in a state of being too rational and not romantic from beginning to end. She likes Abe more because the middle-class lady who has nothing to worry about suddenly finds the charm of melancholy. I don't know why a person who doesn't seem melancholic would like Abe, or it's just a kind of like. Woody Allen is not good at presenting the beauty of love. The love in his films seems very ordinary. But he is very good at capturing the changes in daily people's psychological experience, and he is very clever.
The filming technique is very concise, and the main characters have been drawn vividly in a few dialogue scenes. And it's effortless. Several scenes were over-prepared in the middle, one after another until the plan was finally implemented, which was very stable. The highlight and the climax are of course the murder of the heroine, especially the soundtrack has basically reached the maximum volume. The funny thing is that it turned out to be the scene, and there are people talking in the background... He doesn't want to put anything Seriously, or he doesn't believe in serious, rigid preaching or exaggeration, exaggeration, or sensationalism. This is what makes Woody Allen unique.
The ending of this film is absurd and ridiculous. But it makes people reflect, a person who is empty and depressed, he is struggling to return to a normal state, blind and pathetic. Depression and happiness are not relative. How intensely happy you have ever felt, the chances of your depression will be. When I walked home in the smog at night, I was still thinking, isn't a person alive is consuming the vitality of this whole body. When you are full of vitality but can't squander it, you will be very depressed.
The most important thing is to quickly encounter the things you are fascinated by, the fascinated people, and the fascinated scenery. But who can be so lucky?

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Irrational Man quotes

  • [first lines]

    Abe: [narrating] Kant said human reason is troubled by questions that it cannot dismiss, but also cannot answer. Okay, so, what are we talking about here? Morality? Choice? The randomness of life? Aesthetics? Murder?

    Jill: I think Abe was crazy from the beginning. Was it from stress? Was it anger? Was he disgusted by what he saw as life's never-ending suffering? Or was he simply bored by the meaninglessness of day-to-day existence? He was so damn interesting. And different. And a good talker. And he could always cloud the issue with words.

    Abe: Where to begin? You know, the existentialists feel nothing happens until you hit absolute rock bottom. Well, let's say that when I went to teach at Braylin College, emotionally, I was at Zabriskie Point. Of course, my reputation, or should I say a reputation, preceded me.

  • Abe Lucas: Jill had been right in her appraisal of me. I was teetering on the brink of some kind of breakdown, unable to deal with my feelings of anger, frustration, futility. They say that drowning is a painless way to go.