From Kare 11 This is how reporter Jana introduced us to the 1986 American film "Peggy Sue Is Getting Married."
Culturally speaking, "Peggy Sue Is Getting Married" is a very "American" film. Through the story of the heroine Peggy Su from the present (80s) to high school (60s), it shows the American era. Therefore, it appeared in the "Time Pieces" themed exhibition at Trylon Theater in Minneapolis and the Minnesota Historical Society (Minnesota Historical Society). However, its basic story setting-what you will do when you go back in time, allows it to break through the context of "American culture" and has universal significance.
The heroine Peggy Su fainted at the class reunion and traveled to the past.
The first time I knew the concept of "traveling" was when I was a kid watching the TV series "Love Through Time" starring Zhang Ting and Xu Zheng. The heroine is a modern person. Later in high school, "Qing Chuan Opera" was very popular. In the category of "fantasy stories", crossing people seemed to no longer be a "new trend" concept.
In my heart, I silently divide the story of travel into two types-travel to the age before I was born, to meet with "historical figures"; after travel to the age of my birth, to become who I was at that time. There is no difference between these two themes themselves, but the dramatic conflicts about "whether to change the past" are different-the former, because we do not live in that era, the object of our changes is others; the latter, What we want to change is our own choice.
Therefore, the latter "seems" to be more in control, but it does not appear to be relaxed because of this. At this time, our question is not just "whether we have the ability to change", but we also have to ask ourselves "whether we are willing to change".
In "Peggy Sue Is Getting Married", Peggy Sue's husband Charlie cheats, and the two have separated, so Peggy Sue, who has traveled to the past, hopes to change his decision to marry him. She dated other boys and refused Charlie's courtship, but in the face of Charlie's love, she finally chose him. At the end of the film, Peggy Su wakes up from the hospital bed and sees her husband waiting by her side. The dialogue between the two suggests the ending of a broken mirror.
Charlie and his band in high school are full of American hippie style in the 1960s
We can't help thinking about why Peggy Su chose the original life in the end.
I personally agree with this philosophy of life-if I can travel through time, I still won't change my past.
On the one hand, we cannot define what a "better choice" is, and therefore cannot define what a "better self" is created by choice.
Just like Peggy Su when she traveled back to high school, she once tried to date her secret love Michael, but Michael said that she hoped that she could move with him to Utah with another girl because polygamy is allowed there.
Peggy Sue once thought that Michael was a better choice, just because she hadn't made this choice before, and she couldn't understand the outcome of it.
Peggy Su, who traveled to the past, thought she was from the future, but didn't realize that what she knew was only the kind of future she had chosen.
Of course, Coppola is not here to excuse Charlie; Charlie and Michael are, to some extent, a symbol.
Peggy Sue in High School
On the other hand, every step we take in life is actually an inevitable accident.
Behind every seemingly trivial matter, there are deeper reasons.
What we think we can change is nothing but appearances. But what determines the general direction of life is the core of human nature.
So Peggy Su finally chose to accept it. Accepting the past, accepting the sorrow and joy that comes with it, and thus accepting yourself.
There are comments that "Peggy Sue Is Getting Married" is not a typical "Francis Ford Coppola movie". It is very warm, with humorous lines and a complete ending. However, from Coppola’s short quotation on "The Godfather 2", I seem to see the creative thought that runs through all of Coppola’s works:
"There is no doubt that at the end of "The Godfather 2," Michael Co. Leon has defeated everyone; he sits there alone, like a dead body. People will never change.”
Original (from IMDb):
There's no doubt that, by the end of The Godfather: Part II (1974 ), Michael Corleone, the HAVING Beaten the Everyone, iS sitting there alone, a Living Corpse. there's nO Way that man by Will Ever change.
"people are not going to change anyway." Whether the objective can not, or are not willing subjective willing.
Even under the comedy structure of "Peggy Sue Is Getting Married", we can still see this "fate" color. Only this time, it became a warm color. Destiny is not only helpless, but also tender.
(All the pictures in this article are from IMDb)
A digression about the film: As far as the quality of the film is concerned, "Peggy Sue Is Getting Married" obviously cannot be compared with the four great masterpieces of Coppola at the peak of the 70s, but it always comes Said it is also a work with a relatively successful box office and word of mouth.
Culturally speaking, in the process of watching the film, I deeply felt that my laughter seemed to be different from that of most of the audience present. I can only say that I really want to admit that there are differences in cultural backgrounds and ways of thinking between the East and the West. There are a few gray-haired grandpas and grandmothers in the theater who have been laughing very happily. It may be easier to feel after experiencing that era and that kind of society. Watching "Peggy Sue Is Getting Married" is also an opportunity for me to understand the United States and a learning process.
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