People are not looking for reasons for change, but for reasons for change

Teresa 2021-12-30 17:17:19

If I were someone like Kevin Spacey, and suddenly had an uneconomical wife and a weird child, but still doing a mediocre job and living an unchanging life, do I have the motivation to change? If he has the ability to change, he has changed long ago. If he does a more competitive job and enters a more dynamic social circle, he has changed. Even if his wife leaves without saying goodbye with his children, he has the ability to attract others. Continue your happy life.

But he didn't.

It was his wife who died violently, and sold the child before he died, just when his parents died holding their ashes and just arrived home. He could no longer live in the original environment. It was the huge dramatic power that threw him to his previously unconscious hometown, followed by an aunt who fell from the sky with a legendary past.

When the film treats the weak, it often gives him a break that he cannot refuse. He falls into a dilemma that seems to be impossible to climb out, and then has no choice but to find a reason for his dilemma. He fell in love with the widow, but didn't have the courage to confess it, so he had to tell himself that his ancestor was also a robber from the green forest, murdering people and doing everything. He can only work in newspaper-related industries, but there is only one newspaper in the town, which only recruits reporters. He can't swim, but shipping news requires him to drive a boat to find material.

After your life is broken, you are in a stage where you have no brains at all. Without thinking about it, you have compiled a complete script, with antecedents and results. Only in this way can you know what your role is. You can finally continue acting even if you are embarrassed.

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  • [first lines]

    Quoyle: [father teaching him literally to sink or swim]

    [voice-over]

    Quoyle: I used to imagine that I'd been given to the wrong family at birth, and that somewhere in the world my real people longed for me. From where my father stood, my failure to dog-paddle was only the first of many failures. Failure to speak clearly, failure to sit up straight, failure to make friends every time we moved to another dreary upstate town. In me, my father recognized a failed life. His own.

  • Petal Bear: Look, it's no good. Find yourself a girlfriend.

    Quoyle: I don't want a girlfriend, I want you.

    Petal Bear: [shrugs] Your funeral.