Maybe you are just a paper man

Leanne 2022-01-14 08:01:44

Wen, Su Jianya

This is a movie about friendship and loneliness.



One is a cowardly and half-dead writer who failed in a marriage.

One is a young girl who witnessed her sister drowning.

Two people who seem to be far apart have many similarities.

For example, Richard has his guardian Captain Excellent, and

Abby has her follower Chriatopher.

Richard asked his wife Clari: "Are we really unhappy, or pretend to be unhappy?"

Richard doesn't have any friends, he is a lonely existence.

Abby is a precocious girl who takes on everything prematurely.

Maybe she hasn't been really happy since she was 8 years old.

In Richard's lame lie and sincere attitude, the

two lonely souls were attracted to each other like that and slowly approached.

A long winter has taught each to grow.

Richard said to Abby at the beach.

I am a paper man.

I am just a fragile person with no sense of existence.

People, always learn to grow alone.

In fact, when Captain Excellent shouted the slogan for the last time and flew to the clouds,

Richard had really grown up.

It's just that Chriatopher's suicide still shocked me.

It is wise to leave when the one you love no longer needs himself.

The world is full of stories and deja vu scenes.

Perhaps the same lively movie is also being staged on the other side of the sea.

Our search is only looking for a destination.

You can make yourself feel at ease.

Can make us weak and brave.

Let us complain to each other.

It can make the unbearable tortures in life soften in each other's comfort and bearing.

only.

In order to live,

we are all fragile and cannot be happy.

There is no room for relaxation of the tense nerves every day. .

Are these just to show that growth is long and difficult?

Fortunately, the

ending is satisfactory.

Because we have to learn to live a happy and warm life.

Even if you have nothing, let alone you have so much.

However, in the final analysis, we, perhaps, are just paper people.

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Extended Reading
  • Retta 2022-03-25 09:01:18

    Lonely people, want to find a shadow to accompany, but don't indulge in it

  • Cale 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    Very flat and boring film, everything is quite satisfactory, the subject matter is exactly what I hate the most, neurotic, I don't want to watch it for half an hour

Paper Man quotes

  • Richard Dunn: It's time for you to go.

    Captain Excellent: No.

    Richard Dunn: You know what I'm saying, Captain. I mean go and never come back.

    Captain Excellent: I'm not ready.

    Richard Dunn: It doesn't matter! You can't help me anymore. The doctor's right.

    Captain Excellent: But... Then you'll be all alone.

    Richard Dunn: Yes. The last of my kind.

    [There is a silence between them]

    Richard Dunn: Okay. Do the voice... one last time. Please...

    Captain Excellent: [intense] When the world is imperiled... When evil surrounds you... When danger is lurking... Who do you call?

    Richard Dunn: [whispering] Captain Excellent...

  • [Abby is reading Richard's last letter]

    Richard Dunn: Richard regarded his solitude as something sacred as a well earned badge of honor, a cloak to be worn to ward off life. As his safety. Solitude is who he was. This caused those in his life to view him with a barely veiled contempt. Richard was certain that he was not liked, which is hard on a man. *Maybe* it was because he gave nothing that he received nothing in return. In any case, his situation had become intolerable. The closest things he had to friends were either imaginary or extinct. And Richard had reached a point in his life where this was no longer enough. And then he met a girl... And she was warm. And she was sad. And she was maybe lonely in a way that reminded him of himself. She'd lost things that a girl should never have lost. And she knew things. And she taught him. And Richard thought: "Maybe this is what friendship feels like. Maybe." It was just a glimpse, they'd barely begun, really. But in those long, few winter days, she'd given him so much. Enough so that Richard could go on. And what had he given her? Just a few words on a page. Not much, perhaps. But for Abby, he hoped it was enough.