If "The End of the Tour 2015" (The End of the Tour 2015) is a chatting movie, then it is also a chatting movie worth thinking about. In my opinion, this film is more like a biopic about the writer David Foster Wallace. It leads us to think about the question: David resolved our loneliness with his own loneliness, why did he choose to die after all ? We might as well analyze a question based on the dialogue between the Rolling Stone reporter and writer David.
If it is said that a person chooses to die because of pain, then what kind of pain might David embark on the path of suicide? Although David had gained fame with his best-selling book "Endless Joke", fame and fortune were not the main purpose of his writing. Even the huge fame and fortune made him feel lonely. He compares writing to raising a child, and he must be very careful. He said: “You can be proud of your work, but it’s not good to expect to profit from it.” Using reputation for profit seems to be an unspoken rule. David is talking to reporters. He laughed at this in the first conversation. He joked that he wanted to use the new book tour to attract women’s arms and arms. However, his true thoughts were, "Fortunately, I didn’t do this. It would only make I feel lonely", because in his opinion, others only see his reputation, not his works and himself. Not only did he not want to profit from the success of his books, he even couldn't share the joy of success with anyone, which may be the greater pain that reputation brought him.
He explained to reporters his true intention to use reputation to attract women: "I just think it would be great if you can share these beautiful things with others." However, he couldn't do this. First of all, he couldn't talk to ordinary friends. Sharing all this, because the people who come to him have their own lives to worry about, and they come with purpose; secondly, the characteristics of his work make it impossible to keep close people around him, and his work is characterized by writing. He needs to be alone. In his opinion, once he is "fully involved", he will have a very strong "self-awareness". This kind of awareness will make anyone around him a "object of use", which not only makes those around him unbearable , Which is what he is unwilling to do. Therefore, he can only sigh: "If there is someone who can live with you and share everything, how good is it, whether it is happy or confused, you can let go in the face of her." It can be seen that there is success but cannot be with others. Sharing joy should be a source of his pain, otherwise he would not explain this matter emphatically to reporters. Of course, since there is no one to share the joy, there is no one to share the pain.
"Success" can not bring him happiness, and another important reason is that he may be essentially a pessimistic person. He explained to reporters that he was completely lost in writing, so he was drinking, chaotic, and even thinking of death. However, when his novels were popular and reporters thought that his new book was highly praised and very good, he said, "This is very good. , But this is illusory." Just imagine, the old days are not enough to make him happy with today's success, where can he find happiness?
If he is not writing for fame and fortune, what is his real purpose? He told reporters that the theme of his best-selling book was to explore the loneliness of human nature. From this conversation, we can see that his pain stems from his humanistic feelings, his noble feelings of wanting to provide solutions to human loneliness. Regarding human loneliness, he said, "I can't come up with a diagnosis or a set of prescriptions to solve it." However, he is very worried about the adverse effects of technology on life happiness. He thinks that technology is like a "handjob", and occasionally he will It brings joy, but it must not be relied on for a long time, and technological progress is by no means a good solution to human loneliness. It can be seen that he can no longer solve the problem of human loneliness. If he is a person whose mission is to solve the future and destiny of mankind, he is destined to be lonely and painful.
In addition, his pain also comes from his destined "out of the ordinary." Because of his talents and achievements, he did appear to be smarter than others. From the reporter's point of view, his "communication strategy" used his "smartness". However, he not only did not recognize this, but said, "That makes me Feeling a bit lonely". He should say this from the bottom of his heart, because since he was a child, because his parents were academics, he felt that he was "incompatible" with other classmates. He hates the sense of loneliness that this kind of difference brings, because his belief tells him that a good writer must "cherish the side of ordinary people." He retorted: "If I only glanced at it, and assumed that people had no knowledge, or that they were not as rich, complex, and sensitive as I am, I would not be such a good writer." So, he thought he said, "It's just An ordinary person" is by no means a kind of "hyper attitude." However, how could he become an "ordinary person"? As the reporter retorted, how could someone cheating on your thousand-page book because "the author is an ordinary person"?
The contrast between reality and illusion is also a source of aggravating his loneliness. Although he himself has a strong sense of disillusionment and feels that everything is empty, and even believes that this disillusionment is rooted in human nature, he still cares about the illusions he criticizes, such as video propaganda. He thinks this kind of things can easily make us "abduction". "Leave a meaningful life", since everything is illusory, why bother to care too much? Once you care, loneliness will follow. From the last dialogue between him and the reporter, we can clearly see this: "I have to withdraw from these concerns, because those concerns are like acupuncture heroin in your cerebral cortex, where I really need courage. I have to sit there, withstand this withdrawal, and try to remind myself what reality is. The reality is: I, 34 years old, stay in the room by myself, facing a piece of paper." He can't see all kinds of illusions Feeling happiness in the world, and unwilling to endure loneliness in the cold reality, this kind of character is doomed to his painful life.
From the above analysis, it can be seen that he has no one to share his success, no one to share his pain, and loneliness cannot be resolved after all. When he was in his twenties, the "psychic crisis" happened again, and it happened that the deep-rooted sense of disillusionment took over again. In his whole mind, death must make him feel a kind of relief. Obviously, if it is said that loneliness made David, and loneliness finally ruined him, then it should be appropriate to summarize David's life with "success also lonely, failure also lonely". (Text/Stone
Planting Flowers October 26, 2015) PS. The quotation in this article comes from the subtitles translated by "Cool Bald Rich Second Generation Subtitle Group" koala676, thank you!
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