About excellence, arrogance, romance and failure

Destinee 2022-12-12 20:02:43

I watched the movie "American Hostess" a few days ago, but I didn't understand it. Even after reading the film reviews, I still don't understand it. Today I suddenly wanted to understand it.
Some people read, exercise, socialize, are beautiful and tasteful, and are very popular. Some young literary and artistic youths, although not beautiful enough, not valued, or even excluded, are able to perceive people and things around them intelligently and keenly and turn them into characters in their own writings. Although the two are quite different, they are equally smart and excellent, are also jealous, pursue the same romantic ideals, and have the same arrogance and loftyness.
As a result, the result is the same romance and failure. The reality is no match for stealing ideas and robbing a boyfriend, no match for mediocre inferiority and being bullied and teased, no match for a short, ugly, vinegar jar, no match for a fat man who lacks self-control and looks ridiculous and clumsy. Although these people have been so envious, jealous, chasing after or imitating, comparing them.
Maybe you are very good, but before you achieve real success, don't be arrogant, don't be smart, otherwise you will not be able to keep your feet on the ground, otherwise you will get lost on the journey where the road is right but you can't reach the end. I remember someone said before that when you see an extremely beautiful woman taking a bus or subway, you will think, what did you do wrong when you were young? I think it should be nothing more than willfulness and arrogance.
From this perspective, we can understand the conclusive monologue at the end of the film: "She made rich fat women less fat, made rich stupid children less stupid, and rich frustrated men less frustrated. But she In fact, I really want to become those people. She is fat, stupid, frustrated and rich. But she is indeed much better than those people. She is a campfire, and they are just matches. She is the last cowboy in the world. She is full of romance and Fail."

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    Tracy: [narrating] Meadow had made rich fat women less fat, and rich stupid kids less stupid, and lame rich men less lame. And she wanted so badly to be on the other side... to be fat and stupid and lame and rich. But what she couldn't see most of all, more than she couldn't see that she was never going to get the restaurant, was that those people were *nothing* compared to her. They were matches to her bonfire. She was the last cowboy, all romance and failure. The world was changing, and her kind didn't have anywhere to go. Being a beacon of hope for lesser people... is a lonely business.

  • Tracy: It was clear that the thing that Meadow wanted most in the world, the thing that she wanted to define her, to give her a place to put her time and talents, her everything, the restaurant, it was clear that it will never happen. The most surprising thing was that Meadow was actually surprised by it. She could see the world with painful accuracy, but she couldn't see herself or her fate. And because I was in love with her I decided I couldn't see it either.