In the guide book he wrote, it is clear that: "Business travelers should only carry hand luggage. They are asking for trouble when checking luggage. They should bring a few small packets of washing powder to avoid being washed dirty by unfamiliar laundry. Life must be The product is placed in a small portable bag. A gray suit is enough. The gray is resistant to dirt and can also be used for accidental funerals. Bring a book with you to prevent outsiders from starting a conversation, magazines are not good to read, and newspapers reveal the details of foreigners. It is not as suitable as bringing a book. It is enough to bring a book. Travelers always overestimate the free time they may have, and even bring too many things that they don’t need. Traveling is like the state of life in most of the time, small and neat It’s the best
choice for regularity . Remember, once you lose the precious things that will make you sad, it’s best not to take it with you.” Such a perfect business travel guide is very practical. At the beginning of the movie, Macon is reading a novel in the cabin of the plane. , The fat man next door is his fan, and he held him a good compliment. After reading Macon’s book, going out is no different from going home. The fat man sincerely praises Macon’s masterpiece: "According to your book to arrange your travel life, It's safe and comfortable like being wrapped in a cocoon!"
Macon's house is a small and neat box, and two brothers and a sister make up a table of cards. My sister Rose is in charge of taking care of the household affairs, everything is done in an orderly manner, even the canned food is arranged in alphabetical order.
Macon’s marriage is a small and neat box, his wife is just right, intellectually independent, and the life of the husband and wife has been moving forward steadily for 17 years.
From life to work, Macon is undoubtedly a thoughtful traveler. This is related to his family environment and his personality. Macon tends to wrap his inner world. Outside the spiritual world, he has a sense of responsibility and has a stable life. This helped him to have a stable and peaceful married life, and deep down, he refused to stay thousands of miles away, and always maintained introspection, to ensure that the distance from others was just right, not to hurt others, and not to reveal himself. This kind of self-disposal method is similar to that of veteran business travelers. They shuttle between cities silently, perform official duties efficiently and energy-savingly, and hide from the crowd as much as possible. They neither trouble others nor want to be noticed or disturbed by others. It's not bad from a certain angle, at least Macon entered middle-aged life without incident.
Until the unfortunate death of his 10-year-old son a year ago due to an accident, Macon's life was thrown into the washing machine overnight and messed up. Life finally deviated from its small and neat state, making it impossible for Macon to settle. The life between husband and wife is so dry and dull that it makes people crazy. Macon will not go crazy. Finding stability is his specialty. His wife Sarah is going crazy, so she separates.
Due to occupational diseases, Macon used business travel to compare accidents in real life: "Even the most attentive traveler can't cover everything." There are always accidents that make Macon embarrassed. The death of his son is only the first in the big and small troubles. One, separation of husband and wife is by no means the last. The metaphor of stumbling is not appropriate. Starting from the blow of her son’s death, the goddess of fate stretched out her index finger and knocked on Macon’s cocoon, gently and hard, time near and far away, while pushing Macon to the fallen one. On the edge, one side seemed to imply that he might have to make a choice to break the cocoon. Losing a son or losing a wife, knocking on the door with different intensity, are essentially all kinds of accidents that travelers cannot cover everything.
Can Macon remain calm on the outside? At least he tried his best to keep it up, although the knocking on the door came in waves. The movie "Accidental Tourist" tells the story of how the most thoughtful traveler, Macon, heard the knock on the door of the Goddess of Destiny, and how he made choices step by step in these endless so-called "accidents." Following this main line all the way down, the structure of the movie is really amazing.
After his wife moved away, Macon had to live alone. The domestic dog did not adapt to the new family environment, and his emotions were impeded, either biting someone or causing Macon to break his leg. The brothers and sisters moved in to take care of him. The brothers and sisters moved in and lived together. My sister Rose and Macon’s publisher got mixed up. This matter will be discussed later. Miao Lilai, a single mother at the pet shop, helps train the dog. That's all about dog training. This poor Miaoli is not to stop people, she wants to communicate with Macon. That's it, asking him to play with his only son, Alexander, to provide his son with the family atmosphere of an adult male. It's fine for Macon and Miaoli to get into bed, Miaoli wants to marry him, and it's fine if she really marries. When the separation period expires, his wife Sarah doesn’t want to get divorced, and it’s normal not to divorce. This couple is considered proper. Compared to most poor people in marriage, they respect each other like guests, even knowing and giving gifts, and staying together for many years. In the end, both people are sensible people, so it would be against common sense to get divorced.
The topic is nothing new so far. Although the screenwriter strives to avoid the suspicion of extramarital affair with a middle-aged crisis male, and put Miao Li's attraction to Macon after the separation of the husband and wife, but in general the storyline is still spinning in the circle that the audience is familiar with, Macon His old life is a line where people are familiar with each other and have a degree of advancement and retreat. The deceased son sometimes flashes in the hearts of the husband and wife, and most of the time the life is stable. The happy lover life with Miao Li is another thread. Miao Li is a woman who is turned into a colorful kangaroo with long rose fingernails, a red and green sweater and a table lamp with long and short tassels. Sick children live in slums, and when they train puppies, they are full of air or confidence. They don't treat puppies as a major event at all. When she wants to chase Macon, she just speaks, Macon doesn’t follow her and she doesn’t make her face angry. After Macon follows her, she will drink spicy food, as if she does whatever the number of days, she doesn’t hate too much or less. , It's a different kind of taste. The low-key life Macon wants to make a choice between his wife and lover. The business traveler Macon chooses to restore his usual life and move on to the familiar married life.
It's a pity that the tree wants to be quiet but the goddess of destiny is more than that. Remember Macon’s theory? The most comprehensive passengers will also encounter accidents that cannot be dealt with. "You must calm down when you encounter problems and rely on your own common sense and intuition." However, common sense and intuition are sometimes so far apart!
When it comes to common sense and intuition, we must mention Macon’s sister Rosa. A good movie is like a willow tree in spring. There are so many willow branches hanging down from the bottom of the tree. They seem to be soft and weak. They are not related to each other, but in fact, the same tree trunk is attached to the top, and the bottom is pointing to the same piece of land. The wind is light. See also random, and see closely connected. Rosa is the best mirror in Macon. Rosa grew up to be an old girl at the age of 37. Her main job every day was to manage the lazy lives of her brothers, and by the way, to help the elderly in the community solve daily trivial matters. The publisher Julian took a fancy to Rosa. But the Macon brothers subconsciously don't like the happy result. It's just right for Rosa to live in the present, and it's not good for her to change her way, and it's even worse for her brothers. The evil consciousness of the brothers was pierced by Rosa, and she took the opportunity to seize the opportunity on Thanksgiving night: "You just don't want me and Julian to get along!" Rosa in love broke out of her cocoon and forced her to get married. Up. Rosa's feat of breaking the bad family habits and bravely embarking on a new life was another knock on Macon's door, but at the time Macon was with Miao Li Qingqing, and this knock on the door didn't bother him much. Pain is waiting. Within a few days of marriage, the couple's emotional life is still in harmony, but Rosa ran back to live in her natal house and resume her old life. Want to say the reason? She was not used to anything in her new home. She couldn't even recognize the way to the grocery store and couldn't live anymore. Besides the arrangements to leave her, the brothers had a terrible life. In trouble, brother-in-law Julian came to ask for Macon’s idea. Macon and Rosa are a bit different. He has a much stronger sense of introspection. He knows where Rosa’s problem is, and instructs Julian to invite Rosa to the publishing company. As a housekeeper, brother Mo Ruo, a confidant, not only puts everything in the company into control, Rose not only puts Julian back into her family’s house, plus the two brothers who didn’t have a family, they just make up the poker table every day, and everything about family life is also put into control.
By the way, Macon is really not an ordinary person. If Macon is only a male version of Rosa, the film will be of low grade. It will be either a black humor film (put everything into control's Rosa repairing a positive result) or a critical family ethics film ( A white rose is better or a red rose), both are too shallow, but Macon is a kind of sensible person, which determines that this film is not a leisurely work. Macon and Rosa appear to be the same kind of people, but they are actually a little different. By the way, Julian became interested in their home and was often a guest. Macon reminded Rosa not without worry, not to take out the "strange things" that were accustomed to the family to scare Julian, Rosa did not understand what he meant. He replied: "What are you talking about? We are the most obedient people in the world." Rosa did not realize the unreliable side of her small and tidy life. She seemed to speak the most common sense, but in fact it violates common sense. This common sense is What, I will talk about it later. But Macon realized that there was a problem with his family life. Although he hadn't thought about what was wrong when this conversation happened, he just reminded Rosa instinctively to cover up the truth. Later, he withdrew from his lover, Miaoli, and returned to his wife. Seeing Rosa fled back to her natal life, he suddenly saw what scared him, so he wrote his worries in the travel guide book, and he warned the readers Said: "In a foreign land, don't be deceived by a false sense of security." So common sense and intuition are too far apart, Macon returned to his wife out of the correctness of common sense, but witnessed Rosa challenging herself with her behavior The decision is really upset. Why does the goddess of destiny keep him peaceful?
No wonder there are quarrels between husband and wife. As mentioned earlier, Macon’s wife is a pretty good middle-aged woman, knowledgeable and educated, and a sensible person, because she only mentioned the separation first. She is also very affectionate, otherwise she would not ask to move together again. But the day was not fulfilled. She couldn't pretend to be invisible to Macon's self-enclosure, and when she made all kinds of efforts and failed, she provoked the incident and argued with him. It is said that a couple's quarrel is the most genuine knock on the door of the goddess of fate. Macon wanted to be wrapped in a cocoon, but the knock on the door rang all the way to the pillow, and this day could not be stable. But what kind of person Macon is. He is the most thoughtful traveler. All kinds of accidents can't make him change the inherent way of traveling. Macon once again packs up and embarks on the road of business travel.
In Paris, the final knock on the door of the goddess of fate resounded. Macon severely sprained his psoas while moving the cabinet. This time he must be severed. Should he continue to take painkillers in a safe life? So far, I'm a little embarrassed.
I won't elaborate on the ingenuity and "correctness" of the plot, and the characterization of this film is also really brilliant. The screenwriter can pinch the character seven inches with three fingers. Just to talk about Macon’s emphasis on keeping a sense of distance, one clip made it clear: Macon and Miao Li gradually became friends, and she invited him to take her and her son to the movies, on the grounds that living in a single-parent family, the son did not have the opportunity to reach adulthood. Male, he is not very interested. Of course there is no interest. Macon doesn't want to get too close to Miao Li, he doesn't want to get too close to anyone, not to mention her son reminds him of his dead son. Such an invitation is simply too difficult for Macon. So Miao Li’s suggestion to watch a movie is another knock on the cocoon shell for Macon. Out of understanding of Macon’s character, he will almost certainly refuse. What I am really interested in is that the screenwriter will give What reason did Macon refuse? Macon replied to Miao Li in this way: "I have no interest in movies, because movies always draw people too close." Hey, this reason... is it also a reason? It is an inappropriate excuse to look at Macon’s answer when the relationship between the two is not close. On the surface, it is an inappropriate excuse for being embarrassed. In essence, Macon tells Miaoli the truth. He is not used to the relationship between people and people. It's so close, as close as in the movies, and those movies seem to be mechanical for Macon, and he can't enjoy those fabrications happily. This detail seems to come at your fingertips, and it is the finishing touch to Macon's character portrait.
Since he would speak the truth to her, she became his lover naturally.
Besides Miao Li, Miao Li's character characteristics are introduced in the front. She looks like a silly eldest girl who is dressed up and vulgar, so that some film critics think that she represents a common taste of men: simple women are likable. Is it really that simple? It's not that simple. Macon is not an ordinary man who can do it just by flicking.
Miao Li's character has to be compared with that of Macon's wife Sarah. Let’s talk about Sarah. After the relationship reunited, she couldn’t stand Macon’s continued distance, and said angrily: "Do you know what your biggest problem is?" She dismissed Sarah in a dilemma, looking a little bit out of control. Let’s not mention why Macon is angry, and look at Sarah’s reaction. She must finish her sentence: "Your biggest problem is to close yourself up. You think that the human heart should be enclosed in a box." Tsk, After a series of beatings, Macon managed to restore his fragile balance and return to the familiar married life. It would take a long time for the rest to recover from the injury. Sarah spoke impatiently. Macon was instinctively afraid that she would break the protective shell, and immediately covered Sarah's mouth with anger. But Sarah won't eat that set, she must finish her words. In the matter of speaking, the stakes are all different in the situation. Sometimes the burden can be relieved by opening the window and talking bright words. Sometimes you push people out of the window, and you don't care about taking them downstairs? When Sarah pushed Macon out the window, she must have never thought of his pain. It was also because of this lack of talent that she would use "common sense" to ask Macon if it was because Miao Li's son made him obsessed with Miao Li.
The silly girl Miaoli has a good instinct in this regard. She takes the initiative in everything, does not cover up or even appears vulgar, but the space given to Macon on key points is wide and amazing. Almost every time he made further requests to Macon, Macon would refuse, but she never gave Macon room and didn't expect him to follow her own will. After thinking about it, Macon handed a letter in the crack of the door to say that he didn't want to date her, because the appointment would remind him of his deceased son. It was a pain he couldn't digest. Miao Li didn't talk about dating or her son anymore, but took him upstairs and gave him a quiet bed for a good night's sleep. Only Miao Li understands this thoughtful and quiet size, but Sarah can't. She put Macon in bed and took off her earrings. When the earrings fell into the jewellery tray, she made a clinking sound. The simplicity and penetrating power of the sound were as good as the smile of her dead son. Silly girl has talent, a simple but not simple woman.
After talking for a long time, I turned back to the travel theory of the thoughtful traveler Macon. When encountering a bewildered accident, we must solve the problem with common sense and intuition. Macon’s common sense is that only a perfect partner can have a happy marriage, but where to find such a partner, since there is no perfect partner, just close the door and live a safe family life in which family love is more than love. But in the constant knocking of the goddess of destiny, the power of intuition continues to grow: "Even business travelers with strict self-discipline will sometimes unknowingly discover something that must be taken home." That thing may be. A cumbersome and cumbersome big thing, it may even be a set meal in a Paris restaurant, the amount of dishes is too large to eat! When common sense and intuition conflict, do you want to put down the painkillers in your hand, or do you want to put down reading books on the way to protect yourself? Macon finally realized that "life can't be planned. It is a mistake to treat it as a business trip." Put down what should be put down, bring what should be brought, and solve the problem with common sense and intuition.
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