The tragedy of idealists in three acts

Luisa 2022-01-18 08:02:47

This is a story located in the 1980s in the United States. Like many movies, it gave such a tragic ending, but it can't give you a way to recover.

The story tells the story of a father, Jack, and daughter, Rose, who are the only residents of a wetland that the real estate developer’s wife says is "undeveloped". The father once had the dream of a "utopian commune": a group of people stay away from society and rely on this wetland. Live by yourself while minimizing the damage to nature. But the heart attack forced Jack to think about how to place his daughter, who had not been in contact with the outside world since the age of 11, on this "island". He invited his lover, and the lover brought his two sons. The original order was destroyed. Jack's utopian dream was crumbling among the white plastic panel houses rising from the ground. The father said that letting outsiders come in is an "experiment", and his daughter resisted continuously with more ferocious "experiments", but under countless dangerous actions, Jack melted into his precious Rose's eyebrows time and time again. Rose played the image of the old family of three, just like the Woodstock Music Festival in my imagination.

Jack realized that only the extremely pure girl in front of him was the only one who understood his fragile ideals and was his only supporter. Rose saw his indecision, his fear. After the taboo kiss, the huge guilt collapsed Jack's faith, and he hoped to let everything end as a punishment for himself.

The ethereal music rang in the blue sky, the bright flowers were still swaying in the grass, and the flames of the wooden house finally broke through the windows.

Jack and Ruth, we know these two names so well! In the 10s, the Titanic was the ultimate ideal love between the nobleman Ruth and the poor boy Jack. However, the shipwreck in the icy sea and the heavens and humans are forever separated. The world cannot carry this love. In the 1950s, Aipulu was on the road of revolution. Willer is also an idealist, but Paris is not in the mountains, but it seems like a mirage buried in a failed attempt. The world cannot bear this breakthrough. In the 1980s, Jack and Ruth cuddled on the roof, but damage was already lurking in this tranquility. Finally, our lifelong effort seemed so meager, disappearing in the billowing waves of time, how the world can bear such an ideal ?

The movie said, Innocent people are just dangerous. How many people in the age of innocence still have ideals that are incompatible with this reinforced forest? They are the bravest people, and indeed, they are the most dangerous people.

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The Ballad of Jack and Rose quotes

  • Gray: I wouldn't be able to do that.

    Jack Slavin: If you don't like your situation, then change it. If you can't change it, then leave it. It's your fucking life, man.

    Gray: I appreciate it.

  • Jack Slavin: What are you thinking about?