His life is about a few brothers who were born to death, and a beautiful girl; it is about friendship and dreams, it is about youth and love, it is About loyalty and betrayal. In the past few years, when a person drifted away in silence and traveled far away from home, what was it that he was so worried about? Was it the betrayal of the lingering telephone ringing? Is it a girl who is ignorant of the angelic dance peeping through the boy's door?
After many years, he finally realized that he had been carrying the guilt for 35 years, which was originally pure loyalty and friendship; the brother he had been loyal and maintained throughout his life had deceived him for 35 years.
------How many young and frivolous are there in life?
Back then, the young and frivolous, little friends who were always inexperienced, inexplicably embarked on the road of punks, is it because of poverty? Is it because of the distorted rules of "evil over good" in the bottom society? Is it because of greed? We saw this scene: The noodle house is too poor to use electricity; the police and the gangster "Brother Tyrant" on the street are embarrassed, but they are reluctant to forgive this group of children; Xiao Paixi sits hopefully At the door of "Dream Girl" Petty, waiting to present delicious cakes to win the favor of the beauties, but finally couldn't help the tempting aroma of the cakes, and ate her own bargaining chip bit by bit..... The
brutal beating of the gangster "Brother Tyrant" on the street did not scare them. These little brothers immediately "resisted violence with violence" and retaliated fiercely. But they are full of self-confidence, and their arrogant youth pays death...When the bullet of Brother Tyco passed through Dominic’s immature chest, the youngest Dominic stayed here forever. Falling into the arms of the noodles, "Noodles, I slipped", the moment Dominic thought of closing his eyes, but he will never have time for tomorrow?
His brother went, the noodles went crazy; Brother Ba and the police died, and the noodles went to jail.
In those days, young and frivolous, all of this did not affect the noodles, and the brothers who protected their lives by Mingzhe, will continue to flourish in the future.
------- Can cold American dreams survive time?
The two closest people to Noodles, Max and Deborah, are American dreamers. They have lofty goals and firm behavior. They are extremely fanatical and confident. They are extremely cold and determined. They are not moved by anything, all obstacles will be abandoned or even trampled, including love, including friendship.
There is no love and friendship in the dreamer's eyes. The coquettish Carol is never Max's lover, she is his emotional accessory; noodles are not Max's brothers and friends, but his best partner. The strong Max clearly knows how to choose partners at each stage, such as the brave and alert noodles when he was young, the later Joe (?), and the later union activists and politicians. When his friends became obstacles to his fanatical dreams, he ruthlessly ruined them, and let the most romantic, passionate and benevolent noodles bear half a lifetime of regret and guilt.
Deborah and Max are the same person. She doesn’t love anything except dreams; she doesn’t care about anyone except noodles; but even when the noodles gave her a perfect night and her tenderness of love has been awakened, she I still chose my dream wisely, and I chose tomorrow.
35 years have passed, and the dreamers Max and Deborah have reached the culmination of their lives. The conspiracy of Max politicians is revealed, and there is only one death. Noodles finally faced the brother he was "guilty" for all his life. Max was still cold and firm: "I have taken all of your life and your place in the world. I have taken everything from you. I have taken Your money took away your girl. Why didn’t you shoot?” In his values of lack of human care, he begged for noodles to kill him, one because he must die, and the other because he took the noodles. For all worldly happiness, he owes the noodles, and he is not devout enough to yearn for the salvation of noodles. This American dreamer who lacks human warmth and does not know how to love does not understand that he most owes this brother who regards him as his elder brother, as a "mentor", or even a "mother", is friendship. Noodles chose not to hate Max, and did not choose to forgive. In other words, he forgives Max as an American dreamer, not his best friend Max who has been loyal to his life. The pocket watch of that year has appeared again. It has witnessed the friendship between two frivolous teenagers when they first met, but it has also witnessed betrayal. Time never stops. When this desperate American dreamer finally turned to ashes in the garbage truck, in the dim light, noodles and we all saw the coincidence number on the garbage truck: "35", is the garbage truck that crushed Max's dream? Or an extremely powerful time?
The meeting between Houjie and Deborah in 35 years is one of the most classic scenes in the film. Is Deborah who has reached the pinnacle of life really as young as the Cleopatra she played? No, Deborah, who has taken off her makeup, is showing her oldness after all. Her deep fear of the noodles and the meeting of her and Max's son, who is also named David (the real name of the noodles), shows that she still has love in her heart for this man who has spent her life obsessed with her even if she has defiled her. People think that dreams are everything when their dreams are not realized. When they are realized, they look back. The love that is behind them is also lingering. Everything can't escape the test of time, everything can't match time, except for one thing, love and forgiveness, Deborah is old after all, but from the eyes of the already aging noodles, Deborah is still him. The girl who is always beautiful in her heart. When love is defeated here......
------It is self to be redeemed, and friendship and love are broken.
What Max and Deborah trampled all their lives was exactly what Noodles wanted in their entire lives. He was never a hero, never a saint, he was just a bloody man who craved friendship and love.
The girl who danced gracefully in Houcang back then thought it was an episode of a ignorant teenager. Who could know this love and ran out of noodles for a lifetime?
Deborah is the shining beauty in his poor and chaotic youth world; when facing Deborah twice, whether it was 12 years ago or 12 years later, "Listen, your mother is looking for you." Max appeared in a hurry, like a "mother", afraid that his child would be aside from his heart, and nervously summoned to go home. Max deeply understands that noodles are drifting with the flow and at a loss. Max was afraid of losing his "unambitious" partner on several occasions.
There are many bridges between the blankness of the noodles and the drifting with the flow. When robbing the jeweler, at Max’s order and Carol’s request, he QJ Carroll mechanically and dazedly; when he did not approve of cooperating with Joe, he never thought of taking some actions to stop it; even later to save it. Crazy Max robbed the bank and also informed Carol's request in good faith.
In the narrow corridor of the theater, Noodles silently and for a long time stared at the boy who looks like a teenager Max and whose identity is like a mystery. Behind the terrible calmness of the noodles, is the trampled love.
When Max's appearance revealed the truth and completed the noodles of his own soul redemption, what kind of dream was broken? At the end of the film, the noodles came to the Chinese Tobacco Museum. In the endless smoke, the noodles no longer heard the ringtones representing the years of entanglement. After the anesthesia, the noodles found a broken friendship and love. NS?
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