Loss of Control -> Control -> Loss of Control

Jamaal 2021-10-20 17:25:23

Who doesn't want to control his life?

It's beautiful. If there is an opportunity to allow you to control your own life, the life that many people will achieve will probably not lead to the goal they previously claimed-at least, not the first goal. So, in fact, if the starting point is correct when people are troubled by their own destiny and cannot be controlled, then once the opportunity comes, this high-sounding reason will be forgotten, and the rest is the stage for the performance of human desire. The gushing desire does not come out of thin air. When human beings are in distress, it has been ambushing behind the good-looking and good-sounding reasons, but finally broke out of the constraints of external conditions. Therefore, people with noble reasons for the time being are not more innocent, but they have not yet revealed their original features; besides, there is no excessively inflated desire, how can they control the desire of life?

Therefore, "not for this home" is often a fig leaf for disadvantaged times, and "better status/money/power => better family conditions => better family life" also tells of countless scams. People's desires are just wearing colorful costumes to sway the market, and its effect is limited to making others more sympathetic/envious/jealous/joining the army, without making oneself feel better at all. I don't know my abilities, conditions, likes and dislikes at all, but just blindly follow the pursuit, how can I not lose control of my life?

Michael Newman is one of the out-of-control army who leaned out of the balcony to pick the stars. The desire to move forward at work (not even a specific goal) keeps him absent from family life forever, and circumventing Wei and saving Zhao is his eternal shield. But the bravery of the tongue cannot stop the imbalance in life. Michael feels that his life is about to lose control (and that's why he is still unwilling to give up his desire), but his solution is not to retract his body from the balcony, but to look for it. A support in the air, so that he can continue to peek out-

so the movie gave him a support, and Morty, who looked like a wizard, gave him what he wanted. In fact, it doesn’t really matter what Michael got. If it’s a costume drama, it’s mostly a magic wand, and since it’s a modern drama, then it’s not surprising that it’s a remote control. In short, this thing must give everyone an impression that it can --control.

Yes, control is at the core of the content of this movie. Michael got an extremely powerful remote control that allowed him to create different possibilities. Most people want to maintain balance on the balcony, and the center of gravity must at least be within the balcony; Michael can now change the situation in another direction, swaggering to put his center of gravity outside the balcony to form a new balance. If this balance can be maintained, Michael can take care of his desires and life and take the fish and bear's paws into his arms.

However, the remote control finally showed another side after showing its initial power: the control it provides is limited. It sacrifices part of the control to achieve another part of the control. On the whole, it does not improve the user's ability. It can’t solve any problems; on the contrary, because the control orientation it achieves is too far from the acceptable range of Michael (much greater than the deviation of normal life), the result is that at the end of the film, Michael’s life is not better. Instead, he fell back into a state of losing control, and this state of loss of control made him more painful than the original normal life: this is a life that humans cannot accept. Michael has used excessive abilities because of his ignorance. The result was an excessive price. If you still use the balcony as a comparison, Michael climbed on the platform outside the balcony. After he went up, the platform floated away. It floated higher and higher, but Michael couldn't accept the result of not being able to return to the balcony. He sat on the platform and wept loudly. When desire showed a hideous face in front of him, when his life fell into a more serious loss of control, Michael finally began to take seriously and appreciate the benefits of his family life as a shield. (At least not to carry him higher and higher!). At this moment, the life that turned out to be bad doesn't seem so bad, because he has personally experienced the worse life-it is simply not life.

Happy as you all and setting the end of the movie are the usual tactics of this kind of film, and this film is no exception. When Michael woke up from his dream and yelled "middle-class rubbish" at his car in ecstasy, I am afraid no one would not feel relieved; and when he returned home and saw the remote control, there was probably a lot of bumps behind his back. Sweat. Considering the audience of the film, this kind of bridge is also acceptable; but a few people chew their bitterness in ecstasy: they have to be a middle class, and if they are not obedient, they have to be "remote control". And the plot of throwing away the remote control does not actually solve any problems: our remote control does not have to be in our hands, our remote control is in our hearts.

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  • Clarissa 2022-03-24 09:01:20

    "You only know how to cherish if you lose it" ~ a common topic ~ but a mistake that humans will always make ~ this movie tells such a story ~ it is still inspiring~

  • Rachelle 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    This should be a tragedy rather than a comedy~~ But in life, being forced by the trend, who would really make the right choice?

Click quotes

  • Ben at 7-Years-Old: Hey, look at Sundance wrestle his duck.

    [Sundance is humping it]

    Michael Newman: Oh, no, that's not wrestling. That's... Something you shouldn't know about for another 10 to 30 years. Ten for you.

    [Points at Ben]

    Michael Newman: Thirty for you.

    [Points at Samantha]

  • Donna Newman: Honey, you were so great.

    Michael Newman: Whoa, what are you, half a dolphin or something? That was incredible.

    Ben at 7-Years-Old: You just got here, Dad. I saw you.

    Michael Newman: What do you mean I just got here? Why are you saying that? I saw you. You jumped in there, you swam here.

    Samantha Newman - Age 5: Then what stroke was he doing, Dad?

    Michael Newman: He was doing the "shut-up".

    [Samantha laughs]