If the shell in "Full Metal Shell" was made for you by someone else, then the thorny coat in "Expected Date" was made by you yourself. People think that people in this world are hedgehogs like Schopenhauer said, so they also dress themselves up as hedgehogs. In fact, they just find some toothpicks to stick in their coats.
Peter and Ethan are two extreme examples in the play.
Peter is a typical urbanite with a successful career, well-dressed, well-groomed hairstyle, and unsmiling. This is actually a symbol. In order to protect themselves, urbanites put on a protective coat with thorns. At the beginning of the film, when Peter considers his children's name, it shows that Peter is a person who succumbs to the rules of society and knows how to protect himself. When passing the security check, the thorns in the words to the security inspector showed the power of this jacket. The experience of being abandoned by his father at the age of 5 made Peter even more distrustful of others. When he went to buy marijuana, he subjectively assumed that Ethan must be an addict, and even later doubted whether his wife was unfaithful to him.
The world in the child’s eyes is simple. The child asks Peter why he wears a tie. In fact, he is asking: "Why are you wearing a protective cover for yourself." Of this invisible protective sleeve. Didn't it mean that if you are simple, the world is simple for you, so Peter, who is not simple, learned a lesson later in the bank.
Ethan is a poor life, sloppy image, ridiculous and pathetic, living in his own world. His father who loved him just passed away, and Ethan, who couldn't accept the reality, tried his best to get Peter, who met for the first time, to accompany him to Los Angeles. His actions and behaviors are like a child, he doesn't know how to hide himself to adapt to this society, and he is even in front of Peter when he is flying a plane. He is so direct and has always been a source of laughter until Pink Floyd's
The development of the plot is spoof, very "Hangover" style, the final ending is warm, it is worth watching.
Let’s talk about the director Todd Phillips. I watched "Preliminary Date" after watching two "The Hangover". I used to think that the director was a second-B youth, but now it seems that he should be a literary and artistic youth wearing a second-B coat. . But Todd Phillips still succumbed to society after all, so he put on a spoof coat when he wanted to express some critical spirit. Understandably, for the sake of living, Todd Phillips could not be Kubrick either.
If you read the thoughts I wrote and think that I am a literary youth, then you are wrong. This year, who doesn't have a few vests yet. I am putting a toothpick on myself.
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