A stranger on the cloud

Summer 2021-10-20 17:33:38

The most sentimental line is the ending, the man’s monologue on the plane: “Tonight, many people will go home. There are bouncing puppies and screaming children at home, and their spouse will ask them how they are in the day, and then Sleep. The stars will turn out from the place where they are invisible during the day. Some stars will be slightly brighter than others. That is the trace of my flying."

He overlooked the world of the world above the clouds. One is lit for him.

In fact, "In the Clouds" is not a sentimental movie. Rather, it is another story about "Hercules at the Crossroads", an ethical dilemma: the two values ​​of light and heavy are constantly negating and dissolving each other. They questioned each other, and when they got closer and closer to worldly happiness and the tail of light, a big reversal came to suspend the answer completely. A man who has played lightly all his life is betrayed by his lover after betraying his own values.

And the woman who seemed to be a close comrade-in-arms was standing behind a door at this time, there was light and steam, a child ran up the stairs laughing, and a man called her "Dear". She stood in front of her entire kingdom, with embarrassment and a slight pity on her face, looking down at the intruder who was knocking on the city gate.

The seemingly homogeneous alliance between the two fell apart in an instant. Whoever is alone at this time will be alone forever.

And before this, the man had shrugged several times and asserted to those around him: We are destined to die alone.

Is there a problem with loneliness? There is no problem with loneliness. Loneliness may bring serious ethical troubles, but it is after all the highest form of physical and mental freedom that an individual can choose. However, speaking of it, even something like loneliness must be pulled by a thin thread, pulling it towards the center of the earth, so as not to lose weight completely and become a broken kite.

So what is the thin line of a man? Flight mileage card. How many times, he talked about the amazing mileage with his eyes glowing like a big boy looking forward to his beloved toy, just as he chatted with the lovers on the road about car rental companies, hotel services and various VIP cards. He is familiar with the waiting hall more than his own living room, and he loves fast food-style affair more than family life. This guy bluntly claimed: I have been on business trips for 324 days in this year, which means that I have to live in 41 days. Home. ——It seems that work has changed his life, but he is destined to choose this job: firing the commissioner. Only those who lack pain can make the knife accurately; only those who have never experienced a stable relationship can face those distraught faces indifferently and kick people out of a fixed track without mercy.

He also gave a part-time workplace lecture: "What will happen if you stuff all these things into your backpack? You will be unable to move!" The man threatened his audience with his backpack philosophy. So we don’t need those at all, come on burn your photos, empty your backpack, and let’s pack light.

He played lightly all his life. Therefore, until the movie was halfway through, the man still looked flat, and we couldn't know more except for his professional name. Both he and his life are sharp and cold like a scalpel, cutting off the adhesive surface between self and the world, like a person cutting off his own shadow. However, the reason why a person is human is that he can't escape the network of connections. There are still some unexpected burdens squeezed into his suitcase, such as: cardboard photos of sister and brother-in-law, young colleagues like newborn calves, smart and sexy lovers, A family wedding... When he took his lover to attend the wedding of his younger sister, but also stole into the old school, found the old photos of his school days and pointed him to her, we knew that this man was over. He fell. He has started to become a guy who has old photos, old times and connections and tries to share with others. Like a ball of thread, the memories and clues behind him are slowly being pulled out.

So, when he faced as he tried to escape with another man - his prospective brother, evil slander After marriage, he took a deep breath: "Everyone needs a co-pilot."

Said After all, the sense of belonging is nothing more than the weight that a person carries: old photo albums, old love letters, lovers, sisters, neighbors, dogs, children, noodles cooked by your old mother.

About light and heavy, Kundera is so explained:. "The heaviest burden is also a symbol of life's most fulfilling, more heavy burden, the more our lives close to the earth, the more real and truthful"

by the Therefore, what is unbearable in life is not the weight of the backpack, but the lightness. Absolute freedom only appears tempting when it exists on the other side. Once it comes to life, it will take time for the sense of self-existence and turn individual life into a purposeless wandering. Camus wrote "A stranger", and behind the bitter coldness of self-exile is the absurdity of life. The aliens in modern society are vain and unattached to self-exile. They evolve from on the road to being in the clouds. After escaping from all the heaviness of daily life, they are left with a thin, paper-like body floating in the air. In the middle, it cannot reach the sky or the ground.

As at the end of the movie, the man’s dream came true: he finally accumulated 10 million miles of flying to become a platinum member. The old captain sat next to the distinguished passenger and greeted him warmly: "Where are you from?" He was taken aback. He couldn't tell whether he was melancholy or at a loss. He said, "Here."

An airplane is just that. A lonely planet that moves. All those who carried them were strangers who had nowhere to return home.

Almost all of the above words were thrown at him when I quarreled with L. This movie is exactly what he asked me to watch. "I'm very similar to him." He told me, slightly tired. ——I have seen him five old passports (none of them are private passports), which are densely packed with immigration stamps. On the night after watching the movie, I asked him: "Are you afraid of dying alone?" "Not afraid. I'm not afraid of death." No, no, I think it's not death. The greatest enemy of the years is neither death nor loneliness. It's vain. The vast life is like a wilderness. Discovering love, establishing relationships, confirming goals, and constantly strengthening it like consolidating fortresses and digging trenches over the long years, defending it, is probably the only way to fight against falsehood.

Thousands of rivers and mountains, there must be someone in it. You have to tie the thin thread that pulls each other tightly, dragging, although thousands of people are going with you.

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Extended Reading
  • Rosalee 2022-04-23 07:01:22

    charm little film, watching lovely people on screen is so fun. competent direction is also a plus, but it's time to Reitman to step up

  • Celine 2022-03-23 09:01:22

    A sad movie for the celibate

Up in the Air quotes

  • Ryan Bingham: [in a hotel bar, exchanging sexual encounter stories while they were flying] So we came up with this master plan which was for me to put gauze to bandage up my hands and when we gotten up to the plane, Trans-Atlantic flying to Zürich we walked up, waited until it was dark walked up to the bath room with her and they were watching a movie opened up went inside she opened the door for me came in and she was going to help me we gave it our best shot, it wasn't great but it was fun and tricky

    Alex Goran: Give me some details

    Ryan Bingham: Well it's not so easy have you ever tried it?

    Alex Goran: Yes I have

    Ryan Bingham: Really?

    Alex Goran: Really

    Ryan Bingham: You've done that?

    Alex Goran: I have done that

    Ryan Bingham: Done it on a Trans-Atlantic fight?

    Alex Goran: And domestic, regional actually

    Ryan Bingham: How about at night time?

    Alex Goran: Only day time

    Ryan Bingham: How do you do that?

    Alex Goran: I'm really flexible

  • Ryan Bingham: [sitting across from each other, exchanging traveling schedules by looking through their laptop computers] I'm in Newark on the twelfth Bethesda on the thirteenth Oklahoma City on the fifteenth

    Alex Goran: Heading south west? I'll be in Albuquerque on the weekend of the sixteenth

    Ryan Bingham: I'll be in Florida on the twentieth

    Alex Goran: Fort Lauderdale?

    Ryan Bingham: Miami

    Alex Goran: I should probably go back to my room so I can wake up in my bed

    Ryan Bingham: I think that would be the likely thing to do