This is a movie of about one hour and forty minutes, but when the film reaches forty minutes, I have roughly predicted the ending and the various plots that may occur in the next hour. Therefore, I left a message on QQ: Once a person who is lost on the road of life finds his goal, what kind of joy should it be? When the joy turns into fanaticism, and dreams turn into unattainable fantasy, what kind of joy should it be? What kind of sadness has become? (To the effect) The
director's portrayal of the four main characters in the film is true, comprehensive and touching. The protagonist, Harry, is idle, not doing business, often stealing TV sets in exchange for drugs. Mother Sara, middle-aged widowed husband, living in distress, her only son is ignorant, and rarely goes home to visit her. The heroine Marion is in a situation similar to that of a left-behind child. Parents gave money, but they couldn't give care and education. Harry became her only emotional sustenance. The supporting actor Tyrone, the black friend of the protagonist, aspires to be a big man when he was young, but when he grows up he steals and sells drugs with the protagonist. The story of the four fringe characters unfolds from the prosperous "Summer" in this way.
Story (a lot of spoilers)
Harry, Marion, and Tyrone, after an overall planning, invested the funds originally used to open a clothing store into drug trafficking. At this moment, the business is gradually on track, the funds are accumulating, and their lives are busy and fulfilling. After making a small achievement, the kind and warm side of human nature began to emerge. Harry understood that his mother's favorite way of entertainment was watching TV, and he planned to use the money he earned to buy a new TV for his mother. When he discussed with his girlfriend Marion, his girlfriend agreed without hesitation and suggested to leave immediately. My friend Tyrone thought of curling up in his mother's arms when he was a child, and determined to be a big man in the future, but his mother told him that you only need to be a good child. Mother Sara was unexpectedly notified by the TV station that she was chosen as the lucky guest and had the opportunity to become a TV star, which made her ecstatic, who had nothing to do. In fact, she does not expect to win, she just hopes that she can put on the red dress, show her best side on TV, and thank the national audience for her late husband and "career" successful son. In order to put on that red dress, Sara made up his mind to lose weight, but the temptation of food was too great, and even made her fidget and hallucinate. After a brief struggle, she chose the drug weight loss method, even if she knew that the drug contained stimulants and contained ingredients similar to drugs. Her enthusiasm for ideals made her veto her son's kind reminders and made her desperate. At this point in the film, I have anticipated the ending, and have my previous QQ message, and the subsequent plot is just a visual and auditory complement and impact.
In the bleak autumn, good friend Tyrone was caught in a fight among drug lords and was captured by the police. The protagonist Harry spent all his savings to redeem him (see the purity of friendship). To make matters worse, they lost the source of drugs, which not only caused their little “career” to suffer heavy losses, but also made them immersed in the pain of drug addiction. They also began to blame each other and shirk their own responsibilities. Mother Sara, on the other hand, became more and more eager for quick success and instant benefits. She began to swallow the medicine twice and three times, and under the stimulation of the medicine, she constantly produced auditory and visual hallucinations, imagining the scenery when she was on TV.
Along with struggle, pain, and lingering hope, winter comes quietly. However, what winter brings is not salvation, but despair. At the end of the film, the protagonist Harry was infected with rot in his left arm due to injecting drugs. His friend Tyrone risked him to send him to the hospital for treatment (repaying him), but both were arrested by the police. One was sent to reeducation through labor in a drug rehabilitation center, and the other was forcibly amputated by the hospital. The heroine Marion was unable to control her addiction to drugs, and after struggling, she fell free and became a tool of fornication by the drug lords. Mother Sara was taken to the hospital for emergency treatment. After experiencing painful concussion therapy, she barely saved her life, but she could only spend the rest of her life in a mental hospital. The final scenes of the four people are all frozen on the bed, curled up like a child, but what we see is not peace, but helplessness, pain and despair. In the end, the film was closed in Sara’s beautiful fantasy. She, wearing a red dress, happily and proudly introduced her late husband, successful son, and his beautiful girlfriend in front of hundreds of millions of TV viewers. The director played with the lingering hope like bamboo shoots, only to poke the bamboo shoots. The bamboo shoots became tenderer and smaller and smaller. At the end of the dialing, he found that there was nothing in it. Tell me, the reason why I don’t like bamboo shoots is because I feel like bamboo shoots have nothing to eat. It seems that there is some truth to it--!).
The film begins in summer and ends in winter. Each season is a metaphor for a life stage. However, I have never experienced the recovery and budding in the spring, and I have never laid a foundation in the soil. With the advent of autumn and the sudden changes in the environment, they are unable to control their direction and can only drift with the flow. There are often optimistic people who say that if winter comes, can spring be far behind? However, for them who have no foundation in spring and fruitless in autumn, the arrival of winter buried everything.
Comments
After watching the movie, I scrolled the mouse, and the comment column was filled with words such as sympathy, helplessness, and despair. One of the comments is impressive, "If you want to correct the film's deficiencies, I think: its excellence comes from its theme, but it is also destroyed by its theme. The film does not give us any hope." I think this represents the aspirations of the mainstream audience. However, for me at the time, I had never had such a strong pessimism, because what I saw was a natural cause and effect relationship. I believe that everything in the universe is universally connected. There is no exception between the inside and outside of things, between the past and the future of things. (Of course, this connection has nothing to do with fatalism. From the perspective of molecular thermal motion, taking a computer desk at room temperature as an example, every molecule that composes the computer desk is doing irregular thermal motion, and these irregularly moving molecules Together they constitute the computer desk we use normally.) The protagonist Harry and his friend Tyrone have neither a good educational background nor a down-to-earth learning of a skill. They fantasize about getting rich through shortcuts, and are lucky when faced with setbacks, like a gambler. Like to do the last fight regardless of the consequences. The heroine Marion lacks care and love, leading to a lack of self-identity, so the protagonist Harry’s affirmation and care of her became her only psychological and spiritual support, and drugs became her physical dependence. From beginning to end, she was Never had the ability to control his own destiny. Mother Sara lives a poor, lonely and aimless life. Sweets and TV are her biggest hobbies. However, a call from the TV station disrupted her calm heart and ignited her vanity. In fact, she is not obsessed with winning. Her wish is very simple. She just hopes that she will be able to be on TV so that the audience and the people around will feel that her life is very good. However, her desire was too strong, and she unknowingly turned into a kind of fanaticism that could not extricate herself from it. This kind of enthusiasm made her eager for quick success, regardless of the consequences, under the stimulation of drugs, she was lost in the gap between reality and fantasy and tortured.
I once heard a saying, "Poor people must be hateful". In my opinion, changing "must" to "often" is just right. It's just that for this film, I can't bear to stand at the commanding heights of morality and criticize the four characters in the play. This is an excuse that those domestic "brick-bricks" often use to shirk social responsibilities. From the beginning to the end of the film, the light in human nature runs through the audience-the mother's unconditional devotion to his son; the son's immediate back-feeding feeling when his "career" picks up slightly; the love of mutual dependence and mutual support between lovers; the difficulties of friends , Friendship willing to take chestnuts from the fire. It's just that the brilliance of human nature alone is not enough to redeem the lost lives of marginalized figures. The self-rescue of marginal figures not only needs to pay a huge life cost, but also needs to explore the vision of a way out. Where individual abilities are difficult to reach, what is needed is the care and relief of the humanistic society. In my opinion, material and humanities are like the two legs of society. They can be separated in sequence and crossed, but they cannot be too far apart. Otherwise, the whole society will fall.
This makes me have to think of the current Chinese society. More than 30 years of reform and opening up, rapid material development and arduous humanistic reconstruction have spawned the malignant tumor of contemporary society-fanatical success studies (not that success studies are malignant tumors, fanatic success studies are malignant tumors). When the mainstream social judgment system uses money and power as the only criteria for success, there are only two kinds of people left in this society-successful people and failed people. In this dualistic environment, some people run toward money and power out of their own desires, some start to run out of the realization of self-worth, and more people start to run because everyone around them is running. At this time, the rise of success studies seems to point out a shortcut to success. From Baidu Encyclopedia, I found a self-introduction by Chen Anzhi, a master of Chinese success studies: “From no one knew me to my books selling more than millions of copies in Asia, these achievements come from continuous learning. On average, I read more than 400 to 600 books and have taken a lot of successful courses. In just ten years, my life has changed greatly. I firmly believe that as long as you want to succeed, you must, at the same time If you continue to take the same actions, you will surely get the same results!" Another paragraph about Chen Anzhi’s life mission is: Century, to become the world’s strongest country!” Let’s not comment on whether it is feasible to read more than 400 to 600 books a year. After finishing 1-2 books, is it "Gourd Baby"?), but his passion and passion and impassioned two concepts instilled into the audience: one is that there is a shortcut to success; the other is that as long as you follow what he says If you work hard with the method, you will be able to succeed. This is tantamount to providing a stimulant to the running people, so the stimulant people start to redouble their efforts, go forward courageously, and run wildly, as if success is in sight. With the proliferation of success studies, speakers no longer need to persuade the audience, but only use drama to inspire them to take action, and then hypnotize them on a large scale. Hypnotic slogans such as "earning a million in three months", "with a car and a house", and "retire before the age of thirty-five" have permeated all corners of society, igniting personal enthusiasm, and converging into the whole Social fanaticism. Fanaticism has caused society to lose its sense. Gradually, there are more people who are unscrupulous, more people are fighting each other, more people have broken blood, and more people have lost their way. It’s just that the financial resources and power resources in society are ultimately limited, and they can succeed. There must be only a small number of people. No matter how painful the price is paid, our entire society is still full of failures and misfortunes. The tragedy of Sara's mother in the film repeats itself again and again in reality.
How to redeem? As mentioned before, when individuals are unable to save themselves, what is needed is the care and relief of the humanistic society. For today's society, it may be feasible to take two steps: one is to quell the fanaticism and return to the rational track of success learning; the other is to establish a diversified value system and redefine the concept of success. First, let's look at the foundation of the theory of success: Freud's three-self, Pavlov's conditioned reflex and the second signal system, and Maslow's theory of needs. Its basic categories are: goals, actions, time management, emotion management, interpersonal management, self-cultivation, specialty, innovation ability and self-learning ability. In short, "Success Studies" is actually a subject of self-management, or education of ideals, beliefs and goal actions. Through a positive, positive, and sunny attitude to face all aspects of career, family, and society, through self-exploration to find a development path that suits you, and persevere in effective time management. In my opinion, the essence of success learning lies in helping people increase their chances and abilities to succeed, rather than drawing a bread for hungry listeners and telling them that as long as they meet certain conditions, they will definitely get this bread. From a philosophical point of view, the change and development of things are the result of both internal and external factors: internal factors are the basis for the development of things; external factors are the conditions for the development of things; external factors work through internal factors. Here, the individual's ability, the individual's desire for success, the effort to achieve success, etc. are all internal causes, while opportunities and luck are external causes. To succeed, both are indispensable. In other words, success comes from personal ability and hard work, but capable people may not be able to succeed if they work hard. Destiny, and the degree of influence is greater, but it cannot determine the destiny, also because of the above-mentioned reason). If quelling fanaticism can only cure the symptoms, then establishing a diversified value system is a way to cure the root cause. According to the theory of biology, the richer the biodiversity in an ecological environment, the more conducive to the stability and health of the ecological environment. According to Lao Tzu's philosophy of "Dao follows nature", the laws of operation of all things follow the laws of nature. I firmly believe that the values of a society should also become more diverse. In fact, highly unified values often bring catastrophic blows to mankind. Whether it is France in the Napoleon era, Germany in the Hitler era or China in the Cultural Revolution era, highly unified values have brought high-speed efficiency, high-speed efficiency has brought short-term glory, and short-term glory has brought the enthusiasm of the whole people, and the whole people The fanaticism brought a catastrophic blow. From a micro perspective, everyone’s genes Different and different growth environments lead to different personalities, abilities, hobbies and concepts. Some people like to chase power and money; some like to think about human suffering and propose reforms; some like to create art; some like to make delicious cakes; and some people just want to be in a daze and dream. Live a little life without much pursuit. No matter what kind of people, let them find a way of life that suits them under the premise of independent personality and free thinking. I think this is a kind of success. I also thought of a Weibo I saw before: "Two people, one in Beijing and the other in Lijiang. One has an annual salary of 100,000 and can't afford a house. He squeezes the bus every day from nine to five. He breathes car exhaust, thinking about getting ahead. One. I have no fixed income and live in a dilapidated courtyard house by the lake. I wake up naturally every day. I use photography to make a living. I wander around. It’s okay to drink tea and sun and watch the floating clouds in the snow-capped mountains. One said that the other party does not seek improvement, and the other said that the other party does not understand life. Two ways of life, how do you choose?" Adhere to your own choices, respect the choices of others, seek common ground while reserving differences, work together to build a tolerant social environment, and gradually establish diversified values. I think this is a kind of society facing the whole society. Salvation.
"In the long run, we are all going to die", but we cannot deny the meaning of living in the present because everyone is going to die in the future. At this time, I thought of a sentence—being a monk for a day and hitting the clock. Some people think that this is an attitude of life that does not seek to make progress, but I think it is a kind of diligence in the present, working hard in the present, and practicing in daily life. Philosophy of life. On the road of life, walk around and stop, this is my current choice.
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