Some loneliness is purely self-blaming

Jannie 2022-02-23 08:02:27

■A brush of the feature film "Learning to Drive" (U.S./2014) starring Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson. The film tells the story of the book critic Wendy, who has just been hit by marriage, meets India A series of emotional changes after the driver's license instructor Davin. This emotional work with "learning to drive" as the outline of the story actually contains a lot of rich content about middle-aged marriage crisis, anti-religious discrimination, faith salvation, arranged marriages, and the issue of political refugees in the United States. A career-oriented woman who was unable to master the "steering wheel of life" in her marriage. Through learning to drive, she not only met Davin, a "good teacher and helpful friend" of different races and religious backgrounds, but she also found her own self in the driving of cars. Life positioning. When the red light on the journey of life lights up, do you choose to live in the moment for a while? Or choose to fly through the restricted area with rage? "Learn to Drive" uses a very high-quality philosophical perspective to cut into the decision moment that everyone will eventually face, actively adjusts the direction and bravely tries to explore, the bitterness and sweetness of driving a car is not a metaphor for each Do people have different judgments and cognitions in important life nodes? When the fear on the road comes one after another, the so-called brave move is to face the long challenge of the future and loneliness, just like a person with acrophobia driving a car across a towering bridge, love and courage are the only ones leading to the embrace of God the way. The character setting of the coach Davin in the film not only represents part of the current situation of the political refugee group in the United States, but also conveys the deep thinking about social hierarchy and racial system under the non-traditional religious ideology. The marriage of matchmakers, the game of morality and ethics, the film tells people from a perspective that ordinary people can touch: some people's loneliness is worthy of sympathy, while others' loneliness is entirely self-blaming. [Score: 7.5 points/10 points]

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Learning to Drive quotes

  • Wendy: Come on in...

    Ted: You look fine.

    Wendy: Therefore I am.

  • Wendy: [attempting to parallel park] I'm lost.

    Darwan: Wendy, how do you know if you put in... Enough salt and pepper when you're making a stew?

    Wendy: You taste it.

    Darwan: Right. So what do you do when you lose track of which way the car is pointing... When you parallel park?

    Wendy: You taste it?

    Darwan: You just let the car move back a tiny bit... And see which way it goes. Taste the direction.

    Wendy: And then you adjust the seasoning?

    Darwan: Right. You adjust a little bit and a little bit. And now I've made myself hungry. I'll go home and make myself a curry.