This is the rest of my life I want

Deven 2022-11-04 19:08:01

After telling the story to Beibei tonight, I clicked on the TV and saw the movie accidentally, so I clicked on to watch it. The story is simple and trivial. An elderly American couple. The husband is a retired black soldier and the wife is an ordinary girl born in Brooklyn. The black guy painted a body oil painting for this girl when he was young. Because of this experience, the white girl withstood the pressure from the secular perspective of the society and the family to break up, married the black guy, and bought an old building in Brooklyn with two bedrooms and a bathroom but no elevator. A house is forty years. When they are old and want to change to an apartment with an elevator, the whole story is to shuttle back and forth between selling a house and buying a house, plus their dog's illness surgery and a suspected terrorist attack in the middle polished, the whole film let People feel the kind of life that comes together because of love and is plain but not lost in style. In contrast, have I lived my life as I want? No, but I can't change it. I only hope that when Beibei grows up, she can find a man she loves and is also worthy of relying on. Okay, I have a lot of thoughts. It will be more than 20 years before Beibei gets married, right?

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5 Flights Up quotes

  • Lily Portman: Well, then I'm gonna say it. You're a crazy old man, who doesn't know what's good for you.

    Ruth Carver: Hey, no, you do not speak to him like that!

    Lily Portman: And you're no better! Fuck you both!

    [walks away with her fist in the air]

    Ruth Carver: I guess we won't be going to her place for Thanksgiving this year.

  • [last lines]

    Alex Carver: [narrating] Those few days were like one big rollercoaster ride. And, like most rides, we ended up where we began. Still, it reminded us who we are. What we have. It was worth it, if only for that.

    Alex Carver: Maybe one day we'll sell. Stop climbing the stairs. But for now we'll just deal with what is. The important thing is it brought us back here. Together. Back to our senses. And to our home.