Everyone has their own time, space and field in which they live. This is not as simple as the rhythm of life, but it is not as profound as a philosophical discourse. It is so light and soaked in life that we always ignore it in our daily glimpses; yet it is so dense and colorful, blocking everyone in each person's own time and space.
Obviously, Raymond and Charlie have different time and space feelings. They have controlled them alone, have seen each other, and have influenced each other. The long country road connects Los Angeles and Cincinnati, and has also become a rope connecting two kinds of time and space.
Laws, taboos, memories, and real life objects occupy Raymond's life. That is such a static life, every day is just a copy of the previous day-there are countless books waiting for him to read, countless TV programs waiting for him to watch, but these books and programs themselves have no essence. The difference seems to be only habitual fulfillment and memory input for Raymond.
Time is not a flowing river in Raymond's hands, but just repeated day after day. For him, those laws and taboos are the most important boundary of life, and they are insurmountable and untestable—"Charlie Bailey must not be hurt...Charlie Bailey must not be hurt...". Life is defined as a cycle within seven days. What is fixed every week is the law of life and life itself. And memory becomes the ultimate attribution of life, framing the most worrying taboos. In the cycle of every seven days, nothing is truly preserved and abstracted. Vern is VERN, Charlie is CHARLIE, this is not a person who represents an abstract concept, but more just the "him" at this time, here, and here. In these practical things, Raymond is more like a written program to live every day's life and practice every day's life.
Here, this seven-day reincarnation is not just a repetition in time, but the boundary of the world. Raymond’s world is only the days at the boy’s home, the days at the Walbrook Nursing Home. The boundary of his life experience is the boundary of his life. All this repeatedly proves that Raymond’s stillness is like stagnating in his "own world" in the movie, or in other words, stagnating in the field he touches, he is purely living his life every day. Years, bit by bit. It's just pure.
Charlie's time is different. He has a rich life. The past, the present, and the future have formed a long line in his vision, building his life-the vague "Rain Man" when he was a child, the 16-year-old "car theft" incident broke the father-son relationship , Purchasing Lamborghini and so on. The purpose of change has become an important pilot in such a time-flowing river, and Charlie himself is a walker, hardworking or confused person in such a time-flow. Every decision is a choice made under the guidance of a new purpose, and this purpose divides life itself into fragmented breakpoints. From this point of view, perhaps Charlie's complexity points to a lifestyle and life philosophy that seems to be opposed to Raymond in both form and deduction, and this is also the beginning of their encounter.
When that 1949 old Buick drove into the M Nursing Home, the glimpses of the two worlds were intertwined into a common road trip with only two people, and everything was changed. The old car is like Raymond, seeming to walk unchangingly; while the steering wheel is dominated by Charlie, blending into a certain purpose; the road is like time, endless, detached from the outside. The two trajectories blend in the blood, and collide with each other in life.
Undoubtedly, the collision of the two fields has caused too many discomforts. For Raymond, it is the failure of the rules, the boundaries of life have been challenged time and time again, and even the taboos have been touched; for Charlie, it is the failure of the purposeful life repeatedly, and he is forced to enter a pure and innocent vision.
It was family affection. The regaining of family affection that had been buried for many years influenced Charlie, and it was the different time-space world that moved Charlie. Ineffective efforts, ineffective dialogues, unchangeable rules, and the embarrassment of being inexperienced... all impacted Charlie's understanding of life. For the first time, a story that was no longer remembered broke into Charlie's world in such a real and close way-his world was reconstructed by the appearance of the "Rain Man"!
Imagine that "Rain Man" enters his world in another form. The lawyer who read the will directly informed Charlie that he had such an older brother, Raymond, who was sent to the nursing home for the purpose of protecting him more than ten years ago. Therefore, his father distributed the will so "unevenly"; or the "Rain Man" was A typical autistic patient cannot communicate with others at all, or even has lost the ability to speak, etc. Then the whole story will take on a completely different look. And Charlie in the story won't be as touched as he is now. The story gave Raymond and Charlie a new time and space, allowing them to spend a week together, and this was enough to show the conflict between the two of them and show each other a completely different world.
What Charlie saw in Raymond was not only the appearance of a brother who loved him, but also a solidified period, a solidified love and a pure way of life. This is completely different from the complicated world in which he lives. It is like throwing him into a world that has never been known or touched. Because of his brotherhood, he had vaguely touched this world when he was a child. Such a distant and close spiritual distance made Charlie or even Raymond moved.
There are the most primitive things in this world, which are implicitly contained in Charlie's time flow, and appear to exist in a certain period of time in the past. This is a world that he must understand but forgets, a pure world, a world that is lost and regained. In the song of "Rain Man", in the cry of childhood. Although the past has become the past, he now truly faces the person in front of him-the "rain man". He has not changed at all. It is still that kind of love, still that simple, as if driving on a highway. Used cars, walking steadily.
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