The Art of Survival

Delia 2022-03-20 09:01:08

The Art of Survival

If you could choose, how would you choose to live?

Living alone and coolly? Live happily and confusedly with a bunch of second-hands than friends?

Or do you want to be a desperado or speculator and always figure out how to keep yourself alive?

It is difficult to say which way is better, because most of the time, as the general public, we have no choice at all. Family, friends, education, urban environment, background of the times. They all determine how a person or a nation survives. Our protagonist saw his father being exploited like a sheep from an early age. He was dissatisfied. He would spontaneously expand his business when the business situation of the store deteriorated. Maybe the father shouldn't be too cowardly, otherwise he would only let his son go on a crooked road. This son is obviously very smart and cautious, did a good job, and found true love at a party.

I have always felt puzzled that some people in the same profession always have the ability to see through each other at a glance, but it is limited to specific professions, such as thieves and liars. It seems that they can always see each other at first sight, or there is some kind of silent understanding. I

have to say that most liars are very vain, and what is more, they are very good at mastering each other's psychology. If they go to do inspirational or marketing masters to make a global speech tour, they will be very successful.

Irving uses a new wig to stick to her bare head every day, and she has to repeatedly make sure that her hair doesn't get deformed. Sydney will change different clothes every day, which is just right to attract men. She used to be a stripper. After she was washed white, she really understands the psychology of male customers very well.

American Hustle, specially added American before Hustle. Indeed, there is a sentence that describes Americans well: Americans' Business is Business. Ordinary people just hope to make more money within the scope of speculation and live a better life than their neighbors or friends. Traders and billionaires only care about how to make huge profits, while politicians will think hard about how Take down one's superiors or all those who stand in his way. This is American survival, fighting for more survival resources, and grabbing a greater survival bargaining chip.


What’s interesting is that Irving can fool FBI agents (always being hacked), but can’t get rid of his mischievous wife Rosalyn. A woman is such a great creature. It may take only two or three sentences to tell you that there is nothing to say. Use incomparably great sophistry to spare your menacing accusations. A woman’s way of living is often by her mouth to fight for her own benefits. Rosalyn is a terrible mother, playing with the dangerous Sunlamp almost burned the house. Even her eight-year-old son obviously knows something better than her. It's not safe, but she knows men, that's enough.


A lesson learned from Richard: Once a man shows that he is completely out of control and angry in front of a woman, that woman can be said to have been able to fully control the man. But while deceiving others, we ourselves are also taking great risks. At a certain moment, Sydney had forgotten his purpose, and said frankly to Richard that I am not British, and even the British accent was pretended to be. But later, Sydney obviously regretted his stupid behavior, so he attacked the crotch and slammed Richie's head with the lamp. Yes, this is the final bottom line. If you break it, why do you go so far?


What attracted me the most about this movie was 1. Irving and Sydney's increasingly blurred and incapable relationship after their arrest 2. Should the arrested parliamentarians and politicians be convicted of taking bribes?

For 1, their relationship is far from reaching The Point of No return. This is the stable relationship that two people with tacit understanding will have. If another man has been thinking about it since the first time I saw you To get on you, get the chance to get on you through various occasions and meetings. Of course, this relationship is very fragile, and you are just a prey. So I admire Sydney's vision, patience and ability to get away with both myself and the one I love.

Regarding 2, I tend to think that officials who really do practical things for the people deserve monetary rewards, which they deserve, but when officials themselves have this idea, it should only be a matter of time before they are pulled down. Because you collect money, no matter how much, no matter how many evocative things you do for the people in your electoral district, it will only become a glorious past.


Irving has been thinking about how to ensure everyone's safety and minimize the damage after the mission has been negotiated with the Mafia. "I want to save us all" later learned that it was just to make himself and his girlfriend, wife, and son safe, without thinking about Richard at all. Perhaps at the beginning, he just wanted to trick Richard and get him out. As Irving said at the end of the film, "Those greatest liars, you can't even run into them." Temporary success is easy to be self-righteous, let alone success that seems quite difficult time and time again, Richard advances Celebrating his victory, thinking that only one department can bring down the entire criminal group, and the boss also blindly supports it. What is the fact? Finally, when talking about the bribery of members, even Richard's name was not mentioned.


Originally, some protagonists’ inner confession disappeared when they entered the set-up stage, maybe it was because they themselves were unable to determine their true inner thoughts. At the critical juncture of survival, many times there is no time to think.


When a liar is easy to gain both fame and fortune, it is easier to put yourself at great risk, because maybe you can manage yourself easily, but it is impossible to control others' thoughts and mouths, so your partner may put you in life At risk. The American scam film is nothing more than telling us


The necessity truly is the mother of invention, because of endless desires, human beings have created civilization and established the simple laws and procedures of the world.

The same is true for liars. After seeing through the money, they just start to live the lives of ordinary people.

The Art of Survival is a story that never ends.

The survival itself is Art.

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American Hustle quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Irving Rosenfeld: Did you ever have to find a way to survive and you knew your choices were bad, *but* you had to survive?

  • Sydney Prosser: You're nothing to me until you're everything.