I have been crying for two hours after watching the movie. A person's true emotions and life trajectory are far more shocking than words can describe. I don't think anyone who has seen this movie can deny the impact of childhood on a person's life - the lessons learned in the initial interaction with the world, the internalized scars, may very well become a lifelong inability to break free shackles. "Rocketman" is not just the story of a musical genius fulfilling his dream, its theme focuses on the most fundamental needs of being human - to love and be loved, and the resulting destroyed and rebuilt self-identity.
As Robert McKee mentioned in "Story", a story that reaches the limit of life experience in the depth and breadth of conflict, in addition to the positive value represented by the protagonist, must also explore its opposite value, contradictory value, and negative value. negative. If the positive value of this film is love, the expectant look of the little boy waiting for his father at the end of the night at the stairs, the confession on the roof of the young music star and the lyricist, and the unfinished kiss, it is Elton who has returned from calamity. That song I'm Gonna Love Me Again... Then the opposite values first presented to the audience are the alienation of the father and the indifference of the mother, but they can't stop Elton's thirst for love - those who realize secret love can only stay in The position of a close friend, John Reid's appearance is like a sweet poison, Elton, who fell in love with him, could not predict that this relationship would be stranded so quickly after a collision with interests; John is a dutiful business partner, but he can't. Love the right person, and never face up to the real needs of the pain-torn soul under Elton's dazzling superstar light. The inappropriate love of his partner exacerbated the emptiness in Elton's heart. No matter how brilliant his stage image was, no matter how many people cheered for him, he could never love himself, and had to use alcohol and drugs to escape the deepening self-doubt.
The reunion with his father and half-brother was a catalyst that brought the bloody reality to Elton's eyes: his father was not without feelings, the warmth he craved just could never belong to him. Yet he doesn't even have time to mourn the doomed boy in the stairwell—because his partner-manager would physically tell him with his fist that it's far more rewarding to be on time for the show than to stop and deal with emotional issues. That call to come out to her mother was the last straw for hope, where the contradictory values of love developed into naked hatred and damnation—she told Elton that he had chosen a path of eternal loneliness, and that he was forever Not loved by anyone, and I wish he had never been born.
As the story progresses to the third act, Elton's self-doubt has progressed to the negative of the negative -- self-loathing, following a break with a loved one, an affair with a partner, and a departure from a close friend. He jumped into the swimming pool to try to kill himself, but he saw the original little boy under the water. He had no flashy reputation, only clear eyes and a clean dream of music. Music is the anchor of Elton's life, and when he loses everything he cares about, he can still draw warmth and solace from it. The real turning point came before a performance, when Elton escaped from the theater in his costume and went straight to the mutual aid group. When he tried to sum up his first half of his life in a serious way with a group of strangers, the characters who had an important impact on his life also appeared one by one. . This time, he did not choose to continue to suffer humiliation and injury, but instead responded angrily to these internalized voices. Until this moment, the weather-beaten superstar finally learned to love himself, and also learned to embrace the little boy who never grew up in his heart.
The story ends with life in rehab and a reunion with a close friend, a seemingly mundane but glorious victory for Elton himself. In the process of fighting against the pain, he regained his original intention and calmly accepted the extraordinaryness of his life in various senses. As Bernie said, he has never been an ordinary person - for Elton, giving up chasing the illusion that he can't have and stepping out of the quagmire of the heavy past is the beginning of embracing a happy future.
After the main feature of the film, the audience was able to look back on Elton John's life in the form of photos from the screen. I burst into tears when I learned that Elton had married her current husband and raised two children together. The subtitles explain that he was finally properly loved, and at that moment, all the suffering seemed to be forgiven.
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