In the movie, I only found two kinds of people, one is to escape, the other is to face.
The movie doesn't tell us exactly why Jimmy dumped his girlfriend, maybe it's because of the pregnancy, but I think it's just an escape. Jimmy's friends and Jimmy are sitting in a broken car, smoking marijuana, swearing, and going crazy all night. Maybe young people in America live like this, but when it comes to them, I think it's just an escape. Mike from the die factory used rap to insult homosexuality, which I also thought was an escape. Papa Doctor was a jerk, rapping in bars, and having fun in black leather with friends from the free world, and I still think it's an escape.
While they are playing with the coolness in front of them, they are escaping from themselves, the past, and the present.
Jimmy likes his new girlfriend, she is the same young and sexy, but the difference is that she always smiles, never complains, and her eyes twinkle when she talks about the future, Jimmy likes her, maybe like her kind of positivity heart, he may have planted the seeds of facing reality at that time. Jimmy's friends may talk about brotherhood, but when Cheddar happened, only Jimmy really cared about him, they didn't have a life relationship, they just didn't get bored together, bragging, escapism That's it. Mike insults homosexuality and may gain a sense of superiority, but I feel like I'm just escaping myself from accomplishing nothing and spending the rest of my life in the die factory. The doctor's father fooled around with people in the free world, maybe he was also avoiding the good boy of the private school.
The theme song has a lyric called Snap back to reality, Oh there goes gravity. The translation is to quickly return to reality, like losing gravity! When Jimmy suffered all this pain in the slum, he still did not give up and escape, but all these pressures pushed him to finally choose to face himself, just like what he said at the end in the rap against Doctor Daddy.
Here, tell me something you don't know about me.
He used to deny to Alex that he lived with his mother in a broken trailer, but he didn't run away anymore. He's going to face it, he's going to admit it, he's going to change it. Before he went to that game, he had no game in his heart. He said that I don't care about the fucking game. He just wanted to tell himself all the bad things in front of everyone, not for others, but to tell himself. Like a ritual, when he speaks everything out, he is already detached from it all and sublimated.
When a person calmly faces everything, he is ready to change and conquer it. So Jimmy finally rejected the back of his friend who left, even if he was alone, he was invincible.
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