Reconcile with yourself.

Miller 2022-03-11 08:01:29

Saw a swaying movie in New York. Lying in the second row, in fact, I didn't understand some places, and because it was too close to the screen, my eyes hurt from shaking in many places.

But the emotions inside are going to smash my heart to pieces. And it started when my dad said let's start a new life and then slapped the little boy off guard.

When the little boy kisses the girl's eyes and simulates playing ball with the girl under the moonlit night, these have nothing to do with love, but are just a good memory in his heart as an adult, and this word has nothing to do with his father. So even when he grows up, when he doesn't need to listen to his father anymore, he no longer needs to accompany him to rehearse words all night because his father wants to experience the feeling of acting in a comedy, and he doesn't need to experience you stay just because I pay you. He still couldn't get out of that sad world, and chose to anesthetize himself with alcohol. When he could choose to be free, he imprisoned himself with his past.

Finally he came to rehab. In the rehab, he cleaned chicken droppings, basked in the sun, watched bugs crawling on his arms and flew away, he learned to hug himself with his arms, he roared in the forest and released himself. He began to reminisce about his childhood, everything about that little boy, his father.

When he grew up he imagined following the chicken to his father, when they hugged, when he said, I'm going to write a movie about you. In fact, the father is just an unfree child who was hurt. It's a circle

Life is about reconciling with yourself.

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Extended Reading

Honey Boy quotes

  • James: How do you think it feels to have my son paying me? How do you think that feels?

    Otis (12): [sadly] You wouldn't be here if I didn't pay you.

  • [last lines]

    Otis (22): I'm going to make a movie about you.

    James: Make me look good, Honey Boy.