Saw another Alexander Payne movie, "Descendants" before Nebraska. This is a movie that tells a story. However, there are still many things worth pondering about the content of the plot, which requires not only artistic literacy, but also sufficient experience in life and human nature.
Ever wonder if Matt's wife didn't necessarily die in an accident? Matt once rebuked Troy, the crew member: "You shouldn't have driven the boat at all, it should have been her." The latter defended himself: "She let me sail, she let me pass the other boat before the turn." Before the accident, Matt's wife was discovered by her daughter that Hong Xing was out of the wall, and the two had a big fight. Did she have the idea of committing suicide for a while because of guilt? possibility is there.
Is her lover approaching her intentionally for a big deal? This is more likely, although he denies it. The basis for my judgment is that Matt asked "Did you do it in my room?" He replied "Once". Matt slightly said to himself, "Perhaps you should lie about this out of courtesy?" He changed his mind and said, "All right, twice." I think he was more like a deliberate misunderstanding of Matt's meaning, the purpose It was to show that what he said was the truth, so that Matt believed what he said earlier, that he really did not approach Matt's wife for business. From common sense, we often say that the dead are the greatest, but in practice, the living are often the greatest. Matt asks this question that hurts his man's self-esteem. In the absence of confirmation, that man can actually tell a little lie to save face for the other party. But he didn't. Of course, in real life, not everyone has rich experience in dealing with people, and even if they do, they may not be able to show it in specific situations, but this is a novel, a kind of work created by people out of nothing. In the latter case, I will considered to be ignored.
So Matt didn't sell the land in the end because of revenge, or was there an element of revenge in it? I think there are various possibilities. Matt is a reasonable person, but no matter how reasonable a person is, he will not be willing to let someone who has ulterior motives hurting him succeed. The key lies in how Matt understands the motivation of this person. From the grasp of the creative psychology may be helpful to the interpretation of the work. In some respects, creators do not necessarily intend to provide exact clues so that the work can have a clear and single answer, but prefer to make it artificially complicated, providing multiple possibilities to guide the audience to feel it, so that different people have different opinions , it would be better if discussions and arguments could be formed. Therefore, some aspects are not deeply hidden problems, but are themselves ambiguous and ambiguous. This is often the case in real life. There is a beginning but not an end. A good person may not always have a good reward. The situation may develop in different or even opposite directions. Therefore, as a work of art reflecting real life, its polysemous and ambiguity has theoretical basis and It is reasonable to say that it is not necessarily the creator's mysteries. It can be said that literature is anthropology, and it can even be further generalized that all human-related knowledge is anthropology.
One of the things that surprised me about this movie was that the wife of the man who seemed to have ulterior motives came to the hospital to say goodbye to Matt's wife, who had become a vegetable. The dead say I forgive you. This of course makes Matt feel sick, but he thinks that objectively and fairly, this couple of cheating couples are reasonable and more willing to think about others. Works are always easy to let the audience into the perspective and feelings of the protagonist, and sometimes it is necessary to jump out of this sense of substitution.
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