[Introduction: The resonance of a music that rang through the prison. 】
【Character introduction】
Johnny: Living under his father's condemnation and ridicule all his life, the accidental death of his brother Jack caused him a psychological shadow. Under the influence of her mother, she fell in love with music, pursued her dream of music unremittingly, and finally successfully entered the music world.
June: A woman in the new era, gentle and moving, beautiful and confident, with a rational personality, and a parent who understands and supports her.
Vivian: Johnny's first love and also his first wife, gentle and soft, traditional thinking, content with the status quo, unable to understand Johnny's love for music.
Johnny's dad: A person who only condemns and ridicules Johnny. From beginning to end, he attributes the death of his eldest son Jack to Johnny's negligence. In his eyes, Jack is his only pride.
Johnny's mom: The enlightenment of Johnny's music, the only solace in childhood.
The story tells about the ups and downs of Johnny's love for music under the influence of his mother since he was a child, and the ups and downs of his life's struggle for music, with the love between Johnny and June as the main line. Johnny has been fighting two things: fatherhood and drugs. June's rejection of his courtship and his father's indifference led him to drugs, and his addiction to drugs and alcohol brought Johnny's singing career to a low point several times. With June's help, he regroups and recreates his musical glory.
The manic father has always treated Johnny with cold eyes, ridicule and disdain. His dissatisfaction and strictness with Johnny all year round stemmed from an accident in his childhood. It took away his father's proud son Jack, and his father returned the accident to him. Because of Johnny. In the eyes of his father, his brother is very good, but he is like an ugly duckling that only makes his father dissatisfied. Johnny spent his childhood under such a kind of condemnation and ridicule. Even when he grew up and joined the army, his father only coldly dropped the sentence "You're going to miss the bus." The father's sentence "Nothing" has always entangled Johnny , his questions "Where have you been" and "Death should have taken you, not Jack" made him even more distressed. Although Johnny liked music under the influence of his mother since he was a child, he could not get the spiritual support of his family when he grew up. His father's sentence "Nothing" is not only a denial of his passion for music, but also a complete denial of him personally.
In the early days, Johnny married his first love Vivian and gave birth to a daughter. It was a happy and sweet life, but his wife did not support his singing career very much. She hoped that Johnny would spend more time with her and her children. life. His wife's incomprehension of him and a bunch of trivial things in life made him feel that this relationship was drifting away, and bit by bit, it destroyed his initial vision of married life. Johnny's alcoholism and drug use were the trigger for this marital crisis, and June's intervention directly led to the breakdown of the marriage.
In the scene of Johnny joining the army and saying goodbye to his hometown, sometimes he walks fast and sometimes stops. Such contradictory steps express Johnny's conflicting heart. Walking fast is his subconscious wanting to escape from this father who will always blame him, stopping is how much he longs to get a little warmth and care from his father, even a little bit, but it is so extravagant.
Vivian's incomprehension to Johnny's obsession with music wears away Johnny's love and patience little by little. She will never understand the meaning of music to Johnny, it is the continuation of his life, the motivation to live, and the only bridge between him and Jack.
On the road of acting, I met June, a June who loves music as much as Johnny and makes a living from music. What's more, Johnny has a brother who makes his parents proud, and June also has a sister who makes his parents more proud.
The dissatisfaction and even disgust for Vivian made Johnny addicted to the fans' embrace. Johnny was so obsessed with June that he couldn't extricate himself, and pursued her again and again, but he didn't expect June to reject his open courtship. He was so mad and heartbroken that he drank himself and became addicted to drugs. June's line "You have a wife to take care of you." made him want to abandon his wife.
Johnny was distraught when he read in the newspaper that June was married to a race car driver, but Johnny decided she was not happy. At an awards ceremony, Johnny molested June in front of his wife regardless of her feelings, and even introduced her to his parents and daughter. It was even more unbearable for Vivian, who was already disappointed with her husband.
The joy of being on the same stage again began to appear on both Johnny and June's faces. June, who was divorced for the second time, was no longer as restrained as before, had sex with Johnny for the first time, and officially recognized her relationship with Johnny. Long-term drug use made Johnny describe as thin, wearing sunglasses all day long to cover up the dark circles under his eyes. While Johnny had a stellar acting career, a growing drug addiction nearly ruined his music career, sending him to prison and June leaving him again.
Obsessed with wearing only black for performances, the record company boss said it looked like going to a funeral, he said, maybe it was. Maybe Johnny thought that Jack's funeral was never over, wearing black was a tribute to Jack, and his feelings for June were as persistent as he was for black.
Towards the end of the story, Johnny took advantage of the opportunity of the same stage to pursue June in a more gentlemanly way on the stage. After countless inner struggles, June finally accepted Johnny's courtship publicly this time.
Just like June's song "Love tastes so sweet, when two hearts touch, I fall for you with innocence, but the fire of love gets stronger and stronger, I fall into the burning circle of fire, I fall deeper and deeper. , the fire is burning, burning, burning, burning, burning, burning, burning, burning, burning..." Johnny's love for June was like a burning fire , the more it burns.
At the end of the story we see a big happy family, Johnny's life begins to rekindle, and his relationship with his father is no longer as tense as it used to be. He seemed to have forgiven his father, and the gray-haired father gradually accepted the younger son who was not good in his eyes. Johnny got a career and love, and that first love became his forever past. There is no right or wrong in love, he has loved Vivian, it is a tender love, people's feelings and pursuits will change with experience, quoting a sentence from "General History of China", "Love is inherently changeable, no matter how cautious you are when you get married, it will also change. I can't control the later changes." Johnny, who is constantly pursuing his music dreams, is not wrong, we can't imprison Johnny in the cage of ordinary life; Vivian, who hopes that her husband will accompany her and her children more, is not wrong, but those who want to leave should stay. If you can't stop, the changed heart can't be recovered. When all the good things are gone, maybe leaving is the best choice. I can't help but think of the reason why Gertrude, the ex-girlfriend of Andrew's ex-girlfriend in "Fake Marriage", rejected his marriage proposal because he didn't want to leave his hometown and go to New York to fight with Andrew. Since I can't meet your expectations, neither will I. must be your bond.
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