When Melvin, who has always been mean and withdrawn, nervously said to Carol: You make me wanna be a better man, love seemed to come to Melvin with holy light at that moment.
Before Melvin fell in love with Carol, he had written 72 love novels, but he never fell in love; he met his neighbor every day, but he never said hello; his neighbor had a very cute puppy, but he didn't. Throwing the puppy down the drain because of the goddamn cleanliness...
Such people have no intention of loving others, nor do they need to be loved at all.
His world is passively broken. Neighbors want to go away, but no one can take care of their puppy, so he is forced to take care of him. He got away without waiting for him to kick the puppy out of the neighbors. He scolded the puppy who invaded his territory, and it was not pleasing to the eye. But because the puppy is so cute, he becomes soft-hearted, so he buys expensive food on expensive plates and plays the piano for him.
When he went to the restaurant downstairs to eat, he insisted on bringing his own cutlery and wearing disposable gloves, which caused the waiter Carroll to roll his eyes countless times. One day, he found Kroll absent, and he felt his order was interrupted, so he asked the restaurant owner Carroll's address to find out. Yes, he didn't go to Carol out of kindness or out of concern for strangers, just that he didn't have the waiter he was used to serving him, that's all.
Carol is a single mother, but her child is seriously ill, so she has to work hard to make sure her child can afford the worst hospital. After Melvin visited her house, he first extended a helping hand to Carroll, found an excellent doctor he knew for Carroll's son, and made the child get the proper treatment for the first time. take care of. Maybe, as he said, he just wanted Carroll to get back to work earlier and to continue serving himself.
Maybe Melvin himself couldn't tell when exactly he was attracted to Carroll. Maybe I went to the restaurant to see her peace of mind every day; maybe I couldn't see her, so I found her home out of instinct; maybe I saw that she was so enthusiastic and optimistic in the face of such a chicken feather life... ...maybe neither. Maybe it was just that late at night, the street lights on the street corner were just dim and yellow, and a gust of night wind blew, and Carol's skirt swayed just right...
In short, at some inexplicable moment, he seemed to unconsciously put down his armor and approached Carol.
The situation is really unknown.
Carroll has been guiding Melvin to express how he feels about himself after he has read Melvin's heart. It is a pity that Melvin, who has written 72 love stories, is completely helpless in the face of the person he is attracted to. But love can really make a person a poet, so in the end his confession to Carroll is an unsurpassed classic.
"I'm probably the only woman in the world who knows you're the most amazing woman in the world, how lovely you are and how you treat Spencer. Every flash of your soul shows integrity and honesty. Many people are lacking This, I can't imagine how they can watch you bring food and clear the table without thinking they've met the greatest woman in the world! But I got it, and I feel good..."
Love can make people shine, maybe it's not necessarily the one you love that really shines, it's probably just the light in your eyes when you look at your lover. But it doesn't matter, what matters is that when love comes, there is a ray of light that envelopes you, making each of you unique in the eyes of the other.
And the phrase "You make me wanna be a better man" expresses the greatness of love. Because I love you, I want to be a better person. Love is a weakness and a nutrient.
Everyone in this film, "Perfect", is actually not perfect. Although Melvin is a best-selling author of 72 romance novels, he has an unbearable cleanliness, paranoia and eccentric personality; Carol is just a little restaurant waiter who lives with her mother and sick son, takes men to bed and gets fucked by the kid's cough; neighbor Simon is gay, parents can't accept it, so he gets kicked out door. Although he is a talented painter, he managed to hold his own art exhibition, but he was robbed and injured by a model he found from the street. In the end, he was penniless and even had to be kicked out by the landlord. At this time, his creative inspiration almost disappeared. about to run out...
Although they have physical intersections with each other, they are each dealing with their own difficult lives before some bond connects them together.
What is the bond? Maybe it's love. Perhaps we are all masking loneliness and vulnerability with paranoia and harshness. And what we have is not perfect and even some broken lives, but it is these cracks that make us willing to restrain some indifference and self, light up the lives of others with friendliness and care, and let warmth and love seal the cracks. combine.
Or put it this way, Try to be a rainbow in someone's life.
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