You got to believe in poetry

Jaclyn 2022-12-24 16:24:22

I watched Euphoria's Christmas special at the beginning of December, and took it out to read it again on Christmas Eve, lamenting Americans' obsession with religion. Since Flannery O'Connor began to discuss catholic possessed of modern consciousness, American intellectuals have never stopped reflecting on the meaning of religion in contemporary civilization. To put it bluntly, science cannot solve everything, or that science is pale and powerless in the face of the most fundamental struggle of human beings. It makes us understand that human beings are just a mayfly floating in the desolate and boundless galaxy. The conception of self-meaning, but there is no way to give a new answer. What am I suffering for? This question has already entered the category of religious discussion.

Although the film is about disease of addiction, the answer given is very general. The line "You got to believe in poetry" that Ali said twice in the whole film feels like the finishing touch. We live in a dark place. age, so we have to believe in the world in the poem.

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Trouble Don't Last Always quotes

  • Ali: Drugs change who you are as a person.

  • Rue Bennett: Look, Ali, I know you don't believe me, but I'm... I'm doing really good, actually.

    Ali: Is that so?

    Rue Bennett: Yeah... mmm, yeah, for sure. I mean it, you know, could suddenly shit flip and get super dark? Yeah, you know. I mean it could, but... I feel like I've found this, like, amazing balance, where I'm like happy and healthy, and I'm not, like... looking to anybody else for that happiness, you know? Fuckin' Jules. The way I was, like, putting way too much of my emotional well-being in her hands, you know, without ever, like, talking about it, or, or saying it. I... especially the way I was fuckin'... making plans for the rest of our life and shit. And I just... and I look back and I'm just like, why the fuck did I do that? It's fuckin' crazy. And weird.

    [scoffs]

    Rue Bennett: Eh, I don't know. I guess I just, like, made her the point. But she's, like, not the point. I'm the point, you know?

    Ali: Hmmph. The point is your sobriety.

    Rue Bennett: Yeah. Of course. Yeah. And, and like, my, my general overall well-being.

    Ali: Which starts with your sobriety.