We might as well focus on the third short film at the beginning of the film. The teenager was tired of jumping off the building because his parents quarreled too frequently, but he did one thing before jumping off the building: he filled every gun in the family with bullets. It turned out that when the quarrel was fierce on weekdays, the teenager's mother often took out a shotgun to threaten his father, because she knew that they were all empty guns. The boy wanted to use bullets to end the endless quarrel between his parents, but he did not expect to end his life first. The accident of being hit while jumping from a building is hidden behind man-made necessity. On the other hand, when the frog rain fell, everyone's trajectory: Jim finally confessed his regret to his family, and Phil managed to find Frank and took him to Earl's bed. The black boy passing by had already called an ambulance for Linda, and he was fascinated for a while. Donny has also repented and prepared to climb the wall to return the stolen goods. It is not difficult to find that Frog Rain is not a turning point, but more similar to a catalyst. Everyone is saved according to their own will or the goodwill of others. Such salvation may be more meaningful than Frog Rain. . PTA has always liked to deconstruct and reinterpret religious images. Compared with a successful Deus ex Machina or religious metaphor, the frog rain here is almost a kind of irony, and it has the effect of highlighting the tension of the drama. The narrator and the characters The distance between them was shortened again, and a heavy emotional tsunami rushed toward the audience. PTA confronted all kinds of tragedies and dilemmas that human beings may suffer with a very responsible attitude. Under this baptism, each of us may be able to face our own pain with a little more courage. Among them, what impressed me the most was the relationship between James and Claudia. James is a pious, kind and neurotic policeman (he even talks to the air). Correspondingly, Claudia has been living a chaotic life because of the painful past. She has been afraid of the sun after living in the dark for a long time. But in the end they overcame inferiority and fear, and came together because of this accidental encounter. And this has almost nothing to do with Frog Rain.
"Magnolia" is a heavy movie. Its themes are about pain and forgiveness, pain and salvation, how to face an already crippled life, and most importantly-accident (frog rain) plays in our lives. What kind of role. After watching the movie, I can't help thinking, if there is no frog rain, how will the lives of the characters end? The answer is still the daily life of miracles and mediocrity. At this time of the day, they will still be harmed or hurt by malicious intentions with or without background, but in the end they will be saved by the goodwill of themselves or others with or without background. How many accidents and inevitables are there in this "backing" may be as meaningless as how many frogs can fit in a Boeing transport plane. I would rather believe that our planet will continue to operate as usual, whether there is frog rain or not. The frog rain may be the reason for our incompleteness, but it is far from worthy of being the reason for us to remain incomplete.
In addition, I really hate frogs.
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