Maybe, the growth path of the top students is not his own choice, but the order of the family. For the sake of parents and elders, the hero has excellent grades and a bright future.
However, he is not proud of this, but is still confused about the future. At first he repeated to the old lover - I'm just worried about the future.
He didn't make a choice for his life, he was just used to following other people's orders. Whatever his parents ordered him to do, he always obeyed, but without expression. Wearing diving gear to give guests a "dive show", he dived like a walking dead.
He couldn't disobey the old lover's order. When he tried to resist, the old lover would not pay attention to his voice, but just repeated his order, and he had to obey.
The old lover's husband asked him what to drink, he said a kind of wine, but the senior didn't care about his voice, it was whiskey every time.
His life is always chosen, others tell him what to do, he doesn't know what to do for himself.
Therefore, he is already dead.
Without his own values, without living by his own feelings - he lives in the dogma of reality, he is polite, he is afraid of offending others, he is always evasive, he is burdened with moral shackles.
It is not so much that he was seduced at the beginning, it is better to be controlled. Because they have no independent will.
The old lover is a controlling woman who has been hurt by feelings. Falling in love with a younger generation may not be out of love, but to regain the lost youth. Her youth had been used to study art, but was hurt again. Later, I did not want to recall that period of youth, saying that I had forgotten to study art.
When I saw the daughter of my old lover, I felt that this was the person I wanted to be with for the rest of my life. But he can't escape the shackles of morality - in fact, this kind of heavy moral judgment should not be imposed on himself at all.
The anxiety continues, the old lover still commands himself, but the situation has changed.
He became rebellious, though still a little cowardly.
The last episode of the story was almost carried out in anxiety, and the whole person lost his mind...
Until he completely resisted the will of others and made his own choice, two young people stepped on the bus, and their faces finally calmed down... The
whole film The film does not have enough foreshadowing, the emotional brewing is not enough, the connection between the front and back is not coherent, and the ending is a bit rushed, so it is not a masterpiece. The only commendable thing is the soundtrack.
I feel that this film is criticizing the excessive constraints imposed by the society and family of that era on young American people, which makes them lose their independent spirit, so that they are anxious and confused, and make some insincere choices.
I heard that "independence" is something Americans value very much...
I think...we need it too?
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