Jack is going to a wedding on Saturday, and a week before the wedding, he invites his college classmate Morse to share his last free time before marriage. He and Morse drove off to Southern California, a place suitable for growing grapes and producing world-renowned wines.
Morse is a tasteful middle-aged man. He is very insightful about music, movies, and especially wine tasting. He is sensitive and fragile, but frank and truthful. At the age of forty, he is chubby and short. He also started to lose his hair and looked lost. In fact, he was really disappointed. He was underappreciated and could only be a middle school English teacher; he was talented in writing, but his works could not be published; his love also died at this time, and his beloved Elizabeth left him. His life has since fallen into chaos, confusion and confusion, and he can't get out of it. In the morning, I was woken up by my neighbor to push the cart, and I was unhurried to invite Jack. I sat on the toilet and read the newspaper. I went to the fast food restaurant to buy cheap hamburgers and newspapers. I played crossword puzzles in the car with no interest. Outline the image of Morse: a messy and decadent middle class, an old man with a mid-life crisis.
His friend Jack has a very different personality. Jack was a soap opera actor in his early years and had a little reputation. He is confident and naive, self-righteous, frivolous, but also genuinely lovable.
Jack hopes to indulge in the week before the wedding, and Morse is actually bored because of life, and the two people with their own concerns embark on the journey like this. Along the way, the two tasted wines from all over the world (I didn't know there were so many types of wine in the world, and tasting a glass of wine requires such a complicated process). While Morse is preoccupied with relaxing wine tastings or reminiscing about his past, Jack is looking for women.
Jack first got involved with Critina, who sold wine. After a few days of getting along, Jack had the absurd idea of giving up the wedding and living with Critina. He also explained to Morse in a deep and serious manner. After Litina learned the truth, she blew Jack's nose... Jack did not repent, and still had the luck of hunting Yan. He hooked up with a chubby restaurant waitress, and was caught by her husband in the room. After getting straight to the point, he ran naked for 5 kilometers all night to escape, and he passed an ostrich breeding factory on the way.
Mores than Jack is sensible, but also seems calm and melancholy. Along the way, Jack kept talking some boring jokes and doing shocking behaviors, and Morse could only be the author's helpless and crazy expression. When Jack told Morse that his ex-wife Elizabeth was married again, the old man's emotions became intense for the first time. He picked up a bottle of wine and drank it and ran to the field. His eyes were even more confused due to the excessive sadness. It was obvious that he loved Elizabeth so much.
With Jack's encouragement, Morse mustered up a little strength and self-confidence, and participated in a party with the women, Jack and Critina, Morse and Maya. Maya is the waitress at the "Booting Post" bar. She has known Morse for a long time. She is mature, calm and intellectual. She also has a lot of research on wine and has a good impression of Morse. When Jack and Critina were joking and making out, they could only talk about their opinions and feelings about wine. After talking and understanding each other, Maya opened the door of Morse's heart, and Morse also began to walk. into Mayan life.
The film gives me a good feeling, whether it is the beautiful scenery of the American West, or the lighthearted western ballad that runs through the whole film. Two old men with very different personalities staged the helpless sadness and absurdity of middle-aged people for us. However, people are like wine, the older they are, the more mellow they become, and they also exude indescribable charm in middle age. As Maya said, "A bottle of wine is actually alive, and its continuous development becomes complicated until it reaches its peak. , like the 1961 Cheval Blanc, and then steadied and inevitably decayed.” This is actually an allusion to Morse. Morse also has a profound discussion on wine. When Maya asked Morse why he liked Pinot, he said, "Pinot is a very difficult grape to grow, it has a thin skin, is sensitive and ripens early, and is not as good as red grapes. To survive, you can grow anywhere. Bino needs constant care, he can only grow in some very special corners of the world, only the most patient and considerate growers can feed it, and only those who spend time can understand its potential. Its scent is the most splendid, the most haunting, the exciting, the very remote and the ancient feeling..." I think that's also a description of Morse, sensitive and fragile, vulnerable, but human beings are infinitely charming, which only It takes a long time to understand.
The music in the film has always been a light-hearted American western ballad, but there are a few places where it eases off and is played on the piano, such as when Morse accompanies Maya when he stumbles across a picture of his ex-wife in his mother's room. Lou Shi... When this music is played, there is always a warm current in my body, and my tears can't help falling.
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