Long-distance travel in China by car is a very scary thing. If it is the Spring Festival travel season, it will be a disaster. Let’s not talk about anything else, just the train station, which is the place you don’t want to come back after going once, because it can make normal people feel desperate and make desperate people become Anna Karenina. As soon as I entered the hall, it was not the willow wind that greeted my face, but the abundant national energy mixed with instant noodles, stinky socks, feet, excrement and sweat. What you breathe and breathe is the ups and downs of history, which can produce vision. The upper string is halo; not to mention the volume of the eardrum, which is mixed with peddling newspapers, high-pitched broadcasts, loud calls and buzzing group chats into a thundering wave front sound array, straight to you Dizziness, mental breakdown, coupled with the dense array of super long ticket purchases, lined up with layers of human shields and flesh, showing the three characteristics of Chinese society "dirty, chaos, and noisy" vividly and vividly. You will definitely rank this place as the most desperate place on earth.
However, in the United States, such a situation does not exist. Traveling in a free and open country is another landscape of life and another leisure of the soul. Away from the hustle and bustle, crowding and chaos, we are greeted with the arbitrariness of spiritual relaxation under the blue sky, the leisurely ease of mood in the wilderness; the falling clouds and the lonely heron, the blue sea and the blue sky, the forest dome, the smoke and clouds are connected, and a sunset is accompanied by gorgeousness. Caixia, the rising ice wheel reflects the sky full of stars, the New Orleans jazz plays the lights in the valley, the Mississippi river flows with the melancholy of Bruce, the scenery outside the car window has the yellow ribbon tied to the old oak tree, and the road is still To drive across the Golden Bridge on the Sad River, if you pass the Scarborough Fair, you can also smell coriander, sage, rosemary and thyme. When you meet strangers here, you will have a sincere smile, rather than a strict guard. When you meet someone in need, you will lend a hand instead of turning around and walking away indifferently. Because in such a country, there is no "my dad is Li Gang’s type of tyrannical figure has not blackmailed good-hearted people. He naturally has the arrogance and generosity of the freedom of all things, so the movies in this country will produce a type of "road movie". Come to interpret the humor, sadness and joy of life on the road.
Because this country has too many vehicles and is known as a country on wheels, those winding roads, dotted motels, and all kinds of people running on the roads have naturally become the best stage for American movies to interpret stories. When road films were born, they were mostly directed by young Hollywood directors at the time, with themes reflecting young people’s lifestyles of loss, loneliness, resentment and rebellion. Most of the protagonists drove various cars, with broken dreams, galloping through the poor countryside. The Eagles’ song "Hotel California" sang such a scene: “Driving on a dark desert road, a cool breeze blows through my hair. The warm fragrance fills the air. Looking up into the distance, I see Faint light. My head is sinking deeper and deeper, and my vision becomes blurred. I had to stop for the night. She stood at the door to greet me, and I heard the church bells in the distance. I said to myself in my heart, This may be heaven or hell.” After
entering the 1980s, road films have gradually mixed with more types of elements, and their structural models have become more flexible and diverse. Among them, there are both traditional Hollywood patterns and ingenious ideas; however; A good road movie is about the exploration of the soul. It is not a traffic map of a movie. It does not start with confusion and end with confusion. It is a life experience after a meal. Therefore, good road movies can often bring people the reverie of life and the baptism of the soul. The "Expected Delivery Date" recently launched falls into this category. The film tells the story of Robert Downey Jr., who will be a father, go home to welcome the birth of his child, but unfortunately he meets an inextricable nightmare Zach Galifianaki, when two diametrically opposed personality types and different values of life Attitude, bound by destiny, turns the long journey home into a continual bumpy journey of thrilling accidents; the one-room drive that accommodates each other has also become a battlefield of trust and hostility between the two.
The content of this film is very comedy, the performance is very exciting, and the conflicts are constant, but it is not exaggerated. The selfishness, desire, trust, and disgust common to people in this film are all beautifully portrayed and perfected; joking, Ridicules, ironies, and a variety of unrelenting contrast techniques emerge in this film in an endless stream, which constitutes the various laughs in the story, making you laugh from beginning to end without rest, and it just turns the cold highway into a warm interpretation. Overflowing, the mechanical and physical carts, are all running in full flavor; more in the ending of turning the enemy into friends and embracing each other, after giving the audience entertainment, it is not the sublimation of the human nature of the fake big sky. Yes, people in this world will have more tolerance for each other, and they will live a better life. There is no need to be so grudges and hatreds, but the canthus will be repaid. The stranger truly gives you a warm hug. You don't need to be sluggish with a pair of dead fish eyes; there are people. Smile at you, and you don’t have to suspect that others are trapping you. To show the qualities of self-confidence, generosity, tolerance, bravery, love, optimism, and honesty, you don't need to spend a lot of money to make Chinese image commercials abroad, right? Hurry up and make up this lesson. Next time you see someone beckoning for a ride on the side of the road, you may stop and give yourself a chance to help others; watch someone cross the road, don’t worry, let others go first, because this is a basic social etiquette , Don’t be as uncultivated as those rude Chinese.
Note: Part of the road film material in this article uses the "road film" entry of Baidu Baike. I would like to thank my friends who have worked hard and selflessly to edit the entry.
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