There are also two people in "Unreachable", smoking a cigarette to keep warm on the banks of Paris at midnight, talking about some nasty jokes like old buddies.
There are many such fragments, they are warm and inspirational, like a black match struck after a power outage, immersing people in it and getting healed.
"A Beautiful Life" is also such a movie. This black-and-white film tells the story of a young and promising young man Bailey who wants to travel the world and conquer the earth, but is trapped in the town where he was born again and again, doing architecture. The job of borrowing money, helping the poor build houses, has not gone out for a lifetime, and owed the bank 8,000 dollars.
When I saw this place, I got up and went to eat. I kept wondering on the road, what will happen next?
In the first arrangement, Bailey continued to endure his boring work and life like a middle class, and finally, in the memorial of everyone, let the audience know that this person was once good.
In the second arrangement, Bailey hit the Universiade, made a fortune, and realized his dream of traveling around the world.
In the third arrangement, Bailey sold himself to his opponent, an ambitious banker, who would live without any worries from now on, but his dreams would be broken.
However, none of these assumptions appeared. The warmest moment of the movie came at the end-an angel appeared, and he told the down and down Bailey what would be the situation if the town did not have him-people interacted with each other. Distrust, sinking into despair, and hostility rampant, it is an age of vulgarity and indifference.
Just like what Luo Yonghao said: "Every life coming into the world is destined to change the world. This is your destiny. You have no choice. You can either make the world a little better or make the world a little worse."
Roger Ebert put it best: "Bailey stared into the depths of despair and lost faith in the residents of the town, but he retreated from the cliff at the last minute. The movie recognizes the existence of evil and recognizes that the world can sometimes change Sad and lonely, but at the end everything returned to its original place, and the traditional values of the town were re-consolidated.”
This film reminds me of Weber’s book "Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism". Bailey is like Weber’s Like the representatives of the spirit of capitalism, he pursues wealth rationally, emphasizes credit, and devotes himself to his career.
Director Capra filmed this film after he returned from the battlefield of World War II. He concretely implemented civilian life in the United States on one person, that is Pele. We will see his cautiousness when he was an apprentice, and his ambition when he graduated from high school. , The generous speeches when trying to turn the tide, the heavy sighs when facing the family...
And at the end, the happy ending, which is as beautiful as the title of the film, comforted all well-intentioned people.
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