"Leaves of Grass" Appreciation and Psychological Self-growth

Alexzander 2022-03-14 14:12:30

The entire storyline of the movie "Leaves of Grass" revolves around the lives of a bunch of twin brothers. The brothers did not grow up together, and their life trajectories are also quite different. One is a professor of classical philosophy, and the other is a street gangster who makes marijuana for a living. After they met again, their lives changed dramatically.
One day, the elder brother Bill, a professor at a prestigious school, received a call from his brother Brandi who was murdered and went to his hometown to prepare for his funeral. Unexpectedly, Brandy was alive and well. He lied to his brother to come back to help him with his debts. As a result, their lives were completely changed because of the murder. The younger brother Brandi killed the boss of the drug dealer, and he was found to be manslaughtered and killed.
After watching it, I was deeply touched. The biggest creativity of this film is to shape the human id and superego as two different characters, so vivid and complete the integration of the self. The self represented by the younger brother Brandi pursues a free and easy life. People are very smart and spend their energy on cultivating the best cannabis varieties, and they have indeed achieved small achievements. In order to help their friends, the three gangsters with knives desperately rescued their friends. He took the risk to kill a drug dealer for his wife and children to get his life back on track. The superego represented by his brother Bill, in order to get rid of his powerless fear of the unknown, he studied hard to become an expert in philosophy, and published many books, even one book a year. The joke is that he doesn't have time to fall in love, he cuts off his relationship with his family, and never visits his mother and brother.
According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory, the id pursues the principle of pleasure, and the superego pursues the principle of moral perfection. When both go to the extreme, problems will arise. The ego must coordinate the relationship between the two. It is a process of adjusting and achieving balance to achieve a harmonious and complete life. The movie ends with the death of his younger brother Brandi, whose personality ultimately leads to his fate. After the death of his younger brother, Bill killed by mistake, and then he didn't know how to live his life. He wanted to recover his life and return to his id state after being stimulated. After brushing past death, he finally gained spiritual freedom, regained himself, and enjoyed the thunderstorm and lightning that he was afraid of while bathing in the rain with his beloved.
An online commenter wrote: Bill is implicated in a murder case, and the good days are over. When I saw this, I couldn't help laughing. The good days of the public's evaluation are living a high-level life, doing high-level work, and having a very high reputation. This is a material value seen by the outside world. Little do they know that inner relaxation and freedom of mind are the good days that a person really needs.

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Leaves of Grass quotes

  • Bill Kincaid: [Janet has just caught a monster catfish with her forearm through its mouth, called "noodling"] You have a spiritual objection to monofilament?

  • Brady Kincaid: [talking about Janet] She's a poet.

    Bill Kincaid: What?

    Brady Kincaid: Seriously. She writes fuckin' poetry. And she's the Ladies Noodling Champion of '05.

    Bill Kincaid: Her?

    Brady Kincaid: 125 pounds of catfish in under 10 hours with nothing but her bare hands.

    [sigh]

    Brady Kincaid: I tried to get her and Colleen in a three-way once, but wouldn't neither of 'em go for it.