Tunnel, music, love

Braxton 2021-10-13 13:08:12

The beginning of the film is a long road tunnel, brightly lit, I don't know how to get to the end, and there is no doubt that there is a temptation to keep people watching. The formal development of the plot originated from the monologue of a boy named Charlie. He was writing to a person, but I didn’t know who this person was from the beginning to the end, so I only regarded it as a kind of self-report, written to an unknown self. . Through Charlie’s perspective, people can see that the high school life and even the reading life in the United States is not as good as we thought, but compared to the domestic life that only knows reading, it is undoubtedly a lot more exciting, although the cost of such a life is We need to face the various problems in society and life earlier. And American children of the same age are more mature than Chinese children, which undoubtedly depends on the difference of the general environment, which also explains the cost of growth to some extent. And Charlie's illusion can undoubtedly be regarded as a dark line in the film, and the illusion that is ubiquitous in daily life will undoubtedly mess up Charlie's life. And the direction of all the plot points to Charlie's passing aunt-Helen. The girl Charlie fell in love with, Sam, can be said to be a copy of his aunt when he was young, but different choices led the two women to different futures. This kind of obscure contrast undoubtedly interprets almost the same life, and may go to a different future because of some people or different choices at a certain moment. It cannot be changed now, that is an established fact, but the future has unlimited possibilities, and everything depends on how you choose. The movie begins in the tunnel and ends with the arms spread out freely in the tunnel, which is a kind of release of the soul. Tunnel, music, love...

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  • Patrick: My turn! Let's see. Let's think... Charlie.

    Charlie: Truth.

    Patrick: How's your first relationship going?

    Charlie: It's so bad, that I keep fantasizing that one of us is dying of cancer, so that I don't have to break up with her.

  • Mother: She's on the phone now? Charlie, you've got to break up with her.

    Charlie: I can do that?