After watching the movie, I felt like I was being scolded so badly that I was utterly incapacitated.
In the eyes of a "serious person", this movie full of vulgar swear words and nonsensical characters is a farce. It's a farce, and most of the protagonists and weird supporting characters are marginal characters. The farce started when the comatose male protagonist fell out of the closet and struggled to pick up the phone, only to find that he needed to work overtime on his days off.
Anti-smoking activists who came to dissuade other customers from buying cigarettes after buying a cup of coffee, found that their current girlfriend had had relationships with many men, and friends who worked in the video store next door but came to make trouble at any time, sat on the ground and picked one by one. Egg guest, ex-girlfriend's marriage news, guest who borrowed pornographic magazines to borrow bathroom, friend who sold cigarettes to a little girl of a few years old while visiting the store, guest who stole things, news of another ex-girlfriend's death, thought he could get off work, boss But he can't come back and needs to work overtime temporarily. The ex-girlfriend who wants to get married comes to find him to get back together, but he treats the old man who died in the bathroom as if he had a relationship... In one day, all the crumbling things happened to the male protagonist. For the little clerk, the rare pleasures have all turned into tragedies, and there is no chance to breathe.
So at the end of the film, he blamed him for constantly harassing his friends, blamed him for offending his guests, blamed him for telling his current girlfriend the fact that his old relationship with his ex-girlfriend was over, blamed him for why he put his life It became so miserable that he complained that he should never have been here, that everything should never have happened. He complained, he complained why everything happened to him mercilessly, and he didn't leave any room for himself.
At this time, he has been hanging around as a scumbag friend who has nothing to do, and said the finishing touch of the film. It is the fault of the male protagonist. At the funeral of his ex-girlfriend, he closed the store again to have a date with his ex-girlfriend, and lied to his current girlfriend. If the male protagonist doesn't want to come to work, no one can force him, and he is too worried about a job that can only earn money. Although the male protagonist thinks he is better than the customers in the store, they are all stupid, but "if we are really fucking good, what are we doing here?".
Who would have imagined that the person who uttered this line was a person who treats customers like grandchildren, spends no more than 10% of the time watching the store honestly, has nothing to do all day long, and only knows how to say it when he reads pornographic magazines and videos. If so.
You care, you don’t go to school well, you are useless, so you can only guard your own job that anyone can replace. You leave the store to your friends and close it to play football, but you say you want to be a responsible clerk. This bad life is your choice, this is your life, you can't complain about anyone, you can bear it yourself, or shut up and waste it.
In the middle of the film, the friend used his behavior to explain the truth to the male protagonist: in the male protagonist's store, he sprayed a talking customer with water, making the customer say that he would never come to the store again. The male protagonist blamed him and questioned him. What this friend said was that as a clerk, I can't force me to be what kind of person I am. I think it's annoying that this person is babbling on and saying that it's useless, so I can do it. If you lose a job, look for another one. My freedom, my actions, and I bear the consequences.
Complaining about others is not an unfamiliar idiom to people. When something happens, people always like to leave it clean and blame everything else. This does not change the status quo, it can only make oneself comfortable, and then continue to be stuck in this whirlpool. Of course, this does not mean that you can change the status quo by taking responsibility. Maybe life is still so bad, and everything is still unclear. But no matter what, this is your life, and whenever, no matter when, you have the right to choose your life, and of course you have to bear the consequences of your choice.
You keep saying that the whole world is against you, but in fact there is nothing that can force you to do anything.
There are other people in the movie who can see clearly, such as the duo who have been staying in front of the video store since the morning, smoking and doing nothing, and dancing to music at night. The character of Silent Bob hasn't spoken for a day. But when he and his stupid friends came to the store to buy things, and faced the male protagonist who was swaying between the two girls, he said, "You know, there are thousands of beautiful girls in this world. , but none of them will give you lasagna when you go to work, most of them will just fool you around." The words woke the dreamer.
This film, which director Kevin Smith spent 21 days on his own at a cost of $27,575, also recorded to a certain extent the story of the United States of that era, which now seems absurd, in the ordinary neighborhood of that era. A grocery store is a story that happens every day. Because it is completely real, it seems trivial, unbearable, and poisonous.
But sometimes it's not good to fight poison with poison.
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