The curbs in front of your house look better than anywhere else

Kira 2022-03-23 09:01:18

Jack Nicholson's acting is so natural that I won't go into details. His emotional performance makes you believe that he can't hold other people in his heart at this time and place. The screenwriter also skillfully linked the fate of the three characters together to achieve the goal of warm-hearted mutual assistance. Perhaps the first characteristic of being a screenwriter is to go against the needs of the protagonists without taking the trouble, for example, to let Simon not only be robbed, but also be beaten to death. Let Simon meet his muse, Carol, isn't it?

That day, I saw critics say inscrutably that only love that ends in tragedy is more contagious. I don't particularly agree. Like this movie, its ending lives up to expectations, while also being deeply moving. At the end of the movie, how beautiful the two looked when they walked towards the bakery with warm lights in the early morning. Love is a shining point picked up from each other's countless quirks, like two hedgehogs cautiously probing, trembling to avoid all the other's thorns, and then plucking up the courage to embrace.

Favorite line from this movie: I had to see you. It relaxes me. I'd feel better sitting outside your apartment on the curb than any other place.

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As Good as It Gets quotes

  • Receptionist: I can't resist! You usually move through here so quickly and I just have so many questions I want to ask you. You have no idea what your work means to me.

    Melvin Udall: What does it mean to you?

    Receptionist: [stands up] When somebody out there knows what it's like...

    [place one hand on her forehead and the other over her heart]

    Receptionist: ... to be in here.

    Melvin Udall: Oh God, this is like a nightmare.

    [Turns around and presses the elevator button multiple times]

    Receptionist: Oh come on! Just a couple of questions. How hard is that?

    [Scampers up to Melvin]

    Receptionist: How do you write women so well?

    Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.

  • Simon Bishop: The best thing you have going for you is your willingness to humiliate yourself.