I got down a long time ago, but I haven't had the opportunity and mood to taste it carefully. It may be that I have high expectations for it, and I want to keep it in my phone for a while longer, which is a thought.
The film is composed of several relatively independent but inextricably linked small stories. It's not so much a small story, it's more about several people living in different worlds, each of whom has more or less psychological emptiness and dream emptiness. Rather than a mental illness, I'd rather believe it was an imbalanced state. A famous director who often drinks excessively and was addicted to sex and feels deeply guilty about his wife and daughter, a nervous and insecure producer who sees ugly life and fears that he will be assimilated. A blond girl who slept and showed great ambitions in the entertainment industry but was mentally empty, a waiter in an entertainment venue who wanted to become a successful playwright after sleeping until she woke up naturally every day, but wanted to become a successful playwright, abandoned by her mother, tired of school, truancy and love for movies, but was not loved by people The black girl who understands and accepts, our protagonist, the psychiatrist, is a drug addict himself. These people seek help from a psychiatrist, but like the protagonist in the film, there may be very little that a psychiatrist can change or save for others. I used to dream of being a shrink myself as good as his father who can help clients become happy, but he couldn't believe the happiness he talked about, and he couldn't believe the way he helped people lead to happiness. In an interview about his book on how to lead to happiness, he tore page after page, repeating "Don't buy it, it's all bullshit." to the camera over and over again, at this moment , he once again completely lost himself on the road to happiness and could not get rid of it.
In fact, the real redemption takes place in one's own heart. Originally there was no road, but the more you walked, the road became. In the cage of the soul, only you can find your way out.
Everyone has the opportunity to choose the direction of life. They choose to believe in a producer who is like a type A personality, choose to change like a playwright who stays at home, choose to give up such as a famous director who is addicted to alcohol and sex, choose to face such a A black girl with a turbulent fate, a protagonist who chooses to move forward like a near-death life, everyone who dares to take the step of pioneering the mind, slowly unraveling the knot that has been entangled for a long time, dispelling the fog, and letting a fresh The sun shines on the road ahead. And for those who don't have the strength to get out of the confusion, such as the blond girl who stays in the nightclub, they still live without spirit.
I love the black girl line at the end of the movie "But we are still here, that's something."
Something what? It doesn't matter. What matters is that we are still here, living a real life that means something to ourselves.
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