I've seen a lot of people give this movie bad reviews. Really surprised. This is the most shocking movie of all the blockbusters I've seen in the last two years. It is indeed difficult for Chinese people who have lived a normal and stable life since childhood to understand this film, and always associate suicide with cowardly escape. In fact, in this film, suicide is a struggle. I remember seeing this movie for the first time on a plane. It was only when the movie was over that I realized that I had tears running down my face. In fact, the emotional world and the needs of the deep soul of the characters reflected in this film are very profound and shocking. Kelly is fed up with her world: one where no one understands her pain and remorse for losing her child, and the more she can't forgive herself emotionally, the more she's addicted to alcohol to numb the pain. The more she is addicted to alcohol, the more she hates herself, hating her accidental miscarriage because of being addicted to alcohol, which is equivalent to killing her own child, and how much she loves her child and longs to have someone who she loves deeply. The crystallization of her husband's love. In her world, her only relative, her husband, is also getting further and further away from her emotionally. Beau, the only new friend who cares about her, has something else in her heart. In her world, her husband, despite her pain, forced her to leave alcohol treatment early for an emotionally and physically challenging concert tour. In her world, although she knew she couldn't do it, out of love for her husband, she could not agree to her husband's request, and immediately started a concert tour. She was exhausted trying to meet everyone's expectations of her, the expectations of her fans, the expectations of her sponsors, and most importantly, the expectations of her beloved husband and manager. However, who has asked her what she needs? What does she expect and long for? She has long seen through and tired of fame and fortune. So she responded to Beau with Beau's original words before committing suicide: Love and fame cannot coexist. So she sings that the world just wants to destroy me, and I run all the way to find my way home. Home, there is only a blue sky here, only here can I heal my wounds, and I will no longer be alone. It can also be said that suicide is Kelly's last struggle against her world after she can't bear any more pain: I always have the right to choose to disappear. And in the theme song of the same name, she sings that I look vulnerable, but you (referring to life) cannot destroy my inner strength. You (referring to life) can fool me and frustrate me, but I won't be down for long. (You made me) go through severe cold, heat and drought. You (life) drive me into a corner, but I will come out and fight you. Maybe I will lose, but I will stick to my beliefs. Because I am as strong as the land that raised me, and I will never give up.
The spirit of country songs is love, freedom, and bravery. I think the theme and the plot fit together perfectly. The title song title is not ironic, but just a direct expression of Kelly's final struggle.
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