I didn't feel like it was a comedy. Regarding the title, it feels like an irony, Alice has always been here, she has been in the same place and made the same mistakes and never left.
The beginning of the film is Alice's childhood. The tone of the scene is extremely exaggerated, which is obviously unreal. I think this is a hint from the director, suggesting that this is the childhood in Alice's mind, when she was intoxicated in her own world. , everything is beautiful, imagining that he will realize his dream of singing. She sang like that, and she ended up singing until she was before the sewing machine 27 years later. She has become someone else's wife, and about singing, 27 years later is still just a dream. A very important place is, David asked her later why you left Monterey, Alice said: well, I got married, Donald wanted to live in his own hometown, I want to go on singing, but he said: No wife of mine is going to sing in a saloon. In the end, Alice gave up her dream so easily and said, "yes, master..." What is this? ! Because a man can easily give up his dream with one word? It can only show that she loves men more than her own dreams.
Later, her husband died unexpectedly in 13 minutes, and they left because of this. She thought that she could still find a singing job in the hotel she liked when she was 19, but in fact, time has changed, and she relies on this fantasy Started the journey back to Monterey.
The reality is cruel. She found a job and hit a wall everywhere, and then she could barely find a singing job with tears. However, she met Ben at work and fell in love quickly. After discovering that Ben had a family and was full of violent tendencies, Alice immediately packed up and flashed.
Later, Alice came to a small town and worked as a waiter under the pressure of reality. As a result, she met David, a man with his own farm and a face full of stubble. Alice spent all her money in getting back to Monterey in the process of getting along with David. Saved money, but in a quarrel because David beat his son and chose to leave again.
In the end, David revealed his true feelings in the restaurant and said: "Pack your bags, I'll take you to Monterey. I don't give a damn about that ranch.", Alice immediately fell, and the end of the film is that Alice gave up and went back to Monterey. .
For the character of Alice, I think the first thing is sad. Although she has her own dream, this dream is not in the first place in her heart. The first place is always the man and the son. Secondly, Alice is pure and idealistic, and David asks her: do you want to go home, or do you want to sing? She replied that I think about both, and I think Alice may have never seriously thought about it, and the place she really wants to go back to is her former self. However, she always loses herself in front of men.
Does she really want to sing? I think she was doubting herself from the very beginning when she left, and subconsciously looking for a man to rely on when she went back to Monterey, she didn't want to sing, she didn't want to go back to Monterey, she just wanted to find a man she could rely on. She said: "I can't live without men. Monterey is her dream. Maybe she really wanted to sing when she was a child, but after 27 years, she no longer really wanted to, she still chose a man.
So much so that he agreed to give David a slap in the bathroom, but in a blink of an eye, he fell into his arms because of David's words.
In the end, it was because of the man that I couldn't go back to Monterey.
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