A shabby middle-aged man who used to be a writer and dreams of becoming a writer again, a sad man who has been divorced for two years but never forgets his lover. The person who has blocked himself in the past all day long, besides using alcohol to get rid of the depression in his heart, what else can he do? ——Use anagram games to train vocabulary skills: wrestling with oneself. The director stingy used two shots that add up to less than a second to depict this "drunkard" who is immersed in his inner world all day long.
A car, two people, a few boxes of fine wine, and just started a week of pre-marital travel. Drive leisurely north along the road full of vineyards. Will the Chinese who have only three Golden Weeks feel such a mood? Who can say that slogan coolly: Life is like a journey, you don't need to care about the destination, you only care about the scenery along the way.
There is no obvious climax, and the whole film is like a soundtrack, with only a little humor in the ordinary. It is not so much that the director tries to tell us, it is better to say what the director is trying to describe to us: how Miles (there are so many Miles in life) got out of his own world and learned how to accept other people. From the moment he embarked on the journey, Jack tried his best to drag Miles out of the shadow of life. Jack in the film is so emotional, but this is just a lifestyle he chose, just like the sentence he said to Miles at the door of the Buffalo Restaurant: There have something I have to do and you don't understand. You understand literature, movie and wine, but you don't understand my plan. For
two years, Miles has been cherishing his feelings for Victoria, just like the Chavel Blanc 1961 in his wine cabinet. He thought he was like a tree planter who made Pinot grapes, carefully waiting for the grapes to mature, and then brewing them into a mellow and aromatic Pinot. But life is not like this. Just like playing an anagram game, when filling in a blank, you have to consider the blank next to it. No matter how you think you are doing something worthy of you, in the final analysis you have to compromise with life. It's like at the end of the film, Miles is drinking that Chavel Blanc 1961 inside Burger King.
This is a story about "compromise." "Compromise" is not a derogatory term, especially in life. Let yourself live a little easier, put aside the gloom, and start a new life, what's wrong with it?
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