Why is this? Henry David Thoreau once said: Most people live a silent and desperate life, walking into the tomb with the songs still in their hearts. (Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.) A silent and desperate marriage may be more tragic than being a bachelor.
This kind of despair can sometimes cause tragedy. The young actor Bai Jing was stabbed to death by her husband, who subsequently committed suicide. After that, in a family in our state that seemed to be a model couple to outsiders, the 29-year-old husband killed his wife and daughter and ran to a hotel in Las Vegas to commit suicide.
"Song of Revolution" is like retelling Thoreau's words in a story. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCapio were the perfect partners in "Titanic", even if they both survived and paired as they wished, would they "live happily together" after marriage?
"Song of Revolution" seems to be the sequel after "Titanic" changed the ending. I advise unmarried young people not to watch it on Weibo. This is the same as not watching the Water Margin. Don’t be too young to be seen by such works. They have no ambitions, doubts about love, and don’t even have the courage to try, and have not yet appeared on stage. He left the scene in despair. A friend replied, suggesting that married young people should not watch it either. Even middle-aged couples with a seven-year itch and perilous crisis should not go to see it, otherwise they will doubt life even more.
In this way, the target audience of this film is the old man and the old woman who rushes his daughter and son into marriage. Really, many times, they don't know what they are doing.
This is a horror movie about marriage. The real horror film takes place not in the castle or forest, but in an environment you are familiar with, so that you can check in. The lives of Frank and Aibo in the film made many people shudder: They are a middle class, have two children, and live in a beautiful house in the suburbs. Their home is on a street called the "Road of Revolution", and their lives are calm and stagnant. Back then, the beauty in "Titanic" had become a yellow-faced woman. Her dream of becoming an actor was shattered and she was a housewife. The husband is doing a sales job that he doesn't like very much, but in fact he is just taking over from his father, and he doesn't know what he likes. One day, Aibo suddenly remembered the Paris that her husband had liked when he was in the war, so on a whim, he told her to move to Paris with the family.
Life is full of irony. Just when Frank was about to resign, someone saw his abilities and offered him a more attractive job. He was tempted and found an excuse not to go to Paris. The salary is higher, but it is just to continue to live a desperate life on a higher level.
In addition to marriage, what is even more terrifying is that the movie stirs the deepest gloom of the human soul: the relationship between parents and children. In the film, Ai Bo doesn't like her daughter very much. In fact, she may not like her son. The child seems to be just a burden. Some of the parents mentioned in Zhou Guoping’s work "Niu Niu" are just investing in themselves. Such people are not worthy of being parents. Frank in the movie said that Ai Bo is just "a woman's shell." It’s just that such empty-shell parents, some of them still don’t admit their deep indifference to their children or individual children, and try to pass it on to others, so that others can take it for him and pass his guilt away. Lose. Putting the accounts on others will give them a moment of peace. If there is no love, a marriage and family that only rely on guilt and responsibility to operate a marriage and family is really better than taking care of themselves.
It is true that the prosperity of life will recede and fall into perseverance. At this time, the marriage soldiers are divided into two ways, all the way is to admit their fate, stop talking too much, accept everything they get, and try to turn the other party into their own friends. I have seen many old couples in the United States who claim that each other is their "best friend", or what we Chinese call "wife", which is not bad. In the film, Aibo and the Franks’ friends, Milly and his wife, finally compromised their lives in this way. For elderly couples with hearing aids, the way to deal with it is to turn off the hearing aids and refuse to listen, which is equivalent to passing the day. Many Chinese couples in the United States, after finally getting the green card, realized that the so-called American dream was actually nothing and could not continue to face the hopeless life, so one party left and went overseas. In name, there are a lot of career developments, but if I say bluntly like John in the film, many people actually want to escape helpless and boring lives. This is also a solution. Maybe General Powell was not joking. He said that the reason why he and his old wife were able to maintain their marriage for almost 50 years was that he was away for a long time. The distance can keep a little tenderness anyway.
The other way is to fall into the chronic mutual destruction, this is the more terrible end. Many people downplay this kind of despair as "the plain is true." But in the film there is a doctor of mathematics with a high intelligence quotient-Madman John, who speaks the truth: An empty life can be tolerated by many people, but facing despair, it is really only a kind of person to do it. Perhaps this lunatic is the only sober person in the mediocre world. He originally saw the difference of this couple and broke the middle class's various pedantic definitions of a happy life. In the end, Frank retreated, and even a lunatic couldn't bear it and collapsed. The lunatic will have a big deal of going back to the mental hospital. What Aibo faced was the boundless despair that he couldn't walk or stay.
Novels or movies are sometimes so scary. They don't provide the answer: we are just brought to the brink of despair, listening to the sighs of generations that respond to each other.
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