Text | Li Zijin
When you are nearly 50 years old, you see that your former college friends have become successful people in the mouths of others:
a politician who became the White House;
A CEO of a listed company;
Another bought an island with only beach and sex every day.
And although you have a good family, your wife is content, and your son is about to go to college.
But friends who used to be your center are now fading you out of the circle.
How would you feel?
Brad in the film is facing such a dilemma.
In the dead of night, Brad lost sleep again;
His wife, Melanie, thought he was worried about his son's college tuition;
In fact, he was frustrated with his own life.
He taught all of his experience to the only employee who didn't recognize his career and recently left.
It is said that at thirty you will stand, at forty you will not be confused, and at fifty you will know the mandate of heaven. Nearly fifty years old, he not only does not know the destiny, but is even confused about his current life. After the age of struggle, there will be no more windfalls in life. He felt that he had been abandoned by the world.
The next day, he and his son went to the university for an interview. At the airport, he only had a silver card and could not enjoy membership services.
Looking at the ordinary people in the waiting room, Brad felt that he was different from them, so he wanted to upgrade.
But even if he is willing to pay $1,600 for an upgrade, he still has no upgrade rights because he bought a special ticket.
On the plane, he thinks that his friends have private jets and he's still buying special tickets, and the frustration continues to surround Brad.
Seeing this, most viewers will feel that the male protagonist is moaning.
It's good to have an airplane, but there are many people who have never been on an airplane in their entire lives.
Compared with our generation of young people who are overwhelmed by mortgage loans, the male protagonist who has a car, a house and a small deposit is simply blessed.
But Brad doesn't like to be compared with poor people. He is better than competing with people at the top of his pyramid, which shows how much pressure this is.
During dinner, I talked to my son Troy, and he found out that his son was about to interview at Harvard University.
A frustrated Brad immediately found a sense of accomplishment in his son.
What a proud thing to have such a wonderful son.
That night, he dreamed that his son was admitted to Harvard, and the whole family was very happy.
But his dream was soon shattered. He fantasized about Troy becoming a big star in the future, but when talking about him, he realized that Troy's success seemed to have nothing to do with him, and his life was still such a failure. So he was disappointed to take the picture of his son off the wall.
Of course, this is all his dreams and fantasies. He is now impatient to show off his son to those around him.
Hope always comes with disappointment, Troy misses the date for the interview, which was the day before.
Troy was not disappointed by this, the child's mentality was still very good. But Brad started looking for a relationship hoping to give Troy another chance to interview.
As he connects with his friends, Brad discovers that their friends' lives are not as glamorous as they appear.
The politician classmate in the White House, in fact, his students hate his class very much;
The CEO of a public company who once owned a private jet is now facing a complaint and his 3-year-old child is sick;
The classmates who bought Kojima and retired at the age of 40 actually had a very chaotic life, and they might have caught a bad habit.
In fact, being out of the circle by friends is not necessarily a bad thing.
Life is only so long, everyone's life is different, and their values will change accordingly. If you are out of the circle, your life has no intersection.
When you envy other people's luxurious life, others are envying your ordinary happiness.
Brad in the movie was cured like this in the end.
That's it for this movie, no big ups and downs, mostly Brad's inner monologue. Usually, the less things are, the more difficult it is to express. Only monologues and rare content can express emotions clearly, which shows the strong production skills of the film.
It would be boring if I didn't have the patience to watch it; but at the end, I was healed by this movie.
In the Internet age, we have seen many truths and life, and there are only a handful of people who can be envied. Everyone is trying to live their own life well, although we are not over half a hundred years old, and in the past two or three decades, we have also been out of the circle by many people, but this is not a bad thing.
I hope my 50-year-old can be as successful as the male lead.
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