What would you do if you only had six months to live?
There is no doubt that most people will choose to use the remaining time of their lives to indulge and do things they dare not do. After all, you are about to leave this world, and those shackles in the real world cannot restrain you at this time. Now, it's better to use the limited time to use wine as a song to live unrestrained and unrestrained. When it comes to movies with this kind of content, I am afraid that many people will have the image of "Bucket List" in their minds for the first time. The two veteran actors Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman presented us with wonderful performances, and at the same time It also brought "The Bucket List" to its peak, making it difficult for future films of the same type to surpass it.
However, being unable to surpass does not mean that there are no excellent products. What I want to recommend to you today is such a "death craziness" movie-"Professor".
Richard is a young and promising college professor with an artist wife and a beautiful daughter, who to outsiders looks like a typical representative of successful middle-class Americans, but only Richard himself knows that this gorgeous There is so much filth and unbearableness hidden under the surface. Middle-aged Professor Richard is faced with a lot of bad things about the mid-life crisis, and the worst thing is that he was diagnosed with lung cancer, or it was an advanced type. Only live half a year. As a result, Richard, who had been a gentle and elegant professor for most of his life, went wild for a while and chose not to receive treatment, and for the rest of his life, he was going to spend the rest of his life in a wild life.
People are like this sometimes. When you feel that life is still very long, you will honestly shrink like a turtle, dare not quarrel with the stupid boss, dare not stop the gangsters who jump in the queue, and treat everyone around you. Whether you like it or not, greet you with a smile on your face, because you are afraid of change, afraid of losing, afraid that any small mistake in your life will cause your existing stable life to be disrupted; but when you know exactly when you will die When the time comes, everything doesn't matter, because you have seen the exact date when your current life will be wiped out. Since you know that you are about to have nothing and leave the world, why continue to die for the sake of life and face?
This is not only the attraction of this kind of film, but also the restriction of this kind of film, because this kind of film routine is obvious, no doubt that the protagonist starts to work crazy in the last moments of his life, and does everything he usually dare not do. , and then say something about cherishing the time, grasping the chicken soup such as being yourself today, and finally the film ends with the death of the protagonist. This "Professor" is the same, but with a slightly different thing. The protagonist Richard seems to have a final indulgence in the film, but he actually uses a gentle way to say goodbye to everything he loves.
This is reflected in his relationship with his wife. As a man who found out that he had been cuckolded, especially when he knew that his life was imminent, a normal person's reaction would probably be to use violent means to retaliate against the derailed party.
( As an aside here, in the novel "How Soldiers Repair Phonographs", there is a very wonderful description, in which a referee named "Walrus" is breaking his wife's affair and seeing his lover break his own game console. When recording, he drove away his cheating wife in a rage, and spent one afternoon getting his name back to the top of the record list, and then ran to his lover's house, brushed his name to the top of the other party's game console, and then smashed it. Ruined everything in the lover's house and then dumped the car into the river. This shows how terrifying a man can be when facing himself being cuckolded )
But as a decent middle-class, especially a well-mannered college professor, Richard's shame obviously wouldn't allow him to do so, so he began to engage in extramarital sex, making all kinds of sarcasm about his wife's works and his lover, but Soon, Richard stopped doing this, because he understood that the countdown to his life was not for him to vent frantically, but to give him a chance to re-examine his life and say goodbye to everyone.
I think this point actually jumps out of the movie, and it is also very enlightening for us, of course, this is just my personal very one-sided view. I think whether it is a relationship or a marriage, if there is a problem, it is often not just a person's problem. Anger is human, but the reason why humans can become human is that you need to control your anger, and It's not terrible to think about where the problem is, a failed relationship or marriage, but you must understand why. Also, when a relationship is irreversible, everyone should try to stay decent and think more about the good memories the other party brought you in the beginning. After all, life may end at any time, so why not leave some good memories?
Back in the movie, in addition to treating his family, Richard also treats students with the same attitude. When he first learned that he was dying, he chose to play all kinds of nonsense in class, but when he calmed down, He really began to pay attention to and understand his few remaining students, and tried to tell them some truths of life before he left. Although these truths have been mentioned over and over in various movies, in this movie When it appeared, it was still a little moving.
In general, "The Professor" is a movie about "old wine in old bottles", but it can still give people a better viewing experience, and some of the epiphanies and "madness" about life can still make people understand A smile or a moving face, and the ending of this movie does not end with the death of the protagonist like other movies of the same type, but an open and uncertain ending, which makes people wonder if there will be another way to this story. an ending. A lot of people commenting on this movie like to say that this movie is "a professor decides to die" or "a man named Johnny Depp decides to die", and I think this movie should be called "a man" Decided to embrace the world before dying".
Finally, let's talk about Johnny Depp, the star of the film. In recent years, Johnny Depp seems to be hooked on "abnormal humans". When he mentions him, people basically think of the pirate captain Jack Sparrow. , and even many people think that he is only suitable for that kind of crazy role. But in this "Professor", Johnny Depp's acting skills brought me a big surprise. In the first half of the film, you still feel that he is a crazy person, but as the plot progresses, However, he vividly interprets the exhaustion and helplessness of that kind of person in middle age, the anger and unwillingness after learning that he is terminally ill, and the reluctance and nostalgia for the people around him and the world after he figured it out. It can even be said that in In this film of "old wine in old bottles", it was Depp's strong acting skills and charm that propped up the whole story. I hope to see him appear in more films with such complex characters in the future.
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