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The heaviest mood
Deja 2022-03-20 09:01:56
Old movies, old classics. Maybe we can't experience the confusion after the war now, maybe we can't feel the madness of the Cultural Revolution, but no matter what era there will be a mainstream, it is inevitable that there will be some people who cannot be integrated into the mainstream. Therefore, the superfluous person not only exists in literary works forever, but also has a place in real life. I think the film conveys that feeling of disorientation in people's minds in a subtle and profound way. It's a long video, but it doesn't look boring at all, which I love. For a person, I think the most important thing is the mood. Wang Guozhen said: "When the mood is rainy, it is sunny, and when the heart is raining, it is also rain." I appreciate it very much. A good mood needs the irrigation of good love and friendship. If a person does not have these, there is no hope, there is no desire to live, and there is no meaning of existence.
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The Best Years of Our Lives quotes
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[Mr. Thorpe has offered Derry a job as asst. floor manager and part-time soda jerk]
Fred Derry: At what salary?
Mr. Thorpe: Thirty-two fifty per week.
Fred Derry: Thirty-two fifty. I used to make over four hundred dollars a month in the Air Force.
Mr. Thorpe: The war is over, Derry.
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[Al is explaining to the bank president why he made the loan to Mr. Novak]
Al Stephenson: You see, Mr. Milton, in the Army I've had to be with men when they were stripped of everything in the way of property except what they carried around with them and inside them. I saw them being tested. Now some of them stood up to it and some didn't. But you got so you could tell which ones you could count on. I tell you this man Novak is okay. His 'collateral' is in his hands, in his heart and his guts. It's in his right as a citizen.