Nicolas Cage is certainly a good actor in action films, but his slightly depressed melancholy temperament and even a little neurotic performance still proves that he is more suitable for performing literary and artistic roles - in fact, Cage is known for his literary films. Not to mention, a "Far from Las Vegas" is enough to explain everything, and then, there is this "Weatherman".
I'm still a long way from the legal middle age, so the "midlife crisis" is as distant and unfamiliar as parents are to their children's adolescence. Trying to imagine all kinds of experiences that people experience in middle age is nothing more than worrying about family relationships, worrying about their children’s lives, worrying about work situations, and worrying about social relationships—it doesn’t seem like much, but… Really?
It's not a bad life to have an exemplary American father, a lucrative job, smart and lovely children, and a bit of a problem with his wife—wait, Dave doesn't think so. In his eyes, he was never recognized by his father. He wrote science fiction to try to attract his father's attention, but was ignored intentionally or unintentionally. For his job, he can get $240,000 a year with just two hours a day. He hates his job. He is always asked about the weather like a public figure. What's even more embarrassing is that there are people from time to time. Throwing food at him; his daughter cheating him out of money to buy cigarettes, his son was addicted to drugs and had to be forced into treatment, and was bitten back by a pedophile counselor, tragically, there was always an unintelligible relationship between them septum; and his wife, no, ex-wife, will also marry someone else.
This is not about a person's success history, let alone Dave's growth history, the movie is just exposing a middle-aged man's mid-life crisis.
Dave is just an ordinary middle-aged man in daily life. He is not a hero who can save the world alone, or a business tycoon with hundreds of thousands in one second. He has many, many troubles, although he also thinks about fame and fortune in the future How the family is harmonious, the career is prosperous, but the reality is still the same, full of troubles, so looking at the man who is so-called married to his ex-wife who is chattering in front of him, he involuntarily raises his gloves and beats the man to vent. own pressure.
I like the shot of Dave walking alone on the streets of New York with a bow and arrow. What does that symbolize? Does he long to bring himself a goal, like an arrow, to bring confidence? Did he subconsciously separate himself from the bored, tired city dweller? Did he defend himself with a bow and arrow to demonstrate to those who threw out junk food? Maybe all, maybe none. But it is undeniable that falling in love with archery has also brought Dave Spritz a more or less turnaround, at least psychologically.
At the end of the film, Dave gets a pretty good job, and although it doesn't seem to have changed much, it's still one step closer to imagined happiness, "Even for a successful person, life is still like shit. , we've got to throw something away. There's always something else to take care of, and you still have time" -- wouldn't it be nice if he could think so?
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