David has a good job with an annual salary of $240,000 and only works two hours a day. This should allow him to live a comfortable and happy life for most people, but in reality, his life is a mess, his marriage has broken down, and his ex-wife takes When it comes to the custody of his two children, he keeps trying to get closer to the relationship between himself and the children, but it always ends in failure. As a public figure, he is always "harassed" by ordinary people around him. He wants to restore the relationship with his ex-wife, but because "Trust" issues fall short, and they think that success in their career will make a good change in their lives, but the results backfire. It's not that David didn't work hard for life, it's actually that he's working hard, but life seems to have abandoned him.
As far as general viewing is concerned, until the end of the film, the director's intention is not clear, is this just a film that describes a bad life without a fixed plot?
No, after father and son listened to Bob Seger's Like a Rock, the director's intentions began to show, to live this shit life... we must chuck some things, yes, give up, don't be too persistent, this is the director's first What it wants to tell us is that excessive pursuit of the good life will only make it more confusing.
Like a Rock, this is the image of a father in David's mind, like a rock, standing there strong, without excessive pursuit or loss, like a rock.
As David's self-reported: I had a dream, imagined myself to be a good person, with all the good qualities, but as time passed, all the possibilities, the qualities I dreamed of, gradually diminished, and the remaining gradually condensed into one thing, that is me, the weather man. This reminds me of a saying of Wang Xiaobo in the golden age, to the effect that life is to be beaten constantly.
In the director's eyes, the real growth-up is when you are tempered by life and finally accept that you are who you are. It is the state where you can change your attitude towards life, adapt to life and enjoy life.
Ok, so far, it's still the content of the film, but anyone who knows systems theory should be able to see some interesting things in the film, see the reason why David's life is so bad, yes, he always chooses intuitive and Clear solutions to problems, and these methods often bring negative effects, um, remember the fifth practice of "removing the root and chasing the end"? If you have the interest and time, you can even draw a system diagram for David's solutions to see how he makes the problem worse, precisely because an intuitive solution can do even more harm than not. Solving problems, so the director's abandonment theory seems more reasonable. Well, life is complicated, so we should look at life from the perspective of complexity theory and treat life with a more systematic thinking.
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