This is the opening scene of the American film "About Schmidt". Mr. Warren Schmidt, one of the founders, assistant vice president and actuary of the movie's protagonist, Living Text Insurance, has retired. He has opened up a world with his diligence and conscientiousness. His work is almost the whole of his life, and now he is even more famous. With white temples and white temples, you can go home and enjoy the happiness. At the farewell party for his retirement, old colleagues and friends praised him a lot, but with a smirk on his face, he couldn't be happy, so he left the crowd to have a drink alone. It was obvious that he was disappointed. He didn't want to leave the business that he had worked so hard for for many years. He still wanted to keep doing it, but the years were not forgiving, and the company did not have an anti-employment system. The smug face of his successor made Mr. Schmidt dislike, but it was a foregone conclusion that he would retire and return home. Thus, the protagonist's retirement life began.
The carpenter had left the saw, and Mr. Schmidt had become idle and unhappy, and his wife's cleanliness and ramblings annoyed him even more. He was obsessed with the battlefield, and he never had Wang Mojie's mentality of "I want to be quiet in my later years, and I don't care about everything", and the shadow of "unemployment" hovered in his heart. In order to regain his former dignity, one day, he returned to the company to teach his successor, but hit a soft nail. In the rustling cold wind, he had to admit that if he wanted to revive his glory, he had to wait for the next life. As the days passed, he was not good at pruning flowers and grass, nor did he like to fish or raise birds. When chatting with neighbors, his wife was always snatched by him, so he simply passed the time in front of the TV. One day, I came across a report on TV about a charity event called "childreach" to help poor children. In order to fill the spiritual void, Mr. Schmidt signed an agreement to assist a Tanzanian boy Wu Dugu, and In accordance with the requirements of the agreement, he was pleased to write a letter to him. In the letter, he first introduced himself, and then gave encouragement and comfort to the children in the distance as an elder. After writing, he gradually lost control of his emotions. The depression, resentment, and resentment in these days were all vented out, and his heart felt at ease. After a lot, the old man realized his gaffe and hurriedly tore it up and rewritten it. In this way, on a sunny morning, he said hello to his wife and went out to send a letter. Never thought that this walk would be forever. When I got home, my wife fell down next to the vacuum cleaner because of a cerebral thrombosis and never got up again. The people who accompanied him all day long passed away, and his daughter and prospective son-in-law came back for mourning. The latter was a salesman with great ambition and talent. Mr. Schmidt did not like him and had always disagreed with their marriage, but now is not the time to talk about it. The body was put into the coffin, the funeral, the condolences to relatives and friends, everything was done according to the old rules. After it was over, his daughter questioned him, "Mom has taken care of you all your life, why can't you buy him a better coffin after you die?" His daughter and son-in-law left, leaving him alone in the family. He began to live in widowhood. After two weeks, his family's reserves were exhausted. He was used to eating ready-made food on weekdays. He had to go to the supermarket to buy daily necessities in person, alas! I didn't expect that the housework was so complicated and complicated that a person who was very familiar with the insurance business was overwhelmed and exhausted. He began to miss his wife, miss her snoring, miss her goosebumps, miss her ordering him to sit and urinate. Sitting in front of his wife's dressing table, using his wife's skin care products to smear himself into a big face, loneliness began to come to him. He wrote a second letter to Wu Dugu, and the letter was full of desolation. When he opened his wife's old belongings, there were several letters in it. Suddenly, he discovered a big secret, a friend who gave praises at the farewell party. Even secretly meeting with his wife, Mr. Schmidt suddenly became angry and courageous, this pair of dogs and men! He threw all the clothes that his wife had worn during his lifetime into the clothes purchasing station, and then rushed to his old friend's house to ask for his guilt. After a fistful of abuse, he was still not relieved, and used the urinal as a punching bag, and swept it like a goddess scattered flowers. But after venting, it is lost again. "Good people can also be unlucky", the son-in-law gave a book like this at this juncture. It was night, he tossed and turned, and he not only realized that he was getting old, but also that there were fewer and fewer people around him. The importance of career and family, he had to think about this topic. Now his career has become a thing of the past for him, and his wife has also left before him. In this world, only his daughter is the closest person to him, and he is the one to rely on for the rest of his life. And his daughter is about to no longer belong to him! "In the event of a change, stand firm." Mr. Schmidt kept reminding himself. Thinking of this, he immediately packed his bags and drove the large RV left by his wife to meet his daughter in Denver. The only thing was that his daughter closed the door for him and told him to come back later. Only then did he feel the distance between father and daughter. In desperation, he had no choice but to wander the interstates in his bulky RV, taking in the sights he never cared about when he was young. In the third letter to Wu Dugu, in order to save face, he said that his daughter wished him to go earlier, but he wanted to take the opportunity to revisit his alma mater. When he came to Sri Lanka, things were different. Although others were not enthusiastic about his visit, Mr. Schmidt didn't take it seriously, and he was alone in his old dreams. After that, when I drove to Ocala, I met a middle-aged couple. The man praised Mr. Schmidt's RV and invited Mr. Schmidt to visit. The host and the guest talked very happily. When the host went out to buy beer, the hostess who could look at the pictures evoked Mr. Schmidt's grief. The long-term loneliness made him fall into the arms of the former, and then he couldn't help kissing her. . Unexpectedly, the hostess was shocked and ordered to evict the guests. Mr. Schmidt walked away in embarrassment, driving at full speed and racing the engine, again feeling deeply lost. His daughter ignored him, and his old friend who had been with him for many years also offended him, and he became a loner. That night, the stars in the night sky were shining, and the surroundings were silent. In the faint candlelight, he silently called his wife's name and forgave her infidelity. Non-vegetation, ruthless Practice makes perfect? When his wife was alive, he kept the house in good order, took care of his food and daily life, and worked hard without complaining. He took all this for granted, and not only never cared about her, he was picky about her. She is a normal woman, if a woman is not nourished by love, she will age quickly. What if they did something wrong to me? Now that yin and yang are separated, I can only pray for her to be well in heaven. "Helen, I just want to know if you really have me in your heart? Can you forgive me?" Mr. Schmidt muttered to himself as he fell asleep on the roof of the car...
In the early morning of the next day, Mr. Schmidt came to Denver, where his daughter was located, full of energy. He was greeted by his mother-to-be, who was hospitable and caring for Mr. Schmidt. Mr. Schmidt's mind was only on his daughter, and he wanted to persuade her to break the engagement. In his eyes, the prospective son-in-law is just a bum, not worthy of his own son-in-law. At dinner, his in-laws ate with relish, but he couldn't swallow it. He looked at these strangers who were about to marry him, and other people, did he know universal insurance? Do you understand the terms of insurance? Can the other person's race, occupation, marital status, medical records accurately calculate how long he can live? He disdains to be in the company of these people, and just wants to get out of here with his daughter and return to Omaha. The stubborn daughter refused his request, and there was no room for negotiation. Mr. Schmidt was angry and hated, and woke up with a slump. The mother-in-law is too considerate, this old woman has no self-awareness, and she shows off all the fat, and she even promises her. Mr. Schmidt was dumbfounded and fled. The next thing is to talk about people. At her daughter's wedding, she faced an unfamiliar face and said insincere words. After the speech, he hid in the toilet, and the smell flowed into the sewer along with the urine.
The hated people succeeded one by one, but he hit a wall everywhere, and the disheartened Mr. Schmidt ended his long journey and returned home. He is a failed old man. He was supposed to have children and grandchildren around his knees, but he ended up in a bleak night. Profession endows him with a budget-conscious personality, which is not a bad thing. The problem is that his threshold is too high, and few people can get into his eyes. The son-in-law is not as useless as he imagined. He was able to take no time to photograph the touching scene of the father and daughter saying goodbye to each other. Didn't he also clean up the snow in winter? ! man! When entering old age, he should be indifferent to fame and fortune, and restrain his temperament, but he is still competitive, so that the younger generation will not lose too much. Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. Whatever flowers bear fruit, let’s calmly accept the laws of nature! He imposes his will on others and regards tyranny as a concern. He is unwilling to be an idle cloud wild crane, and at the same time he has lost the capital to make a comeback. In the thousands of times of giving and receiving, he gradually felt powerless and counterproductive. Today, his eyes are dull, his skin is thick, and the capillaries in the ankle joint are clearly visible, all of which are telling that he is old and his days are running out. At this moment, there is a pile of letters on the table, and one of them is from Tanzania. When he opened it, it was a greeting card and a pack of paint pens that Wu Dugu gave him. He didn't expect that this little boy who had no place in his heart and had the right to deal with loneliness could send blessings when he was helpless.
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