American Valentine: This is your life

Dane 2022-11-22 03:33:11

Excited, Brooke strove to Tracy with his infinite ideas, such as designing shirts, and making a fortune by stealing his ideas. He is also preparing to write a TV series "Reality Show" named "American Lover".

Her N more creativity and its infinite vitality, of course, is proportional to the flashy New York. She told Tracy that you have to clear all your negative energy and let the positive energy defeat all obstacles in your life. She also said to have more appreciation, this is your life.

In this way, Tracy walked out of the campus when she was free and had a good time with her stepsister. In the meantime, Tracy was not idle either. She wrote down her own mood and showed it to Tony. Tony said it was useless and left it there. Anyway, Brooke is like a chicken blood. For a while, he is the leading coach of the fitness club on the exercise bike, and for a while, he is transformed into a salesman who is going to open a hotel. He is full of positive energy. She told Tracy that goodness is like water, you have to go ahead. Tracy said that doing business is doing one thing over and over again. Brooke laughed and said you're so smart, my baby. The city of New York seems to make people smart and savvy.

The question is, where does the money to open a hotel come from? Brooke thinks of his rich ex-boyfriend Dylan. She took Tracy, Tracy took Tony and Nikola, who were out of tune, and the group of four came to Dylan's mansion like a headless flies. Dylan is not at home, she looks like Fan Bingbing's pretty girl Claire, as Dylan's current girlfriend, of course he won't see Dylan's ex-girlfriend, not to mention Brook always provocatively say that my shirt design has been stolen by you. Claire insists that no matter how stupid Dylan is, he won't lend you Brooke. And she smugly said that Dylan chose me in the end. There is also Karen, an Asian woman with a big belly.

Brooke, who was humiliated by Claire, walked outside the hospital and called his father far away sadly. Dad said that my affair with Tracy's mother was over. Daughter is in a hurry, you can't just give up. Daughter, you talk differently today than before, hold on, daughter. Yes, must hold on. Modern cowboys cannot be defeated, but the objective problems are there, no matter how smart and savvy they are.

And the silent black girl Nikola has always been dissatisfied with Tracy, always feeling that she is always seducing Tony. Tracy did express some kind of ambiguity to Tony, and even forced a kiss to him, but Tony said I love Nikola more than you. Tracey stopped. But ask him why you turn a blind eye to what I write. He stammered that after I read it, he thought your writing was better than mine, so I said it was useless. This conversation happened to be overheard by Nikola. An angry Nikola found Tracy's manuscript, and squatted in the bathroom to read quickly.

At this time, Fatty Dylan came back. He extended a warm welcome to Brooke's arrival, not only warm, but wanted to pounce. As soon as Brooke talked about her hotel plans, an excited Dylan asked her to demonstrate how to attract New Yorkers. Everyone can see it. Brooke can indeed speak, but he may be too fast and stuck. Fortunately, his step-sister Tracy rescued the scene, sang and sang together, and completed the entire demonstration. He was very pleased with Dylan, and decided to invest in a hotel on the spot, which almost made Claire faint. fall.

Tracey was not happy with Brooke's completion of the investment plan, which stimulated Brooke. Seeing Claire's deformed and mad face, she also backed off and said to Dylan that I can't accept your investment. Claire, who was only one step away from madness, was of course relieved. Nikola, who had been squatting in the pit, was overjoyed at this time, and finally caught the handle of Tracy. So, he quickly ran downstairs with what Tracey wrote, and said to Brook that you were written in it, look, look.

Brooke took it and looked at it quietly, his face was the same as Claire before, slowly out of shape, crazy, okay, I treat you Tracy as a baby, but you misappropriated my creative "American Lover". She bombarded and didn't listen to Tracy's explanation at all. Claire, who was watching the joke, naturally wanted to shoot at Tracy, and even the pot-bellied Karen didn't worry. The happiest, of course, is Nikola, who smiled contemptuously. The black girl is really not a fuel-efficient lamp, she is flabby.

Just like New York, the police have problems with the police, whites have problems with whites, and blacks have problems with blacks. It has never been one-way, nor is it black and white. In a mixed-race city, the problems are compounded and stuck. . Since they entered Dylan's mansion, it was basically the feeling of putting on a Broadway play, which saved a lot of trivialities.

As a result, the friendship between the stepsister and the stepsister, just like the enthusiasm they started, quickly cooled down. Tracy on the campus was in so much pain that she took the train home sadly, threw herself into her mother's arms and burst into tears. Back to school, Tracy, like Brooke before, also went to an old man for fortune-telling. The old man said softly soul, you need to find yourself and your family. The same thing, he almost said to Brooke last time, elf, you must go out and find a good friend. Depressed, Tracy still misses Brooke, who is no longer her step-sister.

Finally, Tracey found Brooke through the window, but she was packing to leave New York and head to Los Angeles. Brooke said New York broke my heart and wanted to break new ground in Los Angeles. Of course, there is also Tracey who is very disappointed. She said to Brooke that we can have a Thanksgiving together. That can.

The two good sisters gave up their old hatred and sat in the cafe to talk again. Unlike the past, Brook no longer showed off his creativity, he was not so hilarious, and returned to the normalcy of life. Life is always a process of ups and downs, transformation and indeterminacy, especially in a metropolis like New York, few people really can be completely at ease. Tracey's final voiceover "Times are changing, cowboys have nowhere to go, what a lonely thing it is..."

Cowboys are just a psychological hint of frustration, or a distant sociological symbol. Here, it is more like a gimmick to talk about things, with no actual direction, and no meeting point of modern convergence. I thought that the image of the urban cowboy should end with "Midnight Cowherd" in 1969, and the cowboys since then are like yellow cranes. The actual situation is that Brook in New York is more bound by his own desires and objective reality. When the individual's ability does not reach the desire for expansion, it will inevitably lead to falling down, which must be very painful.

There are thousands of people with thousands of faces, each with different characteristics, which is in line with the characteristics of New York City. Noah Baumbach's "American Lover" (2015), just illustrates the difference of people, if you don't step on one point, it is difficult to grasp the life of the paragraph. But friendship is elusive, subtle, even uncharacteristically. It's just that there is no real "lover" in "American Lover", and the empty "American Lover" is just a gimmick needed by the plot. Compared to his "Hi, Francis," the narrative is as simple as it is, but the lines are nagging, catching up with Woody Allen's rhythm. Tracey's voice seemed to be superfluous. The nagging like a barrage of cannons is still a bit annoying. Of course, the limitless and diverse nature of the film will make the images of Shoucheng have wider possibilities. You don’t have to stick to your habit of appreciation and your own preferences. In this way, quietly accepting the beauty of light and shadow will be much more interesting and vast.

2015, 12, 22

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  • [Last lines]

    Tracy: [narrating] Meadow had made rich fat women less fat, and rich stupid kids less stupid, and lame rich men less lame. And she wanted so badly to be on the other side... to be fat and stupid and lame and rich. But what she couldn't see most of all, more than she couldn't see that she was never going to get the restaurant, was that those people were *nothing* compared to her. They were matches to her bonfire. She was the last cowboy, all romance and failure. The world was changing, and her kind didn't have anywhere to go. Being a beacon of hope for lesser people... is a lonely business.

  • Tracy: It was clear that the thing that Meadow wanted most in the world, the thing that she wanted to define her, to give her a place to put her time and talents, her everything, the restaurant, it was clear that it will never happen. The most surprising thing was that Meadow was actually surprised by it. She could see the world with painful accuracy, but she couldn't see herself or her fate. And because I was in love with her I decided I couldn't see it either.