"Jim Carrey's films can always touch the softness of people's hearts. He preaches truth, goodness, and beauty, but it is not boring, but a trickle.
Jim Carrey's film is a beautiful fairy tale for adults, and it can be called the American version of chicken soup for the soul.
But people's hearts always need comfort. Drinking some chicken soup in moderation is good for physical and mental health. When you are lost, watch these movies and you may gain the courage and strength to live.
"Fake Tenjin," "Mr. Good," and "Mr. Pop's Penguin." These films have one thing in common, that is, the protagonists are middle-aged men who are a little frustrated in life. Some encounter bottlenecks in their careers, and some are emotionally frustrated, usually both.
The film captures the life dilemmas that most adults are likely to face, so it resonates with everyone.
Bruce, a radio reporter in Fake Gods. His career has reached a bottleneck, and he has failed to compete with his colleagues for prime-time anchors; his life is also unsatisfactory, and he is always arguing with his partner over trivial matters.
Carl Allen in Mr. Good. Carl Allen is a middle-aged man defeated by life's setbacks. The breakdown of his relationship with his ex-wife made him lose the courage to start a new life. If you know that sooner or later you will lose it? Why even start?
To this end, he began to reject everything new in life, afraid of commitment, afraid of change. In this way, he lived a life like a walking corpse.
Tom Pope in Mr. Pope's Penguins. Compared with the former two, Tom Pope seems to be in a better situation. As a successful businessman, he has the ability to fool others into selling their property with a three-inch tongue. Living in a high-end apartment of several hundred square meters, and a beautiful assistant is often by his side.
But Tom Pope also suffers from double misfortune in career and family. He tried to become a partner of the company, but he was never recognized by the capital bosses; he divorced his ex-wife and had a bad relationship with his two children.
It can be seen that these middle-aged men are suffering from some kind of life difficulties, including career bottlenecks and rifts in intimate relationships.
In this stagnant life, there will always be a suitable time for the protagonist to experience some kind of adventure and then realize some truth. The protagonist will eventually break through these bottlenecks and get the sublimation of life.
The occurrence of such adventures is not necessarily logical. On the contrary, there is always some kind of mystical force that accompanies it.
Therefore, watching Jim Carrey's films cannot be rational or logical. In fact, watching all fairy tales is the same. If there is reason and logic, there are no fairy tales.
Among the fake gods, Bruce temporarily replaced the authority of the gods by making an agreement with the gods. After a series of events, it was discovered that even if a person possesses boundless mana, unpleasant things cannot be avoided.
In the final analysis, it is still necessary to not blame others. Learn to be open-minded, and don't take things too seriously.
In Mr. Good, Carl Allen is under a spell of having to do everything someone asks, so he's responsive to anyone's request.
But his life changed because of this. He made many new friends, learned many new skills, and tried many things that he had never dared to try before.
In Mr. Pope's Penguins, the arrival of the penguins is one such mysterious event. By caring for these penguins, Tom Pope came to realize that the really important things in life are family. The ending of the story is naturally a happy one.
Of course this cannot happen in real life. Not all tolerance and smiley faces can be returned to tolerance and smiley faces, and not everyone has good intentions and reciprocates.
The truth of the film is not to be responsive to others. It is to live bravely, to be brave to try new relationships and new things, and not to be limited by fear and fear in your life.
This movie is indistinguishable from chicken soup for the soul. In the final analysis, simplifying the predicament of life to a very specific single cause is usually a misunderstanding in the outlook on life. It seems that once you break this point, all the problems in life seem to be solved.
This logic is of course just an artistic technique. In reality, the situation of people is determined by many factors. It is not simply to change a certain aspect, and life will undergo earth-shaking changes.
A happy ending in a movie is not necessarily the inevitable result of the hero's actions.
So, these movie stories are fairy tales. But fairy tales have the value of fairy tales. Fairy tales can warm people, encourage people, and inspire people.
Jim Carrey plays you and me, maybe you at this moment, or me at that time.
Through him, we can reflect on ourselves.
And the happy ending of the movie will also make us full of courage and still love life.
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