not that simple

Shany 2022-03-22 09:02:38

In Japan, Hirokazu Kore-eda's movie "Deeper Than the Sea", the mother said to her son: "No one is gone, no matter how much you think about it, it's useless. The important thing is to grasp the moment. Why don't men go back and cherish the moment? Only then can I know how to cherish it. In this case, I will not be happy every day. The so-called happiness, um... If you let go, you will get it. I, at this age, have not loved anyone deeper than the sea? Surely No. For ordinary people, it’s because they can’t live without it, but they have to be happy every day!”

For writers, I'm afraid something like this would be mocked by Hemingway. The movie "Travel's End" is generally full of stories. It tells the whole record of the reporter interviewing the writer. After many years, the writer is stuck in a creative bottleneck. It may be loneliness, it may be drug addiction, or it may be that the writer's existence and values ​​are difficult to sustain and then commit suicide. At this time, looking back on the interview experience from the reporter's vision, the reporter has become a writer at this time, just as the writer said back then, the two have the same soul.

"When I think about this journey, I think about being in his car and I saw David (author David foster wallace) and I in the front seat, we were both so young. He wanted more than he already did. What he has, and what I want, is what he already has. We don't know where our lives are going, and it smells of chewing tobacco, soda, and cigarettes. Those conversations were the best I've ever had. Great conversation. David thinks books exist to wake people up from loneliness. If I could, I would say to David that those moments with him are not a relief from life, but a reminder of life What it should be like. So I had to tell him that realizing that made me feel less alone." (Rolling Stone's David Lipsky) "When I think of this trip, I see David and me in the front seat of his car , We are both so young. He wants something better than he has. I want precisely what he has aready. Neither of us knows where our lives are going to go. It smells like chewing tobacco, soda and smoke. And the conversation is the best one I ever had. David thought books existed to stop you from feeling lonely. If I could. I'd say to David that living those days with him, reminded me of what life is like, instead of being a relief from it. And I'd tell him it made me feel much less alone."

Wallace: "It's more likely that I'm too much on the American ideal, that if I get to X, Y, and Z, everything will be alright. I have a passage in my book that says: When a person jumps from a burning skyscraper Next time, it's not that they're no longer afraid of falling, it's just that the alternative is worse, which makes you think, what kind of situation is so bad that jumping into your death seems like a relief. I Don't know if you've had a similar experience, but it's worse than any physical damage, it's probably called a mental crisis, it feels like every motto in your life has become a fallacy, everything is empty, and you are nothing. Everything. It's all an illusion, you're so much better than others because you see through it all just a dream, and you're so much worse than others because you're damned unable to live normally. It's a horrible feeling, I think people are not It will change, I'm sure it's still buried deep in my body, it's probably just that I'm trying so hard not to be dragged away by it."

However, perhaps because of some similar emotions and no plot involved, I remembered the classic lines of life discussed in the love movie "One Day":

1. Emma: "I thought I'd make a difference, but no one knows I'm here."

2. Emma: "Your sympathy. I'm not lonely. I'm alone." Don't sympathize with me, I'm not alone, I'm just single.

3. Mama: "We always said you could do anything you wanted." Dex: "Fine. Why do you want me to do?" OK, what do you want me to do? Mama: "Something good." Some good things. Mama: "I know that you're going to be a fine man. Decent, loving, accomplished. that you're not very nice anymore." I know that you're going to be a fine man. Decent, loving, and loving. You are not as good as you used to be.

4. "She made you decent and in return you made her so happy." She made you decent and in return you made her so happy.

5.Dex: "It's just I need to speak to someone. Not someone. You." I want to talk to someone, not someone, just want to talk to you. Emma: "And if I can't talk to you, then what is the point of you? Of us?" If I can't talk to you, then what's the point of you? What's the point of us?

6. Emma: "Whatever happens tomorrow, we've had today." No matter what happens tomorrow, take care of today.

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  • Toney 2022-03-15 09:01:06

    I really like this kind of chattering film, but when many sentences are translated into Chinese, they will lose the kind of knowing touch. We always say that people are lonely, but in fact the deepest loneliness often comes from eternal social life. We speak, but we don’t really speak; we listen, but we don’t really listen; we believe, but we don’t really believe. The moment I turned off the movie, I suddenly wanted to cry. Foster said, I feel that my life came to an abrupt end at the age of 28. Half of my 28-year-old lives in April Fools' jokes trapped by the epidemic.

  • Nakia 2022-03-20 09:02:35

    you're so much better than everybody cause you can see how this is just a delusion and you're so much worse because you can't fucking function...it's really horrible.

The End of the Tour quotes

  • David Foster Wallace: It's so much easier having dogs.

    David Lipsky: Ha, ha - I'm sure.

    David Foster Wallace: I mean, yes, you don't get laid, but you don't have that feeling, like you're hurting their feelings, all the time.

    David Lipsky: Right, right.

    David Foster Wallace: I'd like to emphasise strictly platonic relationship with the dogs.

    David Lipsky: He he; I'll make sure I'll highlight it in the article, sure.

  • David Lipsky: Do you wanna have kids?...

    David Foster Wallace: Yeah, I think that writing books is a little like raising children, y'know -you have to be careful; mm; it's ok to take pride in the work, but I think it's bad for someone to want the glory to reflect back on you.

    David Lipsky: I mean, sounds like you're worried about having children.

    David Foster Wallace: I'm not wanna say anymore about that - if that's ok?