This article is a tribute to David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 - September 12, 2008) an American writer of novels, short stories and essays, and professor of English and creative writing.
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The film's U.S. release date is July 31, 2015. The film is based on a true story and revolves around what happened between David foster wallace, author of the best-selling book Endless Joke, and Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky.
Considering that I'm just an amateur film lover, I can't analyze the film in depth and what he really wants to bring to you. What I wrote is just some introduction and personal thoughts and feelings
The lengthy beginning of the movie is a little boring, but the process and the real meaning left to the audience at the end are soft and memorable. The connotation and interesting plot in the whole movie will make you get a lot of unexpected surprises. The movie's attitude towards human life I analyzed the attitude of conveying emotions and expressed the ugly and profound thoughts naked, as well as all the changes that reporter Lipsky got during this journey and the change of his attitude towards his life.
Wallace revealed his attitude towards life and his inner struggle and despair from clear words, more than he understood that the ups and downs in life and the name of the hero eventually became illusory. After the noise of praise, he struggled to withdraw and returned to his belongings. A personal world Typing on a keyboard in a dark room Raising a dog to spend every moment of his own as an adult
And the depression reflected in subtle ways outside the movie is incomprehensible to the pain caused to some people by ordinary people.
There's a line in the movie "There's nothing more grotesque than going around preaching that I'm a writer I'm a writer I'm a writer".
There are many people who take holy names and praise them for holding your self-esteem and vanity, what people say, magazine boards, newspapers, people in cars, and friends at parties, they all admit that you're good or you're bad. Individuals have different definitions of good and bad. Stand on the side of electronic devices and act like a master who believes in elegant style. Maybe that's not necessarily bad. You have to change your concept and mellow your behavior. Accept it and accept everyone's evaluation until you are vague In fact, at the beginning you just wanted to write something
The living self that you are supposed to show in the book has labored over several days and nights of words. Our blood and flesh and the interweaving of our emotions have gradually become a resonance. Just one product in this production line and in the more sensible Your cleverness and stupidity will always betray you first
Always looking forward to life always giving us flexibility The grotesque shadows under the lampposts are silent, kicking the sharp and tumbling stones, cursing the injustice, adopting the wild cats on the road, overflowing with compassion, those who stay in the window waiting to be chosen, with horns and diamonds, and fancy headgear aligned. Eyes in sexy and weird poses It is clear that the world is noisy and meaningful at the moment, but the air is unusually calm and stagnant Thousands of people are understatement passing by you in the fragments of life they come to your door on the tools of civilization or on foot, knocking on the door Your inner door creaks back and forth
At 1 hour and 26 minutes of the movie, Lipsky's interview trip is coming to an end. When Wallace leads the big dog and he walks into the snow covered with sunshine, Lipsky can feel Lipsky's reluctance for this journey and the scenery in front of Wallace. Although such a scene is accustomed to, it still exudes praise and an understanding of the subtleties of life. Beautiful things have the ability to heal
Maybe Lipsky had a lover who also made changes in his life and insisted on self-values in his first life. Those deep or shallow flirting skills in his desire and spiritual world, those self-contained academic knowledge is far from enough to make him in the world. Feeling meaningful in life that at the end Wallace said I'm not sure how much you want to be me
In the circle of life, in the shell of food and rich and poor, there are also many of us who are highly educated, sit in expensive chairs, and gain different degrees of fame and fortune, have a TV card, listen to radio programs, and buy more high-end equipment. Will feel lonely and lonely from the bottom of the heart Those pride that comes from nowhere The innate sense of superiority The ability to compete for fame and fortune and the desire to buy is like a raging fire Let us step from the heights of life step by step Falling down and burning to ashes
The road underfoot is always after this step is taken, the next step will have an outline and each step will change, the next step will always be put on hold, and it will be divided into the required crossroads. When you think about it, it is just A step in your life, you will not think about the deeper meaning without the experience and lessons from this step. Before the emergence of individual truths, the consciousness formed in our brains is based on the concept of survival and there is no strong need for it. Get relief from this. When the God of Truth appeared, we all wanted to be redeemed and the concepts we formed and the desires we added became deeper with pain and more troubles from life. The truth at that time was stronger than what you originally thought. The touch is much more esoteric
I don't know how many comments on "meaning life" in everyone's heart. I just feel that because those turbulent minds in the impetuous world filter out the impetuous life remnants over and over again, and cannot show a pure soul and become more lonely, it probably deviates. a truly meaningful life
Besides, I actually finished watching this movie in the middle of the night. Although I have watched the passage that Lipsky read at the end of the film and what the two quarreled about, I have watched it no less than ten times, but I still feel that I am missing something in my heart. The feelings to be expressed may only be the most obvious at that moment
Deliberately making it more fascinating and resonant is more exaggerated, and I will not strongly recommend everyone to pay attention to this movie. Of course, after you watch it, I hope you don't easily bring his life insights and values into your life. Everyone's thinking The thinking angles are different. After reading this article, it is a kind of gratitude. The content of the article is only a connecting fragment and civic.
Two of my favorite quotes from the movie:
Wallace: "It's more likely that I'm too attached to the American ideal that if I achieve X, Y, and Z everything will be alright. I have a passage in my book that says that when one jumps from a burning skyscraper, it's not They're no longer afraid of falling it's just the other option is worse and it makes you think about 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 is a fallacy It's a fantasy You're so much worse than anyone else because you're so damned unable to live that feeling is horrible I don't think people can change I'm sure it's still buried deep in my body I'm probably just trying so hard to figure it out Don't be led away by it."
“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."
When I think about this journey, I think of David sitting in the same row with me in his car, we're both so young, he wants more than he already has, and all I want is him What we already have, we don't know where our respective lives are going, smells of chewing tobacco, soda and cigarettes. Those conversations were some of the best conversations I've ever had. David thinks books can make people forget about loneliness. If I could, I would say to David that those days with him were not a relief from my life, but a reminder of what life should be like. I would tell him it made me feel less alone.
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