After more than four years, the second brush in the night

Curtis 2022-12-12 13:50:55

Watched it for the second time in over 4 years. In recent years, whenever I feel that life is lackluster or hopeless and meaningless, I always recall the grief that is suppressed under the calm surface of this film.

When I watched it for the first time, I only remembered the unique rhythm and atmosphere of this film. I was good at using music to explain emotional changes. I also remembered 2-3 reversals in the plot, but I never realized where the pain came from and how Affecting myself so much that it resonates but I don't know why.

Now, after 4 years of growing up, especially in the past 4 years, when the pain is difficult to tell, when I am very depressed but have nowhere to vent, I often recall the emotions and state of the protagonist in this movie, which can be said to bring life to life. Similar emotions can no longer be displayed in place, which makes people feel empathy.

From being calm and repressed, unconsciously diverting one's attention, exploring one's curiosity, discovering things around you that you have never noticed before, to venting your anger that comes from nowhere, to finding something you have never seen before in the process of discovery Know yourself and the people around you.

All this is smooth and natural, but it shows these trivialities in life in ways other than language, vents for you the emotions that you have never taken seriously, and tells these life truths that no one has ever mentioned.

When I am in a similar state, I only hope that I will plunge into the world of the protagonist and become the one who has lost his wife and desire for life, exploded in the midst of mediocrity and brokenness, and found his true life after the explosion.

When life cannot break free, cannot escape, is stagnant and shattered, then let yourself go from the usual consolidation to this rare collapse, and let yourself go, only then will you have the strength to pick up the pieces and feathers and move on.

To recently unhappy but never found the self that has been suppressed

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Demolition quotes

  • Davis: Dear Champion Vending Company: I put five quarters in your machine and proceeded to push B2, which should have given me peanut M&M's. Regrettably, it did not. I found this upsetting, as I was very hungry, and also my wife had died ten minutes earlier.

  • Davis: You must be Chris.

    Chris: You fucking my mom?

    Davis: No, I'm not. We were just sleeping...

    Chris: [interrupts] She's fucking crazy. If you haven't noticed, she's a fucking pothead. She calls it cannabis 'cause it makes her feel like less of a fucking pothead.

    Davis: You say fuck a lot.

    Chris: So?

    Davis: So you're just not using it properly.

    Chris: The fuck does that mean?

    Davis: That's what I mean. Fuck is a great word, but if you use it too much then it just loses its value and you sound stupid.

    Chris: Fuck you.

    Davis: Exactly. I feel nothing and you sound like an idiot. Have a good one.

    [Davis leaves]

    Chris: Who the f...

    [thinks about it]