Find yourself

Patsy 2021-11-17 08:01:26

After watching this movie, I almost shed tears in two places. One is that Rosemery and Hal were not recognized when they passed by. You can imagine how heartache she was at the time, like when she was at the bottom of a mountain. At this point of hope, at this time, with the encouragement of another person, I gradually started to walk towards the mountain, and what I saw during the ascent of the mountain was always beautiful, but suddenly there was a cliff, and there was no way to go back. Falling heavily, this is more painful than before going up the mountain; the second is when Hal meets the girl with burns again, I feel that at this time Hal's thoughts and feelings have undergone a deeper change, and he begins to feel what is truly beautiful.
In this film, I saw a common psychological trap. As the psychotherapist inside said, each of us is hypnotized, hypnotized by the beauty filtered by various media. We have all kinds of beautiful imaginations about our ideal partner and ideal life, so we often ignore the reality around us and induce all kinds of dissatisfaction. One's own needs are not met, and various kinds of bad feelings such as anxiety, depression and anxiety appear, and various psychological disorders occur at the same time. Restore the original self, this is the role of psychological counseling, just as Hal only realized what is true beauty after being hypnotized by a psychological counselor.
Only by discovering the truest and most original self can you gain true happiness.

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Shallow Hal quotes

  • [after Mauricio broke Hal's spell]

    Hal: Let me ask you something. Who is the all-time love of your life?

    Mauricio: [ponders] Wonder Woman.

    Hal: Okay... let's say Wonder Woman falls in love with you. And everyone else in the world didn't find her attractive.

    Mauricio: It wouldn't matter. Because I know they'd be wrong.

    Hal: See! That's what I had with Rosemary! I saw a knockout, I don't care what anybody else saw!

    Mauricio: You're right. I guess I really did screw you, huh?

  • Mauricio: Shallow Hal wants a gal.