People can't live in the moment, so hope is created

Andre 2022-03-23 09:02:34

I understand the logic of this movie after reading the film review. For me, it is a very special technique. I understand that a young man with low self-esteem and loneliness has lived his whole life in loneliness, and he is depressed until his old age. Unhappy and hesitant, he hated himself so much that he thought he was a pig with maggots in his stomach, so he fantasized about another ideal life of his own. In that life, he found his ideal girlfriend and brought her back together. I saw my parents who made me feel inferior. In this picture, it can be seen that even if it is a picture of my own fantasy, I can't get rid of the inferiority in the male protagonist's bones. After all, we can't get rid of the shackles of our own thoughts. His parents, while imagining that his girlfriend kept saying that he wanted to leave here, took his girlfriend to buy his favorite ice cream, and at the same time imagined that the girls selling ice cream were mocking him. . . . . In this way, the male protagonist who is about to die ends all this in his fantasy. The reason why I find it special is because I often fantasize about some scenes that did not happen, such as the scene with my future boyfriend from acquaintance to marriage to having a child, to fire and salt, and there will be dialogues in it. How the bridge section should be designed will be better. Now suddenly you find someone helping you turn the thoughts in your mind into a movie, you are not surprised. But next time, you can change the angle, an ordinary guy about 23 years old, fantasize about his romantic and beautiful life, beautiful wife, lovely children, healthy parents, successful career, life is sweet and beautiful, and at the end of the movie, As soon as the picture changed, the young man had turned into a 50-year-old uncle, with a big beer belly, bald hair, wrinkled face, yellowed teeth, greasy, and married an ordinary-looking woman who was as bloated as him. Children drop out of school early, and their parents are old and cannot be taken care of by others. But this doesn't seem to be profound and has no educational significance, except to add a sense of powerlessness and oppression to the audience, harm, whatever

By the way, I really love the filters in the movie, especially in the part of buying ice cream, the filters made of cyan and blue are absolutely incredible. There are two movie scenes that were also shot very well. When the female protagonist Lucy was eating at the male protagonist's parents' house, the camera slowly panned to the right, and slowly left through a wall until only Lucy was sitting in the corner of the table. , that sense of loneliness can be deeply felt across the screen. There is also a scene that follows, the camera is pushed forward until only Lucy is left sitting at the large table, and in the background is a wall decorated with dull green, which is extra large, so large that it can take a person's body. Loneliness is magnified tenfold.

One of my favorite lines in the movie, people can't live in the moment, so they create hope.

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  • Kennedi 2022-03-26 09:01:09

    Another deeply depressing work by Charlie Kaufman, full of fear and helplessness about aging and being without companionship. The endless driving in the blizzard and snow, the empty and empty campus corridors in the long cold night, are desolate and lonely, and there is no one to rely on. When the fatal loneliness invaded, the pas de deux scene in the fantasy of the old cleaner pulled me out of the atmosphere of the previous film, as well as the speech + opera that followed. Although this separation between the front and rear is interesting, it still detracts from it to some extent. Overall look. Jesse Buckley did a great job. Dream-like narrative + multi-type blending + multi-video embedding. The rambling chatter about the philosophy of life in the car is reminiscent of [Half-Dream Life]; Talk + Act [Affected Woman]; The Bizarre Farm and The Boyfriend's Parents Played by Thewlis & Colette are very [hereditary]; awkward dining table In the conversation, parents of different ages appear alternately, the time and space are confused like [Warm and Inner Light]; the connection between illusory characters and real situations is like [Mulholland Road]; Jesse Plemons resembles Hoffman, and then Coupled with the theme of aging and despair, it travels back to [New York Metaphors] in minutes; it is homogenous to [Life and Death] before the end. (8.8/10)

  • Allen 2022-03-26 09:01:09

    Kaufman does not represent time, memory and aging per se, but tells a story about time, memory and aging that is fascinating enough in an age where the tradition of storytelling has been lost.

I'm Thinking of Ending Things quotes

  • Janitor: What does your boyfriend look like?

    Young Woman: It's hard to describe people. It was so long ago, I barely remember. I mean... We never even talked, is the truth. I'm not even sure I registered him. There's a lot of people. I was there with my girlfriend... We were celebrating our anniversary, stopped in for a drink, and then this guy kept looking at me. It's a nuisance. The occupational hazard of... of being a female. You can't even go for a drink. Always being looked at. He was a creeper! You know? And I remember thinking, I wish my boyfriend was here. Which is... That's sort of sad, that being a woman, the only way a guy leaves you alone is if you're with another guy. Like, if... like... like you've been claimed. Like you're property, even then. Anyway, I can't... I can't remember what he looks like. Why would I? Nothing happened. Maybe it was just... I think it was just... Just one of thousands of such non-interactions in my life. It's like asking me to describe a mosquito that bit me on an evening 40 years ago. Well, you haven't seen anyone fitting that description, have you?

  • The Voice: It's not bad, once you stop feeling sorry for yourself because you're just a pig, or, even worse, a pig infested with maggots. Someone has to be a pig infested with maggots, right? It might as well be you. It's the luck of the draw. You play the hand you're dealt. You make lemonade. You... you move on. You don't worry about a thing.