little man critiquing the relationship of modernity

Rubie 2022-03-23 09:01:40

The unstable love relationship between men and women in the central city of New York begins with a monologue that repeats and changes the impression of New York: In fact, the old man is using the relationship between the sexes to talk about the emptiness of the fleeting pleasure brought by the cynicism and indulgence in modernity, and try to make a difference in modernity. Looking for a relatively stable precious emotion in Everyone's Free Everyone's Love The bragging, hypocritical, self-righteous, self-righteous, and unwilling to be poor, the little intellectual always likes women who are much taller than him. At this point, the ex-wife is the one who understands him best. Trish's precocious and simple emperor's new clothes are children in the impetuous world. The wounded wise man The repeated dislocation and displacement of the relationship Absurd capriciousness The unethical relationship The awkward four-person planetarium The high-contrast romantic silhouette is actually a fleeting desire Fantasy The extravagant one-liners seem not to be the parties involved. This kind of alienated self-mockery has become his comedy feature, and it also makes the audience reflect on this kind of chain cheating.

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  • Yale: You know we have to stop seeing each other, don't you.

    Mary Wilke: Oh, yeah. Right. Right. I understand. I could tell by the sound of your voice on the phone. Very authoritative, y'know. Like the pope, or the computer in 2001.

  • Isaac Davis: You know what you are? You're God's answer to Job, y'know? You would have ended all argument between them. I mean, He would have pointed to you and said, y'know, "I do a lot of terrible things, but I can still make one of these." You know? And then Job would have said, "Eh. Yeah, well, you win."