During this time, I watched this movie called "Alcohol Project" twice.
The protagonists in the play, the lives of 4 middle-aged men, make me feel very close.
One of the male protagonists is single, has a dog, and is very lonely.
The second male protagonist has three children. "I pee on him every night when I go to bed."
Martin, who plays the biggest role, has particularly serious family problems. With the wife who once fell in love, they became like a pair of partners who had to get together to raise children. There is no real mutual care, no warmth, no deep soul communication.
The four of them are both good friends and colleagues. They teach in the same school, and even their career dilemmas are very similar: there is less and less enthusiasm in class, students have no interest in listening to lectures, and their parents put pressure on them because of their grades.
The mid-life crisis is coming, and the thing is, they have no other choice.
Like many of us, they only have one way.
Do you still remember the middle-aged man who was crushed to death in the typhoon a few years ago when he desperately supported the pickup truck? I remember his name, Zhou Rong. Zhou Rong has two children, one has just graduated from college and the other is still in high school, and the financial pressure is huge. In the eyes of neighbors, he is diligent; in the eyes of employers, he is reliable, polite and responsible.
Zhou Rong is every ordinary us.
Not to mention changing the track, achieving a counterattack, and becoming a winner in life, just like Thoreau, like the girl in "Little Forest", let go of the burden of life and go to a suburban field to live a simple, casual, completely own life , are unrealistic.
We have rent and mortgage to pay. The children are still young and the parents are getting older. Prevent all accidents, don't get sick, don't lose your job, work hard, work hard, that's the business. Get rid of social constraints and choose "another life"? Just thinking about it is too luxurious.
Even, it will make us more anxious: Others have choices to live a relaxed and easy life, why don't I, I can't do it?
Going back to the four men in the film, since the body cannot "live elsewhere", we can only let the spirit be a little freer and let go of ourselves in another way. How to do it? After a few people together, they came up with a "shattering coup" to drink.
In the beginning, things did turn for the better. They are all more relaxed, happier, and seem to be doing their jobs more easily.
However, the more I drink, the more addictive I become, and the more I drink, the more I finally lose control. Marriages are falling apart and jobs are in jeopardy. The single man who raised a dog was caught by the school drinking alcohol during working hours. After a lot of trouble, he took his dog out to sea and ended his life.
Hallucinations are not reality. Anesthetizing oneself will not help. Problems that come with life and age can only be solved from life.
As a human being, we must find the value of self-existence.
To be honest, when I watched "Alcohol Project" for the first time, I seemed to be comforted, but I didn't really know why. I thought it was because of the passionate dance of the first male protagonist Martin at the end of the film. We can always be like young people. People are as happy as people, age and hardships are not obstacles.
The second time I watched it, I suddenly realized.
The director is telling us that everyone's life has value.
The 4 men in the play, even at the lowest ebb and the most dazed moment, they still fulfilled their responsibilities in life. They guide students to study hard, encourage them to get out of the confusion of youth, let the strong continue to move forward, make the weak self-confidence, and also rely on family members/pets.
They are valuable. But why don't they realize it?
There is no explicit statement in the film, but based on the plot and life experience, we can guess as much as possible that it may be that I did not live as high-spirited as I wanted when I was young; it may be that love is old, and the person I love the most has not given the most appropriate encouragement; Life is trivial and heavy, riddled with holes, and I deeply feel powerless...
However, "success" is only a form of life, why should we exalt it and depreciate the others?
It is not only the open life that is valuable, the ordinary life is also valuable.
We may have low jobs and low pay, but at least we support ourselves and make our families as good as possible.
The proposal we made was rough and imperfect, but it drove the company's business.
We do laundry, sweep the floor, prepare meals for our family, we get up in the middle of the night to urinate the baby, for this reason, our partner does not have to be tired, and the baby sleeps more soundly...
Every life has its own bright light.
Before, I thought that life was like the Sisyphus who repeatedly pushed the stone up the mountain as explained by Camus, "one must imagine the happiness of Sisyphus", because "struggling to the height itself is enough to fill one's heart. ."
I thought that life is a struggle of a person, full of tragedy.
Now, I'm a little more optimistic.
Because Sisyphus who pushes the stone is passively punished, but our lives are not, we actively labor and substantially help those around us.
Because Sisyphus is alone, we are not.
Just like the protagonists in the film, we have family, friends, colleagues, and students. We are connected to the world, we are cared for, and we care about others. To be loved and to love others. We care about everything in this world, every flower and every grass.
No worries, no self-doubt.
We are important beings. We have value.
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