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Estell 2022-11-15 11:59:10

Has this old Mike studied Lao Zhuang? I know very little about Zhuangzi and Laozi's thoughts, but I feel that there are overlapping and similarities.

/ I began to feel more and more shallow, and I felt good but couldn’t list them one by one. It can even be said to be poison. I am addicted to the director's shooting technique, the lines he wrote and the superb performance of the actors. I feel every character in the play and the life they have to face. I experience pain and joy together with the protagonist , when the end credits came up, I felt lost again. There will be no way out of my life here, and a movie cannot give the answer to my life (although its lines say to learn to live without an answer).

/ Justin told his father that he was going to go to a summer preparatory class. The camera was originally two people fighting back and forth. The scene was all over. The director placed his father in the center. He said with a little difficulty: i was just...getting used to you, very touching. (Absolutely, I would actually take the time to take screenshots and add them to the post-view, which is unprecedented

/ Even when I saw it halfway through, I was still wondering if Justin is definitely not the one who played the social network, but why does it feel so similar to him, even Ribera in Twilight.

/ Who is the director of "Requiem for a Dream", and is Mike Mills related to him?

/ There was a very depressing time in the middle, and what I thought in my mind was: "Manchester by the Sea" is the pain caused by someone leaving this world and the gloom that can't be driven away, no one died here, nothing was destroyed, but still let People are depressed. The idea was that the only way I could get her attention was by being his son, and at the time I felt like everyone here, from parents to Justin to dentists to debate teachers, was carrying a very heavy burden. But then Xiao Jia rode his bike in the middle of the night to see his mother who was working the night shift, and then he solved the previous misunderstanding when he met a male star. This part felt a little too simple, and the foreshadowing was quite realistic, although I knew that the director/screenwriter wanted to To "fool" the audience to a certain extent, so that they can not guess the plot, but also have to not so destroy their self-esteem, so that they feel a little bit superior when watching the movie. But I think the creation and resolution of this misunderstanding is a bit anticlimactic.

Originally, I was writing a short review in the east and west, but recently I always wrote it and I exceeded the word count so I came here. It will be better tomorrow.

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  • [Justin see's Dr. Perry for the last time in his new office before leaving off to college]

    Justin Cobb: What happened?

    Dr. Perry Lyman: What do you mean?

    Justin Cobb: This place. It looks a little depressing.

    Dr. Perry Lyman: I don't know, I... I guess I stopped trying to be anything. I accepted myself and all my human disorder. You might wanna do the same. Do you remember when you were like, 13 or something, you were... You were always doing an impression of a newsman.

    Justin Cobb: [chuckles] I did?

    Dr. Perry Lyman: You were quite good.

    Justin Cobb: Sorry.

    Dr. Perry Lyman: If that's what you want to do, New York is the perfect place for you. Make the contacts, knock on doors.

    [Dr. Perry lights a cigarette]

    Dr. Perry Lyman: Get the right haircut, take voice lessons. Might work. Then again. You'll have to deal with a lot of fear.

    Justin Cobb: I just came here for a checkup.

    Dr. Perry Lyman: Really? Justin, I'm sorry if I contributed to any feelings of shame you may have about your thumb. I've been reading up on it. Medically, psychologically, there's nothing really wrong with thumb sucking.

    Justin Cobb: I don't think I can agree with that.

    Dr. Perry Lyman: No, really. Look. Justin... there was nothing wrong with you.

    Justin Cobb: It felt like everything was wrong with me.

    Dr. Perry Lyman: That's 'cause we all wanna be problemless. To fix ourselves. We look for some magic solution to make us all better, but none of us really know what we're doing. And why is that so bad? That's all we humans can do. Guess. Try. Hope. But, Justin, just pray you don't fool yourself into thinking you've got the answer. Because that's bullshit. The trick is living without an answer. I think.

    [both chuckle and laugh]

    Dr. Perry Lyman: [Dr. Perry chuckles and lights another cigarette] I think.

  • [Justin lays back in the chair of his dentist who suggests a way to help him stop his thumb sucking condition]

    Dr. Perry Lyman: It's time we were honest with each other.

    Justin Cobb: Yeah?

    Dr. Perry Lyman: I don't wanna fix your teeth all over again. It's time to confront the underlying issue.

    Justin Cobb: What do you mean?

    Dr. Perry Lyman: I know what your problem is. It's an understandable habit. In fact, what's strange is that people ever quit. It's nature's substitute for your mother's breast. How were you fed as a baby? From a bottle?

    Justin Cobb: I can't remember.

    Dr. Perry Lyman: Any tension at home? Anxiety? Any bad memories?

    [Justin has a flashback of playing little league and missing the catch of a high fly ball]

    Justin Cobb: No conscious ones.

    Dr. Perry Lyman: We never remember the big ones anyways. Some dumb babysitter holds your mouth shut so she can watch soap operas in peace. At 40 you wonder why you can't stay married. There's only so much I can do with traditional orthodontics. Justin. Justin. Are you ready to let go of your thumb?

    Justin Cobb: Why are you talking like that?

    Dr. Perry Lyman: Answer my question.

    Justin Cobb: What are you gonna do?

    Dr. Perry Lyman: I wanna try hypnosis.

    Justin Cobb: [Justin smiles wanting to laugh] No way.

    Dr. Perry Lyman: Yeah. Really, I've seen it do wonders. Just try and relax. The more relaxed you are, the deeper we can go. Focus on the moon in the painting.

    [Dr. Perry points to the painting behind him on the wall of his office]

    Dr. Perry Lyman: [Dr. Perry turns out his office lights and lights a candle] Sense of peace... like a white light... fills your body. Imagine the white light... filling your feet... and your legs. Then your torso. Then your head. Imagine you're on a path. You're deep in the forest. A shaft of light illuminates a wild animal.

    [Justin see's the image of a male deer with antlers]

    Dr. Perry Lyman: This is your power animal. See it. Study it. When you feel like sucking your thumb, I want you to call on your power animal. Call it now.

    Justin Cobb: [Justin whimpers out loud] Come here.

    Dr. Perry Lyman: Do it in your mind. Whenever you feel afraid, alone, call on your power animal. You're not alone. You're not afraid. You don't need your thumb. And your thumb doesn't need you.

    [Justin wakes up]

    Dr. Perry Lyman: Justin, from now on, your thumb will taste like Echinacea.

    Justin Cobb: [Justin asks before leaving Mr. Perry's office] What's your power animal?

    Dr. Perry Lyman: That's personal.