Take it seriously, but don't take it seriously

Rebekah 2022-04-08 08:01:02

In 1949, an Air Force captain engineer named Murphy thought one of his colleagues was a jerk and inadvertently made a joke: "If a thing can be screwed up, let him do it. Oops."

The phrase quickly spread and spread around the world. In the process of spreading, this joke gradually lost its original limitations and evolved into various forms, one of the most common forms is: if bad things are possible, no matter how small the possibility is , it will always happen and cause the greatest possible loss. This is the famous "Murphy's Law" (Murphy's Law). Together with "Parkinson's Theorem" and "Peter's Principle", it is called the three most outstanding discoveries in Western culture in the 20th century.

In fact, life can't get rid of this truth. It is full of opposite possibilities and unexpected accidents. If we are not careful, we will fall into a whirlpool, and then there will be dislocation, and it will be dislocated constantly, which is very absurd.

On an otherwise sunny afternoon, university professor Joe (Daniel Craig) prepares red wine and a marriage proposal ring to meet his girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton), a sculptor, on the sunny outskirts of Oxford. A romantic picnic. Just sitting down, the red wine has not been opened, a runaway hot air balloon flew over, a man was trying to hold the balloon, but was pulled off the ground from time to time, Joe and three other passers-by rushed over and grabbed the hot air balloon together , dragged the hot air balloon with the same weight, but an accident happened. Due to the help of the wind and the successive release of the people, one of them was dragged into the air by the hot air balloon. In a stunned state, he flew higher and higher, and finally fell and died unfortunately ...

Joe witnessed the tragedy, and a man named Jed was present. Since then, in Qiao's life, he often flashed back to the helpless figure of the fallen man, and the scholarly attitude of the supremacy of rationality made him always want to find out the unreasonableness of the rescue measures. At the same time, Jed began to appear frequently in Joe's sight. Jade hinted that Joe seemed to be the first to let go when he saw something bad happened during the rescue, which meant that Joe was the main person responsible for the accident. Joe scoffed at what he said, but his guilt grew suddenly, and he didn't want to see Jade again. It backfired. Jade and Joe encountered more and more frequently, and Joe became more and more irritable. Such psychological changes also led to the deterioration of the relationship between Joe and his girlfriend Claire. Claire began to doubt Joe's orientation, and Jade's feelings for Joe also It's not just as simple as harassment, Joe's heart is breaking down step by step...

This is what "The Unbearable Love" tells... a seemingly absurd but extremely true life story.

Don't blindly trust your own thinking and ability. We keep making mistakes, and coexistence with mistakes is an unavoidable fact. The more you want to be peaceful, the less you will be peaceful, and the more you want to be happy, the more difficult it is to be happy. Many things worth collecting are hidden in things that don't seem worthwhile. The reason is actually very simple, but we unconsciously think it is difficult.

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  • Lillian 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    Almost a first-class adaptation: a large number of additions and deletions (the biggest change is to remove the intellectual self-pity), but it can delicately reproduce the stylistic characteristics of the original work. At the same time, the director's high level of cinematography is excellent in psychological performance. Dump [Atonement] and the like for several streets. Of course, the plot is oversimplified, and important branch lines have been deleted, which is almost a problem for the male protagonist.

  • Ludie 2022-04-11 09:01:08

    The later expansion doesn't match the beginning, the beginning is simply too amazing, a kind of inexplicable sense of ambiguity

Enduring Love quotes

  • Jed: Hey, come on. Look, I was just having a bit of fun, come on.

    Joe: Fuck off.

    Jed: I was just trying to cheer you up, Joe.

    Joe: Fuck off.

    Jed: I was just trying to cheer you up. Come on, Joe, Jo-Jo.

    Joe: [Grabs Jed and shoves him up against the wall] Listen to me, listen to me. If you ever, ever, ever fucking bother me again, if you ever come anywhere fucking near me, I wil follow you, I will find you and I will gut you like a fucking fish, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?

    Jed: You started this, you made this happen. Why don't you admit it? You pretend it's not happening, nothing's happening? YOU FUCK! Giving me all your secret fucking signals so that I come towards you! Why don't you leave me alone, eh? What do you want? What do you want? I love you! I love you! And now you're trying to fucking DESTROY ME!

    [singing and walking away]

    Jed: GOD ONLY KNOWS WHERE I'D BE WITHOUT YOU!

  • Frank: If you want to turn two people into two-headed fire-breathing dragons overnight, just put rings on their fingers.

    Rachel: Shhhhhh!

    Joe: No, he's right.

    Joe: Cos you-re a fucking expert aren't you?

    Joe: When you're not sexing up the au pair to within an inch of her life, you're a fucking authority!

    Joe: And when you're not marching on Poland, you're a fucking sage, aren't you pal?

    Joe: Tell me something, tell me something, cos I always wanted to know this.

    Joe: Don't you ever tire of letting your dick do the thinking?