It was his father Robert calling him from the car.
Here is not a list for the time being, let's look at the screenwriter Steve Conrad first. Conrad was born in Florida in 1968 and studied English at Northwestern University. At the age of 19, he sold his first play, "Old and Strong". The English name of the play is Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, which literally translates to "wrestling with Hemingway" - a vivid portrayal of Conrad's zealousness in his early twenties. In 2005, "The Weatherman" written by Conrad was released; in 2006, "When Happiness Comes Knocking" was released. And this quintessentially "American Dream" inspirational film - which I expect will be revived by many unemployed young people in the current global recession - was also written by Conrad!
After thinking for a while, I suddenly realized that if we put aside the very fashionable and even comical camera movements in The Weatherman, if we put those gorgeous illusions created by computer special effects (such as the protagonist Dave sitting in a hotel room) If the layers are peeled off, when the body of the story is naked in front of you, yes, "The Weatherman" and "When Happiness Comes Knocking" are so similar: both are mid-life crises, both are dragging families. All of them lost their beloved wife (one remarried, the other abandoned their family), and the protagonist’s shoulders kept accumulating dilemmas that made him devastated (sometimes I even felt that the ups and downs of the protagonist were clearly caused by the screenwriter and director in the name of fate Malicious embarrassment).
Since they are so similar, why do two movies still need to be made? ——And it's been launched for two years in a row?
One possible answer I gave is that the author tries to exhaust the external conditions of the protagonist to explore how people should behave in a life like shit - and "life is always like shit".
Dave, the protagonist of "Weatherman", earns millions of dollars a year, works in the media, public figures, and makes public appearances. Also, don't forget, he also has a "good dad". The protagonist of "When Happiness Comes Knocking" graduated from high school, was unemployed, laid off, precarious, a person of color, and his family background is unknown.
The former lived in a mansion, but had a big argument with his family about buying condiments; paid a lot of money to let his daughter participate in archery training, but it was difficult to get her a smiling face; went to a psychological training class with his wife, but couldn't help stealing in the toilet Look at the note written by the wife, destroy the "trust".
The latter lived in rented houses, and also lived in bathrooms and shelters. He couldn't take his wife to any training classes, and he couldn't afford to buy a Nikon camera for his son - his financial situation meant that he could only arrange for his son in the cheapest day-care center run by the Chinese. But he was very close to his son, and the dark curly hair could believe that the dinosaurs really came, and the innocence made people cry.
Now back to the beginning of the article, David, who was still in shock, got into his father's car tremblingly. Dad turned the radio on and Bob Seager was singing "Like A Rock." He, Dave's father, Robert, won the National Book Award at 28, the Pulitzer Prize for journalism at 33, "a national treasure," and played squash with the president, but now Robert, with blue bags under his eyes, has Diagnosed with cancer and will die soon.
Life is always like shit.
But whether you're living in the best of times or the worst of times, no matter your education level, no matter your financial situation, no matter your family background, you need to understand: "Easy things don't exist in the adult world. ". And all we have to do is Like A Rock.
——Even so, we could not escape our living funeral when there was a sudden power outage for 40 minutes.
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