we are all soloists

Idell 2022-10-23 02:12:38

First of all, why are foreign films so long? The average film takes nearly two hours, and even the domestic film is about 90 minutes. It's not that I'm complaining that this movie is not good-looking, but it's been a long time since I watched a non-blockbuster movie patiently. Maybe I'm completely vulgar! ! Or maybe I am really old, and there is no trace of a literary youth left on my body. Goodbye to my youth! !

Speaking of movies, in fact, the nympho went looking for the little radish soup movie. This old man has acted in many such literary and artistic movies before, and there are countless bad movies. But since the first Iron Man movie, I have been very happy with this guy with blurred eyes. In fact, he is short and not particularly handsome, but he just looks like it, there is no way! This time was no exception, I still used that tearful killer, and I fainted. In this film, Radish plays a reporter who discovers and intends to help a musical genius with a mental illness. The most tangled thing is here. The so-called normal society represented by the reporters always makes me feel uncomfortable with the attitude towards the homeless. My attitude is that they just live in their own world, just like we live in ours, why should they live by our rules? Only I know the pain and happiness. I will say thank you for the help of others, but whether I accept it or not is another matter. In addition to homeless people, the subject of this film also has mentally ill patients. This is related to my major, but now I suddenly have a subversive idea. The so-called schizophrenia, do they really live in pain? Maybe the real pain is the family and friends around them, watching a big living person, living well, but leaving our world forever, losing them forever, this feeling may be unbearable for family members and friends. Pain, so they did everything possible to diagnose and treat them constantly. In fact, is the "patient" himself really suffering? Do they really want to come back to our world? I don't think so.

The attitude towards mental patients in today's society is much more tolerant. What we need is understanding, and help does not mean change. At the end of the film, the two male protagonists sit together in the concert hall, surrounded by their respective families. In the wonderful music, how harmonious this scene is! I really hope that reality can be so beautiful and harmonious. Music is another theme of this film. It is a communication without boundaries. Some languages, regardless of race or even different understandings of the world, can resonate with music. Many musical geniuses who cannot integrate into society, they are a good example. We can be tolerant of such geniuses. In fact, people with abnormal mental states or wanderers are the same as geniuses, they just don’t belong to our world. Long live understanding, we can have friends, but we can also have our own lives.

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The Soloist quotes

  • [last lines]

    Steve Lopez: "Points West" by Steve Lopez. A year ago, I met a man who was down on his luck and thought I might be able to help him. I don't know that I have. Yes, my friend Mr. Ayers now sleeps inside. He has a key. He has a bed. But his mental state and his well-being, are as precarious now as they were the day we met. There are people who tell me I've helped him. Mental health experts who say that the simple act of being someone's friend can change his brain chemistry, improve his functioning in the world. I can't speak for Mr. Ayers in that regard. Maybe our friendship has helped him. But maybe not. I can, however, speak for myself. I can tell you that by witnessing Mr. Ayers's courage, his humility, his faith in the power of his art, I've learned the dignity of being loyal to something you believe in, of holding onto it. Above all else, of believing, without question, that it will carry you home.

  • [first lines]

    Construction Worker: [greeting his co-workers] Buen dia, muchachos.

    Steve Lopez: [narrating] "Points West" by Steve Lopez. A construction worker in Griffith Park heard the

    Steve Lopez: [swerving his bicycle to avoid a raccoon] Hey!

    Steve Lopez: [continuing narration] He saw a cyclist cartwheel off his bike and slam face-first into the unforgiving asphalt of Riverside Drive.