The story of Please Give revolves around a middle-class family in Manhattan, New York. Wife Catherine Keener and husband Alex (Oliver Platt) run a fashionable Manhattan second-hand furniture store, buying the relics of deceased elderly people at low prices and selling them at high prices. The shop is doing well. The couple bought the apartment of Andra, an elderly widow, who lived next door. As long as the other party dies, they can get through the walls and decorate the new home. On such a moist day, there should not be any big troubles, but Kate was disturbed by the booming business of her own business-she felt that she was exploiting those poor old guys. At the same time, The realization of the dream of a good family depends on the death of the poor neighbor - basically Kate's personal happiness can be said to be based on the death of others. Kate couldn't come to terms with this reality. While she was indiscriminately subsidizing homeless street people, she volunteered in the community, and she refused to pay for a pair of $200 jeans for her teenage daughter, Abby.
Kate's life is embarrassing, including her rampant guilt. She wanted to pity all the people in the world, whether they needed her mercy or not—such as the black uncle waiting outside the restaurant, and the mentally handicapped children playing ball in the community center for the mentally handicapped. The surging guilt engulfed Kate's entire perception, she could not see the alienation of her husband Alex, and she could not feel the growing anxiety hidden under the material desire of her daughter Abby. But is Kate wrong? Wasn't her despair and anxiety also a form of real pain?
In addition to the story of the Kate family, the life of the old woman Andra is also very interesting. This old lady is a stubborn and vicious woman. She will hurt anyone who is nice to her. The two granddaughters, Rebecca Hall and Mary (Amanda Peet), who have different personalities, take care of her in her twilight years and suffer a lot of mental torment. Rebecca is a dull jar, gentle and considerate, but life experiences are boring; Mary is hot and acute, she hates her grandmother Andra's ruthlessness, but she doesn't realize that she has inherited her hated personality invisibly, and she is covered in thorns. Hurt others without knowing it.
When the lives of the Kate family and the Andra family became more and more closely intertwined, the dispensable little sighs and sorrows in the movie suddenly burst into vigorous vitality, sending out many different directions and possible outcomes. . In these complex patterns of branching and spreading, some emotions continue to be amplified, and some pains are buried and buried. What do you mean by this story? Isn't that the "please give" of the title? I don't think so, at least as much as Kate in the show is, it doesn't do much good to give the law to others. I can't come up with one, two, or three lessons, but that's what makes the story really guarantee the complexity and richness of the perspective, the faithful portrayal, and not the rant. What it depicts is the helplessness of life itself, the thin window paper between happiness and pain, no matter how bright and beautiful it is on the surface, it has to be hit with the suffocating punch of life; It is said that some of the sad and desolate looks may not be so unbearable, the parties do not feel sleepy and depressed, and the overflowing sympathy of others is even more artificial and boring. So where is the balance of safety? In other words, is there a balance of happiness?
I don't know, the story I've seen is an incomparably complex mix of pain and pleasure, with each person embracing some incomprehensible pain and reluctance, and it's all true and believable on a personal level; but once Jumping out of the nest of the personal small world, looking at everything from an outsider's perspective, and feeling that those babbles seem unnecessary. Because no matter what, the punch after punch of life will keep coming, and it is impossible to hide. As long as you can keep yourself going, whether it's bills for the homeless, 200-dollar jeans, or a new girlfriend who slanders your ex-boyfriend, you've got to find ways to brighten up hope in your stumbling life, don't you think?
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