Just because we haven't found our peace yet.

Gayle 2022-03-23 09:03:22

"The peace needed to maintain happiness is an extravagant hope, so people keep searching for this peace, and when we think we have this peace, we feel like saints at first, and then fall." The
film that impressed me the most. I understand that this is also the soul line of the film.
After Bill couldn't stand the drug life of his mother and brother, he decided to leave the soil where he gave birth to pursue a quiet life. Thinking he had found this peace, he began to do what saints do - study philosophy and teach his students. And resolutely identify the relatives living a depraved life.
In order to get rid of drugs and give his wife and children a stable life, Reddy tricked Bill back into the soil that Bill hated deeply. The purpose is to use the little-known twin brother to kill the representative figure in the current society who is not in human skin but enjoys high social praise - the big drug lord. (I don't know why the director set this character as a Jew and created a murder scene of a Nazi vendetta. I understand this as a kind of racial hatred.)
When Bill compromised with his brother step by step because of the call of family affection, he felt in his heart. Subtle changes are taking place, thanks to the poetess. This is in stark contrast to the scandalous incidents interspersed with what he calls Tranquil Soil rumors.
Simplicity means survival, complexity means death. Compared with his teaching career, although there is his shameless depravity here, there is also inner peace that cannot be obtained elsewhere. Especially after someone died one after another. The death of the drug lord only made him feel angry, and that anger came from the deceit of his brother, which destroyed his "peace"; the death of his brother and the dentist who had a relationship with him made him a mess, At this time, he just held "the brother is gone, I have to take the responsibility to let his wife and children live, because he is the only man left in the family"; his face of death made him realize the soil here, the soil here Water grows grass that makes people feel calm, so he finally accepted a baptism from God. He accepted and lived a life of one man, three women and one child.
The director has a lot of self-mockery clips in the film, the line at the beginning, and Edward's line at his brother's funeral; the deliberately mistaken racial vendetta, and Reddylin's request that Bill must explain that the murder was not. Racial hatred; the harassment of Edward by a neurotic dentist on the plane, this is the first time we met, and the second time we met Edward shot the dentist...
These all made people smile, and then began to feel sad.

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Extended Reading
  • Michale 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    Three and a half stars, not far from good. There are a lot of coincidences in the design, constantly making the story out of reality, but again and again wanting to tell life. He talked a lot of truth, but he didn't seem to say anything. Those so-called truths were not as good as real life. I don't like that changing everything can only be premised on death, at least it seems too essential.

  • Pearlie 2022-03-20 09:02:59

    without Edward, this is nothing.

Leaves of Grass quotes

  • Bill Kincaid: [Janet has just caught a monster catfish with her forearm through its mouth, called "noodling"] You have a spiritual objection to monofilament?

  • Brady Kincaid: [talking about Janet] She's a poet.

    Bill Kincaid: What?

    Brady Kincaid: Seriously. She writes fuckin' poetry. And she's the Ladies Noodling Champion of '05.

    Bill Kincaid: Her?

    Brady Kincaid: 125 pounds of catfish in under 10 hours with nothing but her bare hands.

    [sigh]

    Brady Kincaid: I tried to get her and Colleen in a three-way once, but wouldn't neither of 'em go for it.