Kate some change in her pocket, giving out beggars on the roadside. She couldn't sleep at night, so she searched online for where to find volunteers. She often imagined how hard life was for those at the bottom. She goes to restaurants and packs what she can't eat for the homeless, although she lost her sight and made her embarrassing. Kate is such a kind woman. What she can't understand is what's the use of doing this? Can she save herself by giving money to others?
PLEASE GIVE, literally translated "Please Give", Kate is just one thread. Therefore, another translation, "Landlord and Tenant", is more in tune. New York, a few people in the indifferent city wouldn't get acquainted if they didn't pass through a house. Kate runs a mid-century home design store with husband Alex and has a teenage daughter, Abby. They bought the house of Andra, an 80-year-old old lady next door. As long as the old lady returns to the west, they can open up the wall and improve the living environment. The old lady has only two granddaughters left in the world, Rebecca and Mary. Sister Mary, who works in the beauty shop, is more beautiful than her sister Rebecca, and Rebecca is gentler and kinder than her sister.
Kate is not "alone", because most of the characters in the play have the same confusion in life as her. This may be the most desperate movie in recent years, and although it pretends to be sunny on the surface, it is a sewer in the interior. It's not like "American Beauty" with a hopeless mask on its face at the beginning, its music isn't as black as "Requiem for a Dream", it doesn't have the gloomy long shot of a one-shot, its colors are always the same Bright, its story progress is also quite satisfactory, not breaking the Hollywood stereotype at all, but it is despair. Everyone has problems. Alex encounters a bottleneck in his marriage and has a relationship with Mary, and his lust caught in morality makes him miserable. Mary is beautiful and mean. She has been peeping at her ex-boyfriend's current girlfriend many times, and every time she sees someone, she laughs at the woman's flaws. Rough voice. When the two sisters were young, their father ran away from home and their mother hanged herself. The impact of such an environment on growing up is self-evident. How grandma treated the mother of the two sisters The film did not explicitly say that she appeared in front of us as a comedy character. Is it because of her advanced age that we easily forgive her for being more and more mean-spirited? Even the little girl, Abby, was deeply distressed by her pimples on her face and a pair of wanted jeans. When her mother Kate refused her request, she blatantly called her "bitch" and asked her why Not commit suicide? As for later, she guessed that her father and Mary had an ambiguous relationship, which was even more unbearable in adolescence.
They are not literary youths, they are not anti-social, they are not drug addicts, they are not cynical, they are not self-sabotaging. In their eyes, life is far from reaching a state of despair, otherwise the most basic desire for survival has begun to have problems. On the contrary, they still feel very nourished, or at least yearn for a better future, and think that there are endless opportunities. Isn't that what you and I are talking about? All of its gloom is drawn from our daily lives. If there is one thing in the world that can be obtained without any effort, can be obtained automatically, there is an endless source, and it is impossible to extricate itself from it, it is the daily life that accompanies life from beginning to end. A Hollywood movie that was supposed to be bland is so chilling.
Let's talk about Kate, this woman is not easy to approach. She bought furniture at low prices from relatives of the deceased and then resold it for high prices. But when a colleague bought it back from her and sold it at a higher price, her psychology became unbalanced again, because people are so fragile because of desire. Giving not only failed to save her dark life, but also had an impact on her, an impact that made her doubt her own life. While staring at the abyss, the abyss is also watching you. If there is no strong psychology, giving is not a good thing for Kate. It started to jeopardize her career, thinking that she was being investigated by the relevant authorities (I don't know the issues involved here, is this a fraud under US law? At least this kind of thing makes us seem accustomed to it , is it not surprising that some Chinese people's deception is more than such a little trick?). Kate started to get confused. She could not be a volunteer to take care of the elderly, she cried bitterly in front of mentally handicapped children, and bought back a bunch of worthless furniture at a high price, and also returned a cheap price. Fei vase (hilariously, this vase was broken as soon as it returned to the owner), but she couldn't get out, "even if we don't do it, there will still be someone else to replace it", what a Ironically persuasive.
Zhang Ailing wrote in "Talking about Dancing": "For a while in the United States, the whole country was dancing like Jitterbug. Everyone lined up and walked like a kindergarten playground. They walked a few steps, raised one hand, and shouted, 'Oh huh!' Shouting, screaming, getting excited, kicking and jumping desperately, until exhausted. Weary courtesans, businessmen, and housewives are all liberated and rejuvenated here, but simple-mindedness is not necessarily childish." Solving the loneliness, the heart is a lonely hunter, everyone has unbearable pain, what is innate in the blood not only flows through McCullers, but also flows into Hollywood, and it will happen every few years. There is such a movie, "Ice Storm", "American Beauty", "Lost in Translation" and "Life with a Glass of Wine", all in the same line.
Death, jealousy, meanness, betrayal, ridicule, what more do you want to see? It seems that only Rebecca is bright. So when she pointed out that her sister's enviable dark skin didn't come from lying on the beach on vacation, but when she was lying at home with a black light, I would rather it's not a mockery, but the number of people in this world who have already Not much honesty, though it seems stubborn and ridiculous. As an X-ray irradiator who examines the breasts of patients, Rebecca has a flat chest and is not beautiful, but she is the calmest character in the play. Is this due to her mediocrity?
The old lady finally passed away, and the two families lost the intersection of life because of this. They originally met by chance, and they were just invited to have a light meal at home. They couldn't solve their own problems and couldn't dig their hearts out. In the end, it's Hollywood-style Happy You All, but it's only superficial, life refuses to reconcile with us, life always tries us, or we're born to be the enemy of life. Let's go back to the beginning of the film. Countless breasts are thrown on the examination instrument like piles of flesh, plump, sagging, old, vigorous, white, black, faceless, unable to generate desire, similar to each other. In contrast, I feel that those Japanese AV stars wearing tight bikinis on the beach are more responsible for the highlights of their lives, weaving dreams and lies that we believe in.
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