"KLIK3 Feature Film Review" About Schmidt: What Can You Change in Your Life?

The movie gives the impression that it is just like the old gentleman with messy hair and resentful face on the poster, vicissitudes and unwillingness, ridiculous and pitiful. Schmidt is 66 years old. We can see from the opening scene that he is very depressed. For his retirement and his old age, he disdains the company's new young executive but has no choice but to. Pretend to accept him with the broad mind of a senior. He also brought this disgusting mentality into his own life. He was bored and tired of his wife, disliked his future son-in-law, and was angry that his daughter did not listen to his advice. But Schmidt could only try his best to restrain his emotions, so Endugu, the African child he sponsored but never met, became the object of his talk. Schmidt is an old gentleman who is so unwilling and helpless to reality.

In the film, tragedies and comedies appear one after another, such as retirement, widowhood, marriage, memories, etc., and Schmidt accepts it like this. He admits his cowardice and cowardice, and is incapable of many things; but he also drags his tired body to make himself. With a little resistance and hard work, he tried to forgive his wife and friends for their betrayal, forced himself to accept a son-in-law who was not optimistic, and tried to find a little warmth from his past memories to make himself less lonely. Schmidt is like a half-assed figure hovering between success and failure. His heart is full of deep resentment and hatred, but because of this, he will appear extraordinarily lonely and extraordinarily unhappy when his wife leaves. But the film does not stop at this level, it still gradually presents us with warmth and touching through the return of such an old man.
The key to the film lies in the boy Ndugu, who has never been seen before. He is the key to connecting all Schmidt's emotions. Whenever Schmidt has mood swings and feels unpleasant, Ndugu will Acting as a trash can for him to tell his thoughts. Letters are a bridge for communication between two people, and the charm of letters is that they are as private as your own faithful friends, you can talk about them all, open your heart without any scruples. However, after sending all the letters of the unpleasant experience, the child Ndugu's response to Schmidt was extremely simple, "I hope Mr. Schmidt is healthy and happy", and the slightly clumsy but sincere painting is more It was to make Schmidt burst into tears for a while and couldn't help himself. One old and one young, holding hands and smiling in the sun. Such simple emotions are spread out like this, and at this time Schmidt seems to understand why he is so unhappy and why he is always full of complaints about life. Because he has long lost the beautiful and pure heart like a child, because the tempering of reality not only increases the wrinkles on his face, but also blocks the true sense of his soul to the world. At that moment, we were also moved by this gift, it was so simple yet deeply touched you, it reminded everyone of who they were when they were children, how simple it was to be happy at that time. Looking at that painting, it seems that each of us has painted it when we were young. With sunshine and a partner, don't forget to smile, life is enough.

There are always moments in our life when our incompetence and cowardice make ourselves laugh at ourselves, but this is also part of human nature. We can only accept what you cannot change, and change what you can. Maybe start with a letter.

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