The storyline told by the film is as simple and clear as its light-hearted style. Billy was a professor at Harvard who taught philosophy and had a promising career. But he has a family background that really can't be brought to the table. A brother who smokes and sells marijuana and a mother who teaches them about drugs. Billy left his hometown to study in New York, where he ended up living, never going back. After all, he needs a regular and normal life. At this time, his brother Buddy, who looks exactly like him, needs his brother to come back for help because of a dispute over interests. On the one hand, he knew that he and his mother missed his brother, and on the other hand, only his brother could provide him with evidence of his alibi when dealing with time, because they looked so alike. He sent a letter to his brother saying that he had been shot by a crossbow arrow. The older brother returned in a hurry, back to the small town in this rural world. That is, from this beginning, Billy began to rethink himself and the world after going through anger and dissatisfaction, meeting Jenny, and Buddy's death.
There are philosophical touches throughout the film that establish the depth of the film. At the beginning of the film, Billy quotes Plato in his class: "Emotions are an inherent weakness of human beings. What we can do is to suppress them through lasting self-discipline." This sentence foreshadowed the subsequent development of the film. Because of the inseparable feelings between relatives, Billy returned to his hometown, back to his mother he once hated. He didn't want to, but emotion became his "weakness". Love is so deep, how can it be suppressed?
After he returned to his hometown, he met Jenny, a female teacher in a local middle school. It's a charismatic character. You can go down the river to catch a 40-pound catfish, recite Whitman's poems, or even write your own. She is too smart, with the simplicity and wildness of a country girl, and the knowledge and qualities of a modern woman. It should be said that after the first conversation, Billy led the viewers to fall in love with Jenny. Their grasp of the scene when they catch the fish is impressive. Jenny used Whitman's verse to describe Billy at the time, "You don't know who you are; all this life you have been in a deep sleep; your eyelids are always drooping; the so-called past has done to you. mocking; it is not you who is laughing; behind these mockings I see you poised to go". What a nice sentence! How many people know themselves clearly? When you are in an emotional predicament, you gradually lose yourself in the trade-offs and trade-offs. At this time, have you ever thought about whether you really know yourself?
The role of Buddy is also very successful. Although he is always wrong, he is a very emotional person. And his decision to leave the drug business when his wife was pregnant is a testament to the kindness of this character. But it backfired, and he became a tragic character, a character that could make people cry.
The film's analysis of people runs throughout. As the Jewish woman said, "We are animals, our brains deceive us, and people think they are better than others". How human beings should live, the film's point of view is: restoration. We broke the order of the world, and we should fix it. However, regarding this world, I feel that the film does not give the audience a bright tail. The drug dealer shooting Billy with a crossbow at the end is a direct response to Billy "fixing" the world. Humans will always destroy the order of the world for their own benefit. The restorer and the destroyer will continue to coexist, and the restorer will most likely become the victim, just as Camus's "The Plague" said, in this world, there are only the victim and the victim, and there is nothing else .
The warmth at the end of the film will not let everyone fall into lonely despair. When Billy and Jenny are holding hands and sitting indifferently outdoors when the rainstorm first falls, you will feel a kind of strength, a kind of courage, a kind of courage to continue repairing yourself and repairing this dark world. Billy, who was particularly afraid of heavy rain when he was a child, dared to face the arrival of heavy rain this time, which shows that he has learned to face all difficulties and obstacles bravely.
Family love cannot be separated, it is the blood of life and the pulse of your life. No matter how much glory and fun you experience in a foreign country, only when you return to your hometown can you truly hear your heartbeat, and truly take off your folded mask, and more importantly, here, you will experience a unique power, and you will repair yourself Mottled soul, repair this riddled world.
At this moment, the gentle country music at the end sounded again, "loneliness is freedom, ...
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