The director is trying to tell us several major social issues

Janiya 2022-09-28 06:26:56

Willie is a failed salesman and a failed father!
In fact, this also reflects the problems faced by the real society in the United States at that time!

Selling this job does not mean that you can endure hardships and work hard to do it well! Hard work + hard work does not equal success. To do a good job in sales, you must have your own deep insights into sales. If you don't have unique insights and passion, how can you do a good job in sales! Sooner or later, he will be eliminated, his power is old, and he will be eliminated unexpectedly! In fact, there are many situations that are similar. Everything does not mean that you will succeed if you work hard. You must find a certain method. For example, there must be a certain appropriate method for education. In ancient China, the head cantilever beam and the thorns are all misunderstood children! The father of early childhood education in China in the early 20th century: Chen Heqin once said that even raising pigs and chickens requires a scientific method, but our team has never paid attention to the proper method in educating children. Another example is the storyline of the Oscar-winning film The King's Speech. I remember that when we were young, we heard many inspirational stories that people who stuttered by putting stones in their mouths to practice pronunciation or something were misunderstood. Correcting stuttering does not mean that it can be corrected after hard practice. It is necessary to find a very appropriate method, and "The King's Speech" gives what I think is the most scientific and reasonable way to treat stuttering! Another example is the treatment of mental illness, which is a very complicated and difficult problem! You must find a very appropriate way to make a person open-minded from the heart, to open the knot in his heart, and no longer close himself! There are many ways to achieve this goal, but most of them are not really effective. It does not mean that the depression will be cured by sunbathing outside, nor does it mean that you will no longer be introverted by marrying a cheerful and lively wife. Closed, unless the wife understands psychology and knows how to properly enlighten his autistic husband! In fact, no matter how complicated the psychological problem is, there must be an appropriate method, a process, an experience, and experience, which can make oneself awaken from the heart and begin to transform! For example, some people have always been introverted and don’t talk much, but when they participate in a training event or a sales competition, under certain circumstances, they suddenly open their hearts and become very talkative at a certain moment. , I saw a lot of people talking, this is the proper way to work! I have come across such an example! For example, I often hear from relatives that someone's child was introverted when he was a child, but after ten years of absence, he has changed and become very talkative. This is because his personality has developed in certain conditions and environments during this period. Change! ... far away, huh, huh! The film "Autism" tells a true story in this regard.

Second, he is a failed father.
Constantly living in his own fantasy, his wife, son, relatives and friends reminded him to stop being "incoherent, pretending to be crazy and acting stupid", but he continued to be a hypocrite, even knowing that he was pretending to be crazy and acting stupid and didn't stop, this part made me angry Na! But there are such people in reality. Power is also a portrayal of the social thinking at that time. Just like in India today, parents want their sons to be engineers and their daughters to be doctors, so that they can win glory for the family! Thereby obliterating all other careers and hobbies that the child loves! This is also the case in China. Modern people are more open-minded, and parents realize that they cannot force their children's career orientation, and support their children no matter what they do! It's like not forcing Ding Junhui to be a musician, but letting Lang Lang be a professional billiards player. In addition, I appreciate that his second son, Beff, dares to bring all the contradictions to the table and clarify them, instead of living in fantasy and exhausting people to death! The climax is when Beff came back from a job job and tried to tell the truth about the bad situation, but his brother tried to persuade him to cheat on his father and say something nice! Think about it, if we lied, how can we communicate with his father who is becoming more and more hypocritical and unrealistic in the future! So, Beff is brave and I admire him for that!

In fact, my grandfather and Weili are quite similar in some ways. My grandfather was born in 1924. He never went to school. When he was a child, he survived the old society and suffered a lot and suffered a lot of beatings. It also led to his elderly people taking a lot of wrong ways to educate their children! I remember that in the mid-1990s, my aunt wanted to go to Wenzhou to buy goods and start a small business of buttons, but my grandfather actually said that there was no show, so he didn't let my aunt go! My grandfather was really bad at doing business, which caused him to obliterate future generations' dreams and opportunities for doing business. Speaking of it now, my aunt regrets it very much! However, I plan to visit my grandfather when I have time during the holidays, and use a few selected movies to enlighten his old man, and don't live in his own stubbornness and prejudice all his life. (It's not his fault, it's just that he grew up without a humane education)

I am an idealist and perfectionist. But it won't be all fantasy like power, and say some rambling words. I will respect the reality and do not cover up any contradictions! If I have a close friend, when he asks me, "Are we good friends?", I won't pretend to answer "Of course it is!" I will face the reality. Whether they are good friends is not a matter of saying it. If they are true, then they naturally have feelings for each other. There is no need for a question and a positive answer to prove this.

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  • Willy Loman: My father lived many years in Alaska. He was an adventurous man! We've got quite a little streak of self-reliance in our family, Howard. I thought I'd go out with my older brother and try to locate him and maybe even settle in the North with the old man. And I was almost decided to go - when I met a salesman in the Parker House. His name was Dave Singleman. And he was eighty-four years old, and he'd drummed merchandise in thirty-one states. And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up the phone and call the buyers, without ever leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career that a man could want. Because what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up his phone and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people? You know, when - when he died, by the way he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the NewYork, New Haven and Hartford, going into Boston - when he died, hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral. Things were sad on a lotta trains - for months after that. You see, in those days there was personality in it, Howard. There was respect and comradeship and gratitude in it. Today, it's all cut and dried, and there's no chance for bringing friendship to bear or personality. You see what I mean? They don't know me anymore.

  • Willy Loman: I'm talking about your father! There were promises made across this desk! You mustn't tell me you've got people to see. I put thirty-four years into this firm, Howard, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!