This has almost become a necessity, because people regard the old man as an eternal substance, and without the intervention of external force, it will always keep running at a constant speed. Women are different. You can never predict how devastating the menopause will be for them. Men are over 40 and their lives are basically settled. They used to like to imagine the future, but now they like to reminisce about the past. Standing at the crossroads of life they don't hesitate, every step is a matter of course - or follow their partner, women's lives are long, and the longer they survive, the more they can find the right path.
Unless there is a sudden change, like a spear stuck in front of people, forcing people to reposition.
When interpreting "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Yang Zhao pointed out that the male characters' control of time is accurate to events. Their way of life is to record the ladies by the battles they have experienced, and the long time between the two battles is just waiting. So men's time is linearly distributed. After watching "Nebraska", we can also summarize the old Woody's life map. Starting from his hometown, he went through a series of important life stages such as the Korean War, getting married and having children, and leaving his hometown. Then he returned home after winning the lottery, which set off waves of peaceful life and formed the beginning of this film.
The film's director Alexander Payne's other work "Descendants", which describes a middle-aged man, also started with an accident. His wife became a vegetable, and Alexander's life began to reorganize. After watching "Descendants", some people believe that the reorganization of a fragmented family must be stimulated by a major event of life and death, because the onset of acute diseases often means the cure of chronic diseases. The same theory applies to Nebraska today. Because the father firmly believed that he had won one million, the son took his father to Lincoln City to receive the prize. They returned to their father's long-lost hometown, and once again saw friends and neighbors they hadn't seen for many years. Their family "won the lottery" because of an accident be reunited. Later, in the elaboration of different people, the son pieced together a father who was completely different from his impression, and also began to understand what his father really wanted to have and the remaining dreams in his heart.
The father-son relationship is the most indescribable of all relationships, a chasm that we all know but cannot pierce. My dad would still feel embarrassed watching "Where Are We Going, Dad" because he was always a little nervous to experience such exposed emotions. People acquiesce that their relationship with their father can be small and unspoken, like the no longer beautiful decorative paintings by the window are shelved. But in fact it happens to be that kind of distance, but it is necessary to care about it with heart. In "Nebraska", his father Woody's thoughts are always hidden under his slightly blurred eyes. He wants to win the lottery, buy his new car, and leave something for the children. I think this is a manifestation of disobedience. As a father, I want to have something that I can give my relatives to prove my worth.
After the Korean War, Woody suffered from alcoholism. He was still a good man, but he lost his fighting spirit and chose to avoid his feelings and responsibilities. It is difficult for us to find a moment in the movie where he answers questions positively. He is always immersed in his own world and stubbornly believes in his own pursuit. Like most of our fathers, he needs no advice and is free from mistakes. There is such a clip in "Nebraska", the wives are chatting in the kitchen, the elderly are all sitting in front of the TV watching the game, their lack of adrenaline is not stimulated by the game, they just watch Like the most typical "couch potato", killing his time.
Woody, like them, fell day after year, so that when children mentioned the man, the first thing that came to mind was his alcoholism. But he is a little different. The impulses hidden in his heart and the dreams he has have made his persistence full of childish self-righteousness. Woody in the movie shows the state of some Alzheimer's, he is stubborn to redeem his lottery ticket without any rational consideration of the truth of the matter. All these actions are driven by emotion. His rationality has weakened, but his emotional appeal has been strengthened. For most of "Nebraska", Woody has remained "out of touch" with the outside world, most notably when everyone laughed at his "lottery". He still patiently folded his lottery ticket and took it out of the bar. This clip is very telling. For a "dreamer", all the ridicule is just an innocuous obstacle on the road. He turns these people who laugh at him into a joke, and he himself is still a dream hero. .
In "Nebragas", there is a scene where Woody gets up to accept everyone's congratulations on his winning the prize. At this time, Woody's dazed face shows an imperceptible smile. He was probably a little proud, as if the office worker was complacent after being praised by his superiors, as if the former honor had made a comeback at this moment, covering his whole body in a younger way. Maybe in the past, the young Woody, the dreaming Woody, also expected himself to shine like this, but now this lottery satisfies his "dream" in another form,
probably every father has such a moment. , The dream that I once had was terminated because of marriage and family, and I finally indulged in the gentleness of life to see the passage of time, but there was always a corner of my heart that was overgrown with flowers and plants, waiting for a strange opportunity to reload one day. There are many strange scams in society, targeting the elderly. In addition to the fact that older people are more rigid in their thinking, but also because they have a more stubborn way of looking at problems, as long as they are certain, they will move forward bravely. Every time the old man spends money, he is just buying a "dream" that he thinks is worthwhile. And their dreams are often very simple: to make life better, to leave something for "children", this dream took the lead in replacing "world peace" and became a universal truth. We have all seen Woody in Nebraska and the old man in the bank who is ready to send money, ordinary and shining with longing.
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