Some excitement after get off work?

Lelia 2022-10-20 11:02:51

Every hard-working office worker has probably complained: the life of going to work and get off work every day is too boring, I will quit one day, and have to do something exciting and meaningful life.
Then what? After complaining, he made some fantasies of idle clouds and wild cranes, as if he really had such a stimulating life, and then continued to work and work overtime from 9 to 9.

Martin Scorsese's "After get off work" gives us an exciting way to live off work. The film tells the story of a bizarre "adventure" experienced after get off work by an ordinary clerk who fantasizes that he can have a different life and can't even remember his name. First, while reading the "infamous" Tropic of Cancer, I was approached by a beautiful woman in a cafe and left a phone call. After returning home, I couldn't help calling the beauty, and unexpectedly received an invitation to go to the beauty's house. Although it was midnight, our protagonist went there happily, and went out with only 20 yuan notes and 95 cent coins. The taxi driver I met when I went out was a "racer" and ran all the way, so that the 20 yuan banknotes flew out of the window, leaving no money to pay the fare. This was just the beginning of the night, and it would have been nice if our protagonist realized that this was a prelude to a thrilling trip and went home in time, but he still insisted on going to the beautiful date. The events that followed were all sorts of surprises, with the protagonist embarking on a thrilling and completely derailed Midnight Horror. During this time, the protagonist said the most words: I want to go home. In the end, the protagonist returns early the next morning to the familiar place where he once bored his work, in a strange way and shape. The adventure was over, and the familiarity reassured him.

Kundera mentioned in "The Unbearable Lightness of Life": "Human time is not a circular cycle, but a straight line moving forward rapidly. Therefore, people are not happy, and happiness is the desire for repetition."

Perhaps People always pursue different stimuli, but they always realize after the stimuli that simple repetitive and even boring life is the most reassuring. Knowing the direction of the rising sun every day, knowing the time of sunset every day, knowing what to do every day, knowing who the person you love, and knowing where the person who loves you is, these simple repetitions are happiness. Those clueless thrills and adventures can only be occasional condiments after all.

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After Hours quotes

  • Paul Hackett: Wow, I'm sorry. I guess I'm really puttin' you through the mill tonight, huh?

    Marcy: It's okay, I'm used to it.

  • Paul Hackett: So, how 'bout that joint?

    Marcy: Yeah. Good idea.

    [Marcy gives Paul a joint]

    Paul Hackett: What type of pot is this?

    Marcy: It's Colombian.

    Paul Hackett: That's a lie.

    Marcy: What?

    Paul Hackett: This isn't Colombian. I don't even think it's pot.

    Marcy: That's what the guy who sold it to me said it was.

    Paul Hackett: Well, the guy who sold it to you is a liar. So are you. That's shit.

    Marcy: Don't get upset, I just won't buy it from him anymore.

    Paul Hackett: That's horse shit.

    Marcy: Are you alright?

    Paul Hackett: Where are those Plaster of Paris paperweights, anyway? I mean, that's what I came down here for in the first place. Well, that's not entirely true, I came to see you, but where are the paperweights? That's what I wanna see now!

    Marcy: What's the matter?

    Paul Hackett: I said I wanna see a Plaster of Paris bagel and cream cheese paperweight, now cough it up.

    Marcy: Right now?

    Paul Hackett: Yes, right now!

    Marcy: They're in Kiki's bedroom.

    Paul Hackett: Then get 'em, cause as we sit here chatting, there are important papers flying rampant around my apartment cause I don't have *anything* to hold them down with!

    Marcy: Fine.