After watching many movies, I found that in Sandler's comedies, family love is often the clue of the story, and this "Shoemaker's Life" is no exception. Once you have mended your shoes with an ancestral sewing machine, you can become the owner of the shoes by putting them on. This fantasy-intensive setting is still quite fresh. But the whole thing is old-fashioned and mediocre. When I see some places, I obviously feel a little funny, but I can't laugh, so I don't think it's funny, and in the end, I have to smile bitterly.
In the movie, after the male protagonist puts on his shoes, his appearance becomes a completely different person, and the way for the audience to recognize it is to look at the clothes - especially the stark red scarf of the male protagonist. Here, the red scarf becomes a symbol of self-existence. In reality, we always disguise ourselves as various people for various reasons. In this way, the film's arrangement of wearing shoes and transforming has intriguing implications. Perhaps, a pair of shoes won't make you who you are, but it can make you feel who you can be.
After getting involved in a series of troubles as someone else, the hero becomes more and more paranoid. Whenever we envy other people's lives, we are far from understanding the hidden worries and troubles behind them; wearing other people's shoes is fine, but Remember to go your own way. So be the owner of your shoes, don't let your shoes be yours.
The above are the highlights of the movie, but the whole thing always makes people feel awkward.
I began to think that the direction of the plot would be pretending to be life-style slapstick, and finally found that my own life was the best. But at the end of the film, thousands of pairs of shoes were shown, which seemed to justify this kind of impostor. The father, who concealed his identity, finally told a family story that appeared at the beginning of the film, exaggerating fantasy and mystery in every possible way, but it made people wonder why he never mentioned the mystery of the sewing machine to his children and let him discover for himself why he left his wife and children. Don't have any financial aid to hear back? My father said that these shoes are customers who help him to help others, and it is a privilege and a responsibility to wear other people's shoes. These few words that cannot escape the suspicion of preaching sound high-sounding, but they are untenable. Abandoning your wife and children in order to help others? Helping others has mysterious wealth?
The film that seems to echo the beginning and the end is actually a bit confusing, and it has become the self-righteousness and wishful thinking of the screenwriter.
As mentioned earlier, I've seen a lot of Adam Sandler's movies. Sandler has grown up and followed the crowd, such as simple funny and successful commercial comedies, and also has heartwarming family films such as the remote control of life. The under-reviewed, box-office failure of The Shoemaker's Life is a bit closer to the latter, but it's a few breaths short of becoming a thankless old-fashioned comedy about to die. In the film, Dustin Hoffman plays Sandler's father, and there seems to be some unspeakable hidden from him. "Rain Man" Zhuyu has achieved great success in the past, but now she is using soy sauce in such an inconspicuous film, consuming the little screen time left, which is unavoidable. Although Sandler has become famous for his comedy, the image of an honest American that has remained unchanged for years will one day be outdated and forgotten by audiences who like the new and hate the old. These two lonely actors come together to become a father and son in an unpopular film, and life is like a drama.
Writing here, I think of comedians such as Jim Carrey and Robin Williams. Kim was in the prime of his life and now it is difficult to transform. Robin suffered from depression and committed suicide last year. He couldn't help but ask a serious question: What if one day these familiar comedians are not funny anymore? They continue to work hard to be funny in movies with inexplicable logic, but squander the audience's trust and love for them, sitting and eating every day.
Maybe everyone has a golden age in which he was born, but is he falling behind because he can't keep up with the times, or because he never thought about keeping up with the times?
A good comedy can be crazy, but not crazy; the audience can see the characters in the movie as fools, but the movie can't see the audience as fools.
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