Maybe life is an escape

Aliza 2022-03-24 09:02:45

Carrying the heavy burden of life, but feeling empty.
Just happened to be watching Monroe's "Escape" recently.
Maybe life really is an escape. Whether it's a 22-year-old young man, a 30-year-old married woman, or a middle-aged bachelor. It seems that everyone is stuck in the mire somewhere, struggling. It's just that some people are dull, while others struggle harder.
Don't choose a partner when you are most vulnerable.
Seeing that Justin and Holden fell into endless sexual entanglement after meeting, I deeply felt that the two lonely souls were hugging each other tightly, wanting to be absorbed and melted by each other. Because one person is too long. Because the lonely days are too hard.
Whether there is true love between them. I'm not sure. More than that, I just feel that I have found a vulnerable person to rely on, feel pity for each other, and deeply depend on each other. If this is a form of love, then they probably are too.
the good girl is not a story of a good girl, but just like Justin at the crossroads at the red light, struggling to choose which road to choose: to go back to the monotonous life where day after day does not see the light of day, or to elope to Looking for an exciting life in the wilderness? Is it to train the call of conscience and morality, or to indulge in the pursuit of pleasure?
In fact, which choice is a good girl, this is a worldwide proposition. Judgment of right and wrong, there are secular standards, but also everyone's own measure.
This movie can only be said to convey the value judgment of the director or producer. Perhaps restraining inner desires and complying with social laws is the right way to redeem yourself and become a good girl.
But this is not necessarily a universal law.
Even if Justin really escaped in the end and lived a different life with a little guilt, as long as she could let go, be loyal and cherish the choices she made, it wouldn't be a life.

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The Good Girl quotes

  • Holden: [in a letter to Justine] Dear Justine, because of you I will be quitting the Retail Rodeo. The last two days have been the most God awful of my life. I've not been able to get rid of you in my head. I've never wanted anything so bad and I have wanted many things. I'd given up long ago on being gotten by someone else, and then you came along. The idea that I could be gotten because of circumstantial never get got is the worst feeling I've ever felt and I have felt many bad feelings. I'm sorry I can never see you again, Justine. Forgive me for being so weak, but that is who I am. Goodbye. Holden Worther. If, for some reason, you could change your mind and wanna be with me body and soul, meet me after work. I will be waiting for you at 5pm outside Chunky Cheese. If you are not there at five you will never see me again in your lifetime.

  • Justine: That day I read the story Holden had wrote for me. It was kinda different from the other ones but kinda the same. It was about a girl who was put upon, whose job is like a prison, and whose life has lost all meaning. Other people don't get her, especially her husband. One day she meets a boy who is also put upon and they fall in love. After spending their whole lives never getting got, with one look they get each other completely. In the end the girl and the boy run away together into the wilderness, never to be heard from again.