Insecurity and Addiction

Nat 2022-03-26 09:01:11

This is a typical chatter film, there is no ups and downs in the plot, just two men talk all the way, and there are not many scenes of women appearing. In this film, perhaps it is a little higher than the dog's appearance rate, and some shots are divided by the snowy background.
As a film starring two male writers, this arrangement is very reasonable, because most of the male writers are straight male cancer patients. A hypocrite with a gentleman's heart, if not so straightforward.
Someone must ask what the film is talking about, what is the meaning of that scene, I plan to watch it again, etc. These stupid words really don’t need to be said, such talk is often not about understanding what the film is talking about What story, but who those two more or less abnormal people were.
As far as this film is concerned, it is enough to understand that there are people like Wallace, he succeeded, he committed suicide. The jealous young man played by Cuan Fu is actually quite normal, so don't worry too much.

What kind of person Wallace is, he should have seven or eight points in the three sentences he said.
The first sentence is: Some people live between insecurity and addiction.
The
second . X, Y, Z and everything will be fine.

From what can be learned, Wallace is a depressed patient. The identity of a depressed patient actually coincides somewhat with his thoughts. In his TED talk on depression, author Andrew Solomon mentioned that depression is a genetic defect. The rich have everything but feel unhappy and realize that they may be sick. The poor cannot tell whether they are unhappy because they are sick or because they are poor. This is the current society is tending to realize that depression is nothing to be ashamed of, and we have to admit that depression is like admitting that we have a cold. However, that doesn't mean there are no other voices. The most common cognition about depression is that it is hard to think, narrow-minded, and unwilling to let go of myself. So, whether physical or psychological has a key impact on depression. Putting aside the general explanation that this is a combination of mental and functional deficits, it is only a matter of choosing whether to be mentally depressed and then cause the brain elements to lose balance, or to have physical lesions in the brain and then cause people to become depressed and depressed. It is like Which came first, the chicken or the egg.
Normal people don’t spend too much energy on these kinds of problems, but it’s often depression patients like Wallace who are paranoid about it.

He indulged in such reflections, excited and painful at his new discoveries.
People like him are full of contradictions.
He thinks watching TV feels good, but if it feels good all the time, it will feel bad. So in order not to make myself feel bad, I don't even want a TV. The same is true of his views on human relationships. It's nice to be recognized, but it's like walking a tightrope, falling into the abyss every moment. So being famous is both happy and troubled for him. Presumably he felt the same way about his family and friends. So he likes to keep dogs, he doesn't need to care too much, but is more sincere.
Two sides like this abound in life. Fire can cook food and cause fire. Knives can cut meat but can also hurt people. Care. Wallace, on the other hand, is very concerned about these details as if he had placed an amplifier. Just like he said that he did not want to be a so-called writer seeking fame, the result of all his thinking was to lead to loneliness. And he must find a way to make himself happy from his loneliness.
Cumford was very harsh on Wallace's posturing, arguing that Wallace tucked his self-esteem into vaguely interacting with their ordinary people, which is exactly what Wallace felt happy and painful about his sobriety. place. Precisely because he was so awake, he had to pretend to be confused.
While he answered affirmatively, I never acted in a pretentious manner, but his heartfelt thoughts would never change.
These "flawed characters" combined with his virtuosity at writing words produced a formidable writer. And what he is suffering is how to be an ordinary person on top of his reputation, and at the same time he is not an ordinary ordinary person.

Wallace is a very sensitive person. His heart is too easy to interact with the outside world. When he is happy and miserable at the same time, he looks around him with contradictory eyes. Maybe he chooses to be aggressive at one time, and conservative at other times. As he got older, he should have tended to be conservative, until the moment of suicide, the desire in his heart gushed out.
He must also be a pessimistic person. He even has to taste bitterness in order to be happy as a human being, and thus define that the essence should be bitter. He believes that the accumulation of material civilization makes people more and more tempted, and at the same time, the world is full of unreal names. The bigger pain was why he was the only one who could see these obvious mistakes. So he would say that chatting with most people is not only boring but also more painful.

Strictly speaking, these pains are unavoidable. Those people with so-called detached mentality are not because they chose a simple and pure environment first. So it falls into the same problem again. It is because he chose a pure environment, so his mind is pure, or is his heart pure, and he chooses a pure environment.

If one persists in such an ambiguous question, one is bound to become uneasy.
And such ambiguous questions abound in life.
Therefore, if a person is destined to be sad, he can freely decide that it is a genetic defect. If he is so frank, he may think about it a little bit.

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The End of the Tour quotes

  • David Foster Wallace: This piece would be so much better if it was just you. Just keep talking, you'll save me a lot of trouble.

  • David Foster Wallace: I'm not so sure you want to be me.

    David Lipsky: I don't.