It doesn't matter how brilliant life is, and it doesn't matter how ordinary death is

Colten 2022-04-11 09:01:07

1983's "Tender Mercy" is seemingly ordinary but extraordinary. Highways, fields, gas stations, cowboys, ballads, this is the American countryside in the film, simple and unadorned, fascinating. The performances of the actors in the whole film, in this environment, seemed bland, but Robert Duvall brought this blandness to the extreme. He also won the Best Actor Oscar in 1984. Mike, once a famous folk singer, parted ways with Daisy because of his growing estrangement from his increasingly popular wife Daisy and his alcoholic nature , the video does not provide a detailed answer.
Mike said many times that he would not sing ballads again, but when his ballads were rejected by Harry, he was angry, so angry that he drove aimlessly to vent; when his ballads were affirmed, he laughed and embraced with his wife ---Mike is in love with his ballads
Mike also refused to write the songs to Harry for financial purposes, he also said that the reason he left was that he realized that Daisy was addicted to being famous and couldn't extricate himself,---so Mike also cherishes his ballads, and he refuses his own ballads to be used and abused.
So he stubbornly left, came to a small town, met his innocent wife, and continued his folk songs...
Compared with Mike's efforts, Daisy was actively involved in the WTO. Through the songs written by Mike, Daisy became a big star and got the material life she wanted. When Mike watched Daisy sing indulgently on stage, who's to say he wouldn't be envious? In 29 minutes, Mike appeared in front of Daisy, and Daisy spoke ill of him, but when Mike left, Daisy's rebuke made the audience emotional. She is in love with him.
They are destined to have two paths. Whether it is Mike's birth or Daisy's entry into the WTO, although the two of them have a happy ending, we have no right to judge their choice.
For those of us who are about to embark on the path of growth, all we can do is to maintain our sincerity, listen to the call of our heart, and it doesn't matter how splendid our lives are.

There are many cowards among us, trying to pretend to be mature, lest our shells be pierced. The little Sonny in the film, a ten-year-old American country boy, does have the courage and authenticity that matches his age and surpasses the average peers. I admire all the details he showed in the film. Compared with some 16- or 17-year-old children in China, Little Sonny is more mature.
Regarding his father's death, little Sonny asked his mother many times, and his mother's answer was always sad.
It is not difficult to see from the whole film that this mother, who loves Sonny deeply, misses her husband who once died in a foreign country. She said to Sonny, "I got married at 16, gave birth to you at 17, and became a widow at 18." The seemingly plain words were a beautiful but bitter memory of youth and first love.
The love is gone, all the mother can remember and only want to remember is beauty. This was the last thing Sonny's father left her. As the mother said to little Sonny at the end: "He's just a boy, but he's a good boy, and I think he'll be a good man."
Unlike Sonny's father's death, in the film Mike and Daisy's daughter Sue ·Annie's death is pitiful, but plotly justified and necessary.
The love that Annie yearned for was not promised by her mother, so she chose to elope, which most of us dared to imagine but did not dare to do. She went to pursue her ideals, love and freedom. Unfortunately, the unfortunate boyfriend ended up causing Annie's tragic death.
Anne finally left it to her parents, only at 1:16:25 Mike said the three words "little sister" to the coffin and Daisy's heart-wrenching tears. We cannot say that Annie was wrong, much less that Annie was right. I believe that most of us saw Annie's death with only shock and regret. We couldn't do anything when we saw it, and we couldn't do anything after watching it. At most, we could shed a few drops of tears, express a few words of emotion, and that's all. A group of ordinary people, on this North American continent, in this small Texas town, live or die, just like the melodious ballads in the film, these ordinary people are also performing moving and melodious stories.
All we can do is to keep our sincerity and listen to the call of our hearts, it doesn't matter how splendid our lives are. It doesn't matter how ordinary it is to die.

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Tender Mercies quotes

  • Rosa Lee: I love you, you know? And every night when I say my prayers and I thank the lord for his blessings and his tender mercies to me, you and Sonny head the list.

  • Mac Sledge: Well, what do you think?

    Harry: I don't think it's no good either.