poor and rich

Coby 2022-09-21 09:58:50

This movie seems to be the second time I've written a review since The Little Prince. Because I am always worried that my evaluation is meaningless, there is no need for evaluation. In other words, it's actually lazy! In fact, life is your own life, and what you think is important is actually dismissed in the eyes of others. I want to write something, not to represent how profound my views on movies are, but just because this movie simply touched me and ignited my enthusiasm for something else to write about.
In fact, the narrative structure and shooting techniques of the movie are very ordinary, and it is more like a light comedy of American life than the movie. I didn't want to read any more with the dialogue, it felt like a group of sparrows chattering endlessly. A lot of characters are superfluous, the themes are good, but they are not deep enough. But isn't that what we are? It seems to be the ordinary things that happen around us. The two heroines are also classic images of modern young people: college students who have nothing to do and impetuous but trying to live a better life. They are not young enough but they are not qualified to talk about the old post-80s.
The title "poor and rich" is borrowed from the barrage in station B. I think the person who wrote this sentence should really understand the movie. Many labels of this film: youth, comedy, feminism... In my opinion, they are actually not the point. Although the movie tells the story of the two heroines, such as 18-year-old tracy who just went to college through her "sister" brooke's life to entertain loneliness and experience life, while 30-year-old brooke is full of enthusiasm for many things and is very active and hardworking Living and dreaming of opening a family restaurant. Tracy is simply envious of this sister's rich life, and originally looked up to Brooke as an idol in life. However, the reality is cruel, dreams still need financial support, no one's life is as beautiful as a fairy tale, you can realize your dream with hard work, and "live a happy life with the prince" from now on. Brooke tried several times but ended in failure, and Tracy also saw her sister's "incompetence" and guessed her doomed failure, from looking up at the altar to the vicious contempt of the carrion.
The ending of the movie is not the perfect ending we expected, but it is even more touching. Brooke is still the penniless person who strives to have a better life. He is very passionate about many things, but he can't persist. She was poor, with no money, no job, and no dream restaurant, so she had to go to another city and start from scratch. And tracy knows her better than Brooke herself. In fact, she is very rich. She understands that she has no money because she will not rely on selling herself to gain benefits. Although she does a trivial job, she makes herself very fulfilling and makes a little contribution to the society. Her contributions are all those who are empty, fat, eat and die, even less than 1/10,000 of her.
Yes, poor and rich, the material is poor but the spirit is very rich! Such a life is the real life, isn't it? And many of us have to bow our heads because of material things, betray our spirits, and what qualifications do we have to laugh at those who work hard in a life defeated by reality? You have never even worked hard!

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    Tracy: [narrating] Meadow had made rich fat women less fat, and rich stupid kids less stupid, and lame rich men less lame. And she wanted so badly to be on the other side... to be fat and stupid and lame and rich. But what she couldn't see most of all, more than she couldn't see that she was never going to get the restaurant, was that those people were *nothing* compared to her. They were matches to her bonfire. She was the last cowboy, all romance and failure. The world was changing, and her kind didn't have anywhere to go. Being a beacon of hope for lesser people... is a lonely business.

  • Tracy: It was clear that the thing that Meadow wanted most in the world, the thing that she wanted to define her, to give her a place to put her time and talents, her everything, the restaurant, it was clear that it will never happen. The most surprising thing was that Meadow was actually surprised by it. She could see the world with painful accuracy, but she couldn't see herself or her fate. And because I was in love with her I decided I couldn't see it either.