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A monologue in a movie
Sigurd 2022-04-08 09:01:13
Football has meant too much to me and come to represent too many things to me. And after a while, it all gets mixed up together in your head. You can't remember whether life's shit because Arsenal's shit or the other way around. I 've been to watch far too many games, and spent too much money. Fretted about Arsenal when I should have been fretting about something else. I've asked too much of the people I love. OK, I accept all that. Perhaps it's something you can't understand unless you belong. But what about this... Three minutes to go and you're 2-1 up in a semi-final. You look around and see thousands of faces contorted with fear and hope and worry . Everyone lost. Everything else gone out of their heads. Then the whistle blows and everyone gets spare. And just for those few minutes, you've at the centre of the whole world. And the fact that you care so much, that the noise you've made has been such a crucial part of it, is what makes it special. You've been as important as the players and if you hadn't been there, who'd have been bothered about football, really? The great thing is, it comes round again and again. There's always another season. If you lose the Cup of Final in May, there's the third round to look forward to in January. What's wrong with that? It's actually pretty comforting if you think about it. But every now and then, not very often, but it happens, you catch a glimpse of a world that doesn't work like that . A world that doesn't stop in May and begin in August. There's some stuff that just never comes back. And some stuff that just won't go away.And some stuff that you couldn't ignore even if you wanted to.
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Soledad 2022-04-10 09:01:09
The unsatisfactory empty time in life is filled with the love of football. Can't you be as stupid as a child when you are an adult? Uncle Face and Ma Qiang collaborated in the early years, in which they played a pair of 18-year-old gun fans who were obsessed with magic. With Arsenal winning the League Cup in the 1988-1989 season as the background, they told about the love entanglement between Uncle Face and a female colleague. Interspersed with memories of the character's teenage obsession with Arsenal. Supporting the home team is both fulfilling and lonely, making one feel like a child who refuses to grow up, huddled in a carnival crowd, wanting to be surrounded by joy. Until the end, there is no way to balance the frenzy and normal life, the love line is inexplicable, and the novel may be better. I didn't shoot the scene of the ball game, only the stands, but the atmosphere has been brought in, as if I saw the scene, and so on, the script is still amazing. The film is generally slow, and the director is not good. Uncle Mian was very anxious when he watched the final against Liverpool, and said dejectedly that he should like a team that can't win - I laughed.
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Bailey 2022-04-08 09:01:13
Although I am a person who does not understand football at all, the sense of substitution is quite good, and if you look at it from the perspective of male and female protagonists, fans, indifferent audiences, and transformed pseudo-fans are all present. As for whether he will be influenced by his boyfriend to pay attention to a sport, it varies from person to person. And football is the most loved sport in the world, it is still representative to compare and choose a person's hobby with one's career, emotional life and even the second half of life. Although based on true events, I remain neutral on the reunion at the end.
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Jo: [regarding Sarah's sudden interest in her boyfriend's favorite team] It's all a sinister form of male manipulation.
Sarah Hughes: Rubbish!
Jo: It's true! You get colonized! Your native culture gets driven out, and it's replaced by stuff that you don't like and don't even want to know about.
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Ted, the Headmaster: I wanted to talk to you about a vacancy. Rosie Hunter's handed in her notice I wonder whether you'd be interested in applying.
Paul Ashworth: Head of year? Erm, well...
Ted, the Headmaster: It's obviously not the most attractive offer you've ever had.
Paul Ashworth: *Come on Ben, get back with him!* Sorry Ted.
Ted, the Headmaster: I haven't fired you with enthusiasm.
Paul Ashworth: Well there's a lot of work, isn't it? What do I want to do more work for?
Ted, the Headmaster: More money?
Paul Ashworth: Well I've got enough to pay my rent, I got enough for my season ticket and a couple of records a month. Got no family.
Ted, the Headmaster: I'd like you to think about it.
Paul Ashworth: Sorry Ted as far as I'm concerned there's nothing to think about. *Come on Sam, put it away!*