Living really doesn't have to be about doing whatever you want.

Lonnie 2022-04-03 09:01:08

I have dreamed countless times, and hope that those polite "what you want to do" and "everything goes well" will fall on you like a brick.

Then you can walk around the world in a dashing manner, everything will come true, and there will be no worries at all.

"Magic Teacher" thoroughly opened up this brain hole to us. It was a bit nonsensical and a bit traditional, but the routine plot of "an ordinary little person turned over once" did not affect its funny. Especially the British people who are obsessed with cold humor can't be more funny when they tell jokes, not to mention that these jokes are told from the mouth of Simon Pegg, the hero of this TV comedy. ?

As a comedy film that abides by its duties, the temperament of "Family Fun" is indeed in place, and it is not too rotten, nor too passionate, nor does it mention the "feces and pee farts" that are commonly used in comedy films to make jokes, ( Oh, the dog poop that he flushed himself is so cute that it makes people forget that it is shit), if it is not a little old-fashioned, it can almost be regarded as a conscience.

But the biggest surprise of the whole film comes from the witty and noisy dog ​​Neil has (voiced by Poppy-Robin Williams during his lifetime).

This kind of comparison between "complex people" and "simple dogs", whether it is irony or sublimation, is a little suspicious of deliberately rounding up the plot, but it finally conveys this big truth to a complete level: It turns out that people do not necessarily live to do whatever they want.

This is a story that makes you omnipotent. This ordinary and depressing teacher, this diaosi who has a crush on the neighbor downstairs, was suddenly chosen by a group of monsters who want to destroy the earth as the inspection object, giving him the ability to do whatever he wants, saving the world for good, and destroying the earth for evil. Unknown, inexplicable.

Why coveted superpowers don't bring glory, but a mess of life, and why all the things you want come true, but you screw everything up.

I thought that my omnipotent self would benefit the world!

This is a still ordinary world, but it is also a world "full" of superheroes. After watching too many hero-themed movies, we will always imagine that if we have this kind of ability to defy the sky, are we also superheroes?

Simon proves the absurdity of this fantasy with practical actions: how an ant instantly accepts the ability to smash an elephant, it will only inflate itself, it will only take pleasure in easily smashing an elephant, and then destroy all the elephants in the world. Step on the sloppy, and finally empty.

It's not to slander human beings, but everyone who can't escape from their complicated daily life in an instant, how to get rid of material desires, how to get rid of fun, how to get rid of everything about small kindness and Satisfaction of the little evil.

Weak people are too weak to take responsibility and ability beyond themselves. From this point of view, the monsters who threatened to destroy the earth are right. Weakness is evil.

Weakness is evil, but it is not the original sin. We are small people. The joy and meaning of life have been decided in the dark, and the sudden and excessive gift is not given but deprived.

Deprived of the meaning of struggle, deprived of the surprise of hard work, deprived of the right to melancholy in rainy weather, deprived of all the excitement of life, deprived of friendship.

Overwhelmed, Neil listened to the advice of the genius puppy Dennis, who already had the ability to think rationally, and passed the ability to Dennis. It was Dennis who saved the earth, and it was Dennis who saved Neil.

This ability to disrupt life and break rules should not exist in the first place. As a pure and "rational" dog, Dennis understands this better than Neil: Humans are a complex of desires, and Dennis, who is pure and unseemly, is the The one who can complete the ability to put this nowhere.

Humans can’t learn that kind of wanting without desire, but fortunately, we can finally open our minds occasionally and put ourselves in a timely position: life, as expected, “I can’t do whatever I want, but I want to do whatever I want”, “I sometimes embrace it. Ambition sometimes yells "Fuck", and it slowly comes out day by day.

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Absolutely Anything quotes

  • Dennis: I wouldn't mind shagging your leg right now...

    Neil Clarke: I thought I turned you into a rational thinking creature!

    Dennis: Rational thinking creature still have desires!

    Neil Clarke: We'll soon deal with that...

    Dennis: NO! Don't take my desires away from me!

    Neil Clarke: Why not?

    Dennis: They wouldn't make my life worth living! Biscuits, shagging!

  • Neil Clarke: I don't think I like your conversation!

    Dennis: But I worship you, master! I love you so much! I can't bear displeasing you! My whole world collapses when you're cross with me!