The focus of the story is on a family, and this family, including the entire film, is focused on the character of David. A turquoise plaid shirt, but his fat figure is always kind, including his behavior and way of talking, just as his family calls him: New York big boy. This image makes people feel good about him.
The various plots of the film are connected by David, and the shaping of this character is also one of the most successful parts of the film. All the emotional restraint and outbursts that should be produced are on display in David, played by Jesse Plemons.
Let's talk about this story, in fact, the clue of cancer is not really an ingenious idea, but although the movie starts with David's mother's cancer as a timeline - it starts with Christmas, January, February... until the second year The mother died of cancer in December. It seems that the script is all about fighting "cancer", but in fact the most important part is all about what happens to the character David.
His script was not selected by the TV station, his father did not accept that he was gay, he broke up with his boyfriend of five years, his mother was ill and undergoing painful chemotherapy, and he had two sisters but the relationship was not very good... These encounters made David look like Not like a screenwriter who writes comedy.
He said to his friend, "It's like I don't have a mom anymore, and I don't have a dad. I don't have a boyfriend, and I don't have a job. I have no one to talk to here, except you, but you're always there."— —The reason why this feeling of nothingness can relate to me is that, for a long time, I have too.
The bad situation in the movie has a strong sense of substitution in one's own life - this kind of thing can actually be said by everyone. It seems that everyone's life is full of bad things, but the truth is that we are unaware of others. Always be strongly aware of your own experience, limited to this, and then zoom in and sink deeper and deeper. Like me, if I made a list of the current situation in my life, I would think, why can I fail so much? Why are other people's lives so glamorous, successful careers, rich in love, and why don't these terrible things happen to other people? Or if I were someone else.
"To other people, you are other people."
This is a line that his friend Gabe said to David, and it is undoubtedly the most important line in the entire film. It highlights the underlying theme of the film. Behind a series of events, behind negative emotions, life experiences, and life misfortunes, "other people" has become the topic the film wants to explore.
In addition to the meaning that this key line wants to express, the three words "others" are also reflected in the confrontation between David and his sister. The movie begins by telling the audience that he doesn't know much about his sister, such as his misunderstanding that his 17-year-old sister is only 15, and he doesn't know the names of their friends, and when David feels that his father still can't mention Paul. When he was dissatisfied, his sister told him: "Other people are also sad, and you have never cared about us."
Many details in the film are deliberately highlighting the point of "other people", whether it is from "for others, The meaning of the sentence "You are other people" is still based on David's relationship with other members of the family. The key word "other people" actually has multiple definitions and can be explained at different levels, which also arouses the audience's interest in The resonance of the film section.
Although we can't switch roles with other people, and maybe other people's lives are not as exciting as we think, I still want to connect David's mood to myself, because we can't comfort ourselves through other people.
For example, "there are many worse people than you, more failures, and poorer people. You are by no means the worst one." Like you, it's pointless, it's better to be like Gabe's mother telling Gabe that when she dies, she will become a birch tree.
David's script was unsuccessful twice, and we all know the feeling of seeing the selected person sharing the victory and joy on social networking sites. It's like I never knew what "lucky" felt like, it wasn't dissatisfaction, it was really not getting it. Moments like these bring "other people" to mind.
David's character spends most of his time holding back his emotions, and the one in the supermarket is where he really explodes. Because he was drunk and couldn't find the laxatives his father asked him to buy, anxiety, irritability, nonsense, the huge scene, the extremely bright interior lighting, and the dazzling array of goods, contrasted sharply with the image of David sitting alone in front of the shelf. out of a conflict and incompatibility. Including the sudden vomiting and rushing to the toilet in the bar before, a series of behaviors are a precursor to extreme depression and explosion.
When you are stuck in the predicament of a life where you can cry at any time, the lights and fireworks can only become devastated in your eyes. There is nothing better than a person who faces the silent air. "I'm such a good person", why did this happen to me? Life isn't perfect, and reality is never a script you control.
Silence, discouragement, frustration, and complaints, the male protagonist accurately displayed this frustration in front of the audience. The performance was full of tension and the emotions were very real.
The beginning and end of the film repeats a scene where the family is in the same bed at the same time, and the mother has died peacefully. It seems to herald a kind of samsara, the samsara and continuation of life. A 12-month cycle that begins and ends with death. But after all the pain was over, it was a scene of a tired but quiet family sleeping in a bedroom. David leaned against his father, there were no tears, and there was only the sound of sleep in the room before dawn.
The director used an unpretentious way to express warmth, which is the case throughout the movie, and the ending is very touching.
Your script is not what they want, this is life; your story is different from others, this is life; what you have can be fleeting, the future is unpredictable, this is life; there have been failures, there have been broken , also experienced torture, loneliness, frustration, exhaustion, and finally fell asleep in a dark blue bedroom, this is life.
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