If Tracy is an ideal realist, then Brook is a downright idealist and the New Yorker Tracy dreams of being a teenage girl. She's bright, bright, funny, insightful about everything, and a duck to water when it comes to interpersonal relationships. And, she lives in an apartment facing the bustling business district (although she is not the owner), and the neon lights and bright stars of New York City seem to be within reach. At first, Tracy was attracted by the seemingly perfect Brook, and actively requested to follow Brook to see life in New York and experience everything in New York. She is actively involved in Brook's life, while also driving the development of Brook's life story. When Brook's boyfriend withdrew all the funds invested in the restaurant that was about to open in a fit of anger when he found her kissing other men, and other investors also pulled out, Brook sought guidance from an unreliable psychic medium, and Tracy followed the psychic medium. The vague clues given led Brook's thinking step by step to the fiancé and best friend who had betrayed her. It is precisely because of this that Brook decided to meet the people who betrayed her, former fiancé Dylan and former best friend Mamie Claire, and compensate them with financial support.
Then, what happened at Dylan and Mamie claire's house made Brook's past slowly unfold in front of Tracy, her glamorous, omnipotent image gradually disillusioned. Nearly 30 years old, she has a passion for everything in life, but she gets nowhere. She is very creative and can come up with countless good ideas, but rarely implement them. As Tracy wrote in her novel, "She did everything and nothing, and spend time like I always mean to : purposefully. She sang with the band and knew everyone and didn't owe anyone anything. And couldn' t pay up, even if she did. Her beauty was that rare kind that made you want to look more like yourself and not like her…being around her is like being around new York city, that made you want to find life, not hide from it." Although Brook's glamorous image was shattered, Tracy was also able to see Brook in the most real, her anxiety and escape, her ideals and romance. She relies on intuition to perceive the world, rely on emotions to make judgments, and is happy to see the growth and progress of others, but she has always acted as a beacon in the lives of others, but she has become a loser in the worldly sense.
Although the real Brook is not as perfect as it was at first sight, it has touched the heart of Tracy, who is struggling between reality and ideal. As Brook tries to convince ex-boyfriends and best friends to help with her dream of opening a restaurant, Tracy not only offers moral support, but also actively champions her idea, which once again proves unrealistic. In fact, speaking for Brook's ideas implies the awakening of the realist Tracy's inner ideals. While defending Brook's ideals, she is also guarding her seemingly unreachable ideals. As Tracy's voiceover says in the movie "she could see the whole world with painful accuracy, but couldn't see herself or her fate. And because I was in love with her, I decided I couldn't see it either." Tracy Knowing that that restaurant full of beautiful ideals is obviously impossible to succeed, he is also surprised that Brook can see the real face of the world, but at the same time, he can't see his own destiny. And because she loves Brook, she decides not to see it.
By the end of the film, everyone has learned a lot from each other. Real people begin to explore ideals, ideal people begin to learn to become practical. Brook inspired Tracy. Tracy saw in Brook what she wanted to be, so she chose to stick to her heart, quit the Mobius Literature Club, which symbolized the elite, and started her own literary club instead. And Brook also saw his cowardice and escapism from Tracy's novels based on her, and chose to move to Los Angeles to seek new possibilities and pay for his ideals. The realists became a little more ideal, and the idealists became a little more practical, and in the end, they both mustered up the courage to choose the life they wanted and took responsibility for their own lives. Life is not easy, we need to draw courage from ideals, but also need to dare to take responsibility in reality. Tracy and Brook inspire each other, and may their stories give our audience the courage to face life.
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