After watching the whole film quietly, I suddenly realized and shouted: Why is this film so talkative! Uncle Dan's mouth never stopped from beginning to end! It's a hundred times more talkative than Quentin! Later, after checking the details of the film, I realized that it was a film adapted from a Broadway play. But having said that, the strength of Broadway is really not covered. Although there are so many lines in the film that it completely robs the scene, the presence of music, etc. (so it is extremely unbalanced as a film, and even unqualified), but these lines are really rich in nutrition and information. Needless to say, the style is unpretentious and at the same time has a high literary quality, with extensive references and various vivid metaphors, coupled with Uncle Dan's Oscar-level acting skills, people still have endless aftertastes after listening to it with relish. Not at all boring.
The story itself is actually very simple. It is nothing more than a story about a middle-aged person who is burdened with the pressure of reality and life to spend every day of the trivial, but because of this, the story is also very sincere and empathetic. I can't help but think of another movie I watched a few days ago that also reflected black life. In just two hours, a lot of gimmicks such as homosexuality, racial discrimination, and drugs were put into it, and I won an Oscar for it. Makes it even more profound that the Oscar judges are simply incredible, Made Paper.
After watching this film, I was deeply moved. Originally, I felt that I was being a little too hypocritical, but then I thought about it. It was originally written for my future self, and used as a true reflection of myself at a stage, so I no longer had any scruples and spoke freely.
One is that Uncle Dan is also getting old... I can't help but think of the first time I saw Uncle Dan a few years ago. It was in "American Gangster". At that time, he was so high-spirited. Dare to fight. Then I remembered the first time I saw Uncle Tang, earlier, in "Back to the Future", in addition to him, there are Uncle Ben and Bell in "Empire of the Sun", "Different Sky" Lee and Depp, Pete and Norton in Fight Club, and so on. The screen is really a magical thing, carrying the lives of too many people. At that time, they were all at a time when a man was the most shining, the most energetic, the most contemptuous of the world, and the most ambitious, and it was precisely these great characters that they created, as the one I strived to become. A goal that accompanies me along the way. However, only five years after I left, when I saw them on the screen again, they were already gray on the temples, unable to hide the wrinkles at the corners of their eyes, and they did not have the pure, clear eyes they used to have. Therefore, at times like this, I have the feeling that I have grown old with them, and I can't help but feel a little sad, but then I suddenly think, isn't that what the so-called generation gap is? You used to love with your whole life. After some people and things, after they gradually disappeared in the long river of time, once you are in a difficult situation, you no longer have so much energy, courage and curiosity to love new things so sincerely, so you can only think about it in your head. He recalled them over and over again, sighing that one generation was not as good as one generation, while cherishing the memory of his younger self, and blurted out the timeless saying of Confucius: the dead are like a gentleman, and they never give up day and night.
Another deep feeling is the relationship between responsibility and family affection discussed in the film, as well as many concepts of the protagonist, the most typical of which is the dialogue between him and his son. The son gave up his job in order to realize his dream of playing football, so the protagonist scolded his son and ordered him to ask the boss to return to work. The son asked aggrievedly: Have you never liked me? The protagonist said: Why should I like you? Which law stipulates it? I feed and clothe you every day because that's my duty as a father, but I don't need to like you. Some people may think the protagonist is too cold, but I think a lot of what he says makes sense a lot of the time. This conversation took me back to when I was a kid, and my father said basically the same thing to me more than once, maybe because both of them were typical realists. I have to say that this concept has a great influence on the formation of my world view, that is, the world is fundamentally composed of a series of basic and meticulous and precise rules and theorems. Just some pretty patterns on the cold, hard marble. Therefore, when I look at a thing, I basically do not substitute feelings, but constantly summarize and summarize the laws, and then use these experiences to improve myself. But at the same time, as if to make up for this lack, at the same time, I have an almost paranoid obsession with things that go against common sense, such as feelings and fantasies, and I can't help but pursue these things, so it can be said that , I have both idealist and realist potentials in me. This kind of conflict has been with me for many years, and I don’t know where it will take me in the future. But I like and cherish this contradiction very much, because if one side overwhelms the other for whatever reason in the future, my life will be out of balance and not so exciting anymore. Da Liu said in "Ball Lightning" that both idealists and realists feel that each other is pitiful, but in fact they are very lucky. Thinking about it this way, I am actually twice as lucky.
Sure enough, this most down-to-earth movie can make people think of themselves the most.
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