Beauty after pain: I wish we could become strangers again

Jazmyn 2022-03-26 09:01:07

I watched the movie "Collateral Beauty" on Tencent Video. Of course, the first thing that attracted the audience was the luxurious cast, Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley, Helen-Mirren et al.

Will is a major shareholder of a company whose daughter died at the age of 6 from a rare form of brain cancer. For two years, he has been in deep grief, trying to isolate himself, and his mental state is extremely closed, but the company has an operational crisis and must make decisions. , but Will avoids communicating and making decisions.
Three of Will's colleagues and friends, to help him cheer up and save the company, wanted to prove that Will was "in a state of mind and unfit to exercise shareholder voting rights." Three actors are hired to play "Time", "Love" and "Death" respectively, to let Will face his heart disease and reach a reconciliation.

It is said that the American critics criticized the film as "superficial and hypocritical", "sad and intentional" and "deliberately intended to have profound meaning". Maybe it's because there are many big-name actors, the men have been nominated for the best actor Oscar, and the women have more than one Oscar actress, so the requirements are more stringent. However, I think the performance is very smooth, and the lines and texts are even more artistic.

To Time: Everyone says you can heal wounds, but no one mentions how you destroy the good things in the world, how you turn beauty into decay. To me, you are nothing but dead wood, just a piece of necrotic tissue that doesn't want to break down. You are not worth anything.

Causes death: Dear death, you wear so much myth, cause so much pain, cause so much fear. But to me, you are just a paper tiger, like a middle-level cadre in a company, powerless and pathetic, not even having the power to seal a deal.

About love: love refuses you to say goodbye to it, don't think about dumping love so easily, we can't choose who to love and who to be loved. Love is in your heart, whether you like it or not, love is everywhere. If you accept this reality, maybe you can get your life back.

To say that Tucao is "deliberate", there is indeed. The woman Will met in the "Little Angels Parents' Mutual Aid Association", at first, the two acted like they met for the first time, and their interaction with each other also seemed to be just a sympathy for each other. The woman obviously walked faster on the road of sadness , has begun to be willing to help others who have had similar experiences. In the end, this woman was Will's ex-wife. Holly Cow!
Will and his wife divorced. After the loss of their daughter, they couldn't live with themselves, so they couldn't find the possibility of continuing their relationship. "I really hope we can become strangers again" is my last affection for you, and strangers It is possible to start all over again, and there is the possibility of meeting again and joining hands again, which is also a kind of tenderness of licking a knife.
To say that the stone of other mountains does exist. Americans are obviously more open when dealing with emotional and emotional problems, there will be "grief counselors", and there will be non-governmental exchange organizations. In this regard, most of the Chinese people hide in small buildings to become unified, refuse the help of others, and eventually reach a dead end. Tragedy is not uncommon.

"Collateral Beauty" was translated by the subtitles as "beauty after pain" in the film.
No matter how much grief you suffer, this beauty comes naturally when you wallow in grief, but it's there, just waiting to be felt inadvertently one day.
Although it looks like chicken soup, it is really attractive. You can't mend your grief, but let's not be afraid, pain will never be your whole life. Regardless of whether it is self-deception or not (people are tough but not demolished), but isn’t that what human beings have to live on? It's good to have practical value.

Recently, there was a debate on Qihuashuo: "Happily married and had children with someone who lost their memory, now I can help him restore his memory with one click, do you want to help?" I think there is also something to think about in terms of emotional connotation.
Memory is the material and evidence of why we are who we are. Without memory, we don't know who we are, we don't know where we come from, and the happiness obtained in these absences is just a flower of illusion, it is easy Painfully lost.
Now that you are happily married and have children, don't look back, just walk forward with the person you love now, and you will have new memories. It's frustrating, but it sounds okay.
Those sad memories, those sadder than sadness, have shaped you, but you are lucky to have the opportunity to forget.
Don't say forgetting sadness is betrayal of life, don't say forgetting sadness, you will not experience happiness, otherwise why do you wish me "all the best", why does he wish you "happy every day"?
Restoring memory will not selectively restore only happy memories, but a complete restart of memory. Anyway, if it were me, I felt that the risk was too great. I would not help my lover restore memory. It would be good to accompany him to create new memories that belong to us.
Of course, one of the biggest gains from watching Qihua talk is to understand that some debate questions are brain hole questions, and how to argue depends on your angle. It's hard to convince anyone, it depends on how you turn it into an application problem in your life, but everyone is different, and it depends on your fortune.

"Auxiliary Beauty" uses dominoes as imagery: a piece of your emotional chain collapses, a chain reaction begins, and you collapse.
But what is there to fear about the Beat, isn't the "Beat Generation" still alive and well in history?

Only, may you have the strength to come back.

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Extended Reading

Collateral Beauty quotes

  • Howard: [from the trailer]

    [Brigitte shows up beside him in the subway]

    Howard: You're not going to take me, are you?

    Brigitte: [as the personification of Death] No, Howard.

    [holds up a train card]

    Brigitte: I'm here to ride the F Train.

  • Raffi: [from the trailer]

    [as the personification of Time]

    Raffi: Remember me... I'm Time... I'm a gift... and you're wasting it.