Blessing in disguise

Burdette 2022-03-27 09:01:09

What have you lost?

Work? trust? loyalty? Beloved? free? will? life?

When you lose, is the heart-piercing pain like pulling your soul, greedily gnawing every inch of you from the inside out, no matter how you stop it, it won't go away, instead it will get better more happy?

I have been in pain, always find a corner, be alone, lick the wound, or someone will pull you and give you a bowl of chicken soup to drink.

This movie is a bowl of chicken soup that Hollywood boiled at the end of last year.

Compared with Asian chicken soup movies, this American ginseng chicken soup in the United States seems to be a bit unappetizing. Therefore, the score of this film is very low, because it was a big festival, it gathered a lot of big-name stars, its plot and twists were all expected, it had many bugs, and it ended successfully, but it was not happy at all. Even the lines in the film are not so down to earth.

But watching a movie is a very personal thing. Sometimes the background is real life. We will use many and rational factors to define the unreasonableness in the movie, thus ignoring the intention of the screenwriter.

Born as human beings, [love], [time], and [death] accompany us like shadows. Sooner or later, we always have to lose something very important. Even if we make more preparations, we will still be at a loss when the moment comes, so we need an old silver-haired woman beside us to remind us: "Don't forget. Those attached beauties."

Even if we didn't know it at the time, what it was.

If you are enjoying beauty, this somewhat contrived movie may not be suitable for you; if you happen to be not so smooth now, and a series of cinematic films with large production and special effects cannot fill your empty soul, maybe you need something like "Auxiliary Beauty" cup of hot tea to warm up.

We need to be careful and find some other small, beautiful and subsidiary beauty in the midst of living without a living, with nowhere to live.

What are you losing?

Work? trust? loyalty? Beloved? free? will? life?

If possible, please meet yourself again, because in the long road, maybe you are the most beautiful arrangement.

March 6, 2017

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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.