I thought I understood the movie, but it seems like I didn't.
The plot is straightforward: the elder brother robs the bank with his mentally retarded younger brother, and the younger brother is arrested and imprisoned. The brother asked his girlfriend to take out 10,000 US dollars from his girlfriend's mother's credit card to redeem his brother. After all, his girlfriend's mother ate more salt and quickly stopped the credit card. The elder brother knew from the TV that his younger brother was in prison and was admitted to the hospital, so he went through various twists and turns to bring his younger brother out of the hospital. Unexpectedly, the patient who woke up was not a younger brother but an outlaw who was imprisoned for drug trafficking. A kind black aunt asked them to stay at home for one night, and the sixteen-year-old black girl followed her brother and drug dealer to the hospital to save her brother. The younger brother was not rescued, the little black girl was taken away by the police, the drug dealer fell to his death while trying to escape, the older brother was arrested and imprisoned, and the younger brother returned to the previous physiotherapy center.
The film is a lot like a postmodern work of art. Just as postmodern art tries to erase the boundaries between elegance and popular, it breaks the routine of traditional crime films, there is no well-designed crime with high IQ, and there is no witty and brave policeman, just caught an ordinary case, a slightly stupid criminal, and Natural but unreasonable behavior. The narration process tries to dissolve the causal relationship of the story itself, break the conventional rationality and order, and perfectly combine the irrational and disordered with a real possibility that is not contrived. Why do you want to rob a bank, why do you want to sell drugs, why do you jump out of a car, why do you go out with two strange men in the middle of the night, why do you go back to the physiotherapy center? show. The whole story strips away the routine and rationality of life and presents a contingency and reality. Like Sartre's famous saying, existence precedes essence. Human existence does not initially have any pre-determined meaning and essence, but our actions endow existence with an infinite number of possible essences.
I watched this movie with a colleague a month ago. I thought it was a crime movie with a personal heroism like "miss sloane" or "accountant". After reading it, I found that it turned out to be a masterpiece that people cannot use rational analysis, but can only feel and experience with emotions. It is very like the shock and indescribable depth after reading Camus' "The Outsider". And thorough yet seemingly trivial resonance. I suddenly remembered that this movie was because I saw a report about a female astrophysics doctor at the University of Utah who disappeared for many days and was characterized as a suicide by depression. To be more precise, it reminds me of the name of the movie, Good Times.
I don’t know what kind of gloomy and confused time 32-year-old Tang went through, but she must have had a lot of high-spirited days, such as breaking through thousands of troops and being admitted to Peking University, and successfully getting the full award for doctoral admission in the United States; Have a lot of warm and comfortable moments, such as eating and chatting with family and friends, traveling in the mountains and water. I don't know how a bright and beautiful life falls into a whirlpool of frustration little by little, and gradually fades and pales, and I don't know whether the moment she leaps, her body is filled with complete helplessness or complete relief. But my heart felt a little aching, and a deep and thorough yet seemingly insignificant resonance came out like the kind of deep and thorough resonance after watching a good time in a movie. I think of my life when I came to the United States to study for a doctorate six years ago, the hardships and confusion, the fear and anxiety about the unknown future. The status of an international student is an awkward existence in the United States, a time-limited temporary residence permit. This temporary state may induce different degrees of anxiety and anxiety at any time due to some unpredictable factors. Perhaps at some point, there will be a sense of disorientation and desperation of being left on the cusp of life. When the weather is calm and we reach the other side, we can truly live in peace and tranquility. Miss Tang chose to jump into the roaring waves on the tuyere and walk away. And those moments when they are struggling alone, the tragic and solemn people who continue to move forward after self-denial and doubt again and again, and even those irrational thoughts and behaviors, all exist with their own rationality.
Time is neither good nor bad, just like time itself, without color, shape, or smell; like our existence, without any pre-determined meaning and purpose, everything depends on our actions and the interpretation of each action. It might be said that all days are good times, because every day spent is real. And I am stubborn and narrow-minded that as long as it is true it can be considered good.
When I was a child, I thought that life is all about getting what you want, but when you grow up, you realize that the true meaning of life is the opposite of what you want. But so what? Live sincerely, or die sincerely. Everything that is magnificent, everything that is absurd and small, everything that is strong and bright, everything that is fragile and dim, as long as it exists, or has existed, it is all good.
To those good times.
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