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Leaving Las Vegas, published in 1990, is the first novel and an autobiographical novel by American author John O'Brien. In 1995, the book was adapted into the film "Leaving Las Vegas" (also translated "Away from Las Vegas" and "Two Despairing Hearts") film directed by Mike Figgis (Mike Figgis), Mike was a former Rock musician, he alone served as writer, director and soundtrack three important positions. In the film, he uses strong and strong colors, intermittent short overexposure shots and melancholy music to create a fascinating and poignant world on the screen. John O'Brien, however, shot himself two weeks after learning the rights to the film had been sold. His father called the novel his death book, and everything was or is as it says in the book: "Love is everything and nothing." After John's suicide, Mike wanted to give up the film for a while, but he eventually succeeded in making it. piece in memory of the dead. The film has won dozens of film industry awards, including the Academy Award, the Golden Globe Award, the British Academy Award, the American Society of Film Critics Award, the National Critics Association Award, and the Independent Spirit Award. It is precisely because of starring in this movie that American actor Nicolas Cage finally ascended to the throne of Oscar winner after many years of acting.
"I don't know if my wife left because of my drinking,
It was because my wife left me that I drank heavily. "
Ben (Nicholas Cage) was originally a famous Hollywood screenwriter. He was alcoholic because of the fragmentation of his married life and completely lost his will to live. In this state of confusion, the production company fired him, Ben sold everything, paid off his credit cards, burned all the photos and old things he had with his wife, and drove to Las Vegas alone with cash in hand. Gass. Not starting over to find new opportunities in a new city, or quit drinking and start over. Just to get drunk to death.
"You are my angel!"
On the way to chronic suicide, Ben is more and more engulfed by the despair and loneliness of seeking death alone. While wandering the streets of the colorful capital, he accidentally meets Sarah (Elizabeth Shue), who is controlled by pimps. A prostitute, every time she flees, she is caught and brutally abused by pimps. The depraved casino is like a never-ending nightmare for Sarah. The alcoholic meets a prostitute. Sarah thought it was business as usual, but it was just a transaction of money and flesh, but Ben just asked Sarah to chat with him. An unforgettable night.
Ben's unusual behavior gives Sarah the first time she has what can be called a heart-wrenching feeling for her client, and this poignant love story begins.
Soon Sarah took Ben into her house, and the two started living together. Ben didn't mind Sarah's status as a prostitute, and only asked Sarah to never stop him from drinking. Sarah didn't stop him from binge drinking, and even gave him a jug as a gift. Sarah's actions moved Ben with joy. All kinds of emotions were intertwined, and it turned into a sentence "I found a real beauty! "
Desperate love cannot save a fallen man
Living together did not cheer up Ben, who was planning to drink and think. He would very considerately give Sarah gifts to create small surprises, pressing her on a slot machine for a strong kiss, like ordinary men and women in love.
However, he still kept changing and drinking. When he was drunk and then woke up, he continued to drink vicious alcoholism. After that, he could not keep his footsteps steady. He swayed while walking and held the bottle tightly. Paralyzed on the bed and still holding a bottle with trembling hands... Even he was very calm about Sarah going out to pick up guests.
Sarah still followed her promise never to stop him from drinking. She just took care of the drunken man and had sex with the drunken Ben until...they were driven away. So Sarah drove away with a stupefied Ben.
The director almost brutally showed a person's terrifying state of alcoholism to the final stage, with red eyes, trance consciousness, trembling hands, and weak steps. Sarah tried to persuade Ben to see a doctor, but Ben refused. He was groggy all day long, but he never forgot the purpose of his trip—drinking and thinking, even the love that Sarah brought him could not pull him out of this decadent swamp.
Ben sinks deeper and deeper into his own world, until one day he's lying on Sarah's bed with another whore, and Sarah, in a fit of rage, kicks Ben out of the house. Sarah, who was alone, was unprepared when picking up customers, and was forced into the back door by several young men.
The extremely embarrassed Sarah was covered in scars and disheveled. She was ridiculed by the taxi driver, and the owner of the rental house also ordered her to be expelled. Even in such a desperate and miserable situation, her eyes did not reveal the slightest pain, and the hell-like life had already numbed her body and her soul.
love is everything,
Love is nothingness.
Sarah received a call from a dying Ben, who was tortured by alcohol. Sarah asked Ben for his current address. Ben was dying in bed at this time, twitching and saying to Sarah "You are my angel!" In the last moments of his life, Ben raised the bottle to have sex with Sarah, and at the moment of orgasm, Sarah knelt on Ben's chest like a baby, "I love you".
Finally, Ben finally drank and died.
Died in a darkened room in a small hotel in Las Vegas.
died in the arms of his angel.
"Leave Las Vegas, leave her love, leave her, and leave the despair as deep as the bottom of the sea. Sarah, the prostitute who failed to escape many times, and finally became numb and sinking; the alcoholic who lost everything and no longer has any extravagant hopes for life. Two broken souls We met in the flashy and greedy Las Vegas, but the gleam in the darkness only brought deeper despair..."
At the end of the film, Sarah says:
"We both realised we were running out of time and...I accepted him, he was who he was, there was no hope he would change, and he did the same to me, I appreciate his drama, he needs me, I love He, I really love him"
Perhaps at the beginning of the film, many people secretly expected that the appearance of Sarah would give Ben the courage to live again, but sorry, the love between Ben and Sarah did not save them. Alcoholics still drink heavily, prostitutes still pick up customers.
The general public seems to be more willing to fantasize about the beautiful scene after meeting true love: as long as a person returns to true love, his whole life will be changed, he will look brand new, and all difficulties will be solved. But this statement is actually not healthy. Love, it can not afford so many expectations, it is just a passionate emotion, it is a driving force of the relationship, but it is definitely not an absolute guarantee for the good development of the relationship. Even if there is love, we can still only rely on ourselves to solve the problems of our own life.
So, even with love, the hole in Ben's heart before he met Sarah couldn't be filled.
After watching this movie, in addition to the deep despair, my biggest insight is that we should let love return to love. It should not take on more expectations than pleasant emotions. Don't expect to solve your problems for many years because of love, and don't force the other party to become what you want because of love. This is very unrealistic, and it is very unfair to love and the other party in love.
God's belongs to God, Caesar's to Caesar, we don't expect to get the redemption of life other than emotion from love, only then can we truly enjoy true love.
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