We all make choices in our lives; the hard is to live with them
When people reach middle age, they always look back on the path of life they have traveled. Suddenly looking back, the so-called path of life is a path that has been chosen over and over again. Some people are very lucky and face many choices; some people are lucky if they don’t have many choices as long as they can walk on the established track; some people are very emotional, and they regret their choices for life due to mistakes in judgment. Forrest Gump said, life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what the next chocolate will taste like. I say that life is like a mirror, how you treat it, it will be presented to you in the same way to give you the most powerful feedback.
If you encounter an unattainable opportunity that allows you to easily live the life you have longed for, and this opportunity is on the edge of the bottom line of morality and law, how will you choose? After you choose, what kind of mental state will you live in?
The beauty of this film is that the narrative is like the Russian nesting dolls in my house, one layer on top of another, generally the smallest inside is often the most precious (Lenin). The nesting doll of the movie is the high-spirited 50+ Clay's new book conference. The story told is that Rory, a despondent 30+ new book writer, accidentally got a manuscript written by an old man who is now 70+ in his twilight years. As a result, his signature release was on the plate and the peak of his creation was praised one after another. Although the three writers have different achievements in writing, they have a high degree of consistency in life. There is a pitiful side: being alone; the sad side: inner loneliness; the painful side: unable to get out of the inner tangle.
Clay is obsessed with a young and beautiful graduate student at the launch of his new book. The real family life of the glamorous and prestigious writer is lonely and lonely. The magnificent villa, the scattered furniture has no life atmosphere, and the floor-to-ceiling windows give people a chilling feeling. He is a golden bachelor who can bring girls to his home at will. He has enough freedom but lacks the family warmth that his peers should enjoy. The female student easily walked into his heart, and their flirting was like a wonderful game station. From the moment he led the female student into the room, Clay has gone through nine turns and eighteen turns in his heart, and it can be seen that his life is as empty as the big room he lives in. The schoolgirl tried to get him to admit that the plagiarism described in the book was his own experience. In Clay's words, the novel can be infinitely close to life, but the two will never be intertwined, and the experience of myself and the protagonist will be completely left behind. He rejected the sex of the female student because of guilt in his heart. He is the protagonist of the book. He plagiarized other people's manuscripts when he was young and became famous. , if he and his wife hadn't divorced, their children should now be as old as schoolgirls, he has been unable to let go of everything, so he has been living a pitiful and sad life alone. It was also the female student who had infinitely touched the softest side of his heart, but for the sake of his choice to survive with dignity, he must not let the female student walk into his true dark side.
The handsome Bradley Cooper plays the 30+ author who always thinks he is underappreciated. He has repeatedly submitted articles but has repeatedly been frustrated. Seeing that his friends are steadily advancing and climbing on the established track, he is even more flustered, and the more eager he is to seek success. The more hope is lost. The thoughtful girlfriend has always been concerned about and difficult to solve the difficulties of her life, and often reaches out to her father for living expenses to maintain the daily livelihood of the two of them. His father repeatedly warned him that you have to accept your limitations. You have to accept your limitation. By chance, he got a manuscript, and he was ecstatic like a schoolboy plagiarizing a typical composition, and his girlfriend Encouraged by the tearful eyes of unknowingly seeing his computer-stored manuscript, he presented the novel as his first draft to a publishing agent. Flowers, applause and fame, all the success he had imagined many times came as promised. After the incident of Rory's plagiarism was exposed by the original author, he had numbed himself with alcohol, and expressed his anger to the people around him. He hopes that everyone will bear the pressure of public opinion and moral torture for him. He wants to get rid of the crime of cheating as soon as possible. The world of his reputation will face crash.
The author of the real story is now 70+ alone in the garden. The lover who once inspired him to write a book was pushed out of his life by him. When we meet again, his ex-wife is still beautiful and a happy family of three It is full of warm pictures, but what accompanies my life is only deep regret, lamenting that the person who has passed away will not come again, and the hurt feelings cannot be recovered, even if nostalgic and self-blame are in vain. The origin and the end of the relationship, the immortal couple who used to be in love with each other have a crack in their relationship because of the death of their newborn baby. He wrote everything he had experienced into a book, and brought his wife back from her mother-in-law's house with the manuscript, but the wife left the manuscript on the train on the way back. After he knew that, he wanted to find his beloved as if he was going crazy, a strong sense of loss and an uncontrollable mentality, and a sentence that deeply stabbed his beloved wife, "You are not the only one who lost your daughter." The reunion of the two not only made the wife face the pain of losing her daughter again, but also added new cracks. What is missed is the scenery, what is left is life. The old man didn't pursue Rory's copyright, but left the pain alive to Rory you take those words, you take the pains.
They used to have a happy life, what kept them away from happiness? Is it a choice error or a misstep in dealing with the problem? After experiencing failures, I protect my soul through defense and turning around. It is precisely because of this excessive defense that my soul is shackled, making it difficult for life to step out of the graceful melody and sink into the quagmire. Quoting the popular WeChat language today - life is not just about living, but also poetry and distance. Life is so wonderful, it is better to let go of the entanglement and make room to embrace the beauty!
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