middle-aged

Vanessa 2022-03-27 09:01:09

Some time ago, I had a party with some friends of the same age. When ordering drinks, I joked about you drinking and took out a pen and wrote down the home address and the phone number of my daughter-in-law. When I drink too much, I will call a car one by one for you to send it back, and let my daughter-in-law Pick up. Unexpectedly, many friends shook their heads and said that they would never dare to drink like this again. Some even took out a thermos cup and asked the waiter to make a cup of hot water. It is said that the symbol of the middle-aged man who was on fire a while ago, soaked wolfberry in a thermos cup, although it was a joke, it was also a bit embarrassing.

However, as a young Peter Pan, he has always had a soft spot for cartoons, and even the largest part of the movie viewing records every year are cartoons. I like animation, not only because of its beautiful pictures, but in this complicated life whirlpool, there is the simplest and easiest way to make you feel the beauty of life. Life is neither totally beautiful nor totally ugly, but I would rather believe that most of it will be beautiful.

In other words, the protagonists in the cartoons have accompanied us for many years, so that many times, I accompanied the children to watch the protagonists when I was young, but I didn't expect that one day, they would also appear. Mid-life crisis, became an uncle holding a thermos cup.

To be honest, the storyline of this movie was a bit unexpected, and at first I thought it would be a story of an old-fashioned middle-aged man re-emerging. Compared with the cutting-edge racing cars on the racing field, Lightning McQueen is indeed old and can no longer keep up with the speed of cutting-edge racing cars. Even if he passes more training, it is useless. The most unseen, the beauty and the white-headed hero are late. But the aging of the years is irreversible. Whether it is to retreat bravely and make the hero a legend, or to give it a go, maybe it will be able to create a new miracle, or to turn around magnificently, with the courage of a strong man to break his wrist and say goodbye to yesterday's achievements. All this is found in the film.

I like this movie, not only its cute appearance, but the thinking it gives me under the appearance. When I am middle-aged, what do I want at this moment? Holding the thermos cup in my hand, I also fell into contemplation.

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Extended Reading

Cars 3 quotes

  • Ramone: [after giving Lightning a new paint job] It's like the Sistine Chapel on wheels.

    Lightning McQueen: [starts riving his engine in front of a mirror] I'm coming for you, Storm.

  • Cruz Ramirez: [Cruz is watching the news with a trophy while Lightning is completely miffed] So... trophy's kinda nice. Don't you think?

    [no response]

    Cruz Ramirez: I-I mean, I know like, you've got a billion of them, so y-you would know.

    [still no response]

    Cruz Ramirez: I still can't believe I won. Heheh. It's pretty shiny. I have never seen one up close. Looks like they spent a lot of money on it, I-I mean, I think it's real metal...

    Lightning McQueen: Stop. Just stop! Okay, Cruz? You don't even know. You don't even have one clue!

    Cruz Ramirez: Hey! I was trying to...

    Lightning McQueen: Do you know what happens if I lose this race?

    [Cruz doesn't answer]

    Lightning McQueen: Every mile of this trip was to get me faster than Jackson Storm. FASTER!

    [Luigi, Guido, and Mack listen on in horror]

    Lightning McQueen: I start off getting nowhere for a week ON A SIMULATOR! I lose a whole day with you on Fireball Beach. AND THEN, I WASTE TONIGHT IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF MISS FRITTER! I'm stuck in the same speed I was a month ago! I can't get any faster BECAUSE I'M TOO BUSY TAKING CARE OF MY TRAINER!

    [Cruz feeling hurt and remains silent]

    Lightning McQueen: This is my last chance, Cruz. Last! Final! FINITO! If I lose, I never get to do this again. If you were a racer, you'd know what I'm talking about! But you're not! So you DON'T!

    [he slams his tire on the wall, causing Cruz's trophy to fall off the shelf and break upon hitting the floor; Cruz is crushed]

    Cruz Ramirez: [furious] Mack, pull over!

    Mack: Wha? Now?

    Cruz Ramirez: NOW!

    [pushes the button]

    Mack: Ahh - Okay okay! Pulling over! Pulling over!

    [Mack pulls over]

    Cruz Ramirez: [exits Mack] Ask me if I dreamed of being a trainer, Mr. McQueen, go ahead! Ask me if I got up in the dark to run laps before school every day! Ask me if I saved every penny to buy a ticket to the races when they came to town. Ask me if I did that so that I could be a trainer someday, ask me!

    Lightning McQueen: Did y - ?

    Cruz Ramirez: No! I've wanted to become a racer forever! Because of you.

    [Lightning is shocked and heartbroken]

    Cruz Ramirez: I used to watch you on TV, flying through the air. You seemed so... fearless. "Dream small, Cruz." That's what my family used to say. "Dream small or not at all." They were just trying to protect me. But, I was the fastest kid in town and I was gonna prove them wrong!

    Lightning McQueen: What happened?

    Cruz Ramirez: When I got to my first race, I figured it out.

    Lightning McQueen: What?

    Cruz Ramirez: That I didn't belong. The other racers looked nothing like me. You know, they-they were bigger, and-and stronger, and so... confident. And when they started their engines... that was it. I knew I'd never be a racer. I just left. It was my one shot and I didn't take it.

    [Lightning feels bad as Cruz decides to leave]

    Cruz Ramirez: Yeah, so, uh... I-I'm gonna head back to the training center. I think we both know it's for the best.

    [starts to drive away, but turns around again]

    Cruz Ramirez: But, can I ask you something? What was it like for you, when you showed up to your first race? How did you know you could do it?

    Lightning McQueen: I don't know, I... I just never thought I couldn't.

    Cruz Ramirez: I wish I knew what that felt like. Good luck, Mr. McQueen.

    [starts driving away]

    Lightning McQueen: Cruz... Cruz, wait...!

    [Cruz ignores him and he sighs]