"As long as you don't hurt others, you can do anything." This should be the essence of the whole movie.
When you watch a movie, you always expect only two plots. Either an unexpected reversal or a mind-blowing thought. In this way, there doesn't seem to be much new ideas in "Anything Goes", and the cold humor is really cold. At least after watching the movie, I feel that the content does not have a name that surprises people.
The content is roughly the first half of the protagonist Boris is cynical, has no enthusiasm for life, denies everything around him, the world is stupid and hopeless in his eyes, so he tries to commit suicide, refute and even attack others. At the same time, he fears the dark and believes in his own wisdom. The married life with the young heroine made his life gradually warmer, and slowly moved towards the small fortune of firewood, rice, oil and salt, and then the heroine left... So Boris tried to commit suicide for the second time but met a real even-handed love.
The breakthrough in the work is that in 2009, Woody clearly denied the existence of religion, and at the same time constructed the rationality of homosexuality and "threesomes", which invisibly fits the topic of sexuality that has only begun to be discussed in our society today. I have to sigh, the difference in the degree of ideological liberation. There is also a dialogue and interaction with the audience at the beginning, which is considered a pioneering work.
However, after the first divorce, Boris seemed to "see through the red dust" and blocked his way to survive. In fact, it was more like Jiang Sida's self-protection of "scold him if he couldn't afford something". I don't like it. Everything is not good, that is to say, there is something wrong with this world, just because I don't like it, so I have to deny it. His worldview has not collapsed, on the contrary, it is his isolation strategy to escape reality, whether it is sarcasm, disdain or suicide.
Later, Boris was really put down, really looked at it, and really transparent, because he just figured out a question: what is the meaning of chasing meaning itself? pointless. So, from the beginning to the end, it is still this sentence, "As long as you don't hurt others, you can do anything."
Although in the end he insists that only he can see the big picture, this little bit of pride that remains doesn't prevent him from reconciling with himself, does it.
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