In the setting sun, McGee, who had just received the pain of bereavement, was hoeing grass in the vegetable field. Rosa came over and asked, "Are you okay?"
McKee said: "I was in a car accident and almost died, why did I survive and she (18-year-old daughter) died?"
At the beginning of the film, McKee fell asleep on the ground drunk for two days after a big argument with his friends. At that time, he was still a down-to-earth country singer, drinking and self-deprecating.
Rosa rescued him, let him climb out of the wine bottle step by step, and resume his normal life.
When Sonny asked about his dead father, Rosa told her story: "I got married at 16, gave birth to you at 17, and became a widow at 18."
When McKee asked in the name of a helper, "I don't think it's a secret that I like you, even a blind man can see, will you marry me?" From McKee's point of view, he was addicted to alcohol, This woman saved him and gave him hope for a new life, so he decided to make a change and take the first step. From Rosa's point of view, she lost her husband at 18 and didn't even get along with her ex-husband much. After a long time, she became a widow. There was a hard-working and simple man who did not dislike her carrying a fuel bottle. She smiled and agreed to the proposal of a man 15 years older than her.
That night, when Rosa talked about the death of her parents, McGee immediately answered, "My parents are also dead." The two cold hearts were warmed up by leaning together, accumulating temperature, waiting to burn.
The peace of life is broken from time to time, unknown reporters want to come to interview, admirers come to learn art, the old manager persuades him to come back to sing, his wife Dixie's old hatred for him is not gone, and he misses the things he hasn't seen for many years. Daughter Sue Anne.
When his daughter appeared in front of him, life seemed to be developing in a good direction. He was so gentle that he didn't look like an alcoholic at all. The daughter said, "Everything I have is given by your music." There was no lack of admiration in his tone. Dixie said that she did her best to keep her daughter from going astray and gave her everything she wanted, but her daughter rejected her the most. Emotionally, it fell to McGee's side. But McGee was too awake now, he told his daughter, and didn't want Dixie to think they were messing around behind her back. Sue Anne tried to get closer to him and wondered why McGee hadn't called her by her name. McGee said that because he was a little overwhelmed and didn't know what to call her, he often called her "little girl, Sue Anne takes advantage of the situation". Speaking of a song about pigeons that McKee used to hum when he was a child, and even sang the lyrics, McKee concealed his feelings and deliberately said that he didn't remember. After his daughter drove away, McGee looked out the window and hummed alone. This old song. This is also the place that touched me the most, the so-called love is hard to open in my heart.
With the encouragement of the cowboys, McKee re-entered the bar stage, sang the new song he wrote recently, and greeted the cheers of the audience. It was like going back to the old days, but the old days will never go back, new records After the recording, before I could get to the cowboy's house to audition, I received the bad news that my daughter had died in a car accident (in retrospect, Harry had told him that her daughter was missing, and mentioned that she and her husband were taking drugs, which had been buried. foreshadowing her tragic fate). There is no going back to the past.
The death of her daughter is the climax at the end of the scene. The positive and negative values put on the table are constantly intertwined and confronted, and they continue to strengthen. It ends when the death of his daughter reaches a climax, when McKee cherishes his current life, cherishes the people in front of him, and has a new understanding of life.
In the beginning, McKee was an alcoholic (negative), with the help of Rosa, he quit drinking and started a new family (positive value), the presence of reporters reminded him of an unhappy marriage and a daughter he hadn't seen in years, to see his ex-wife's At the concert, I didn't see my daughter, but I was scolded by my ex-wife (negative), and Rosa was jealous when I got home, which annoyed him even more (negative). The new song was badly written (negative), McKee ran away in anger when he was halfway through playing and singing the new song (negative), came home late at night and said he bought wine, but he was not drunk because he emptied the wine and passed by the house six or seven times , saw Rosa watching TV there, waiting for him to come home (the subtext is that Rosa was so nice to him and didn't complain about his departure at all), the two of them moved further in their relationship, singing and rolling on the sheets (front). The sudden appearance of his daughter made him overwhelmed. He felt guilty for his daughter and wanted to help as much as possible. The appearance of her daughter showed him a chance (positive) to do his father's responsibility. Harry told him that his daughter and her boyfriend Elopement, the two are still taking drugs (negative), singing with the cowboys in the bar is very successful, the new record is also very popular, and it is about to return to the old business (positive), when I received the news of my daughter's death, I watched Ex-wife has emotional breakdown (negative).
The death of his daughter made him start to seriously reflect on his life and what kind of life he wanted to live. Why Rosa accepted him, helped him quit drinking, married him, why he was alive when his daughter died, why Sonny's father died, he questioned life, trying to find a reason for everything.
He couldn't find the answer because he didn't believe in happiness.
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