If, one day, you suddenly realize that you will die one day anyway, then the space around you is full of danger, whether it is real or false, then will you have a moment to feel everything In fact, it doesn't make any sense. So, what kind of attitude will you face the world again?
You, will you just give up?
When "Homework" saw George's sober and lonely, I finally couldn't restrain the depression that I had accumulated in my heart. I like this movie, even if it is not as tightly packed and detailed as an American blockbuster, even if the end of the story still falls into the clichés of American youth movies, it’s not exaggerated but delicate emotional catharsis, so sober. The cruel but real life thinking and transformation, of course, and the clean boy and girl, made me feel good.
George is a very weird boy, in the eyes of others, he is a weird person, and in his own words, he is a "fighter among lazy people". He is a naturally intelligent and extremely talented person. As long as he can follow the path of the world, he must be a "great accomplishment" person, and he will be the elite of the American Republic.
However, his fate was like a broken line, and that part of it suddenly disappeared. George read a sentence when he was a child, "We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion." He suddenly realized that everything around him seemed meaningless, everyone was destined to die from the day he was born, and no one had a choice.
Since this is destiny, this is the route that God has arranged for each of his children. Then, aren't all the rushing and hard work we are doing now in vain? Gorge began to give up the so-called effort. The most obvious one is that he did not complete any homework for the past year. At the same time, he would often skip class, and then paint like a crazy artist, filling himself with a pen on a book full of books. Imaginary picture. George is like a black box locked up, walking at his own pace in a sober world that he has set up.
However, he was in pain. Sober people often walk with pain, which is tangled with uncontrollable pain.
In a busy world, there is no time for everyone to think about the issue of living and dying. Maybe even God has not given every child such a qualification. Perhaps this is "when human beings think, God laughs". What more should the infinite time and our limited lives that die at any time? This is a topic about life and death, which flows like ubiquitous blood in philosophy, religion, and the meditation of each life.
This question is the beginning of the movie. The film begins with questions, but does not end with answers.
The film begins with a philosophical topic, and the story slowly develops to the end without giving the philosophical question the ultimate point. This is also a point that I regret, but in fact, there is no answer to philosophical questions.
Movies, in the end, inevitably fall into the way of American youth movies. By chance encounter on the top floor, George resisted the danger of smoking and being punished for Sally, so Sally began to pay attention to the boy who was hopelessly blamed in the eyes of others. George's heart is sensitive and complicated. No one can touch and understand the world inside; but his world is very simple, so simple that perhaps only the melody of a song is walking. As Sally slowly penetrated into his world, George began to fall in love with this girl who seemed very special to him. Introverted and silent like him, he never said it, nor did it show it clearly. Sally has always been a very confident girl, able to distinguish between wants and needs, but when faced with George, it becomes difficult to calm down, because her own feelings for his existence are too complicated, she has never met The touch.
Valentine's Day is coming, George and Sally get together and pretend to be a couple to eat a couple’s meal. Sally asks George if he ever thought about having a relationship with her. The ambiguity tends to be broken. When George hesitated to say how he felt about Sally, Sally suddenly seemed afraid of the answer and began to use Just a joke to bring this sensitive topic past. As sensitive as George, he felt that he was deceived by Sally, even though it might be really just a joke, he ran away from Sally without contact. I have never understood why Sally had to be with Dustin, the painter and friend of George, and it was Sally who took the initiative to approach Dustin.
When George was finally censored by the school, after returning home, he fought with his stepfather. The stepfather hit the door and was injured. George threw away his mother helplessly and rushed out of the house. He rushed all the way to Sally's house like crazy, and kissed her at the door of Sally's house. The shocked Sally made George realize that something was wrong, and opened the door to find his painter friend Dustin inside. . George, alone, wandered in the dark city for a night before returning to his mother. At the end of the story, George saw his mother divorce him and face the dilemma of bankruptcy and buy a house alone. He spent the last three weeks driving out the assignments left in a semester and successfully graduated. Sally, who had decided to travel to Europe with Dustin, returned from the airport and returned to George.
The ending of the film, after all, returned to the positive and hopeful tone of American youth films. This made me face the ending with a smile of an ordinary audience. At the same time, I recalled the question raised at the beginning of the film. My brain and eyes started to work against each other, which made me feel great regret and disappointment with this film. I even imagined that if this film becomes the kind of deep and cold film in Germany, it will be another impression.
The quicksand of time took away the last trace of our memories. If you still remember, would you not help crying at the rosy sky?
The problem mentioned at the beginning of the film made me plunge into deep thinking for a while. Our lives are busy, we are busy learning for academic performance, we are busy running for work income, we are busy fighting for the house and car, we are busy praying in our distant or not far away death, we have been busy Busy. Walking in a hurry, it does not ask whether the direction is correct, whether the field is good at it, let alone whether the state likes it.
This is what our life tells us: Don’t wander around, don’t deviate from the track, run at full speed, be successful, be like him or her, need a house, a car, and even more face. We are not philosophers, but ordinary living individuals, so we have enough reasons to stop the operation of our thoughts and the way we talk to ourselves with our hearts. We live, but we never think about whether we live the same.
When George's female teacher charged George for homework, she was faced with the embarrassment that George hadn't completed the homework, and told George that life should have been like this. I can't help but laugh, originally? What is the original? Everyone is at the same pace, others are like that, everyone is like that, so you should be like that? This is what it is, isn't it?
This is like returning to the category of post-modern philosophical discussion, breaking tradition and classics. When our thoughts and behaviors are different from the life steps and rules advocated by the society around us, or even run counter to them, we will be subject to powerful criticisms and even attacks. This is the so-called "penalty" for "change". ", so what we can do is stay in this small circle of "original" and do what we should do?
But what should we "should" do?
I don't know, because I am not a philosopher either.
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