When I watched the trailer, I saw the sad eyes, stubborn beard and stubborn hair of Jessoff. I thought it was a comedy. This turned out to be a very heavy and even sad story.
TJ is an unfortunate boy who lost his mother when he was young and was bullied at school. Family life is not happy either. As if by fate, a wandering young man named Heather broke into his life.
What will you do in the face of misfortune? Some people give up on themselves, some go to the mutual help club to seek solace, and some ask you to face the pain head-on. Everything is reminiscent of "Fight Club". And there is no doubt that Heather, a wandering young man, is Tyler Durton in "Fight". The same cynicism, the same ridiculously cool. The male protagonists of the two films are burdened with unimaginable burdens. The male protagonist in "Fight" is under great pressure and has insomnia all day long, and it happens that his house was turned to ashes in the explosion, and his carefully selected furniture was destroyed in one go; "Heather" In "TJ" lost his mother, and his father became a bummer. The grandmother seemed to be a bit dementia. Not only was there no happiness at all in the family life, there was no peace at all. And both of them met one person at the bottom of their lives—Taylor Dayton, and Heather.
However, TJ does not have a split personality. This makes TJ's fate even worse than the hero in "Fight". Because the fighter man can at least wipe out Taylor Durton in his own will, and then bear all the consequences, holding the woman’s hand and saying "Trust me, everything is gonna be fine." When all the responsibilities can clearly fall on our shoulders When it came up, the situation was actually not that bad. And TJ, this child who has endured too much pain too early, can’t use a gun to destroy the Heather who has messed up his already messed life. After all, it’s not a split personality, but a living one. People. As a result, messing up the stranger's swimming pool, blowing up other people's cars, pinching other people's noses, and grandmother's accidental death... Who should be responsible for this series of responsibilities.
The climax of the film is Heather holding a can of beer and making fun of TJ's grandmother's funeral. Heather revealed his past: playing with a bomb when he was a child exploded one of his eggs. He said to the TJ father and son: "You have lost your wife, you have lost your mother, and I have lost a ball." But Heather was glad that the ball on his right was still there, and it was functioning normally. so, life goes on. His implication is that although you have lost your wife, your son is still there; although you have lost your mother, your father is still there, why not cherish the remaining one, How about every day? Your son, your father, is the only remaining egg on my right.
The first thing that can cater to Heather’s outlook on life in the film is Heather’s own story: he raised a snake, and one day he caught a live mouse and put it in a cage for the snake to eat. Unexpectedly, the mouse slapped the snake on the face. . The snake was afraid of the mouse, hiding in a corner of the cage, and the mouse swayed in the cage; he caught a mouse and put it in, and the snake hid behind the original mouse. In the end the snake starved to death, and the cage returned to the mouse. Second, at the funeral of her grandmother, an old neighbor of hers recalled what she said: "Life is like walking in the rain. You can hide from the rain, or you can have a good time."
Snakes eat mice after all, and we must withstand the test of heavy rain, because the roadside may not have a place to hide from the rain.
But Heather's metaphor is still problematic after careful thinking. Losing an egg does not necessarily harm the function of the remaining eggs, even according to the law of physiological compensation, the other egg will be stronger? (It's just a guess) After losing your wife and mother, the remaining egg will hurt. The pain of bereavement and the pain of mother bereavement are far from being resolved by a simple metaphor, and the story has not been digging deeper in this aspect, so the process of the family finally coming out of the shadows is slightly abrupt. In fact, whether it is Taylor Durton or Heather, they are probably just the incarnation of an ideal personality. They have nothing to rely on and have no scruples. In reality, such people are afraid it will be difficult to survive.
Also worth mentioning is Nicole, the saleswoman. She became the only bright color in TJ's life after losing her mother, and even to some extent, she was the object of love. He and Nicole have the same illness and pity each other, the same frustration, but they don't know how to resolve them. So he was willing to steal his father's bank card to withdraw money to help Nicole pay the ticket, so after discovering that Heather and Nicole were in bed, TJ seemed to have lost the pillar of life.
Fortunately, TJ and Nicole finally reached an understanding, and Hesher finally left behind the "Hesher was here" sign on the roof. Perhaps this is Heather's mission-always looking for new places, messing things up, and then giving people hope in the chaos. (Again, use his dandan metaphor again?)
Finally, a little conjecture of mine:
Why is the actor's name called TJ? Since the film is too similar to "Fight" in many ways, will it be a tribute? Looking up the cast of "Fight" seems to be able to confirm this conjecture:
Tyler & Jack===TJ.
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