The earth is so big, how many people can have no regrets

Halle 2021-12-10 08:01:40

I don't remember exactly which Nicolas Cage movie that plunged myself into contemplation. I just remember that the state of being lost for a long time after watching it appeared after watching the Weather Man.

Jack is the president of an investment company on Wall Street, a standard successful person in the financial world, and a young talent. Drive a silver Ferrari and have an oversized house in the most high-end apartment building in the city, a wide walk-in dressing room, and a bedroom with a good view. The starting line for choosing a suit is Zegna. In the company, in the investment market, he wants to do everything he wants. In his personal life, he reads all the beauties of the world and never treats the relationship seriously. Facing the long-lost phone call from his first love, he can calmly ignore it. In addition, he maintains a good relationship with the doorman downstairs of the residence, the lady upstairs, and the doorman of the company lobby. All in all, Jack's life is immaculate, fulfilling his biggest dream of being a man, he has almost everything he wants.

However. There is always a story.

An encounter at a convenience store on Christmas Eve caused Jack to wake up the next day in an ordinary four-bedroom house in the suburbs. A woman who claims to be his wife slept next to him, which was actually his first love, Kate, who had broken up a long time ago. Suddenly Jack became a tire salesperson, and he had two children, a second-rate house, a few neighbors, and middle-aged friends who started to get lucky. He panicked and put on a half-old T-shirt, drove his father-in-law's Cadillac back to the city, only to find that no one knew him.

From being completely confused and mad at the beginning, to slowly accepting the family-oriented life of such an ordinary middle-class man. Jack gradually understood the true meaning of life after experiencing many struggles. From facing the little son’s diaper at a loss, frowning in the face of his cheap wardrobe, flirting with his neighbor’s wife, to the later love for the child, to the natural habit of putting on cheap shirts and branding cheap With a tie, and then seriously falling in love with his wife again, Jack's lifestyle and values ​​have finally been changed drastically.

Then, he woke up from this glimpse. Lie back to his expensive, modern design, cold and lonely bachelor apartment. He returned to a life where he was once proud and envied by millions, but once again fell into a loss. What he really wants and cares about in his life is self-evident at this moment.

In the bustling airport, Jack made efforts and choices. He used a detailed description of the life of such a family to leave Kate about to board the plane. Just a cup of coffee... The two chatted at the airport coffee bar until late at night, and the snow flew outside the window, and we know that the fate of this pair of people, after being changed at the airport 13 years ago, will be 13 years later. This night was changed again at the airport. . . .


This is the adventure and turning point of the fate of Jack, the protagonist of the story. So, what about everyone who has seen this story? Every ordinary, we who have no chance to make another choice? Everyone in a tie and suit is busy with the spirited Jack in the offices of major office buildings. Every famous school graduates from the finance department but gets married and had children early. ? Every prestigious law school graduated from the law department but got married and had children early, his body deformed early, and his life was entangled by household chores. The focus of life was completely shifted to Kate. Every dress is simple and fashionable, the working environment is elegant and noble, and the identity and status of both business trips are also the purpose of Paris and Milan. Locally, the new age woman Kate?

How many people are numb and dazed behind the noise and material; how many people regret their wounds in the interval of ordinary life; how many people are more willing to enjoy a suit of tens of thousands of yuan, a bottle of wine and a bottle of wine for 800 dollars compared to the smiles of their children sleeping in the early morning The pleasure brought by high-end French restaurants; how many people face luxury cars, beauties and jewellery, but would rather be an ordinary company employee, immersed in the happiness of their children around their knees, and satisfied with the bland happiness of growing old with their loved ones. . .

How many people can say "no regrets" loudly in the face of their current lives, and can disdain to mention words such as "if" and "if", how many people? ? Most of the time, the eminent us just bury our heads in drunk and fanciful poses, the mediocre we are busy with grumbling and being content with the status quo, the single we are envious of the two-way pair, the married we suffer from the seven-year itch, the healthy we want to be skinny and aging. Longing for the return of youth, the material we want to retreat to the mountains and the woods with the scroll of Mei's wife and Hezi, and the poor we want to become rich overnight to fulfill our filial piety and fatherhood. . . . But how many of us are sincerely and sincerely loving the lives that truly belong to our own lives?

Sometimes there is a choice, and more often there is no choice. The life of ordinary people is so helpless. For such a movie, the theme has the meaning of pointing to the true meaning of life, but Cage interprets that drama is like life, but life is not as trance and helplessness as drama. This is his magic.

Self-abuse people who are struggling with problems similar to the purpose of life are like me, five-star recommendation; successful people who are uncomfortable with the status quo and full of complaints, ambitious people, four-star recommendation; true happiness exists in every day of real life Rare people.... Please continue to live your happy life for the above-mentioned self-abuse, successful and ambitious people, let's talk about it when the movie is boring.

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The Family Man quotes

  • Suit Salesman: [as Jack is looking at the suit] It's perfect for your frame. Why don't you try it on.

  • Kate: What are you sure about?

    Jack: I'm sure that right now, there's nowhere else I'd rather be than here with you.