It’s another play that makes people smile and finish watching. Unlike "A Life with a Cup of Wine", it is not an attempt to get rid of the existing life and seek hope and consolation like "Cup", but to complete this unbearable life. Present everywhere. In "Life with a Cup of Wine", the protagonist exiles himself, and finally can appreciate a bright force that grows upward; while "The Weather Forecaster" is sinking from beginning to end, with problems one after another, and none of them seem to be easy to solve. , But we must face it and work hard to solve it. The same in both films is that living with the protagonist means intense and continuous embarrassment.
Although the overall atmosphere of the film is subdued, and even though I have never seen anyone with a bright smiling face, I really have to laugh all the time, at least for the first two thirds. It is indeed not so humane to base our own pleasure on their pain in this way, but who knows, maybe we just find ourselves so similar to them, maybe we are also a ridiculously poor bug in the eyes of others.
The wife left and lived with a fat man who was uglier than herself. His wife became an ex-wife, and she yelled at herself, ruthlessly saying that her body was disgusting, even saying that she hated herself. At the moment when the self-esteem of a man was being devastated, the fat daughter appeared at the door and watched the quarrel of the parents in front of her with no expression.
This is just one example of many embarrassing incidents. Dave, a middle-aged man, a head of a household, and a weatherman, faced all these seemingly trivial incidents, but felt tired and exhausted. Have you seen it, his brows have never been untied, and the corners of his mouth have been falling down, like a dazed bitter gourd, innocent and helpless. All of his family members have thorny problems, so why not? The sticky fast food that hits him from time to time has made him tired enough, and the boring work has made him sleepy enough. It's just that he is a man, he is the center of the family, he can't just care about himself, it can even be said that he is the most insignificant compared to his family.
His wife Noreen is gone, and although she always seems unfeminine and tough, Dave knows he still loves her. At the door of her house, Dave wanted to be naughty, just like when he was in love, Dave wrapped a snowball and threw it at Noreen. What a romantic action, I really want to see her smile in the snowflakes. But unfortunately, Noreen happened to turn her head, and the snowball hit her in the eye, and the painful Noreen cursed Dave viciously. In order to start again, it is necessary to increase communication, so they went to a yoga training class, and it was in the spiritual communication link that was most likely to be effective, Dave couldn't wait to open the paper that tested each other's trust. He just wanted to figure out the possible problems between them, but he drew a rebuke from Noreen. Don't tacit understanding and trust exist in each other's hearts anymore?
Father Robert is old and has cancer. In Dave's eyes, his father always needs to look up. He is so good, as a son, not to mention surpassing his father, at least he can't let his father be disappointed. So it added a lot of pressure. But he was just a weatherman. Although he was paid a lot, Dave had nothing compared to his father's title of writer. He doubts the meaning of his work, just like those things that often fly on him, "I am also a fast food." Whatever happens to appear on TV every day, he is also inaccurate about the weather, and he has no interest. So he wrote science fiction, even if he was reprimanded as "shit"; so he worked hard to enter "Hello America" and let his father's "realization of the American dream" reappear in his own body, but his father failed when he got in the car. It is always Dave's wishful thinking to find that form surprises people. It might be the last thing Dave wanted to be hit by hot food when his father saw him face to face, but it happened. Except for a dazed face there, how else can you react?
Son Mike is always silent. He is the kind of boy who is quiet on the surface and rebellious in his heart. This is more worrying than those publicity young people, because you don’t know when he will deviate from the right and healthy course of your mind. Maybe when you When it was discovered, it was irretrievable. However, Dave is also unwilling to think that the situation is too bad. Mike is fifteen years old and he is not too young. Maybe they can be that kind of tacit friends. There is no need to talk too much, but eye contact is enough. NS. It wasn't until he learned that Mike's counselor was trying to molest him and even bitten him back and accused Mike of stealing. Dave didn't realize that his son was still a child. 他愤愤找到那个欺负儿子的家伙家里，狠狠的揍了他一顿，这时我们知道，除了拿脏话发泄以外，戴夫还有刚劲的拳头；除了对儿子以眼神表现出的内敛的爱， Dave also has direct and exposed performance. When the graceful and steady Robert also expressed "Well done" to Dave's revenge behavior, the two father and son pairs unconsciously blended together.
Perhaps the daughter Shirley is the most worrying. She is the smallest member of the family, but she is surprisingly large; 12 years old should be a naive and lively age, but she is surprisingly indifferent, and everything she says to her father not interested. She took money and said to buy stationery, but in fact she was buying cigarettes; she practiced archery but wanted to shoot animals instead of targets; she was silent at home, but swearing at her friends (learned from Dave) Is it?). Originally to connect with feelings, they participated in the leggings walking competition on the ice rink, but in the end they fractured Shirley. This is exactly the same as Dave Noreen’s "paper incident". Shirley seems to be a little Norin, Dai The husband has nothing to do with both of them. However, love is equally strong. I found the cigarettes in my schoolbag, but I didn’t follow along with me; even though I learned that my daughter was said to be a "V" shaped camel toe at school-this made Dave and Robert both so. She was embarrassed, but when she arrived in New York, she still wanted to make Shirley look more beautiful. Dave was still very fulfilled in successfully changing her image.
In the end, Dave finally got the job of "Hello America". Although it was still a boring weather forecast, what else did he want? Is he really a science fiction writer? Is it to become an archery athlete? From the usual point of view, this result means Dave's success. But I don't think this is another happy ending. At his father's funeral, he couldn't even finish the eulogy, and there was nothing he could do about Noreen's remarriage. Shirley was still so fat, and Mike didn't know if he got out of the psychological shadow. Although walking on the street with a bow and arrow on his back will no longer be thrown into garbage, but the embarrassment in life, there is really no sign of flameout. We saw that Dave's brows were still not untied, the corners of his mouth were still falling, his face was still a dazed bitter gourd, and even tears could not be restrained.
The whole film, I thought it was a concentrated presentation of embarrassment, and everything was credible and amiable, as if it had happened to us. Our laughter is not a wry smile, not a sneer, and more Not a fool. The depressed Dave is just like me, even he is even more depressed than me. Since I can laugh so innocent and unburdened, it means it's not a big deal. Since embarrassment has become the norm, since the essence of our lives is embarrassment, it is better to laugh at embarrassment, and even make others laugh at your embarrassment.
Nicholas Cage’s face is just right to present us with a "lost bitter gourd", which is really not very laborious for him. Who calls his face a natural bitter gourd? So much so that when we see that this face hasn't changed from beginning to end, even when we laugh, cry, and beat people consistently, we forget to question its exaggeration because of our habit.
In fact, no matter how unbearable life is, we also have times of relaxation. Just like me, during these depressed and unbearable days, wouldn't it be easy to be redeemed by this movie that also presents "depressed"?
"I Love Rock Music" has a big cover title: "At 18, every day is war." And Robert slowly and deeply said to Dave: "Difficult and meaningful things are usually the same thing. "Easy" is never written into the life of an adult." But he also said: "So I have to give up some things."
I was over 18 years old, far from middle age. It is foreseeable that abandonment will happen sooner or later, and the war seems to have begun.
Fortunately, I still survived, and still intact.
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