Life seems to be peaceful on the surface - commuting to get off work step by step every day, running around for life and busy with career. Unwilling to be left behind, women bravely want to become a new generation of women, longing to be on an equal footing with men. Even if they can't sell their house and feel aggrieved, they will cry, slap themselves over and over again, and order themselves to "shut up" to comfort them. Everything is fine for me, but I don't know that my career is not going well, but my family is also going downhill. Men insist on being on their own and should take responsibility for this family. Times have changed, but their sense of responsibility cannot be shaken. I remember Leonardo in the revolutionary road emphasized his responsibility to support his family, but April said, I will come, as long as we go to Paris together. But when they told others about their plan, Leonardo saw the contempt and confusion in the eyes of others. Among American beauties, the main reason why Lester was trapped in the company for 14 years and did not dare to step out of the door was what his wife said, so what about Morgage? What about the house? The funny thing is that although he left his job, he extorted 60,000 yuan from the boss for practical reasons. This is also a step he had to compromise with reality in order to leave the job; the director seems to tell us that when he mustered the courage to accept the change , don't forget to give a small touch to reality.
The wife was cheating on the outside, thinking that she had found a confidant who understood her life aspirations, but when her husband found out, she found him running away, saying that she did not want to be claimed for a large amount of divorce fees, despair, loss, regret and shattered dreams. I don't know which one is right for her. The blow is fatal. When she picked up the pistol she had returned from targeting and drove home on a rainy night, she finally felt that everything she had done before was absurd, throwing away the pistol and crying with her husband's clothes in her wardrobe, she may have found that there is no such thing in this world. People understand her hard work, even if she kills her husband who has been laughing at her, attacking her, and becoming deviant because of the boring life? Life can only be a step towards another hopeless situation beyond control.
Husband is turned upside down by the passion brought by his daughter's friend. Doing drugs, working out, flirting, quitting... as if all this was a protest against his original life, his pretentious wife. He wanted to make his life more meaningful, but he didn't expect his daughter's boyfriend to be mistaken for gay by his boyfriend's father while dealing drugs. At the end of the film, he confronts Angela, who has always been infatuated with, and when he learns that she is a virgin, he puts a blanket on her and makes her sandwiches like a father; at this moment, he understands that she is just a child of the same age as his daughter , I can't ask for the value of her life for the sake of being confused about life. At that moment, I saw a thorough and peaceful understanding of life that he had never had before. The moment he picked up the family portrait before his death, his eyes showed a new understanding of life; that kind of self-professionalism is not the attachment to dreams and the redemption of self, on the contrary, it is the destruction and completeness of reality. Self-denial, the American dream, is a hopeless, selfish dream.
Jane's image is a typical American teenager image in the social background of the time. It's not that she doesn't love her parents, but that she hates why her parents don't care more about herself. She replied to Rickey that she hated her father, but when R promised to kill her father, she added: You know I was joking, didn't she? When she chatted with A, she just complained, why can't they take me seriously. When R was going to elope with her to New York, she would say, my parents would be looking for me all over the place worried. She loves the family so much and longs for attention and guidance from her parents. She pouted and hated her parents' stucture and discipline, and at the same time longed for her parents to watch her cheerleading performance. You have experienced such a contradictory teenage period.
Impressed that Angela was having a big fight with Jane, J and R kept talking about her ordinary, ordinary, so she ran up the stairs and cried sadly. Her American dream is to be unwilling to be mediocre but to be mediocre all the time. She bragged about being a model, scolded J for being too cautious about her sexuality, and threatened to stop being her friend, when, in fact, she was only a virgin. Such a vain American dream was comforted when Lester wiped her tears, and L told her that she was never mediocre. Maybe all along, she wanted to use the eyes of the opposite sex to prove her outstanding beauty to cover up her inner mediocrity.
Maybe we shouldn't have dreams, at least not the unrealistic American dream that takes a toll on our lives. However, everyone is a dreamer, but some people play too much, and some people just follow the rules and sleep every day and have a dream. However, we tend to call those neuroses who gamble on their dreams reform geniuses.
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