December 23, 2010
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"One Second Before You Die"
Jan 2022-04-21 09:01:04
There's only one reason why I gave this film five stars: it ends in a downright and gorgeous way. Many people are saying that this film depicts the hardship and confusion of Americans or the American middle class. In fact, this is not just the hardships of Americans or the American middle class. It can be magnified to every individual as a person. Marriage, love, sex, work, friends, the stains and glitter of human nature are all discussed ingeniously and directly by the director in this film. We ourselves are played with by the environment. When Spacey chose not to have sex with a beautiful girl, when a beautiful girl said it was her first time, when a military father kissed Spacey, when Spacey said "the last second before death can be infinite" At the end of the movie, the black and white shadows of the trees and the good old days of the past are exactly what we lost but forgot to seek again. The meaning of life for everyone has been discarded by us as early as adulthood. We are the plastic bags that float in the wind. We can't stop and can't fall. We can only wait for the wind to stop or a whirlwind of death to throw us. On the ground or blowing off the only picture of life.
December 23, 2010
December 23, 2010
Extended Reading
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Angela Hayes: If people I don't even know look at me and want to fuck me, it means I really have a shot at being a model.
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Ricky Fitts: My dad thinks I paid for all this with catering jobs. Never underestimate the power of denial.