Six or seven years ago, I read American beauty and thought it was about the absurdity, ugliness, and meaninglessness of life. Now, when I look at it again, I find that it is about life being absurd, meaningless but beautiful, and worth living.
I once felt that there was a lot of pain beyond life, but no, since life is used as a carrier, it is not qualified to go beyond life. No pain is unbearable until the moment you die.
Saw a review and wrote that Lester really got a new life not when he fell in love with Angela but when he knew Angela's still a virgin. Well, it may be easy for people to think that people in this world are divided into relatively complete and incomplete people, but in fact, everyone's heart is bound to experience brokenness, no one's intact. Maybe, what exists in the world is only recognition There are two kinds of people who do not want to admit themselves and themselves.
It is often said that the old man seeks the lost youth in the young girl, but the little girl will not seek and confirm the youth she has in the eyes of the old man, and use the brilliance in the eyes of the other party to prove the preciousness of her own. . Remember Plato's argument about people's inability to understand death, saying that only by looking at a thing from both inside and outside can we truly understand it. No one can stand in death and feel it, so death is incomprehensible. For a 16-year-old girl, youth is also incomprehensible, because she has never stepped out of youth. But the greedy desire for herself in the eyes of another person gave her the opportunity to perceive her preciousness and value in advance.
To Lester, Angela is the representative of perfection and completeness, the most beautiful in the world, and something that he can never be, so the initial infatuation with Angela is not really new, but more like a false illusion like a return to light. An egoless attachment to beauty. However, after witnessing Angela's brokenness, Lester realized that the person who had all the most beautiful things in his heart was no different from himself. Loneliness, pain, brokenness and inferiority cannot be eliminated by any possession or situation. Maybe existence itself is not important sometimes, what we can do is to respect, to admit, to admit existence, to admit ourselves, to perceive and discover beauty in what we think is a stagnant situation, in the routine of life,' let the beauty of life through me like rain, feel nothing but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life'
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