In the film, the lives and fates of the second generation of a family are alternately staged:
the love between Xiali and his girlfriend Marianne is pure and beautiful. With Xiali's encouragement, Marianne opens a clothing design shop, and the future seems to be full of hope. But if the sword is on the side, they are deeply trapped in the poisonous swamp. In order to earn drug money and sell drugs with their friends, everything starts smoothly. There are enough drugs to enjoy, and the money in the money box increases day by day.
When Charlie and Marianne were sitting on the beach full of sunshine, like successful people in their careers, discussing a gift for their mother, living at this time is like a beautiful dream, clean and warm. They don't know what price they will pay for their addiction.
Countless fast shots in the film show falling white powder, the rapid flow of white powder in the blood, and the dilated pupils. There is a saying in "Trainspotting" that "mother and father are not as good as they are", as long as there are drugs, everything else is no longer important. As shown in many movies, drugs have irresistible power here, and drugs are really their requiem.
Love, I believe that the love between Charlie and Marianne exists, and the warm display of their Mei Lun and Meihuan makes people envious, but compared to the comforting effect of drugs, it is too small to be worth mentioning: when the last bit of drugs are finished, they In exchange for the money to buy drugs, Xiali did not persuade Marianne to have sex with other men; in the end, after Marianne became a tool for perverts, she held the small bag of white powder she had exchanged, revealing her happiness. Smile, love has really receded to the point of not even shit.
Countless sad stories happened because of it, and countless good futures were destroyed by it. I don’t want to discuss human nature. I think the will of man may be far from enough to resist the psychedelic depressing power of drugs. When encountering drugs, people’s values irreversibly collapse. Touching drugs can only be said to be a nightmare in life. prelude.
Xia Li's mother Sarah, an old woman who lived alone, lived alone and without purpose in front of TV. However, a phone call broke her peaceful life, and the TV station will invite her to appear on TV. The glorious and beautiful memory of her life was resurrected in an old red dress. In order to experience this beauty again, wearing this dress that could no longer be squeezed because of her obesity, Sarah began to lose weight almost paranoid.
What's particularly touching about this film is that it's so real and reaches our hearts. A lonely old man is like an old man living by our side. When she told Xia Li about her loneliness and her dreams with tears in her eyes, I couldn't help but feel sad, and my eyes became moist. The vitality and determination that her imagination brought forth, so powerful and beautiful. Are screenwriters cruel? The screenwriter was cruel. He let Sarah meet an irresponsible weight loss doctor, and let Sarah take medicine indiscriminately. Sarah was treated as a mentally ill and a fellow Taoist, and the screenwriter showed his cruelty again, making everything in the camera inhuman, and she was tortured beyond human form.
But everything is still so real, it's just that the plot slips in the direction I don't want, especially for such a peaceful and poor old man. Some people say that the film is very sharp, maybe such sharpness and cruelty can give people a powerful touch.
Sarah's performance and the director's use of countless montages are particularly worthy of praise in the film. I saw hunger, I saw desire, and I saw dreams.
When dreams bring us falsehood, we should curse the ugliness of reality, and let us yearn to escape from dreams, hoping that we will never wake up after dreaming?
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