suffocation, disillusionment

Evan 2022-04-20 09:01:02

1. When pure and enthusiastic people face the cruelty of reality, the so-called obsession is really vulnerable. Is there a solution to harry's mother's loneliness? Is this tragedy her doomed destiny? Im old, Im lonely. Nobody cares me nor needs me. So put everything in your fantasy of being a TV star. Is this the silhouette of many ordinary and insignificant "outsiders"? Life is suffocating like an eternal dark night, and when a faint flame appears, it follows like moths to the flame. An irreconcilable contradiction, beautiful and sad.
2. How to face the inevitable emptiness, loneliness, and the gap of understanding between people. The spiritual sustenance of harry's mother's unreal TV star dream, or the short-lived pleasure hallucinations brought by harry and his friends taking drugs. But harry's mother was deceived by the "doctor" and became addicted to drugs because of the obsession of star dream; the drug addiction eventually brought about disillusionment. When life walks into an empty and gray wilderness, the phantom light really fascinates people and makes people feel the passion they have never experienced before. But knowing that there is also a greater price to pay, making people more painful and even disillusioned. Fragile people, when desire arises, it is already destroyed.
3. Loneliness drives one crazy, with the help of those desires. Thus I hate things that create illusions and make minds unclear, like drugs, alcohol, sex, food. Perhaps, hereafter, there is one more stuff on the list: daydreams. Actually it's really a horrible thing to run after something that really doesn't belong to us. But the ridiculous thing is that people are always unaware of how far they are from their dreams. They do not want to face the fact nor have the ability to change the reality. And thus gives birth to tragedy. Smell a fault? Where relies the paradox? Is that wrong that one have a big dream? Think over it!
4.Something makes this movie charming. The eyes full of struggle, desire, illusions, depress, desperation, loneliness.... And can't forget their eyes, harry's, his mother's, his girl friend's. And those illusions that frequently happened. The exaggeration of their desires, those horrible and violent things....
5. Desire and loneliness drive one crazy. People may pay for the joy desire offered, and at last, be ruined. How to run away for this messy situation? I find everyone are connected and the same in this case.
6. Whatever joy you get from desire, you'll pay a lot more than that in the future.
Thus, get strong before the evil comes and tortures you. No one else can help you nor share your pain. Be alert and be controlled.
7.What they did
wrong
Although people say that knowing mistakes can be corrected, the good is great. True, but don't over-interpret this sentence. In fact, any behavior cannot be remedied, and will have an irreversible impact on the future.

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  • Sara Goldfarb: [examining her newly dyed hair] If this is a red, I wanna know, what's orange?

  • Young Tyrone: I told you I would make it, Mama.

    Tyrone's Mother: Oh, you don't have to make anything, my sweet, you just have to love your mother.