I don't understand the American way of thinking

Trent 2022-04-20 09:01:10

As soon as it came up, it was the clichéd American plot stream of the male protagonist's wife cheating (the most annoying one I've ever seen was the descendants of George Clooney), and the real history teacher took the woman who was a substitute history teacher, a very common trick (that real history teacher is really old and frustrated). Then came, the male protagonist seemed to have maimed the man in a fit of anger, and the male protagonist's wife was worried that she would encounter domestic violence or something, so she sent the male protagonist to a mental hospital. Well, according to normal people's thinking, shouldn't it be time to scold the adulterer and the prostitute? In the play, including the parents of the male protagonist, as well as the neighbors and colleagues, they all despise the male protagonist (or fear) , and later when his wife came out, she looked like a Virgin. Everyone seemed to think that the male protagonist was a wicked man and hoped that he would recover, and then his wife relented and agreed to get back together. What logic! Even if two or three are in power now, there is no such strange value! Maybe, this is to make the audience more sympathetic to the male protagonist, to increase the drama or something, and there is no need to challenge the audience's values ​​like this. Could it be that hitting someone in the US is much more serious than cheating? It's not right to maim people, but the two people who were beaten are not sympathetic people. It's not the male and female protagonists who are criticized by the neighbors. It's amazing. (However, the male protagonist's roaring and screaming also makes people sweat, but the old beauty just likes to shoot this kind of people shouting)
Then there is the issue of family education. The pronoun of American family education is enlightenment and freedom. I didn't see it in this movie at all. First of all, the male protagonist's father's habit of gambling, prejudice and superstitious parents is really a failure, thinking that it is enough to shed two tears at the critical moment, and see how their family can teach normal children. His mother is also the kind of cowardly person who listens to her husband as useless. It seems that she can only add to the chaos in the movie, but it is understandable that people care about the chaos. And his brother, even in order to highlight the male lead's tolerance and generosity, is it really okay to portray his brother as the kind of person who shows off how good he is when others are in the most difficult time? And his dad just gently stopped him from the side! Anyone who encounters such a friend can't help but curse, let alone his own brother!
Besides, the very prominent incident of being caught in the stadium, his dad TMD actually only cares about losing the ball, and then scolds his younger son. If his eldest son went to fight, how could the male protagonist be so fishy? Can not bear to look. So the words that Tiffany retorted and counterattacked really made me feel so cool, as if saying, "Dare to scold me and my man, we must have strong data to support it. If it wasn't for chasing men, what would I do with so many bullshit ball games?" ! This episode of Jennifer Lawrence is really good, and the male lead is a little weak. (The pit father chases back)
So I don’t understand the American way of thinking, and the values ​​are very different. You can say that they are real and we are hypocritical, you can say that they are open and we are conservative, or that they put human rights first and our morals are conservative. It is because of this inexplicable conceptual estrangement that humans cannot build the Tower of Babel.
But this film can only be summed up at the end: in front of love, everyone is a fool.

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Silver Linings Playbook quotes

  • Veronica: [Demonstrating the iPod player on the wall] I can play music for the baby in any room.

    Pat: Can you play "Ride the Lightning" by Metallica?

  • Tiffany: It's the kids, it's the kids.

    Tiffany: Honestly he didn't do anything.

    Tiffany: It was all the kids.

    Tiffany: They started it, he didn't do anything.

    Tiffany: Come on man, come here.

    Tiffany: What are you gonna do about that song? Huh?

    Tiffany: You gonna go your whole life scared of that song?

    Tiffany: It's a song. Don't make it a monster.

    Tiffany: Come on, breathe. There's no song.

    Tiffany: There's no song. There's no song playing.