in love with my opposite self

Eula 2022-04-20 09:01:06

I finished watching the "Looking for the Dragon" that I have been thinking about in the morning on the weekend. Because the exchange coupon sent by the bank expired, I chose this one again in the afternoon.
"Looking for the Dragon" is good, but "Extremely Fast" is a surprise.

Sleepy in the afternoon;
don't like the Chinese translation; don't
know anything about racing;
was interrupted three times by a phone call while watching
;
This subject should obviously be difficult to shoot, but I didn't expect it to be so good. The BGM was awesome from the beginning until the end.

Sometimes I want a movie to have a great opening, a long ending, and, of course, a very good story. But using this standard to harshly measure all normal narrative films is difficult to satisfy. Not perfect for this one either.
But what I like most about this movie is its core.
Admittedly, the gallop on the track is breath-taking, but I hate that kind of movie that only pursues sensory stimulation, so if it doesn't have such a story and theme, it will at most be hovering between three or four stars. However, in this story, I saw growth, pursuit, rivalry, tolerance and affection.

The story is narrated in Lauda's tone as a first-person focused perspective. Although it will make it easy for the audience to substitute someone at the beginning, as the race progresses, the situation alternates, and the situations of the two people are constantly changing. The advantages and disadvantages are presented one by one, and finally let the audience fall in love with both of them.
I always have a strange feeling watching this movie:
people usually think they know themselves best, but they always exaggerate, and you think the people around you who have been with you for a long time and know you don’t really. I don't know you very well. Even if he loves you and stares at you, it's amazing that he can guess half of your thoughts if you don't tell him clearly and convince him of your feelings.
Discourse always follows the turn of facts. If it is done, it will be painted with compliments, and if it is not done, ridicule and neglect are normal.

Lauda's return to the game after his accident was certainly a matter of courage and pursuit: humanity's passion for adventure, unyielding fighting spirit and devotion to hobbies were exciting at this moment. It is difficult for the people to put their life and death aside, but they are happy to see such a hero.
At the same time, he chose to retire in the last game, which is also worthy of admiration. Between his ultimate dedication to racing and his love, he chose his love.
He brushed past the world champion and then took seven years to win it back.
Although, there was no Hunter on the field at that time, and it must not be a very happy thing.

These two people, every time they compete, the audience is worried, and they are afraid of who will have an accident.
The championship that Hunter won was his life. But this is not an inevitable result. After all, life is on the line, what if the car crashes and kills people?

But Hunter, he was born to be the kind of person who lived a dashing life. Although he died young, he treated every day as his last, and he lived as hard as he could.
There's a line in Ender's Game to the effect that if you know enough about your enemy to defeat him, then you love him too.
For Hunter and Lauda, ​​the other party is such an opponent, and they even know their excellence, pride and unwillingness better than anyone around them.

Sometimes, really, you too wish you lived like someone for a while, as Lauda finally admitted: he's the only person I've ever been jealous of in my life.
But we can't, we can only live our own way, as well as excellence.
There is no superior or inferior, no superior or inferior, just because you are such a person. You cannot be anyone but yourself.
Hunter couldn't stand being as rigorous as Lauda, ​​and Lauda, ​​by no means, would be as informal as he was.
But it's also a very good thing, we are so different, and I still have a lot of love for you. Like, one of the greatest reconciliations with this world: I understand a world that is different from mine, and it's so beautiful, and I love it so much.

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Rush quotes

  • [last lines]

    Niki Lauda: Of course he didn't listen to me. For James, one world title was enough. He had proved what he needed to prove. To himself and anyone who doubted him. And two years later, he retired. When I saw him next in London, seven years later, me as a champion again, him as broadcaster, he was barefoot on a bicycle with a flat tire, still living each day like his last. When I heard he died age 45 of a heart attack, I wasn't surprised. I was just sad. People always think of us as rivals but he was among the very few I liked and even fewer that I respected. He remains the only person I envied.

  • [first lines]

    Niki Lauda: Twenty five drivers start every season in Formula One, and each year two of us die. What kind of person does a job like this? Not normal men, for sure. Rebels, lunatics, dreamers. People who are that desperate to make a mark, and are prepared to die trying. My name is Niki Lauda, and racing people know me for two things. The first is my rivalry with him.

    [James Hunt]

    Niki Lauda: I don't know why it became such a big thing. We were just drivers busting each other's balls. To me this is perfectly normal, but other people saw in differently. That whatever it was between us went deeper. The other thing I'm remembered for is what happened on 1st August 1976, when I was chasing him like an asshole...