The mother's second marriage partner, the middle-aged professor with white hair, arranged the children's lives with cold mechanical demands, played booze to their mothers, smashed things at them, and also had a humorous conversation with Mason and the children. Play nicely together. When my mother cheered with her female friends, stood tremblingly at the door and called for the children to leave with her, my mentality was the same as theirs: run away from this hopeless person. I almost forgot, as my mother once said, "Billy has a good side of him."
At the band's rehearsal venue, the father learned of his son's brokenheartedness and kept comforting his son: "It's a complete waste of time to be sad for some silly girl." "Women are never satisfied...don't give the control of your self-esteem to Sheila." "It's important to have a knack for it...then girls like Sheila will line up at your door." "I think she's too old-fashioned for you...when I know she's going to be a sucker for some dumb hockey player. Not surprised at all when interested." The father, a man of little intelligence, tried to make his son feel better by belittling others, yet he knew absolutely nothing about the girl, let alone the one she had never met. hockey team boyfriend. He comforted his son by saying things like it's someone else's problem and you're very good, but the sensitive and sensitive boy didn't take it. He seriously retorted: "But she's not a stupid girl, She's a serious girl." Finally, the teenager frowned and asked, "so what's the point?" What are you telling me all this means? Father replied: "I don't know." What is all this for? Don't ask me such big questions. "No one else will know, do you understand? We are all improvising, you know?" The father admitted that he just thought of what to say, but he did not realize the true meaning of life that can be clearly and firmly passed on to his son, "improving" The word speaks volumes. He wants his son to live confidently, but how? He didn't think clearly.
In the restaurant, the manager walked up to his mother with bright eyes and thanked her, because of her words "you are smart, you should go to school" many years ago, this manure worker signed up for English classes, went to community college, and became a decent Restaurant manager, now pursuing a bachelor's degree. Mother watched him leave, and it was always difficult to share the joy with him from the bottom of her heart, with a look of loss on her face. It's like saying: look at this guy, just having a decent job and going to college makes him so happy, and I have 2 kids, teach at college, and be respected by students, but don't have the eyes of him shine. It's like thinking: wow, you love the transformation of your life so much, what about me? do i like mine?
Both children were leaving home and the mother broke down while packing. I have also seen this scene in real life. The old foreign lady who was chatting and laughing with us a second ago suddenly buried her face in her hands, her shoulders twitching continuously. I wisely exited the room and handed her over to her grown son. In the process of waiting, I have guessed most of it. A single woman raised her son alone, without the participation of her ex-husband from beginning to end. It can be said that her son is everything to her. Now that her son has graduated, she is going to work abroad, and even start a family—bang, suddenly the only task in her life has been removed. In the movie the mother breaks down and says, "I just thought there would be more." More what? More links? Not just marriage, childbirth, divorce, entrance exams, work, remarriage? more meaning? More than just being a good mother, improving your education, having a decent job, and being respected? More exciting moments? More laughing moments? Better men, greater careers? She has achieved such an easy achievement, but when her task is completed, she does not feel honored and satisfied. The disappearance of the target made her immediately fall into the fear of nothingness: "What's next? My funeral?" In the movie, the teenager said to his girlfriend: "Look at my mother, she got a degree, she got a good one work and pay the bills herself, but she's basically just as confused as I am." A half-life, independent, literate, self-made woman, like me, didn't understand her own life, we just followed the track. . At the end of the film, the teenager sits on the mountain with his peers to watch the scenery. His new friend, a gentle and beautiful girl, said, "People always say we should seize the time. I think it is the opposite. Time has seized us." He looked at the girl with a smile, the mountain wind was blowing, and there was no answer ahead.
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