Maybe it's the white cloud that makes the sky so blue

Libbie 2022-04-20 09:01:14

After reading it and thinking about it, a few words appeared in my mind. The past episode of belief.

When ALICE said that sentence was just the beginning of the episode, I seemed a little surprised by the transformation of this woman. She was originally gentle and considerate, humorous and understanding. A woman who has no burden but is eager to get together, makes JASON almost abandon what he believed in, and wants to start a new life, a woman who returns to reality in an instant, remembers the night they chatted on the boat, ALICE said , "I just do this outside", it turns out that this is what it really means.

JASON, a person who seems to have been living in the cloud, is out of reality in their mouths, ALICE's sentence, "I just bring you back to reality, you are always too far away from reality", once she really put her in the air and away from the world. On the other hand, she pulled him back to the terrifying reality in the warmth and sweetness - she has a family.

It turned out that each other is just an episode of each other.

NATALIE is an episode of dismissing the company and an episode of JASON.
NATALIE's boyfriend is her episode.
ALICE is an episode of JASON.
Fired companies are episodes of fired people. A fired person is an episode of firing a company.
. . . . . . . . .

Just when NATALIE was going to shake JASON's personal beliefs about interpersonal relationships, love and marriage, I thought I would see the development of JASON and ALICE. In fact, JASON was really stimulated, but unfortunately it was pulled back to reality. , things are never one-sided, no matter how you imagine everything in the future, there are always surprises. As JASON said to NATANIE, "you know that moment when you look at somebody's eyes, you can feel them staring and you feel the whole world goes so queit." JASON said he wouldn't.

The screen pulls back to Natalie crying that his boyfriend dumped him with a text message, as if to satirize the computer dismissal system she designed. Humans are emotional animals with flesh and blood, not dead things that can be systematically managed. How can I go and end them across the screen?
She is still talking about him she thinks, her ideal him, she thinks they are going to get engaged, she fantasizes about everything, and then her boyfriend suddenly breaks up, she can't accept it, are we all in love with a fictional him? / what about her? We idealize a person too much, we love our own fantasies, and we end up disillusioning and blaming the other for their inadequacy.

NATALIE is like the epitome of us young people. Of course she has the right to be a top student, but she often gets cold eyes on its implementation. Of course, JASON, who faces a set of free theories, does not agree with it, because we also have our own. A set of theories, why are we not self-righteous?
Natalie's little self-righteousness may be funny, but it's also cute. What a terrible thing it would be if everyone lived in that way of taking everything for granted.
I suddenly remembered a sentence in "Breaking Ground: Adventures in Life and Architecture" that I watched before - cities are built by human dreams.
We have the right and the obligation to do whatever we want, hahaha.

Seeing that JASON finally became the seventh person who has accumulated 10 million miles, he couldn't be happy. It turns out that he is the same. It seems that he has been chasing and aiming for something, and he has achieved it, but it was not his imagination. The kind of feeling in his life is not so joyful, not so exciting. It turned out to be of little significance. It turned out that there was no one to share it, and it was difficult for him to be happy.

The last few minutes taught us that only those who love you and those you love are by your side, that no difficulty is insurmountable, and that we are the strongest with love.

We often ask about the meaning of life, the meaning of struggle, the meaning of work, the meaning of going to school, the meaning of having children, the meaning of marriage, the meaning of many, many things, and there is no standard answer. But it seems to be for the same reason - to experience love, to experience giving and receiving.


It turns out that nothing can escape love.

I recalled the theory of JASON at the beginning, his speech.
Packing too many things in a backpack is of course a heavy burden that cannot be moved; but if it is all hollowed out, the backpack will have no weight, and people will rise into the air, perhaps this weight is a sweet responsibility , is down-to-earth load-bearing. Maybe some weight is necessary.


However, from another perspective, I saw that the script seems to be using different people's different views on marriage and interpersonal views to present more things. It is a method of analogy. Saying this is not necessarily saying this. But in fact, marriage or not marriage is everyone's choice. It is indeed undeniable that each has its own wonderfulness and its own significance.

In fact, my point of view is somewhat similar to that of the male protagonist.


When I just finished watching it
, the "Beautiful Interlude" by ELVA sounded in my mind.

"Maybe it's the white cloud sky that is so blue and beautiful
because it's short and unintentional, but it's hard to forget..."

I believe
JASON will be the one who got fired. Beautiful interlude.

Everything and everything will always leave something behind, and it will pass without passing.
Maybe time will tell.

The feeling of filming makes me feel less like a movie, but like a life record, very real and natural.

(It's very confusing, a lot of feeling thoughts and the camera are constantly switching, without others, I just want to record some feelings.)

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Extended Reading
  • Elouise 2021-10-20 19:01:55

    On "Why don't people want to live alone". This is how a good movie is. Warmth and loneliness coexist. When you embrace warmth, you also reap loneliness—the same is true in life. It is not love that illuminates loneliness, but loneliness illuminates love.

  • Eunice 2022-03-23 09:01:22

    This film is a smart and temperamental guy, and this time it is still sincere. He tells a story that is very appropriate and contains eternity. The first two thirds are unparalleled, and thereafter the curtain call is leisurely and routinely. Also, Vera Farmiga's ass!!! OMG!

Up in the Air quotes

  • Natalie Keener: [using Ned as an example to fire someone over the internet using video conference] Mr. Laskim, The reason we're having this conversation is because your position at this company is no longer available

    Ned: [reading the script he was given] I don't understand I'm fired?

    Natalie Keener: Hearing the words "you've been let go" is never easy change is always scary but consider the following: anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's because they sat there that they were able to do it.

    Ryan Bingham: [while watching her presentation, quietly to a colleague] that's my fucking line

    Ned: what happens now?

    Natalie Keener: This is the first step in a new process that will end with you at a job that fulfills you

    Ned: Yeah, but how does it work?

    Natalie Keener: You're going to take the packet in front of you review it, all the answers you're looking for are inside. Start filling out the necessary information and before you know it and before you know it you'll be on your way to new opportunities. I need you to go back to your desk and putting together your things. As a favor to me I'd appreciate it if you don't spread the news just yet panic doesn't help anyone

    Ned: I understand

    Natalie Keener: [to the staff] give it up for Ned

    Natalie Keener: [concluding her presentation] You can start the morning in Boston stop in Dallas over lunch and finish the day in San Francisco all for the price of a T-1 line. Our inflated travel budget increased by eighty five percent, more importantly to you guys on the road, no more Christmases in a hotel in Tulsa no more hours lost to weather delays you get to come home.

  • Ryan Bingham: Tell me you're not taking this seriously

    Craig Gregory: [in his office] That's why I brought the entire company in from the road because I'm not "taking this seriously"

    Ryan Bingham: There's a methodology to what I do there's a reason why it works

    Craig Gregory: Coke and IBM have been this for years are you familiar with them? Just like everything else it'll take a few months for the transition then everyone's going to settle in

    Ryan Bingham: Who are you taking off the road?

    Natalie Keener: How are not getting this? You're grounded everybody's grounded it's done

    Ryan Bingham: What we do is brutal and it does leave people devastated there's a dignity to the way I do it

    Craig Gregory: Like stabbing them in the chest instead of the back?

    Ryan Bingham: Am I the only one that sees by doing this we're making ourselves "irrelevant"?

    Craig Gregory: No we're making you "irrelevant",don't blame me blame the high fuel costs, blame insurance premiums, blame technology you better watch yourself you're too young to become a dinosaur

    Ryan Bingham: I'm not a dinosaur

    Craig Gregory: I want you to show her the ropes

    Ryan Bingham: I'm not the only one who knows what's going on here, get someone else to do it you're very confident that this girl doesn't know what she's doing I don't think setting a MySpace page qualifies you to rewire an entire company

    Craig Gregory: Great then here's your chance take her out there show her the magic, take her to the paces

    Ryan Bingham: I'm not a fucking tour guide

    Craig Gregory: We're ringing the bell and rounding everybody up you want to stay out there your welcome to but you will not be alone you let me know