A big part of what makes this movie so addicting is that I chalk it up to being humorous, real life, without being rhetorical, but it's not funny. The screenwriter analyzes the cold and cruel reality of life, spreads it out in front of you, without whitewashing and comfort, and tells you: don't blame me, life is like this. And, when you start to be moved by the gradual thawing and rewarming of the plot in the play, he slaps you suddenly to keep you awake.
Ryne makes a career out of firing people, is single, and flies and travels 300 days a year. He loathes and avoids all personal and family relationships and develops his unique "Knapsack Theory". When he gave a speech, he told the audience that your life is too heavy, because you all keep adding too many preferences and too many responsibilities to it, and eventually it becomes a heavy burden on your shoulders. Others felt secure by returning home, and he felt secure by being away from family and relationships. Others felt rushed and uncomfortable at the airport and hotel, but he felt like a duck to water, indescribably comfortable and enjoyable. His goal is to accumulate 10 million miles and become one of the few top airline members. When his new partner and assistant Natalie asked him what was the purpose of this, or was it to get a free vacation with his family in the south of France or elsewhere? No, he said, no, just for the mileage goal he set for himself, just that number.
Life is too heavy, throw away the "backpack" of those relationships
"Actually, you don't need to carry that much weight, so why don't you put down that backpack?" He said that some animals are born to support each other and spend their lives together, but we are not those animals. The slower we move, the fast we die. We can only survive if we run faster because we are sharks.
This is the life creed he firmly believes in, so every time he speaks, his eyes are like torches. Every audience member's mental activity is well known. He knows their cowardice, their fear, and the inescapable weakness of every person who wants a so-called normal life. Like God, he questioned them, because he knew that his backpack was all his life, but what about you offstage and you in front of the screen? He held the corner of his mouth and looked at us with a smile, but he looked down on us like a god, because we don't have the courage like him, and we can't pack all our lives with our backpacks and pack our lives.
On the bus to the hotel, Ryne asks Natalie to convince him to accept the marriage. Natalie tried her best to use whatever direct life experience and educated perspective she had on life, and even said, well, what about love? Marrying for love? Ryne smirked. Maybe a person is really grown up or not. Looking at this scene on the screen, even if it is only secretly in his heart, he makes that "puchi" laugh. Either knowing, or disdain, or both.
rely on it? What about stability? Natalie is still not reconciled, can talk to someone, spend a lifetime with someone? Ryne asked her: How many stable marriages do you know? As for people who can talk, Ryne said that I am surrounded by people who talk. He can talk to someone whenever he wants. Although this answer was a bit evasive, a bit of a hedgehog-like defensive counterattack, the young Natalie wouldn't notice it. In the end, Natalie threw the killer - in order not to die alone? Ryne is still downplaying that my family sent my grandparents to a nursing home when I was 12, and my parents went to a nursing home afterward. If nothing goes wrong, we'll all die alone.
But instead of knocking Ryne down with the final blow, Natalie cried uncontrollably. I took her to the airport and hugged another boyfriend warmly, but I just broke up with him. And just sent a text message to inform her.
Natalie is an example of a "successful" young man, young and beautiful, an Ivy League graduate. She believes in love, has a clear goal in life, and has strong execution. She knows the reference value of the person she is looking for: white-collar workers, college degree, likes puppies and comedy, 180cm tall, brown hair, attractive eyes, working in finance, But loves the outdoors, maybe going by Matt, or John, or Dave... but ironically, none of that helps her get the love she wants.
She has a bright mind, and is first-rate in learning ability and creativity, but her ability to solve problems with her head does not guarantee that people will not be harmed.
In the future, she may gradually understand that everything around her is not necessarily a sufficient condition for a happy life.
The slap in the face of the life creed: everything is a dream bubble
Ryne has spent his entire life escaping the burden of relationships, and even the few sister relationships that remain are a little troublesome. However, from the very beginning, this relaxed celibate who kept fleeing from all personal relationships and even intimacy was quietly set up in an ambush by the screenwriter. In order to meet the requirements of his newly married sister, he reluctantly took pictures with the humanoid drawing board she sent, until he met Alex who thought it was just a beautiful encounter, and he slipped step by step into the interpersonal quagmire he thought, But gradually I felt a certain desire from the heart. Every action of his has become a challenge to the life creed he believes in. He never imagined that his encounter with Alex would change from a romantic night, to a love and a yearning, to an unexpected longing for intimacy. He invites Alex to join him at his sister's wedding.
During the wedding, Ryne went to persuade her timid brother-in-law to return to the church, but what the brother-in-law said was the whole truth of life. Think about life after marriage, they buy a house together, live together, soon have a child, or two, spend Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc., go to the children's football games, and then they will graduate in a blink of an eye. If you want to find a job and get married, you will soon become a grandfather, retire, lose your hair, gain weight, and later, you will die.
The screenwriter tells the truth of life here. Seeing this, your brows are wrinkled and the lines of your face are drooping. Yes, what is there to look forward to in such a life? But this is not the life of my brother-in-law, it is the face of the life of all of us. Those beautiful dreams and expectations we have for life are actually just one of hundreds of millions of repeated lives, and there are no surprises and specials at all.
However, in the process of Ryne trying to convince him, he himself disarmed and surrendered.
His speech was screwed up, because the confidence he used to be eloquent was suddenly gone. He was stuck in a new relationship and couldn't put himself back into the all-seeing image of God. He abandoned the arena, ignoring the surprise and anger of the audience and the event organizers. He desperately went to find Alex, and it was a countercurrent to his return to the crowd and his normal life. But this time he was slapped loudly by the screenwriter.
Alex blames him, what do you think our relationship is?
He said weakly, I thought I was part of your real life.
Alex replied calmly, you are just an escape from my life, just a tweak of my normal life, like an episode.
This loud slap hit every viewer in the face. When Ryne wanted to land back to normal life, he found that it was just another fantasy bubble, the other person's unreal life.
Ryne got his coveted 10 million mile gold card, but he wasn't as excited as he had hoped.
At the end of the film, there are statements from the fired employees. All of them said that because of their family's love and support, their life was shaky.
I don't know if this is an adaptation of the screenwriter or the original author's intention. Perhaps, this is just a good match made by the screenwriter, let us not be too depressed about the true face of life.
Miao Li
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