Intricate relationship:
Judging from the content, this is a mess made by a group of stupid middle-aged people: Cox (John Malkovich) was fired from the CIA because of his drinking problem. On a CD, sold to magazines for a hefty sum; his wife, Katy (Tilda Swinton), is having an affair with Harry (George Clooney), trying to divorce Cox and blackmail him. Pen, is collecting all the information against him, and of course the CD was stolen by her; Linda (Frances McDormand), a fitness club employee, recently felt that she needed plastic surgery when she was middle-aged, but it was a pity She has no money, but one day her friend Chad (Brad Pitt) picks up a CD, and he just wants to see what's in it so he can find the original owner, but it's a bunch of data about the CIA , so he felt that he could work with Linda to blackmail the original owner of the CD. Who knew that Linda met Harry on a dating website, so everything developed in an uncontrollable direction...
Because of a worthless CD, this farce led to The result is that two people died, some crazy, some absconded, some half-dead, and finally J. K. Simmons played by a senior CIA official asked his subordinates:
——"What do we gain?"
——"Sir , I don't know."
- "I don't fucking know either."
- "I guess my takeaway is to never do it again."
The men and women in the show face an invisible enemy - middle-aged crisis. What is a midlife crisis? To borrow a passage from Baidu Encyclopedia:
"Mid-age crisis, also known as "gray middle-aged", generally occurs in men between the ages of 39 and 50, and is also known as "men's forty syndrome" in men between the ages of 40 and 65. . In a broad sense, it refers to the various barriers and crises that may be experienced at this stage of life, such as career, health, family and marriage.” In fact, mid-life crises happen not only to men but also to women, “Crazy and Stupid Love” Julian Moore said that he felt like he had lost himself and would rather go to the cinema to watch "Twilight" by himself than stay with her husband. There are many movies that portray midlife crisis, so I won't go into details, such as the famous American Beauty.
In my humble opinion, "Burn After Reading" ostensibly depicts a group of middle-aged people experiencing a "mid-life crisis", and in essence exposes the ridiculous marriage of modern people. Even if they escaped the "seven-year itch" or the "midlife crisis", they all cheated in the end. Strange to say, why do most midlife crises only point to derailment? I think it is the lonely and restless heart of modern people. If you are in your 40s, you are neither old nor young. If you encounter a bottleneck in your career, you will not have an advantage in age compared with young people, and you will have many difficulties to break through. Major repairs", it is better to let it die if it is to be repaired, so derailment has become a common phenomenon. In modern society, smartphones, social networking sites, and dating sites have exacerbated this trend, stirring the hearts of modern people.
Harry has a seemingly happy marriage and a beautiful wife with a best-selling children's book series; Cox is a Princeton graduate, his wife is a dentist, a typical middle-class couple; Linda is an older single woman who spends her days in Dating site, trying to find their true destiny from above. Everything looks so decent, but it's not: Harry's wife looks like a gentle and rational woman, but on the way back, she yells at Katy "cold arrogant bitch"; Harry originally betrayed his wife's behavior. Feeling ashamed, she finally found out that his wife had already found a private detective to keep an eye on him, and that his wife had another man outside; Katy immediately found a lawyer to arrange for a divorce after learning that her husband was fired by the CIA, and wanted him to clean up. When they are out of the house, the relationship between husband and wife is completely shattered; when Linda and Chad shout "loser" while browsing middle-aged men on dating sites, they are also complete losers. It seems that the director has a heavy hand, whether it is the middle class or the loser, there is an ugly face. The ugly side of the human heart, the whitewashing of peace in marriage, and the CIA's disregard for human life are all vividly displayed, which can be described as wonderful, absolutely and cruel.
It must be said that the most miserable one is Ted, the manager of the fitness club, who is unrequitedly in love with Linda, but Linda pretends not to see. Pretend to be invisible to those you love, and climb high for those you can't love.
PS: Dad didn't expect you to be such a person!!!
(I got his number, I got his number! Can't stop!!!!)
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