Although time has changed and the form has changed, the essence will not change

Kacie 2022-04-21 09:01:20

The American movie "Magnolia" has too many prefaces, and the normal story characters and the examples used to illustrate the philosophy are mixed together. Although the rhythm of the whole film is intense, it seems to make people feel more complicated. More than 3 hours of film, I have seen it for more than 2 hours, and I still can't make up my mind. If it weren't for the multiple Oscar nominations in 2000 and the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, I might have given up halfway through it. The film starts by talking about the contingency of events, using some examples that have already happened. Then all kinds of characters appeared almost separately, including a suicide teenager and a lost mother, a black shrew and a male corpse in a closet, a street policeman and an informant black child, as well as two generations of TV contest prodigies, master girls, drug addicts, Dying old men, male nurses, terminally ill TV anchors, etc. The story develops with multiple clues, and it gradually intersects with the development of the plot, and finally knows that it only happened in one day. After watching it, it is really worth doing some aftertastes.

The film is about life, people's mistakes, loneliness, pain, struggle, people's love and hate, people's repentance. There are many spaces and characters in the TV quiz, and everyone is watching the live broadcast. The former award-winning prodigy is just a failed salesman today and will be fired by the boss. It is easy to find the reason from today's live broadcast. The so-called prodigy is just a freak created by the media. After all, a child is a child. If you force him or deceive him to learn so many things, if you don't let him go to the toilet normally, he will pee his pants, rebel, and explode. The host who once violated his daughter, the rich old man who abandoned his wife and children, and finally regretted their mistakes. Because of their reasons, the children have gone through hardships and the huge psychological shadow is difficult to erase, and they will not easily forgive them. I don't understand why the film tells so many coincidences and accidents. I feel that the main story of the film, the characters throughout the whole, and the events that happened are inevitable. Yesterday, today, and the future will exist and will happen. Although time has changed, the form may be different, but the essence will not change, and it happens every day. As long as there is desire, human beings can never get rid of loneliness and pain, mistakes and regrets, hurt others carelessly, and then try their best to atone for their sins.

Just when the story of the movie was inexplicable and depressing to the extreme, a rain of frogs fell from the sky. I checked on the Internet, and this weather phenomenon has happened in European history. From a scientific point of view, it is nothing more than a tornado that blew a group of frogs over. Amazingly, this is also recorded in the Bible, saying that the Egyptian Pharaoh was rebellious and arrogant, and refused to obey the repeated requests of God's messengers Moses and Aaron, and God brought ten disasters to Egypt. The frog rain ranks second in the top ten disasters. The frog was originally a god worshipped by the Egyptians, and God’s rain of frogs was a judgment against the Egyptian gods. The frog rain in the movie is a kind of redemption, all dangers are resolved, all hatred and urgency are relieved, and the audience sees some hope. Many Western films are full of religious overtones, hoping that religion will resolve conflicts. Magnolia has a beautiful and noble reputation in Europe and the United States. Is the name of the movie to say that despite the many weaknesses of human nature, even bad deeds, there is still a high level of existence.

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  • Arne 2021-10-20 19:02:26

    I didn't expect the ending to be like this, but it was reasonable. 3 hours does not feel long at all. The PTA in 1999 has such a mindset, and the dialogue between man and God in "The Blood Is Coming" is really not accidental. When everyone’s desperation is brewing to the highest point with the background music, perhaps only sudden spectacles can calm all the unhappiness that has occurred in the world.

  • Cassandra 2021-10-20 19:02:26

    More than forty minutes later, I saw a long shot similar to the special cow in the BSG MINI.

Magnolia quotes

  • Jim Kurring: A lot of people think this is just a job that you go to. Take a lunch hour... job's over. Something like that. But it's a 24-hour deal. No two ways about it. And what most people don't see... is just how hard it is to do the right thing. People think if I make a judgment call... that's a judgment on them, but that is not what I do. And that's not what should be done. I have to take everything... and play it as it lays. Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail. And that is a very tricky thing on my part... making that call. I mean, the law is the law. And heck if I'm gonna break it. You can forgive someone. Well, that's the tough part. What can we forgive? Tough part of the job. Tough part of walking down the street.

  • Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: You look like you have money in your pocket.

    Thurston Howell: Maybe I'm just happy to see my friend Brad there.

    Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Just throw some money around. Money, money, money.

    Thurston Howell: This sounds threatening.

    Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Do you have love in your heart?

    Thurston Howell: I have love all over. I even have love for you, friend.

    Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Is it real love? The kind of love that makes you feel... that intangible joy in the pit of your stomach... like a bucket of acid and nerves running around... making you hurt and happy and all over... You're head over heels?

    Thurston Howell: You lost me with the last couple of cocktail words spoken my boy... but I believe it's that sort of love. Sounds nice to me.

    Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I have love.

    Thurston Howell: A very chatty kind, indeed you do.

    Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: No, I mean I'm telling you - I have love.

    Thurston Howell: Yes, and I'm listening avidly, fella.

    Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: My name is Donnie Smith, and I have lots of love to give.