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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