Nine times out of ten things in life are unsatisfactory, how can we be perfect?
The strange old man Melvin played by Nicholson suffers from a very serious obsessive-compulsive disorder. People with obsessive-compulsive disorder are troublesome to others, but a useless struggle to himself. His words hurt others, and he must be trapped in the life habit of booking classes. When everything is going well, he feels good physically and mentally, but when there is a little obstacle, he feels that the whole world is a mess.
Neighborhood gay painter Simon, who was hated by his father as a child for his mother modelling nudes for himself. After a long period of cold abuse, he was kicked out of the house by his father when he was an adult, but he lived a life of painting and love. The lively and lovely puppy lived fairly well, until one day he suffered bankruptcy and disfigurement due to the introduction of wolves into the house, and even the only puppy got close to the person he hated and became divided, and his life fell into Valley bottom.
Carol, a single mother in the restaurant, has to take care of her sickly and well-behaved son, and on the other hand, she hopes to find a lover who can support each other. However, the people she recruits are shunned because of her son's relationship, and she finds her son because of family difficulties. They are also unreliable night-shift intern doctors. Life is full of unhappiness, but they have to stick to it with a smile on their face, and occasionally break down and cry.
The combination of these three people is destined to be a combination of mutual redemption. They meet each other, hate each other and help each other until everyone can reach the other side that is still bright, and even then, their lives are just as good as possible That's it.
In order to become a "man worthy of love", Melvin begins taking psychotherapy drugs that he has always resisted, which is as good as possible under an imperfect compromise; Carol hesitates and backs down, and decides to accept it that she hates again The strange boyfriend who also loves is also as good as possible under imperfect compromise; Simon calmly accepts the imperfections in life with the help of the two, and regains the brush and hope of life, which is also an imperfect as much as possible. good.
These three people show a cross-section of personal, family and life, and the troubles we can feel, but as long as people are not isolated islands, we can meet each other, and we will definitely feel the hope that life gives us.
The film is a light comedy, which wraps up the hardship and suffering through a layer of cute and pleasant sugar coat. It is the strange old man Melvin played by Nicholson who takes on this responsibility. Melvin is the first protagonist of the whole film, and is the thread that leads the other two protagonists. He is neurotic, mean, eccentric and painful. He will throw puppies in the garbage, a bar of soap must be thrown away after washing his hands, and every time the door is closed Had to be locked, had to go to the restaurant to order at the same time every day, sat in the same seat, brought his own plastic cutlery, had to be entertained by Carol, if not he would become anxious and cranky. Much like old Sheldon, right? Always makes us laugh out loud.
The key to the whole film is Melvin's characterization, which is shown through many details. Nicholson's performance is great, and the nervousness of being careful and satisfied, disgusting and disgusting when washing his hands is vivid. It is this character that connects the whole story. The progress of the story does not progress because of the need for progress. Every step of development is due to Melvin's neuroticism and obsessive-compulsive disorder that must be "perfect". He had a puppy because he was essentially a very intimidating person, he helped Carol's son find a doctor because he had to be entertained by Carol when he went to the restaurant, and he sent Simon back to his parents because he felt Carol and Simon get some sleep and Simon will get better. Although this may gradually hide some emotional changes that he did not feel, but at least subjectively, he did these things because of the unbearable obsessive-compulsive disorder. It is this success of characterization and the rationality of character behavior that make the film both reasonable and smooth.
In addition, when the three of them were in the car, when Simon told about his tragic experience, Melvin always interrupted the details that were trying to attract Carroll's attention, which was very cute. Carol said that she would never sleep with Melvin. Although Melvin didn't mean that, he often lost sleep because of this matter at night, so he ran to talk to Simon. , but unexpectedly reached a sad resonance, which is also very cute. It is these details that make the film and characters real and lovely.
It is true that life is not beautiful and unsatisfactory, but if you can touch and feel others, if you can help and be helped, and you can accept certain compromises as good as possible, maybe life can be called perfection.
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