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The retrospect of human nature led by love: the transformation of feeling a person
Daphney 2022-04-21 09:01:19
Yudall, a lonely old man who is not good at getting along with others, pretends to use constant verbal attacks on others to protect himself and lives in his own world. He has extreme cleanliness, which is why he has a conflict with his neighbor Simon. After entering the door, he has to lock the door, wash his hands and change several bars of soap, bring his own utensils to eat, and don't walk on the sidewalk... . . . all kinds of eccentricities that are incomprehensible to others, revealing his own closeness to the world. It was as if he himself thought about what love is and how to describe the divine emotion of love. Perhaps because of the needs of his works, or perhaps because of his deep desire to explore what love is, the key is that he has taken the step of exploration. As if he later said that he would never return to the original world, in the process of exploration, he gradually stepped out of his own narrow world. In the process, Simon and Carroll, one gave him confidence, and the other gave him the motivation to move forward. Just like what Yudell himself said in the restaurant at the beginning: you make me want to be a better man. But it was not all smooth sailing during his exploration. It was as if Carol ran over in the rain that night and told him: I am not going to sleep with you. And he said the wrong thing in the restaurant (he thought that love was a relationship between a man and a woman) and thought that Carol would have a relationship with Simon... Correspondingly, he also experienced various troubles: When Carol came in the rain to tell him that they were impossible, he couldn't sleep, and in the morning when Simon and Carol spent the night together, he asked angrily if they were in a relationship, and when Carol called, he regretted walking out of himself. The world...and Simon, as an artist, gave him excellent guidance at this time. In the end, he transformed step by step, and finally walked out of that narrow world and found his own happiness.
Extended Reading
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Melvin Udall: [to Verdell the dog] Don't be like me. Don't you be like me!
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Melvin Udall: Now, I got a real great compliment for you, and it's true.
Carol Connelly: I'm so afraid you're about to say something awful.
Melvin Udall: Don't be pessimistic, it's not your style. Okay. Here I go. Clearly a mistake.
[shifts in his seat uncomfortably]
Melvin Udall: I've got this, what, ailment? My doctor, a shrink that I used to go to all the time, he says that in fifty or sixty percent of the cases, a pill really helps. I hate pills. Very dangerous thing, pills. Hate. I'm using the word "hate" here, about pills. Hate. My compliment is, that night when you came over and told me that you would never... all right, well, you were there, you know what you said. Well, my compliment to you is, the next morning, I started taking the pills.
Carol Connelly: I don't quite get how that's a compliment for me.
Melvin Udall: You make me want to be a better man.
[pause]
Carol Connelly: [stunned] That's maybe the best compliment of my life.
Melvin Udall: Well, maybe I overshot a little, because I was aiming at just enough to keep you from walking out.