Three unhappy lives deduce a perfect plot

Alden 2022-04-22 07:01:03

There are three main characters in the story: the hero, the heroine, and the supporting actor.

At the beginning of the film, the foreshadowing of what kind of person the male protagonist is.

Cleanliness, obsessive-compulsive disorder, lack of sympathy, these keywords can be clearly attached to the male protagonist.

These labels are mainly reflected in his relationship with his neighbors.

The neighbor is the male supporting character in the film, a talented painter, young gay, mild personality, and a puppy.

The male protagonist's life is very monotonous. He works on writing at home, walks around the ground with splices, and when he goes to the restaurant to eat, all the waiters go around her, except for the heroine in the movie.

In the first scene in the restaurant, the heroine excitedly discusses two topics with customers, one is her son and the other is her evening date.

The heroine dated a handsome guy at night. The scene is in the heroine's small apartment. Through this scene, the background of the heroine is further explained.

A family of three, the heroine herself, the heroine's mother, and the heroine's son who suffers from asthma.

The three live in a crowded apartment, which is 1 bedroom and 1 living room in modern parlance!

The boyfriend and the heroine made out, but he touched the vomit of the heroine's asthmatic son. It was unbearable and broke up with the heroine.

This also lays the groundwork for the story that follows.

The life of the supporting actor pushes the story of the film forward. The supporting actor was robbed and injured in his own home, so he had to be hospitalized. His puppy was left unattended and entrusted to the actor.

Slowly, the male protagonist no longer hates this puppy.

The male protagonist gradually integrated into a normal life from an isolated person. Suddenly, one day, he went to the restaurant to eat and found that the female lead was not there. When I inquired, it turned out that the son of the female lead was sick again.

The male protagonist finds the best doctor and treats the heroine's son with only one purpose: to let the heroine go back to work as soon as possible, because in this restaurant, only the heroine can provide him with services.

The heroine who accepts the favor of the hero is grateful to the hero, and the heroine thinks that the hero is interested in herself.

However, at this time, the male protagonist simply thought that he needed the female protagonist to serve him in the restaurant, that's all.

People are emotional animals. Next, the relationship between the male and female protagonists has undergone subtle changes, and this change needs to be heated up.

In order to cooperate with this kind of heating, the director made the supporting actor bankrupt, and the supporting actor needed to go back to his parents to get their help. At this time, the actor got a chance to drive the supporting actor back to his hometown.

At first, the actor refused, but the heroine thought it was a good travel plan, so the hero changed his mind and decided to send the supporting actor back to his hometown, but asked the heroine to accompany him.

The hero, heroine, and supporting actor embarked on a self-driving tour. During the trip, it was thought that the relationship between the hero and heroine would gradually heat up, but the characters in the movie lived too happy, and the audience would find it boring.

The heroine has been throwing olive branches to the hero, but the hero is always puzzled and breaks up every time.

At the end of the journey, the heroine said to the hero that we should not have any relationship in the future, and the hero was unhappy.

Encouraged by the supporting actor, the actor drove downstairs to the heroine in the middle of the night to express his thoughts.

The two walked together and kissed deeply on the street corner.

This is the end of the movie, and the stubborn old man is full of affection, leaving the audience with countless thoughts.

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As Good as It Gets quotes

  • Melvin Udall: [to Verdell the dog] Don't be like me. Don't you be like me!

  • 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.