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Danes love to drink, especially beer. The film begins with a group of teenagers running a race by the lake, drinking a case of beer during the run, and the shaking camera follows their steps, as if you can smell the alcohol across the screen. The alcohol made them sing, dance, hug each other, revel on the subway and handcuff staff who came to maintain order on the subway bars. Alcohol makes this group of young people fearless. But the protagonist of the film is not one of these young people. Our protagonist is named Martin, who teaches history in a high school. The only friends are three colleagues. To the students, this teacher is dull and uninteresting, with miserable face always written on his face, and always wrapped in gloomy and boring. Like a cold drink in a bar. No one listened to him. Outside the school, Martin is also like an inconspicuous shadow. He doesn't even care about his wife and children. The silence makes him ignore him, and no one cares about his loneliness. Martin danced jazz ballet as a young man, but now refuses to do a few simple steps at a friend's birthday party. And his friends of the same age also endured life to varying degrees, living a repetitive life day after day. Life is like an hourglass. In middle age, they continue to lose their fun and vitality, leaving only work and buying diapers for their children. They are first husbands, fathers, teachers, and finally themselves. After half a lifetime, these middle-aged people have faced the same crisis invariably. They began to drink to relieve their inner distress. The first, the second, the third...until the alcohol numbs their tense nerves and makes them happier, bolder, and more interesting. Then they thought: Why not "improve" their lives with a little alcohol? So, they started the "Alcohol Project", where validators needed 0. 05% blood alcohol concentration. At first, the alcohol seemed to work like magic, as Martin drank in class, and the students were amazed at his transformation and immersed in his lectures. The wine also seems to have begun to revive Martin's love in name only, and his wife has found her lover's former charm in the excited Martin. The first cup, footsteps are light; the second cup, the volume is raised; the third cup, there is a smile on the face; the fourth cup, the music is heard in the mind; the fifth cup, dancing; the sixth cup, the eighth cup, the tenth cup Cup... the sound of the outside world has become unimportant, and the drunk has its own place to go. Make no mistake, the alcohol program failed. After all, alcohol is not a panacea, not a rejuvenation pill, it can only make people feel better, but it cannot solve all real problems. Even more addictive than alcohol is the illusion of a better life, so the four of you would want to drink more to maintain that illusion. There is a fictional psychoactive drug "NZT" in the movie "Never Ending", which can allow the user to use 100% of the brain's ability in a short period of time, but its side effects are also very strong, although people know the risk. Still rushing to get NZT to take it at any cost. When something feels "great", it is difficult for people to give up the thing in order to maintain this pleasure, and eventually a psychological addiction. Alcohol is the low profile version of NZT in The Alcohol Project, and when abused indiscriminately, it gets out of hand and trouble ensues. The four people's sips turned into binge drinking (the movie's original title, Druk, means binge drinking in Danish), but the illusion of a better life from drinking is just a short-lived beauty. Tommy, the last of the four, boarded the boat in a drunken state and drowned. It is too difficult for middle-aged people. Compared with the Danish uncles in Northern Europe, middle-aged Chinese people are afraid that it is even more difficult. When our generation enters middle age and enters the trap that society has set up early, you will be a social animal of 996 and a leader’s dog-leg. If you want to be promoted, you will need to raise your salary and pay off the mortgage; you need to have more blind dates while you are still young. Find someone who is right for your family and let the elderly rest assured; if you want to have three children, you will be required to teach each child’s English in the future. When weekends come, you will have to work three jobs by yourself, teaching English to young children, primary school English, and middle school. In English, people are too tired to teach children and they don't even get paid. You say, "How can you do that? You have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars without paying. You should be tired. It's all for the sake of your children. That's enough." Maybe there is no time to drink. The most common occasion is to toast the boss and accompany Party A to drink. If you are drunk, you must not be completely drunk. You must maintain a flattering attitude and be careful not to say the wrong thing. usual thermos cup From time to time, add a few more wolfberries to keep it healthy. The difficulty for middle-aged people is that they must always maintain their dignity and vent their anger behind others. The German teacher at my university, in her thirties, is always delicate and decent. Every time she sits in the front row of class, she always sees a similar small brooch on the placket of her different suits. Once in class, she went out to answer a phone call and went back to the classroom to continue the lecture. Her voice became hoarse, and even her voice was shaking. Under the podium, we immediately bowed our heads and screened our voices, daring not to say a word. Ten minutes were extraordinarily long. The four words "midlife crisis" are just a general word, but each individual has its own difficulties, and we have no way of knowing it. Although "Alcohol Project", in its most conspicuous sense, narrates the midlife crisis and the use of alcohol to drown sorrows, but as a film with more symbolic meaning than plot narration, you can also discuss alcohol symbols, people, etc. Dilemma and Philosophy of Existence. Crisis has always existed. It doesn't mean that it slowly pops its head out of the water when you are middle-aged. It has been running through each of our lives in different ways. It’s not just middle-aged people who are in crisis. Just like when you were a teenager, you were anxious about credits and exams, and you were also afraid of failing to pass the exam and not getting into college. It was like being excluded because you didn’t fit in with the group when you were young, and the only thing you noticed was that you were not welcome. And the person who held your hand was your gym teacher (Tommy), and then he fell into the sea and drowned; and the old dog that Tommy kept incapacitated can also correspond to old age. Lonely and powerless (white-haired dogs send black-haired people). There is certainly a reason for these characters (and dogs) in the movie. Perhaps, anxiety and helplessness are like a thread running through and connecting our different stages of life. Perhaps our resistance to these crises will not change our life will be and always will be a tragedy. A few lines of poems at the beginning of the film have already set the tone of the whole film. Youth is just a dream, and love is just something in our dreams. After waking up from the dream, youth is gone, and love also disappears. Like geometry? "Youth" in poetry is not so much a stage of age as it is a passion. In "Alcohol Project", this passion is maintained by drinking, but people cannot be drunk for a lifetime, and if you drink too much, your dream will become a nightmare, so when you wake up from alcohol, you wake up from the dream, and then youth - or passion - quickly gone, and the love that followed it quickly turned to ashes. Yes, the wine in the movie refers to the "youth" in the poem. To be more specific, the "wine" represents the passion that burst out from the inside after they get drunk, which is a small part of life. Happy life (and most of it is unhappy unhappy). All passions are short-lived , from the time we were cast into this world, we were forced to prepare for that eternal failure. So is this movie really that pessimistic? Of course not, at the end of the film, the remaining three attend Tommy's funeral, and the children sing songs of mourning for the dead. Then the students took to the streets to drink and celebrate graduation, the shadow of death was dispelled by the joyful energy, and the three survivors joined their team, drinking and chatting with each other. Then Martin did a dance he hadn't done in years. What kind of dance was that? It's hard to express, but this is the most passionate scene in the whole film. You can feel him dancing a dance towards death, paying homage to his dead friends with short-lived passion, and at the same time challenging the passion to dissipate eventually. The gloom and daze, he was jumping vigorously, spinning rapidly, again using alcohol and failure to resist, jumping unrestrainedly and unrestrainedly. This is a kind of declaration from Martin, who is saying with jumping steps: Failure is inevitable, but at this moment, I want to retain my passion and regain my youth. So I was moved to write these words. What's more touching than defeating failure is that there is no possibility of success but still desperate. At this moment, Sisyphus, who knew it was impossible and could only push the stone repeatedly, decided to take the initiative to push the boulder to the top of the mountain. The background music played at the end of the movie is the same as the one at the beginning, but the melody of What a life sounds, which means that it is no longer the tireless youthful carnival of young people more than an hour ago, but a mature soul dealing with time, nothingness and harmony. Those who fail do not surrender. "At least I'm lingering, and I'm having a blast." There is wine today, drunk today, worry tomorrow will worry tomorrow. As soon as the melody of life sounds, it means that it is no longer the tireless youthful carnival of young people more than an hour ago, but a mature mind that does not surrender to time, nothingness and failure. "At least I'm lingering, and I'm having a blast." There is wine today, drunk today, worry tomorrow will worry tomorrow. As soon as the melody of life sounds, it means that it is no longer the tireless youthful carnival of young people more than an hour ago, but a mature mind that does not surrender to time, nothingness and failure. "At least I'm lingering, and I'm having a blast." There is wine today, drunk today, worry tomorrow will worry tomorrow.
Life is too long, and at this moment, I just sing about wine.
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