Being old is cool?

Thomas 2022-04-20 09:02:10

If I think of this euphemistic tragedy as the romance of a liberal arts student, I would be deceived by the name of the movie. "Liberal Arts" has to add the word "love song" in the Chinese translation. What do you mean by romance? Did you fall in love with a 19-year-old female college student across the ages, or did you end up sitting on the sofa with the proprietress and contemplating the scene of our old age?

We don't mean to call the latter romantic, just as movie posters don't make it that way. Romance is the first half: it was she who carved classical music for him, and then hoped that he would exchange handwritten letters; it was when he added background music to his life, everything small and small became friendly and novel; it was she who was moved that these works turned out to be Written by humans; even their debate, whether to read for interest or because it has to be a good book...

So the second half of the story is a downright tragic one. The power of reality, it pulls a literary man-boy from God into life. This tyrant made the female teacher who was reading Keats' poems realize "disappointed", and made those who didn't want to retire to feel that they were always a 19-year-old professor leaving the place they loved. They repeat over and over again, to grow old, BEING OLD IS COOL, DON'T BE GENIUS DYING YOUNG... We are moved by the lively characters and lively lives, especially if you are a liberal arts student like me, those complaints are also From time to time we would laugh and give us a middle finger - like that female professor of romantic literature, sarcastically smoking an afterthought, and saying, "Did you think we were going to linger all night and read to you Wordsworth. Is it?" But I never thought that it was because we didn't have the ability or the courage to maintain romance and this pure poet's world. "Only Byron is okay, because he wants to go to everything he sees." How deep is the sadness behind this. I would like to translate this film as "The Lamentation of the Liberal Arts" better.

I'm a total appearance society, at an age where I'm afraid of getting old, staying in school and getting old before feeling social. I will also think about everything in the dark, and seeing the feeling of getting old and helpless in the answer in Zhihu, I am determined not to be like that. I also want to take shortcuts, sometimes look at myself like a half-finished product, and want to build my own little world by attaching to other people's lives... Then the story tells me the reality (which is not much surprising to us), and I accept it with joy I knew it already, and finally sighed at the inscription at the beginning of the movie: "Those who gain more knowledge gain more sorrow."
At this time, the roommate replied coldly: "Is this sentence not Kenqi?"

It Build a world we all aspire to but dare not aspire to, then break it and tell you that's a mistake. "Hey, young men, you can feel sorry for yourself." So I happily fell into it. This lure of ordinary happiness after betraying the lure of romance. I betrayed the poet lying alone in the hospital bed, the sun shining on his pale skin.

We also fear early death and loneliness.

Where is the "wise man" who wears a hat at night?

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  • Misty 2022-03-29 09:01:06

    The campus is so beautiful!

  • Kaya 2022-01-11 08:01:22

    "Hey kids, so this is your mother."

Liberal Arts quotes

  • Jesse Fisher: What is that? What are you drinking?

    Nat: H to the 2 to the O. You should have some. Gotta stay hydrated.

    Jesse Fisher: [drinks some from his bottle] Thanks.

    [Nat starts to do weird rituals while he touches Jesse's body. Jesse initially looks freaked]

    Nat: You with me, bro?

    [there is a change in Jesse's facial look as he realizes that he likes Nat]

    Jesse Fisher: I like you, Nat. Thanks for being my friend.

    Nat: Easiest thing in the world.

    Jesse Fisher: I enjoyed this. I'm off.

    Nat: You go get her, man.

    Jesse Fisher: Huh... Okay.

    Nat: Be love, man. Be love!

  • Jesse Fisher: Dear Zibby. Even after all these months, I'm still half expecting a letter from you to be sitting in my mailbox. I'm sure you have little left to say to me at this point, but your letters are very much missed. I know I hurt you, and I'm sorry. Any bone headed moves that may have lead to confusion were not malice. That said, I've been feeling lately the stirrings of something I can only call growth. It's a tribute of sorts to say that someone sixteen years my junior helped me to finally start acting my age. A wise man in a red hat once told me: "Everything is okay." I didn't believe him then, but for some reason I'm starting to.