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Francisco 2022-06-05 16:41:44

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Storm weather cloud image montage

An Illustrated Book of American Small Towns in the 90s

Aerial photography shows the helplessness of the petty human

Asking the name of the tea twice shows that Daniel knows nothing about himself and is at a loss during puberty-the weak Daniel can be arranged to cry once. The meditation at the beginning of the chapter is suspected of emphasizing sorrow with new words.

The neon of the Ferris wheel or the dilated pupils under self-paralysis

Emptiness produces vulgar desires to make up for the vacancy

The rich, the car, the beauties, and the drug crimes express their empty desires-why the lack of sex

Trying to sell cocaine but encountering calculations supplementing Daniel's loss and unawareness

Love is affiliation, but family blood is inherently uncut, but forcibly twisting this bond makes people alienate, but love saves people in this sense-the director tries to prove

Polaroid film slides at the time of the riches speed up the rhythm to satisfy the audience

Trying to express a beautiful love relationship-shooting the male and female protagonists from the perspective of the back seat of the car

And the erotic yellow straw and red car lights hidden behind the camera

Seems to show the loyalty of these feelings

It's just an illusion in the night, a short pleasure to steal by concealing the truth

Just like the neon in the bar, tempting you

It's the Ferris wheel of the carnival that turns off everything and nothing

The money earned from marijuana was lost to cocaine and the luxury car was also smashed.

Wake up with a dream in midsummer when the autumn wind blows

This is a modern Cinderella story

All kinds of appearances faded, revealing the eternal reality, forcing people to face and not to be evaded

How do people perceive themselves and deal with the shaking of the foundation of life (family home life)

Is the determination to rebuild the only way

Maybe leave

It’s easy to leave, but it’s the price of burying the burden in the bottom of my heart.

Faced with all the confusion, shelve it and no longer have the answer

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Extended Reading

Hot Summer Nights quotes

  • Daniel: I think you should start collecting the fireflies again.

    McKayla: You can't hold on to everything.

    Daniel: I think some things you can.

    McKayla: [pause] Then I hope you're good at being hurt.

  • [Last lines]

    Narrator: To this day, I can't tell you why I looked out that window. But when I saw her standing there, somehow I knew *neither* of us would ever be the same. I'm the last person in town to see her alive. And I don't know how I feel about that. I really don't.

    [pause]

    Narrator: When she left town, she killed the dreams of every boy whoever knew who she was. Even if they were little dreams, like catching a whiff of her perfume, or tasting a piece of her gum. Or even, may be one day, that she would know our names.

    [pause]

    Narrator: She was last seen in a dinner outside Peoria, Illinois and headed west. I wonder if she got there okay... wherever she was going. And I wonder where she is now, and how she's doing. I guess... I'll always wonder.