Some loneliness is purely self-blaming

Jannie 2022-02-23 08:02:27

■A brush of the feature film "Learning to Drive" (U.S./2014) starring Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson. The film tells the story of the book critic Wendy, who has just been hit by marriage, meets India A series of emotional changes after the driver's license instructor Davin. This emotional work with "learning to drive" as the outline of the story actually contains a lot of rich content about middle-aged marriage crisis, anti-religious discrimination, faith salvation, arranged marriages, and the issue of political refugees in the United States. A career-oriented woman who was unable to master the "steering wheel of life" in her marriage. Through learning to drive, she not only met Davin, a "good teacher and helpful friend" of different races and religious backgrounds, but she also found her own self in the driving of cars. Life positioning. When the red light on the journey of life lights up, do you choose to live in the moment for a while? Or choose to fly through the restricted area with rage? "Learn to Drive" uses a very high-quality philosophical perspective to cut into the decision moment that everyone will eventually face, actively adjusts the direction and bravely tries to explore, the bitterness and sweetness of driving a car is not a metaphor for each Do people have different judgments and cognitions in important life nodes? When the fear on the road comes one after another, the so-called brave move is to face the long challenge of the future and loneliness, just like a person with acrophobia driving a car across a towering bridge, love and courage are the only ones leading to the embrace of God the way. The character setting of the coach Davin in the film not only represents part of the current situation of the political refugee group in the United States, but also conveys the deep thinking about social hierarchy and racial system under the non-traditional religious ideology. The marriage of matchmakers, the game of morality and ethics, the film tells people from a perspective that ordinary people can touch: some people's loneliness is worthy of sympathy, while others' loneliness is entirely self-blaming. [Score: 7.5 points/10 points]

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  • Alexander 2022-04-21 09:03:26

    When Wendy asked Da Wang, who graduated with a master's degree, why he did such a hard job as a taxi driver and coach. His answer was that a better job would require him to shave and cut his hair, which he needs to keep reminding himself of being a Sikh. In a foreign country, it is too easy for people to forget who they are. And we are afraid, always want to forget who we are. Wish I could be anyone instead of myself. why.

  • Luciano 2022-04-23 07:04:26

    Albany Cinema, it turned out to be a movie from a year ago. Is this a second-round cinema? The movie is alright. It's an American-style small, fresh, low-cost light comedy healing film. It's just that the ending is too hastily healed. It doesn't really solve any difficulties, just laugh.

Learning to Drive quotes

  • Darwan: Pass him. Put on your signal, give it the gas.

    Wendy: [she maneuvers smoothly]

    Darwan: Very good. You only need a little courage, and a little gas.

  • Wendy: You know there is a reason some people are alone... Because they deserve to be.