In "Public Enemy," the hero played by Johnny Depp has a line that really touched me: "The most important thing is not where a person came from, but where he is going. "
He played John Dillinger, the feared bank robber at the time, full of wisdom and arrogance, so he could throw such a sentence. In fact, many people have been trapped in his "where he came" all their lives, and never dared to think about where he "will go".
Take, for example, another Johnny Depp movie: A Different Sky .
In it, he plays a diametrically opposite character - a small-town youth who goes with the flow.
Remember what makes you feel warm?
home?
His home is a big, single-family house, with red tiles and white walls, located on the countryside in the suburbs. Looking out from the window is a vast sky, grass-covered land, a few trees with branches, and a slight wind.
A little further is a straight road, and he often takes his younger brother to squat on the side of the road to watch the cars. When the car came, they cheered, as if they were no longer lonely, but it was only for a moment, the car whizzed past and never stopped.
Here, poverty and desolation, no one's destination is possible.
tree?
The trees in the field are like the house's only companion, they grow so tall and fragile.
My younger brother likes to sneak up on the tree and sit on the longest tree trunk and laugh secretly. He is looking forward to it, everyone is looking for him urgently, and everyone needs him so much at this time. Then he slipped from the tree and fell in front of everyone, welcoming everyone's anger and joy.
He even wanted to climb higher. The big water tower in the town, soaring into the sky, he avoided everyone's attention several times, climbed up the ladder, climbed to the top, and waved to everyone, as if he could embrace everything. At this time, he was very happy. The police car came, the people watching the fun came, the family came, and the brother came.
Wilderness?
Finally, a speeding car stopped here, with a very beautiful girl in the car. She was thin, but had short boyish hair.
She invited him to sit on the grass and watch the sunset in the distance, the beautiful sky at sunset. However, he was delayed by something, and all he could see was the dim field after the sunset.
She was destined to leave, she was running out of time for the convoy. The stop at the moment, only because the car broke down - a nasty accident.
And he was destined to never leave.
Home is the mother. More than ten years ago, my father committed suicide, and my mother was never happy again. She kept eating, was constantly grieving, and gained 600 pounds. Because she was afraid of being laughed at by others, she did not go out for several years and stayed on the sofa at home forever.
The older sister had to quit her job, take care of all the housework, take care of her mother, and take care of her younger siblings.
And he has to do a lot of work.
The tree is my brother. The younger brother is an intellectually disabled child. He is about to turn 18, but he still makes himself dirty every day. When bullied, he will not fight back. He will shout the same sentence over and over again. He is completely incapable of taking care of himself.
So he had to take his younger brother with him when he went to work. Every day when I go home, my unstoppable task is to bathe my brother.
Wilderness is a lover. To be precise, the road on the field is a lover, and it has been leading to an unknown distance.
She took him to see the sky he had never admired, and she let him dive into the water with his clothes on. She asked him what do you want the future to be like. She hugs him and his family, then says goodbye to him.
He suddenly found out how much he really wanted to run wildly in the field, how much he wanted to rush out of this place along the road.
His sick mother, he has no future brother, his poor sister and ignorant sister, his home and the trees next to it, he wants to stay away from them all!
Everything that makes ordinary people feel warm and safe is a cage and a burden to him.
He doesn't deserve true love and dreams because he can't chase them.
His kisses are always passive.
The young Johnny Depp played this character very naturally. There was no suffocating grief in his eyes, but looming helplessness.
He doesn't actually love the married woman, but he doesn't say it;
He actually likes the short-haired girl, but he doesn't say it.
He never thought about having his own opinion, just like many of us, is there any decision that is really for ourselves?
Study hard and go to university.
Find a stable job and get married when the time comes.
After getting married and having a child, you can also have a second child if you have the ability. …………
When you think about it, it's not really your choice, it's what you think "should be".
After a long time, you will find that you are not unhappy, but you will not be very happy either.
Just like the boy in the movie, he lit a fire and watched as the flames devoured the house where he grew up. He is not sad, because there are memories and melancholy; he is not happy, because this decision is not for himself.
He was for his mother, who died, but the 600-pound body couldn't be transported. So for her decency, let the house disappear with her.
From now on, the pressure on his shoulders can be a little less. But he still had to take his younger brother to stay by the roadside, and he still lacked the courage to chase.
The English title of the film is "What's Eating Gilbert Grape", and the hero's name is Gilbert Grape. What about you, What's eating you?
PS. The 18-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as "mentally retarded brother", and was amazed by the audience. However, I think Johnny Depp's performance is more natural, because there are routines for acting as a fool, but the role of the male lead is easy to play superficially and act like that kind of bitterness and hatred.
Depp understands the character more deeply, and the sadness of this character is that there is "no ego", and people who do not have ego don't grieve. Or rather, he is a good fit for the role, because he has melancholy eyes.
And many years later he played the bank robber in "Public Enemy", also a tragic figure, but the opposite. Thieves have too much "ego" and are destined to be extraordinary. His "love" and "chasing" are too intense, so it is so sad when he finally falls.
He always said to his lover, "I will never leave you", "I said I would take care of you, I will do it" to his lover. When he was lying in a pool of blood, he finally squeezed out with all his strength. The last sentence "byebye blackbird."
When we first met, he danced the first dance with her, and he said to her "you are like the blackbird in the song".
He died of his pursuit and love and became a legend for a generation.
And most of us are the ordinary people in "A Different Sky", looking up at the legends of others and lamenting our own weakness.
The sky is beautiful in an instant, but I can only miss it.
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