I left my birthplace at a very young age and came to this big city . I have never left since, and I regard this city as my hometown. . Everything in this city is changing rapidly-houses, streets, and people’s clothing and topics. Today, it has completely changed, becoming a brand new and fashionable city by our standards.
There are no relics, everything is covered. Deprived and clean.” I
recall the beginning of this melancholy novel by Wang Shuo because it was instigated by the copywriting of the Kodak roulette slide projector at the end of the first season of "Mad Men". In the episode, after the secret of the heart is caught by his men, after learning that the brother of his non-blood is hanging himself, and after indirectly learning that his wife’s unhappiness stems from his own inconsistency, etc., the male protagonist, as the creative director, conceives the idea. A "warm and affectionate" advertisement leads consumers to regain the feelings of family and relatives. This time, he used "nostalgia", a soothing elixir that will always work.
The inspiration of "Nostalgia" is that it can provide us with a psychological space in the dimension of time to keep in touch with the "golden age" of our former homeland, allowing us to temporarily alleviate the lack or loss of personal integrity and ethical certainty. , Anxiety, restlessness, loss, and loss caused by the collapse of the unified values that once endowed interpersonal relationships, social concepts, and personal experiences.
The TV shows the floating state of the world shown by the advertising industry in the 1960s in the United States, so dazzling and fascinating-the “talent” who is obsessed with struggling to climb up and uses nasty means at all costs, knows how to develop A female secretary whose own resources are designed to find a superior destination, a boss who will not let go of any chance for pleasure, carefully hides his very sexually oriented male white-collar workers, and a depressed housewife who never knows or does not want to know her husband’s inner world is also considered The young and middle-aged literary and artistic pretending to be, and their "marry a good match to find the beloved" type of marriage and extramarital relations, the social customs of patriarchy,.... In an extravagant and dazzling world, "survivors" can especially show incredible charm. For example, the male protagonist Dan Dreber, his experience and character may not be as perfect as his dignified appearance, but his sensitive and quiet heart always retains a soft world, and at the last moment of being threatened, he resolutely chose Ningwei Jade fragment; for example, a girl who is out of place with a colleague, Pegg Olsen, is independent, kind, and self-improving, adhering to his own principles of survival and breaking into Manhattan, which is insulated from the city's changing speech and skillful long-sleeved dance. I am not prepared to watch the next few seasons of this American drama because I care about the fate of these two people. Ah Q believes that this can avoid the possibility of watching "Canglang Water" again.
I also believe that simplicity, authenticity, individual freedom and autonomy of human beings... will all be crushed by the wheels of the broken age. With the help of the sweet amber imaginations established by "nostalgia", our tired soul boat The ship seemed to be approaching the harbor of the hometown, but it might have been pushed farther away.
For some reason, Dan Dreber always reminds me of another man who had been "active" in New York for the past 40 years, Jay Gatsby, who was sober after the dazzling lights and indulgence. Scattered, they fell into endless sorrow together, Gatsby was disillusioned, and Dreiber was lonely. They probably don't have the good mental and physical, but also quite despicable self-healing ability.
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