Love Narcotics: Unbearable Lightness of New Year Movies

Cyril 2021-10-22 14:33:30

On New Year's Day, a person walked to the cinema to watch such a movie under the name of a romantic comedy. It is a bit sad to say it. Fortunately, the message I get in the movie is more interesting than that of friends and love. This movie touted friends and love is adapted from an autobiography called Hard Sell: The evolution of a Viagra Salesman. Hollywood can always change any heavy message into an easy-to-enter entertainment consumption, and I finished watching the movie happily. , The naked and erotic chews are sugar-coated, and the tongue ends in a happy ending before the bitterness of the tongue is tasted. Ignoring the morbidity and burying the conscience drug sales business in the story, the patients who really need drug treatment can only be dying. Relying on the spirit of fellow travellers to encourage and heal the despair of life, after all, who wants to face the reality in the happy end of the year.

The protagonist Jamie lacks the recognition and affirmation of his parents and shifts to satisfy his eager soul with the groan of the female partner in bed; the heroine Maggie suffers from Parkinson's disease because of her jealousy, she cannot expect everlasting love, but can only express love through sex. This is a deeper relationship than a friend, and a drama that is more thought-provoking than love and desire. Therefore, the plot does not fully explain why the two people are stuck in mud for each other, which is personally acceptable. (Actually, because of one scene, Maggie asked Jamie why he made big sales figures with his mother and told him to tell him four benefits. He looked dazed, and she admired him gently and firmly. Love should be this mutual empowerment, moved. I died, I almost cried, so I convinced me why this handsome guy is willing to settle down for this patient.)

Jamie tried all his work, and finally came to the drug sales industry. He needed the skills to burn hard sales at the speed of a match, he needed to pick up girls for doctors, and he needed to use masculine charm to please the little flowers in the clinic that were not noticed to get released. For the opportunity of the drug version, you need to secretly lose your opponent’s goods, you need a gift pen, and you need to bury your conscience to turn the medicine you sell into an addictive antidepressant that everyone depends on. In the film, during Jamie's in-line training, the audience can see large-scale fireworks, singing and dancing, portraying the American drug sales industry as a satirical performance, a business that only relies on marketing. Thinking deeper, the small pill should be the key to saving lives. The businessman can turn it into a candies to relieve worries in the leisure time of schoolchildren, and the flirting holy product that is mentioned after the plot. The goose bumps are all activated. At this time, the audience didn't know what to look at Jamie, should he despise him as a tiger, or should he be excited for him to finally realize himself.

Maggie, who did not appear in the autobiography, became a catalyst for the film's tension. It can be said that without this completely fictional character, this story would not be a movie at all. Her appearance is the turning point of the male protagonist and the key to all touching and erotic entertainment in the movie. Some people say that Hollywood movies can't be accomplished without in-bed shots, nonsensical laughter, and special effects. If it is not considered to be clever, I have to add one more thing, which is the surrealization of love. As a result, we saw Anna Hathaway's breasts, admired her sexually excited expression, fierce groans, surprises to her boyfriend but the fat boy's laughter, and the super-romantic plot of the hero and heroine.

Without "but", there is no tension. Maggie is beautiful, but suffers from Parkinson's disease. The two are fighting fiercely, but Maggie's disease is getting worse and Jamie is finally willing to pay for the woman, but facing a long and painful life Take care of the haze of chronic patients. Maggie accompanied Jamie to Chicago to attend the drug conference. She walked into the anti-conference organized by Parkinson's patients by mistake. The remarks made by the patients were humorous and warm, giving Maggie hope for life. She was on the road. The part of telling Jamie that I love you almost made me cry. It was not because she finally confessed to her who was an adulteress of the century, but because she was so energetic, compared with the fear and loss of her lover, how would their future live. Then the tragic plot begins. They seek medical treatment everywhere, hope and disappointment continue to overlap, they use drugs to maintain the future, if it is to be filmed, it will be another Oscar-winning film of "love and heart".

At the end, Jake Gyllenhaal’s dangerous driving and his love confession should have moved people’s plots, but I couldn’t help thinking about the old people on the bus who couldn’t afford the price of local drugs in the United States and had to travel long distances to Canada. Fa doesn't want to think about the patients who used their symptoms to laugh at themselves in the anti-conference meeting. This pair of lovers have to face the future of drug development in the United States. The despair and mental pressure of long-term patients are far from the heavy burden of the New Year's Eve movies and romantic comedies. .

Because of this, the content of the whole story of love addiction is seriously out of balance, the light comedy is too heavy, the complaint of pathological drug market is too politicized, and it is too uncomfortable for chronically ill patients to talk about love, ten days Shiye can't finish it.

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Extended Reading
  • Jane 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    Anxiety and despair plagued by inexplicable illnesses are beyond the comprehension of healthy people. Then instead of holding on to him tightly, she pushed him away. Because "I need you more than you need me, it's not fair." Maybe it's not right to catch anyone, until that person is willing to accompany us to suffer.

  • Creola 2021-10-22 14:41:44

    Mickey Minnie who wants to see the nude must watch this movie! Hollywood's most Mickey Mouse pair! Love and elixir: Anne Hathaway, Jack Gyllenhill. Blue Valentine's Day: Michelle Williams. Brokeback Mountain, three missing one, Heath Ledger is gone, so he took this kind of thing. .

Love & Other Drugs quotes

  • Jamie Randall: [Last lines] I used to worry a lot about who I'd be when I grew up. You know, like how much money I'd make or, umm, like some day I'd become some big deal. Sometimes, the thing you want most doesn't happen. And sometimes, the thing you never expect does. Like giving up my job in Chicago and everything and deciding to stay and apply to med school. I don't know. You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed... forever.

  • California Man: Parkinson's, right?

    Jamie Randall: Oh, no. No.

    California Man: No, your wife.

    Jamie Randall: Girlfriend. Stage One.

    California Man: Good days and bad days, huh?

    Jamie Randall: Mostly good days. You?

    California Man: Wife. Since '73. Stage Four.

    Jamie Randall: You got any advice?

    California Man: You don't need my advice.

    Jamie Randall: Come on. I'm very trainable.

    California Man: My advice is to go upstairs, pack your bags, and leave a nice note. Find yourself a healthy woman. I love my wife. I do. But I wouldn't do it over again. The thing nobody tells you, this disease will steal everything you love in her. Her body, her smile, her mind. Sooner or later, she'll lose motor control. Eventually, she won't even be able to dress herself. Then, the fun really begins. Cleaning up her shit. Frozen face. Dementia. It's not a disease, it's a Russian novel.