Jack is dead or alive is a tragedy

Julien 2021-11-11 08:01:14

I still remember the end of the novel clearly: the

Oscars were announced later. "Titanic" won 11 awards including best picture.
But Rose didn't get the Oscar for Best Actress...
even the old Rose... and passed the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
It turns out that what is miserable in the movie may not be unlucky in life.
And Jack in real life, should he "Never let go" to Rose? ...
Maybe he doesn't need to worry about this problem...
because that beautiful brown butterfly...forever flying in his heart...

I was in high school at that time, there was no crow's feet in the corner of my eyes, and there was no girlfriend around me. What I want to do every day is Skip class to practice jump shots on the court. My favorite books are "From Free Throw to Dunk" and "The First Close Encounter", and my favorite movie is "Titanic".

Ten years of time passed like the wind and wheat. A young boy changed, Jack and Rose also changed. When I saw Fanghua's losing Kate Winslet in "Revolutionary Road" reveal her "profound" When she raised her forehead, I was sure that it was time for her to win the prize.

With the wonderful performances in "The Reader" and "Revolutionary Road", Kate Winslet successively won the Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress and Best Actress, and hit the 81st Oscar crown with unprecedented momentum. On the other hand, Leonardo DiCaprio, who is getting more and more blessed, has already taken off his youth idol's coat. The short hair is no longer flowing, the fat-accumulated chin is no longer beautiful, and even the role he plays is no longer dreamy... well, he is completely Transformed into the "Jack" in reality.

So we saw these two screen lovers, who are no longer young, step by step to break our dreams and dismember the epic of love ten years ago to pieces. Eternal love only exists for a moment, and the "heart of the sea" also After all, he couldn't stay in the world. Jack died. It was a tragedy. Jack survived and it was still a tragedy. The difference is only here: the former brings people moving and lingering, while the latter brings people fear.

The latter is true.

At the beginning of the film, the restaurant's night cashier Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) and the actor's dream young literary girl Ai Bo (Kate Winslet) meet. Within 10 minutes, they had become a couple who knew each other well, and the following plot can be completely passed by the famous two and a half minutes of "Citizen Kane": the panoramic shot opens, and the four breakfast scenes of spring, summer, autumn and winter follow one another. However, the marriage of Frank and Aibo is essentially the same as that of Kane and Emily, and then we jump to the most exciting passage of the film:

marriage is about to die, love is about to pass away, and the circle of life has firmly clamped on ourselves. , Everything is calm and without passion, do you choose to hypnotize yourself in the emptiness of despair or bravely seek change?

Aibo chose the latter, with the right direction, but the wrong path. She thought that if she moved to Paris with her husband, this marriage would not die, love would be kept fresh, and life would become fulfilled, and there would be no more desperate emptiness? This is a kind of paranoid superstition: even if they go to Paris, after the initial honeymoon period, they will soon return to their original state, then whether they will continue to move to other places: Munich, Venice or Shanghai? This is a never-ending journey.

Aibo and Frank may be a selfish pair, but they are by no means extreme. The realm of two people being one is impossible to achieve, and it doesn't have to be the case. It is impulsive to give up for others. After a short period of love, you can expect JAKE to die for you. It is absolutely idiotic. Some people say that the tragedy of "Revolutionary Road" is a tragedy caused by the inability to communicate. This makes sense, but in my opinion, its tragedy comes more from the unsustainability of love itself and its impact on unsustainable love. superstitious. If you dig deeper, you will discover how the empty and boring daily life of mankind is devouring your life step by step.

The emptiness and boredom are most of our normal life. As long as you are alive, no one can get rid of it completely, whether you are Kane, Epper or Frank. This is a terminal illness. People can only take some measures to relieve it, but they can't cure it until one day your life is gone, just like Aibo.

The more intense the pain, the more we can truly realize our existence, so we can only hurt each other. If we don't hurt each other, we will fall into the vortex of emptiness, and happiness will be fleeting forever. This is a situation that cannot be changed by promotion, transfer, or sexual intercourse. Aibo should have a deeper experience than her husband.

When Frank ran desperately on the revolutionary road under the night after losing his partner, he lost not only his partner, but also the proof that he could control his life. Those of us outside the image have further lost confidence in humanity: the mediocre man Xue Bo who covets the neighbor’s wife and her ugly spouse, the landlord of the city, Mrs. Jimmings, and her ridiculous family.

We can't see the pity and sympathy of everyone. We see Xue Bo's sorrow. The main component of this sorrow is just a lingering on a period of erotic love; we have seen the arrival of a new neighbor who replaced the Willer and his wife, but it was just a fight. A soldier in the camp; what is even more frustrating is: Mrs. Jimmings, the mother

of the madman John who received a doctorate in mathematics (at least he is willing to speak out, although he is not a good-hearted person)

.

She once saw that they were an "unusual pair of customers" when the Willer and his wife got off the train, and rented them the most beautiful cabins on Revolution Road, while leaving the "trailer houses" on Crawford Road to water. The so-called "little people" of the electrician and woodworkers, but after the Wilers moved away, she said the following:

The main reason why the small house is difficult to sell is because they (the Wilers) greatly reduced the value of the house and deformed it. Window frames, damp cellars, crayons all over the walls, dirty stains on the furniture on the doorknobs.

At this time, the person who listened to her had turned off the hearing aid, and the camera was slowly pushed onto her husband’s face, and something strange seemed to be flowing in those small staring eyes...

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  • Clare 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    This is a metaphor for a contest with a meaningless life. The heroine must die, because human society supports the attitude of responsibility, and the point of all irresponsible behaviors that do not rely on the charity of the lover is death. It can be said that the male protagonist and the female protagonist represent the struggle of the self, whether to live rationally according to the meaning given by human society, or to abandon all meaning and live irresponsibly and bravely? At the end, the death of the female protagonist is actually a good thing for the male protagonist. He can live his down-to-earth and responsible life without any fetters, and brainwash himself (mental suicide) to say that it is meaningful to move bricks in reality. . But the hopelessness of emptiness is really terrifying and desperate, and being able to choose to face this kind of despair (the unknown of death, the despair of flattening and dying), the heroine's courage really moved me and envied me. The story is actually told from the husband of the real estate agent's wife. In fact, he has always known the meaninglessness of life, but he also knows that breaking the disorder is hopeless/bringing death, so he chooses to be stubborn, but he cannot brainwash himself until he finds out when he is old. lived a boring life

  • Jadon 2022-03-26 09:01:03

    That's mariage. In fact, it is the same everywhere, from the initial freshness and expectation to the final mediocrity. Whether it is marriage or work, it is not something that can be supported by an ideal.

Revolutionary Road quotes

  • John Givings: You a lawyer, Frank?

    Frank Wheeler: No, I'm not.

    John Givings: I could use a lawyer...

    Mr. Howard Givings: John, let's not get started again about the lawyer.

    John Givings: Pop, couldn't you just sit there and eat your wonderful egg salad, and quit horning in?

    [Returns his attention to Frank]

    John Givings: See, I've got a good many questions to ask and I'm willing to pay for the answers... Now, I don't need to be told that a man who goes after his mother with a coffee table is putting himself in a weak position, legally; that's obvious.

    Mrs. Helen Givings: John, come and have a look out this fabulous picture window.

    [She walks to the window]

    John Givings: If he hits her with it and kills her, that's a criminal case...

    Mrs. Helen Givings: Oh, look, the sun's coming out!

    John Givings: If all he does is break the coffee table and give her a certain amount of aggravation and she decides to go to court over it, that's a civil case...

    Mrs. Helen Givings: Maybe we'll see a rainbow! John, come have a look...

    John Givings: Ma, how about doing everybody a favor? How about shutting up?

  • Frank Wheeler: [Speaking into a dictophone] Knowing what you've got - comma - knowing what you need - comma - knowing what you can do without - dash - That's inventory control.