Freedom is so elusive and desirable that the pursuit of freedom is itself freedom.
I read some reviews and said it was a self-salvation movie. I took my hand away from the mouse and wondered how hard I had to exert myself to stop attacking the word redemption.
This film brought me a very moving, moving because of the independent personality of this 90-year-old old man, his loner, outspoken. And the extraordinary comes from the freedom and the present that he carries through his whole life.
Compared with freedom and the present, the maintenance of self-identity is suddenly eclipsed by a lot. This is more like the obligation of being a member of society. It is Eliot Templeton's social struggle in his later years in "Blade". The helplessness of the environment to save a social identity that belongs to oneself, otherwise, the suave, charitable and hospitable in the past would be meaningless. Compared with Earl, he did not completely imprison himself in those fetters and regrets, paid for his granddaughter, and reorganized the activities of the veterans club, etc., just to find and stabilize his social identity. His personal identity is made up of emotional fetters and endless regrets, and what he does is simply to reunite them, and that nature—a commitment to freedom and the present (and, of course, perhaps as a WWII veteran) After awakening), it is his final definition of life.
Some would say that the idea is too extreme, impersonal, and grandstanding. But apart from refining my thoughts in words, how can I be able to persuade a crowd. In my opinion, freedom and the present are inseparable. In Earl's life, I have seen the best demonstrations. When I grow flowers, I only think about growing flowers. When I dance, I only think about dancing, and when I drive, I only think about driving. Live in the moment to no avail. As for why you have to "think", because I think the experience of this moment is yours only when you think about it when you do it.
He lives in the countryside with yellow flowers day and night, in clubs singing and dancing, and galloping along Highway 55. When his plantation went bankrupt, the gardener asked Earl before he left, What are you going to do in the future, Earl simply replied "I never think about the future". It is also this current dedication that gave him the courage to take responsibility. When the lawyer defended it in court, he stood up calmly and said, "I am guilty." With the identity of the ninety-nine-year-old man, and the fact that he is a veteran, kind, no criminal record, and manipulated, it is entirely possible for him to be sentenced lightly or even acquitted, but he does not want to toss, he understands his sin, and he just wants to punish him. Find your current life. Interesting Earl also found freedom in the present, free in pickups and singing, free in mince sandwiches, free in his cheerfulness and humor, he understood that only in bondage can he find his freedom, so he In the feeling of hard, easy life. He lived out a state that most of us couldn't hope for, and most people just looked at it, sighed, and criticized it.
Seeing someone say that when Earl was at the motel and the narcotics cops told "Family is the most important thing", and whispered to his children in court, "Time is wasted and it won't come back" is growth or awareness or The embodiment of realm transformation. Not to mention that growth is always accompanied by life, just talking about these truths that we have heard since childhood, and repeating it to the younger generation when we are in our twilight years, how can we prove that their life is sublimated?
If there is such a person, he knows that smoking is harmful to health since he was a child, but because of various reasons, he has smoked for half his life and was diagnosed with lung disease in his later years. , can it be said that his realm is transformed or sublimated in the end?
Looking back, let's talk about why I'm against equating film with redemption. Earl was able to pay for his granddaughter because he was a drug lord's mule, and he was still estranged from his family, but he was also sentenced to federal prison because he was a drug lord's mule. Earl knows that every trip is a huge amount of illegal income, knowing the law and breaking the law, how can it be related to self-salvation? Completely disregarding the process and results, because of the legend and curiosity of the story, it is related to redemption. I really disagree.
Fortunately, the connotation has been expressed hundreds of years ago:
I dance when I dance, and I sleep when I sleep. Even if I am walking alone in a beautiful garden, if my thoughts turn to things unrelated to walking for a while, I will quickly withdraw my thoughts and make them think about the garden, think about the joy of being alone, and think about myself. Nature urges us to perform activities to satisfy our own needs, and this activity brings us pleasure. Motherly nature takes this into account. It pushes us to satisfy the needs of reason and desire. Breaking its rules is against reason.
Montaigne, excerpt from "Freehand to Live"
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