Of course these are intuitive brain projections of the movie. Hollywood has never lacked the irony of the hypocritical side of the American middle class. Almost every year there are movies of similar themes that get high attention. This film, which was born in the late 1990s, is not only full of this tone, but also dystopian. Deeply rooted in the movie. The TV show "Happy Valley" represents Americans’ yearning and obscenity for the golden age, but it is also a whitewashed portrayal of the current reality. The 90s in reality are full of impetuousness and moral collapse, and helpless people desire one. A stable and ideal society idealized the harmonious and beautiful side of real life, and the marathon "Happy Valley" appeared.
This black-and-white reality show that reflects ordinary American families in the 1960s has been serialized for hundreds of issues. The content of the story is boring, but people in reality get a chance to escape from reality. David is obsessed with it because of his powerlessness and avoidance of reality, so that when he enters the world of "Happy Valley", his confidence is greatly released, because he understands this idealized better than reality. Kingdom; on the contrary, it is his sister Jennifer’s attitude towards the world-as long as there are men, Who care!
The conclusion drawn by materialism is that perfection is relative, but people pursue absolute perfection. Therefore, under this cognition, the more perfect things are, the greater the confusion for people and the greater the danger. The pursuit of order and harmony seems to be the ultimate pursuit of the American middle class. Therefore, countless housewives carefully manage their gardens in small towns far away from the city, waiting for the return of their husbands from work. The family happily had dinner before going to bed. Kiss the child on the forehead before welcoming the new day. This is the ideal form. The ideal model takes the perfect case as a model. It firmly occupies the high ground of morality and norms with a flawless image, and has become the education and unspoken rules of the middle class. But the problem is-perfection is relative. For David, "Happy Valley" is perfect relative to reality, but not absolute; for Jennifer, the disorder of reality is better than the constraints of "Happy Valley". Based on this, two people with diametrically opposed pursuits have become the disruptors of order together.
The movie uses a very clever element-color. People in "Happy Valley" will only show color when they make real changes. Projection to reality is nothing more than a different kind of order. Most supporters of order were curious about it at first. However, as the number of people in color increases, the unknown fear and the destruction of order have divided society, and the movie here also alludes to it. Due to the segregation system that prevailed in the United States in the 1960s, the world of "Happy Valley" was divided into "colorful" and "no color", so the film used historical projections to narrate the collapse of the "Happy Valley" order—— The black-and-white crowd’s violence against the colored crowd and the struggle of the colored crowd. Of course, color as a progressive thought in society proves that in the black-and-white "Happy Valley" everyone is inherently hypocritical in order to comply with the order, and at the same time won the final victory. Just like the moment when the TV turns from black and white to color, it announces the end of the golden age of the United States and the arrival of the 1970s.
The reality of the 1960s is far less beautiful than people remember. In addition to the rapid economic growth that accompanied the entire 1960s, there were also awakening social movements and the threat of the Cold War. An image was perfectly projected on Jennifer and collapsed. The new generation was the pioneer of social innovation before becoming the beat generation, and when the new social change was completed, these people who did not find a position under the new system became the objects that the system needs to be improved; and David is more like The endorsement of the new order itself-they promoted social change, but after the change was completed, they returned to conservative and became the object of the next wave of innovation. As a result, the roles of Jennifer and David have also been exchanged.
The ending of the movie is quite meaningful. When the Parkers lamented the beauty of the new society, they ended up with Mrs. Parker’s lover. The establishment of the new order did not break the old social structure. The couple still respect each other as guests, and their lovers are still lovers. After social innovators gained their own freedom, they did not abandon their old values, but instead became a factor of instability under the new order. What will it look like from now on? After they get the freshness of the moment, they will still paint their own new "Happy Valley", which is their ideal future.
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