The charm of little people

Joana 2021-11-22 18:54:23

I always feel that Americans have a natural illusion about road trips. Three unconnected reporters pursue an unreliable advertisement. In the end, everyone's life changes more or less. Since movies focusing on small characters and small emotions have received more and more attention from Hollywood and even Oscars, there are more and more movie themes of this kind. Life with a glass of wine, Napoleon, a big man, super bad. . . . All ages and levels have been excavated to speak out.

Film skills and narrative techniques are not special, but the universality of the characters makes the audience feel like they are. A passive girl who has just graduated from university, she is in internship in a newspaper office and encounters a life-changing news. In fact, others can do everything. Dang’s whimsical advertisement for a neuropathic patient, but there was something that touched her, so that she was willing to follow an offensive cynical reporter and a dull and dull Indian boy to find out. And that so-called scientist is actually a supermarket salesperson who has fallen into his own fantasy. The time machine is a weapon for him to go back in time to find his first love, and it has never appeared. Even the authenticity of his first love turned into a bubble in the end. In fact, the whole movie has been working hard to create a small person who failed in real life until the time machine really appeared in the end, overturning all the previous inferences. The movie gave us an ideal ending for the small person.

In fact, this time machine is completely unimportant to us. The audience knows that this movie is not about science fiction, but about the past and the present, reality and ideals. The characters in the movie can take the time machine to go away, but the current situation of our lives cannot be changed by the time machine. Even if we can change the past, it may not be as good as the present after the change. This is an inconclusive topic. So the movie didn't give us the answer. It seems that two people have found each other. Love has replaced the shadow of the past, but no one knows what they will do when they go back. Maybe you can get to know each other earlier?

But I didn't expect this movie to give any answers or explanations. As I said at the beginning, this was originally a movie about small people and small emotions, as long as it brings us enough warmth with a knowing smile.

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  • Blaise 2022-04-22 07:01:20

    In the last ten minutes, that sci-fi flavor came out a little, but the time travel at the end was really exciting.

  • Daphney 2022-04-21 09:01:58

    Small fresh science fiction~

Safety Not Guaranteed quotes

  • Darius: What time would you go back to? If you could.

    Arnau: I don't know. I'm fine here.

    Darius: I would definitely go back. Everything cool is gone. The Aztecs. People killing themselves for each other. You wouldn't want to see the dragons and the elves, fighting each other in the magical forests? Come on!

    Arnau: No.

    [He puts his hand on her shoulder kindly]

    Arnau: That wasn't a time.

    Darius: [Rolls her eyes] Yeah. Right.

  • Jeff: You never done coke or anything, when you're studying for an exam?

    Arnau: Cocaine? Are you crazy?

    Jeff: What is it you study?

    Arnau: Biological and life sciences.

    Jeff: Makes sense. So what are you doing, interning at a magazine?

    Arnau: Diversity looks good on an application for grad school.

    Jeff: You know what, we gotta get you laid on this vacation. That's what's gotta happen.

    Darius: Vacation?

    Jeff: I mean, work trip. Whatever.