In the 1960s and 1970s, there were too many undercurrents. Youth and growth, middle-class oppression and freedom, and the background, is Watergate, sexual liberation, comic books, hippie culture, too many cultural and commercial labels. Looking back after a few decades, there is actually more hazy sadness.
Paul, the boy played by Tobey Maguire, reads Fantastic Four: The End on the subway from New York to New Haven. That comic style reminds me of a beloved postcard from a long time ago. Tobey Maguire was so young at the time, and compared to the later Spider-Man, he was shy and simple.
The white-collar workers at the subway station waiting for the subway during the rush hour, wearing a beige trench coat, reminds me of a painting I saw in a gallery in Chicago. In the comics, there is a vision of high-rise buildings in New York like an abandoned city, an empty subway station, a man in a black trench coat and a black briefcase, and there are several frozen copies of men behind him. In modern society, we have all become the same person with blurred faces.
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