Where is the road?

Michael 2022-03-29 09:01:10


The young British generation in the 1970s was called the Beat Generation. Rebellion and confusion filled the hearts of this generation of young people. The time of the film "Cemetery Crossing" is also set in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. The film presents different life paths and explores the value of life by telling the past, present, confusion and choices of three young people, Freddy, Bruce and Snooker. meaning.
In the past,
Lu Freddy , Bruce, and Snooker were inseparable friends, often drinking together, picking girls and even fighting. At the beginning of the film, the three people were imprisoned for fighting, so the film gave us the initial feeling that the three of them belonged to "the raccoon dog on a hill". However, maybe the three of them were indeed gangsters with similar life goals when they were young, but as the movie progresses, the differences in the values ​​of life between the three people are clearly differentiated.
Freddy is a man who wants to get ahead. His low economic and social status makes him unwilling to be a punk like when he was a child, so he gave up his factory job and chose to work as a salesman for Kendrake's insurance company. . This career change actually represents a change in Freddy's life values. If Freddy's life concept is that of a gangster who is willing to be mediocre and do nothing, then Freddy's new career choice actually means that he is inclined to the mainstream value standard for judging successful people in this society, that is, wealth and wealth. career as the core value concept. In Freddy's own words, "living in a mansion of tens of thousands of pounds, launching a Rolls-Royce home". Of course, in addition to the change in values, Freddy's life model has also changed. He abandoned the free and unrestrained way of life of the gangsters and chose the common way of life of successful people, namely "work, marry, buy a house".
Contrary to this, Bruce is a rebellious egocentric who pursues a life very different from Freddy's. On the one hand, Bruce doesn't like the standard of successful people in society, and career success doesn't mean much to him. So when Freddy said at the elite party that he didn't want to be in the factory anymore, Bruce disagreed and said what's wrong with working in the factory. Bruce, on the other hand, is looking for a free life, and he hates external constraints and a fixed way of life. Therefore, he is very disdainful of the norms of this society. Even if he was caught by the police and put in jail again and again for making troubles, he didn't take it seriously. Obviously, the value of life that Bruce pursues is a completely self-centered value, and the unconstrained pursuit of what you want is the most important thing to Bruce.
Snooker is a kind of person between Bruce and Freddy. What he pursues is neither the dream of success of "having a successful career and getting ahead", nor the dream of freedom of "being completely arbitrary and disregarding others", but. It is an ideal of "hoping to be recognized by others". On the one hand, Snooker is often not recognized by others because of his poor looks. When he is with Freddy and Bruce, he is more like a "follower". Therefore, Snooker wants to attract the attention of others by actively expressing himself, such as cold humor. This is similar to Freddie. But on the other hand, Snooker and Freddy are not exactly the same, Snooker still has a kind of almost blind self-confidence. Even though he's been hated time and time again for his bad jokes, he never tires of it. Snoke has a blind self-identification of the value of his actions. To a certain extent, Snooker is similar to Bruce. Therefore, on the whole, what Snooker pursues is an "eclectic" life value concept.
From the past life paths of the three protagonists, we can see that the film focuses on presenting us three different life values. That is, the "mainstream social value concept with career and wealth as the core" pursued by Freddy, the "self-centered" life value concept pursued by Bruce and the "eclectic" life value concept pursued by Snooker. However, the movie is obviously more than simply stating these three values ​​without any criticism. In fact, as the film continues to advance, Freddy, Bruce, and Snooker have all come to the intersection of life one after another. Through the choices of the three of them at the intersection of life, the film not only arouses our thinking, but also makes a choice between three life values.
Choices at the Crossroads of Life
After Freddy chose to be a successful person with a worth, he originally thought that his life would develop with his set goals, that is, "work, get married, and buy a house". But the experience in the company and the appearance of Julie have shaken his life goals. In order to promote the company's insurance products, Mike used rhetoric to make the two old couples give up their travel plans to buy insurance, but the result was the tragic death of her husband. An old employee who did his best for the insurance company was thrown away like garbage by the insurance company, and suffered the eyes of the company staff. These experiences made Freddy feel that the idea of ​​success centered on money and profit was a loss of morality and conscience. And Kendrake's wife's soul-like eyes and Julie's ideal of traveling the world make him feel that the so-called successful life is so monotonous, boring and boring. Therefore, Freddie resolutely gave up his dream of success and chose to travel around the world with Julie. Such a life choice also represents a second shift in Freddy's life values. He abandoned the original mainstream social value concept of "career and wealth as the core", and rushed to the idealistic value concept of pursuing self. As Freddy repeated in the film, the Arabic phrase "Throw your heart forward and catch up with him". By telling about the changes in Freddy's life values, the film also criticizes and questioned the so-called mainstream social values ​​of "career and wealth as the core".
First of all, are career success and possession of wealth the only criteria for measuring human value? The answer given by the movie is no. On the one hand, excessive pursuit of career value will ignore the existence of other values, such as family. The reason why Kendrake never said thank you to his wife was because he felt that this kind of thing was meaningless. To him, home was just a vassal and had no value. On the other hand, the instrumentalism brought about by the worship of wealth fills people's hearts, life has become an investment, and everything can be measured by wealth. This can also be seen from Kendrake's body. When Freddy heard Kendrake say it was a pity that the painter who painted his family portrait died, Kendrake's answer was that his death would make the painting go up in price, and it was a good investment. When his old employee can no longer serve him he can throw it away like a garbage, because such a person is worthless. Success in business and possession of wealth are of course the embodiment of the value of life, but when career and wealth become the whole of life, you may be successful as a boss or manager, but as a person you may have failed completely.
Secondly, is there a fixed pattern or direction for the realization of a person's life value? The answer given by the film is also no. As mentioned earlier, Freddy chose a relatively fixed way of life while choosing the mainstream values ​​of this society. That's the so-called "work, get married, buy a house". But the film questions that way of life. Does a person's life have to live in this way, is there any other way in life? Is this life too monotonous and boring? As Freddy told his parents, there are other things to do in life than work, eat and watch TV. Freddie's final choice to travel the world with Julie is actually a different way of life. In a sense, this way of life is an idealistic way of life, symbolizing a free and dynamic life, and the film recognizes this way of life. The movie is to encourage everyone not to follow the unchangeable path planned by others, and everyone should choose their own life. Of course, the results of everyone's choices may be different, and some people choose to work realistically, so he becomes a rich man like Kendrake. And like Freddy, who chose to chase after his ideal, he may live a very ordinary or even poor life in the future. But the movie doesn't actually focus on the consequences of a person's choice. What the movie focuses on is that everyone should make their own choices when facing their own lives. So, at the end of the film, Freddy and Julie drove the rolling train to an unknown distance. The movie doesn't say what will happen to them at the end, all the movie leaves us is the smiles as they leave.
However, although the film criticized the extreme mainstream values ​​of "career and wealth as the core" and encouraged people to dare to choose the life they want, the director also denied another extreme value that was opposite to this. That's the totally egocentric value that Bruce espouses. In many respects, this value concept has fallen into the opposite misunderstanding of the extreme social mainstream value concept of "career and wealth as the core".
First, success in career and possession of wealth are not the whole of life, but this does not mean that life should be mediocre and unrestrained. Bruce has no pursuit of success in his career, so this leads him to be willing to be a handyman in the factory, and be a punk when he has nothing to do. The film itself is not actually demeaning the work of the factory. What the film criticizes is Bruce's attitude towards life. A person can be without a good job, but not without a positive attitude towards life, otherwise he is a walking dead.
Second, a person can pursue his own value without caring about the opinions of others, but this does not mean that each of us can ignore the value of others and the society. In a sense, the pursuit of career value is the pursuit of social identity or the identity of others, while the pursuit of self-worth is just the opposite, it is the pursuit of self-identity. Bruce is the latter, but he goes to extremes because of it. When Bruce can't stand the way others look at him, he will make a big move, because he ignores the value of others and doesn't know how to understand others. Bruce was released from prison time and time again, but was arrested again and again for fighting and making trouble. This is because he ignores the value of this society. For him, the so-called social norms are nothing at all. In the movie's view, Bruce's behavior is an anti-social behavior, and such a life is undoubtedly wrong.
Third, although there is no fixed life pattern in life, this does not mean that everyone's choices are unlimited and arbitrary. Bruce wants to live his life as he wants, but he loses his sense of responsibility because of it. At the beginning, Bruce was reluctant to forgive his father, because he felt that his father was too incompetent, and his wife was taken away and he did not dare to fight back. When Sheriff Wayne scolded him, he realized that his father did not dare to take revenge on the person who stole his wife, but because his father felt responsible for his son. Therefore, although the movie admits that everyone can choose their own life, sometimes everyone's choice is not only their own, but also other people, family and even society. At this time, we should know to take our own responsibility Responsibility.
By comparing the life choices of Freddie and Bruce in general, we can find that the film does not actually favor any one of the values ​​of life, but criticizes both concepts. But that's not to say the film pursues an eclectic view. If so, the movie should be in favor of Snooker's way of life, as his conception of life is typically tepid eclectic. In fact, the movie also questioned and criticized Snoke's life concept.
If the extreme social mainstream values ​​will make people lose themselves, and the extreme "self-centered" values ​​will make people willing to be mediocre, then the eclectic life values ​​pursued by Snooker will Put people in an embarrassing situation. Snooker wants to be recognized by others, so he constantly uses his cold humor to win the attention of others, but after each failure, he doesn't know that he should learn to change and be a promising person, but blindly rely on his own blindness. Self-confidence comes from self-comfort. When his "old injury" is almost recovered, he starts to sell his cold humor again, and when he fails, he repeats the steps he just said, so people like Snooker are often stagnant in life. Not moving forward, in a tepid state, he will always just keep wandering between "social identity" and "self-identity" without finding a way forward. When the clerk who was not very good-looking told Snooker that he liked him, Snooker didn't take it seriously, recognizing that he could find a better girl. But after repeated setbacks and failures, Snooker realized that he should choose a girl who truly understands him.
Therefore, although the film does not agree with Freddy and Bruce's past values, the film is also critical of Snoke's attitude towards life. The film's attitude towards the value of life is not an eclectic attitude, but a hope to find a suitable point between social identity and self-identity. This point is to respect the value of others and take responsibility for yourself on the premise of finding the life you really want!
Conclusion
If there is a sentence to sum up the movie "Ceremonial Crossing", I think it can be expressed in a sentence from the movie. "Throw your heart forward, don't forget the people around you while chasing its footsteps!" Maybe that person can find his own way.

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  • Bethany 2022-03-26 09:01:15

    A good choice to kill time at night, it's very useful in a bland way, it was originally for watching Uncle La, and I wasn't disappointed. At the end, the girl's brown dress is so beautiful, and the last shot is also beautiful. In short, there is no expectation or disappointment!

  • Theron 2022-04-02 09:01:15

    I love it so much, all kinds of British beauty in the 1960s and 1970s, TOM HUGHS is so handsome! Everyone finds their own way

Cemetery Junction quotes

  • Mr. Taylor: [to Freddie] You've got no respect, and I've told you about it a hundred times. I know why you're doing it now, because he wears a suit, he thinks he's better than his dad. Well, that don't mean nothin' mate, and one day he's gonna come down to work at the department and he's gonna realize he's just like the rest of us.

    Freddie's Gran: You listen to your father, he knows what he's talking about. You'll never amount to anything.

    Mr. Taylor: Exactly.

    Freddie's Gran: Because he never amounted to anything.

    Mr. Taylor: What'chu mean, I never amounted to anything?

    Freddie's Gran: You know what I mean.

    Mr. Taylor: I don't know what you mean, I've got two jobs.

  • Freddie Taylor: [about graffiti] You do the cocks, you do the tits, I'll do something with my life.