Former glory

Destin 2022-03-31 09:01:09

To put it simply, a successful businessman who has set foot on the peak of his life can not accept the constraints brought by his illness, and he has embarked on a lonely and honest road.
The director used Michael Douglas, a successful and wise face, and countless details to reflect the psychology of the protagonist.
Don't call me dad, don't call me grandpa, for fear of missing an opportunity to strike up a conversation and prove from a woman younger than me that I am young and attractive, both psychologically and physically. Prove yourself smart and capable from accurate inferences about women. Even prove himself by fighting young people.
He proved himself so successfully that no 18-year-old girl was willing to believe that she had anything to do with him, she was unwilling to face him so much that she told her mother twice.
When he met the student in the university, he did not want to see him wasting his youth and encouraged him.
Career-wise, he was reluctant to visit his library because he thought he could do far more than that, and dismissed it. The saddest thing is that because of his quick success, his career can only rely on that woman in the end.
Lonely
In fact, he is not alone. At least he has his daughter, wife and only short friend.
He is so honest about his ambitions and his communication that he is disgusted by people. Those who care about him hope that he will obey his old age and illness. , people who don't care naturally isolate him. From this aspect, he is lonely. At the
end, he went to the library and recognized it, the most successful masterpiece in his life.

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  • Shana 2022-04-22 07:01:55

    Is this lonely or lost or what? The film is not what I expected. . . Haha, Douglas is still very attractive~

  • Eriberto 2022-04-01 09:01:19

    A few lines are really messy, making it difficult for the audience to figure out what the director wants to express! The friendship with an old friend, the relationship with the ex-wife, the yearning love between the two when teaching the otaku, and the incestuous relationship with the rich woman's daughter---loneliness, since you have chosen, you enjoy it!

Solitary Man quotes

  • Jimmy Merino: When my father gave me this place years ago, I used to dream about these girls. Every night, dreams, all kinds of dreams about 'em. But then I'd see them coming back after graduation. They'd come to homecomings, ballgames. They'd sit at the same tables, eat the same food. And I'd look at them and I noticed, they don't stay like this. None of 'em. They put on years and pounds and wrinkles. And I got one like that at home. So. And we can talk to each other. I know her and I'll always know her.

  • Ben Kalmen: You got your little jokes, you know, the Spanish thing, interests are the same, and the studying. But, um, are you getting it, you know, where it counts?

    Maureen: Oh, Ben. Cheston thinks you care about him.

    Ben Kalmen: This has nothing to do with him. He's never gonna know about this. Never.

    Maureen: Aren't you a little old for all this?

    Ben Kalmen: You're still standing here, aren't you?

    Maureen: Yeah, 'cause I'm contemplating throwing this drink in your face. But I'm not going to, because I don't want Cheston to know what you just tried. So you can just walk away. Please.

    Ben Kalmen: Nothing personal.

    Maureen: Hey. That is it, actually. Since you asked, that's what I get from him. Something personal. Besides getting it done where it counts, which he does. Cheston and I reach each other. He's tender and sweet and smart and funny and a million things that you aren't.

    Ben Kalmen: I was once, honey. It doesn't last.