What is a happy life?

Leonard 2022-03-24 09:02:13

The first thing that struck me in this 1983 Oscar-winning film was the huge gap in economic development between China and the United States. When the Chinese were still using glass bottles and monkey rubber bands for transfusions, Americans had long used disposable plastic bags. It can be seen that at that time The development of the oil industry in the United States and the abundance of oil resources per capita. The ward configuration of Emma when she was sick in the early 1980s is the same as that of the special ward of the top three hospitals in China today.
But no matter whether the means of life are rich or not, the content of human troubles is always the same, such as mother-daughter relationship, mother-child relationship, husband-wife relationship, extramarital affairs, should a woman be a housewife, or should she pursue herself financially independently? There seems to be no standard answer to these questions. One of the metaphors about what happiness is in the movie is a painting of Renoir that was passed down by his mother, Aurora. Renoir's paintings are themed around depicting happy women and children. However, she is not the happy mother in the painting, but has always been the child who has not grown up. She has both maternal love and attachment to Emma. She did not always control Emma's life. When she judged from her own life experience that Emma's love was not a good husband candidate, she objected, but she had no choice but to protest by not attending the wedding. It's childlike anger. In the end, Emma still loved her scumbag, and before dying, her eyes were focused on him who was sleeping, completely forgetting Aurora's worried and expecting eyes.
It's hard to say that Emma is unfortunate. She is optimistic and easy to be happy. She is a mother's spiritual support when she is young. Although she married a liberal arts man who is not very talented, she gave birth to three children one after another, and her life was so difficult that she couldn't collect more than 40 dollars. Paid to the supermarket cashier, but she never complained, even though she was terminally ill, she laughed happily because her husband used an ugly tie, which even made this useless and unconcerned man realize that he might not have Cherish the woman around you.
Is Aurora happy? The blows she has experienced are not necessarily few. She needs company very much, but she lost her husband so young that she has to find a way to get the consent of the young Emma and sleep with the child in the same bed, but she has never remarried, and she does not trust men? Have you suffered? None of these films account for it, but Emma's cheerfulness should be inseparable from the relaxed environment Aurora creates for the child's growth. Maybe she blocked a lot of unhappiness for her?
Maybe a happy life has never been the same. When you come to this world and try to find what you want, you will be lucky, but you will lose your life.

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Extended Reading
  • Amparo 2021-12-23 08:01:03

    What an interesting mother, her independent spirit reminds me of my mother, don't you love them, are we still daughters?

  • Kennith 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    The form of the maiden mother is very similar to this movie, but the maiden mother is too sweet and sensual to the point of hopelessness

Terms of Endearment quotes

  • Aurora Greenway: Come closer... come closer... come closer...

  • Operator: I have an emergency phone call from Mrs. Aurora Greenway in Houston, Texas for Mrs. Emma Horton.

    Sam Burns: Oh no!

    Emma Horton: No, she always does this when the lines busy. It's fine.

    Operator: Will you release?

    Sam Burns: Oh, uh, of course, operator... uh... it's alright... we were just talking.