Thoughts on "Flying over Longevity"

Gerardo 2021-12-09 08:01:23

Maintaining youth and immortality are the goals that mankind has always pursued extremely. Women care about their beauty gradually aging over time; men are afraid that they will not be able to do their careers when they are aging.

The film is very ironic. The film made in 1992 is a very hot topic even if it is put in the moment.

Meryl, who has no acting skills and beauty, has been loved many times but always carries the inexplicable provocative Helen, a cosmetic surgeon who is bewildered by beauty.

The three of them have very distinctive personalities. Alice loves vanity and never compromises means for the sake of purpose. Helen has been robbed of her boyfriend by Alice many times, and her character is also contemptuous, unyielding, and provocative. The plastic surgeon was confused by beauty and left his girlfriend and married Alice. As a result, he lived a life of weakness and incompetence for 14 years.

Alice and Helen drank the Zhuyan water for their own purposes, and for their own benefit, they wanted to induce the doctor to drink the Zhuyan water. It may be 14 years of incompetent life, so that he could think more about his life. He knew Drinking Zhuyan water, he will be incompatible with the people around him, he will be lonely, he will watch the people around him age and die, and how terrible it is to become an ugly, immortal, immortal monster, he chose to refuse.

After watching this film, the deformed values ​​of the next part of the rapid development of the current era can be found in the three protagonists. The popularity and great interests of the entertainment industry have tempted many young people to leave their homes and flock to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangxi. Nowadays, there are cosmetic and plastic surgery hospitals in various cities. After all, today with such mature makeup techniques, many men and women are still dissatisfied with their looks. I choose to change myself through surgery, so I feel that my life will be different in the future. In the end, everyone who came out of the hospital was like plastic models produced on the assembly line, with no features and stiff faces. Did they really live the life of their dreams? Not at all!

Vanity is haunting and intrigue with others. In an impetuous society, people will lose themselves, but the important thing is that they should know how to reflect on themselves, find their true self, and be who they are. Falsehood will only last for a while, it will not last forever, and will eventually be seen through.

The meaning of life is not in the endless time but in the present. It is much better to live out of yourself rather than what you are in the eyes of others than a life of mediocrity or a life of hypocrisy.

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Extended Reading
  • Ernest 2022-04-21 09:02:08

    Death, beauty, is a problem for them.

  • Eliezer 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    Except the scene where the doctor was rescued after Meryl Streep was more funny. . .

Death Becomes Her quotes

  • [Ernest wake up next to a swimming pool dressed in a suit. Men enter the room as Lisle swims naked]

    Lisle Von Rhuman: I'm glad to see you are awake, Dr Menville.

    [She exits the swimming pool]

    Lisle Von Rhuman: I hope you don't mind, that Harry and Dick had to dress you. You were improperly attired for the occasion

    [One of Lisle's men wrap her in a towel]

    Ernest Menville: What occasion?

    [Lisle drops the towel, exposing herself]

    Lisle Von Rhuman: I'm throwing a party upstairs. I throw one every spring, for my clients.

    [One of Lisles men dress her in a gown who them approaches Ernest]

    Ernest Menville: Alright, okay. What do you want with me?

    Lisle Von Rhuman: To you. I would like to give a present. The gift of life and youth, forever.

    [Lisle unveils the egg container]

    Lisle Von Rhuman: I saw your wife and friend. You did brilliant work. Show me your hand.

    Lisle Von Rhuman: Come on, I won't bite.

    [Lisle pricks Ernest's finger with the dagger]

    Ernest Menville: Ooof..What are you doing?

    Lisle Von Rhuman: I'm loving you.

    [Lisle pulls the ribbon from the egg container which unveils the vial of potion, which she takes out and places on the table. Opening the vial, she dips the tip of the dagger into the potion. She runs the tip of the dagger over the wound of Ernest's finger which causes the potion to enter his blood stream which heals his wound and rejuvenates his hand]

    Ernest Menville: My God...

    Lisle Von Rhuman: Oh, Oh thank you!

    [Lisle picks up the vial and gives it to Ernest]

    Lisle Von Rhuman: But don't be modest. That's what you do. This is what you've always done. Stop time in people's faces and in their hands. You are like Don Quixote, tilting at nature's windmill. Drink it. Go on

    [Ernest removes the top of the vial as Lisle's Men take a knee]

    Lisle Von Rhuman: It is the completion of your life's work. You gave other people youth, and wasted your own. Drink, and you'll be able to work again forever. Drink. Drink Dr Menville. You owe yourself another chance. Drink. It's the right choice.! The only choice!

    [Ernest prepares to drink the potion]

    Lisle Von Rhuman: Drink! SIEMPRE VIVA! LIVE FOREVER!

    [Ernest hesitates]

    Ernest Menville: Then what?

    Lisle Von Rhuman: What?

    Ernest Menville: Then what happens?

    Lisle Von Rhuman: What?

    Ernest Menville: I don't wanna live forever, I mean it sounds good, but what am I gonna do? What if I get bored?

    Lisle Von Rhuman: What?

    Ernest Menville: And, what if I get lonely? Who am I gonna hang around with? Madeline and Helen? What if something happens to me? What if I get maimed? What if I get shot? What if someone pushes me down. What if I fall down a flight of stairs or something?

    Lisle Von Rhuman: But you'll never grow old.

    Ernest Menville: Yes. But everybody else will. I'll have to watch everyone around me die. I don't think this is right. This is not a dream. This is a nightmare! You people all have to be stopped!

    Lisle Von Rhuman: Dick! Tom! Harry! Get the potion from him!

    [Ernest picks up the dagger and throws it at the light switch darkening the room and escapes as Lisle's men try to stop him]

    Ernest Menville: Relax. He won't get far. Not at his age.

  • Eulogist: The Menville Marriage Counseling Clinic, the Menville Center for the Study of Women, and of course, Ernest's AA chapter will carry on long after his death.