Many film critics think that the main theme of the film is to emphasize the importance of accompanying family members, which is of course not wrong, and this is also the value that this typical Hollywood theme movie tries to convey to the audience. Such values are positive and beautiful, and completely politically correct. After watching the movie, people gained enough warmth and humor, laughter and tears, and then held the hands of those around them with more warmth than before, left the theater contentedly, turned around and continued to devote themselves to the torrent of life. Society continues to function in an orderly manner, and the world still looks as lovely as we believe it to be. That's what the movie aspirin does, and that's why we need movies.
But what if you're not satisfied with that? So, let's take a look at the core of the story with me.
First of all, after owning a remote control for life, what did the actor do?
He can skip the parts he doesn't like. These include daily washes, traffic jams, quarrels with his wife, scenes of his wife's friends getting emotionally out of control, rowdy and lengthy family gatherings, periods of illness, and frustrated moments when the kids cry when gifts are returned and there's nothing he can do.
He can use the button to call up his favorite sunny skin color, and he can change the boss's body shape at will like pinching a mud puppet.
He can also quickly switch to the link he likes. Including accelerating the sexual foreplay to the final victory peak, accelerating the long wait before becoming a partner.
He can also make time stand still at will, such as forgetting the background music on his first date with his wife, so he can't respond to his wife, when he is disbelieving in the face of the boss's words and gets angry but can't vent, when he encounters a hot girl running on the street in the morning , when he wanted to teach his neighbor's son, and his last meeting with his father before his death.
In short, what the male protagonist wants to avoid is actually the things that most people are bored with, such as daily trivial matters, family conflicts and conflicts, workplace troubles, illness, etc., and the things he longs for nostalgia are also common to most people. Expectations, such as the pursuit of career success, the desire for seductive flesh, the enjoyment of sex, and attachment and reluctance to family members. "The Road Less Traveled" begins with the words: "Life is full of hardships." This is a simple sentence, but not many people really understand it, which is why most people feel unhappy or painful in their hearts. Most people think that life should be full of joy and happiness, beauty, health, wealth, fame and status, and perfect love. Of course, these beautiful things can be easily obtained without much effort. So once life is not as good as they want, they will have complaints and doubts, and over time they will form a habit. They always complain that their parents don't give them the conditions to be rich like others, that their bosses are stupid, that social injustice doesn't give them enough opportunities, that the rich are greedy and lazy and only know how to squeeze, and so on. Obviously, escaping and complaining can't solve life's problems, and life will only go on like a piece of shit. Although there is no universal remote control in real life, don't forget that you are always the soul helmsman of the ship of life, and its course is determined by you. So, first learn to accept the life in front of you, whether it is good enough or not, to love it, to have hope in it. If you are not satisfied with the life in front of you, then please don't worry too much, stop complaining too much, try to think about what you can do to change those places that make you unsatisfied, and then act bravely.
At the same time, this film also reminds me of Socrates' deafening sentence "The unexamined life is not worth living". Now, let's try to take a step back, take into account the background of the times, the social and cultural background, and the social system, and carefully examine the life of the male protagonist in the film to see what we will find.
The male protagonist is an architect by profession. He works in a construction company located in the business district of a big city in the United States. He has a beautiful and virtuous wife and two lively and lovely children. He also has a big dog at home. The family lives in a spacious building. In the single-family house of my family, I will gather with my parents and family on weekends and holidays. This is the life of a typical middle-class American family. On the surface, this kind of life looks decent and happy, but in fact there are many suffocating annoyances. The male protagonist's boss is essentially a greedy businessman. He can tamper with the male protagonist's design on the spot in order to meet the unreasonable demands of wealthy clients, and constantly delay the promotion promised to the male protagonist. Surrounded by sexy and voluptuous office girls all day. With such a boss and organizational culture, there is no need to expect that employees' life value, personal health and family relationships will be taken care of. On the contrary, he forces the hero to be unable to participate in his son's swimming competition in time because of his work, and he also abandons the camping promised with the children, and he cannot concentrate on enjoying the time with his family. In addition to this, the hero has to live in the shadow of the show-off of his wealthy neighbors. From time to time, the other side's children show off their newly bought high-tech toys, luxury cars, and baseball skills in a high-profile manner, and this unhealthy comparison atmosphere even affects his younger children. Therefore, the male protagonist buys expensive trendy bicycles for the children on the day he celebrates his promotion, in an attempt to get back some material comparisons.
From this, the male protagonist I see is essentially a modern man alienated by capitalist society and consumerist values, a lovely but pitiful ordinary modern man, just like most of us, in the huge capitalist society machine Struggling with all your might to fight for an ideal and not too ordinary life for yourself. Before choosing the universal remote control for the first time, if the male protagonist had had the opportunity to examine his life in this way, maybe he would not have made such a choice. But from another point of view, in fact, when the male protagonist looks back on his life at the end of his life, it is a process of inspection, and he has indeed gained profound awareness in this inspection. So the second time he faced the universal remote, he decisively threw it in the trash. Unfortunately, such scenes only exist in movies. In real life, everyone has only one chance in life. Therefore, knowing how to examine your life as soon as possible and make a reasonable plan is probably the only way to keep yourself from being unhappy when you reach the end of your life. In today’s era of popular commercial and popular culture, when examining and planning our own lives, we especially need to maintain an independent personality and figure out what life we really want in our hearts as soon as possible. This requires us to read and think more, practice more and try more, communicate with people we think are trustworthy, such as family members, friends and experts in various fields, and evaluate the weight of different factors such as family, career, and life in our own life. Finally, make the choice that best suits your life.
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