The screen saver montage of the male protagonist playing the piano reveals the essence of chicken soup, but I think the problem is more than that simple, this is a fucking pot of poisonous chicken soup. Soul has no soul, everything in it is pipelined, symbolized, and patterned: a pipelined narrative of getting to one place to do one thing to the next, the characters listening to others After a few words, the stereotyped plot advances. The most ironic thing is that the production of human souls in The Great Before set by the main creator is also an assembly line. No wonder the image of the male protagonist seems to be produced from a Hollywood inspirational movie. The same as it came out of the assembly line. The most important thing is that the lifestyle implemented in the film at the end-enjoying every moment of life has become a streamlined enjoyment in contrast with the long-term pursuit of music by the male protagonist portrayed before the film. A moment, in essence, is anti-delayed gratification; it rejects long-term, tedious effort and bit-by-bit accumulation and the sense of accomplishment that comes with it, and instead seeks to pursue fleeting passions and instant gratification.
The image of the male protagonist is a paper man, and we only know his character from beginning to end is "passionate" and "loving music", he is constantly pushed from one scene to the next by various NPCs; or He is just a skin and symbol that is no different from the protagonists of other inspirational movies, which is made to carry the character of "love of music" and complete the narrative and preaching of the film. In fact, "music" is just a symbol parasitized by "love". If you replace "music" with "football" or "movie", it has no effect on the male protagonist's final expression of his life insights. Anyway, as long as " "Love" is enough, it doesn't matter what the specific love is. The male protagonist "loves" jazz, but there is not even a complete jazz tune from beginning to end in the film, it's all fragments, and the soundtrack is mostly electronic music. It seems that even the main creator only regards jazz as a part of the film. optional part.
The image of the male protagonist is a tool for "music", and "music" is the host of "love", so "love" should always be vividly portrayed, right? It is a pity that the film's description of the male protagonist's "love" is also superficial and superficial: it seems that the main creator did not think about what it was like to love something, and did not devote himself to his emotions and life experience. It's just imagining what a person is like when they love something. This makes the male protagonist's "love"... just the most common and vulgar kind of love, just like those used to give characters in games The characteristic cards of different traits are the same; extremely pure, unmixed with other things, and never wavered, so it is also out of reality - it seems that all the difficulties he encounters come from the outside world, from others, and he has no self-doubt. , have not experienced empty love but lack of ability, have not encountered huge efforts to burn, just stubbornly love... However, love that has not experienced hardships and reality tests is hypocritical and imprudent, and from this "love" The passion obtained from the ” is particularly suspicious.
The two scenes before and after the male protagonist's performance with the female star he admires best illustrate this point: the first scene is when he tries to convince the female star to let him perform on the grounds that he loves music, and music is his life. Seeing this, I hope the female star will say something, if music is really the most important thing to you, is it so important to who you play music with and whether to participate in this performance? It's like the sentence in this year's postgraduate English first major essay: "Don't you like it yourself? That's enough." I can't help thinking, whether the male protagonist really loves music, or is music just a tool for him to gain recognition from others Woolen cloth? If it is the latter, it is not surprising that the aforementioned "music" has become a symbol in the film. We don't know whether the male protagonist's love is the love of music or the love of worldly recognition.
In the second scene, after the male protagonist and the female star performed, he asked the female star, "What about tomorrow?" The female star replied, "Tomorrow, we will come back here and perform again." Feel it? And he has already been recognized by the people he admires, so what is the use of music? So the male protagonist retreated, and at the end of the film decided to "enjoy every moment of life", and in the main theme of the ending, the music that should have been the male protagonist's most "love" and that he had been pursuing all his life did not exist I feel it. It seems that the significance of music to the male protagonist is not only a tool to gain recognition from others, but also a tool to acquire freshness, passion and love, but not music itself. In the past, the passion of the male protagonist was almost entirely provided to him by music, and he also longed for the freshness of obtaining the recognition of others from music, so he also loved music and pursued music with his life; but when music could not provide him enough passion and novelty, its place in his life apparently dropped more than a little, from occupying almost all of his life, to being juxtaposed with every other "moment" in his life. Then "music" and "love" in the film are both symbols or tools, and they can all be explained - "music" is not important, the key is to get "love" and then have passion through it; as long as you can get passion , the specific "love" is not important, but the key is to maintain this state of passion, which is important.
This kind of "living in the moment" of the male protagonist is to constantly and actively discover novelties and highlights in life in order to obtain freshness and maintain his passion and courage for life. This is of course also a way to adjust one's current state of mind, but unlike actively facing difficulties in life and finding solutions, these "loves" are symbols that can be replaced rather than specific inputs. Emotional things as the foundation cannot stand the test of time passing, and the passion obtained from it is also fleeting. It is like a drug that is thrown away after use, and cannot be used as a long-term, stable and continuous career. . Will the male protagonist abandon music altogether and find his new "love" and passion in other things? I have no idea. But I know that the "do it again tomorrow" in the mouth of female stars is the real "live in the moment", is the real life - we have to repeat it every day, it is nothing new, unattractive, meaningless, But it is indispensable because it is the touchstone of our true love. Rather than trying to find meaning in a fucking boring, boring, boring life, it's better to admit that only love that has been tempered by time and reality but is still inextinguishable is true love; Fang is a true warrior.
Don't stop.
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