between what you get and what you don't get , chasing to be chased, driving to be driven, this is the eternal theme of life.
Pull away. In fact, all the protagonists in the movie became famous. StillWater was on the cover of Rolling Stone, even though William wrote them as a rookie group who just wanted to be famous. But with the ace manager, musical talent may no longer be the primary condition for fame, and topic hype can really attract the attention of entertainment consumers. As the music critic played by Philip Hoffman put it: You caught up with rock and roll when they were dying, and they won. William Miller also succeeded. At the age of 15, he became the author of Rolling Stone's cover story, although I doubt that he could easily understand the restlessness, passion and confusion of youth after living in such a conservative and peaceful single-parent family for so long. , Arrogance and ignorance...he even just entered puberty! Perhaps, love, bitter love can make people grow up overnight, is the only reasonable explanation. It's her, Penny Lane.
(I don't quite understand why that girl would say to Russel: 20 years from now, we'll only remember Penny Lane. Is she really that important to rock? Although rock's importance to her is unquestionable.)
Penny is the protagonist of this movie: she loves the most, hurts the most, but also experiences the most cruel and real youth. She loves Russel as much as she loves rock. She remembers the lyrics to every song, including the worst ones—love to the bottom, love to the depths, love to the good and the bad. Even if William told her Russel was just taking advantage of him and would lose her to someone else for 50 (cases?) of beer, she would still fly to New York to follow him, conveying her love with dodgy but fiery eyes. When he realized that he could no longer be close to him, he returned to the hotel heartbroken and took quinine to commit suicide. If William hadn't arrived in time, he would have died - no, that night, Penny Lane died. The Penny dancing carefree on the petal-strewn floor with her bare feet, the Penny who likes to snap a camera while you sleep, the Penny half-naked in a coat in summer — oh wait, there's that So much Penny, she left me with so many vivid images - that night, the old Penny died, stripped of her scarred flesh, and grew a new body and a new soul. On the plane that was taking off, she suddenly covered her chest and felt inexplicable uneasiness. She looked out the window and saw William running wildly in the waiting hall, waving at her. At this moment, does she also see love? Not passionate love that devours everything fiercely, but delicate and warm love. Two kinds of love, the same beautiful, have experienced both to have a complete life.
Pulled away again. It's not love that moves me, it's always growth that moves me: breaking with the past, integrating reality into the body, and so on, every step makes you want to die. But love and growth are inseparable, aren't they? Aren't all love stories staged a game of "between getting and not getting, chasing and being chased, and driving and being driven"?
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