I see myself in Ivey, and I'm certainly not as knowledgeable as he is, no doubt about it. I can't even fully understand the words "left wing" and "bat description" that people talk about in movie reviews.
I only saw a part of Ivey in the movie. He is negative, contradictory, and his specific experience and growth belong to an unknown category. The contradictory behavior I see from him, to me, is very much like the "a little unique" that I am striving for in reality. It's not a contradiction, it's a lack of self-confidence in his heart that he thinks that "you are unique and worthy of being loved." When dealing with his peers, he jumped out of the original perspective to examine the whole situation, realized that he was smirking, and psychologically satirized the other party as boring and exaggerated. At the banquet of the literary tycoon invited by his ex-wife, he hoped to hide in the room and watch the NBA or even have sex. Under the control of Annie's "ignorance" expecting to change her, and then appearing so dazed and flustered and angry when she becomes better and leaves him. If the starting point is not confident. It's not the arrogance of being aloof, but the inability to tolerate being integrated into it, enduring loneliness, but eager to try. The eagerness to try, perhaps manifested in the failed insert discussion segment when he went to Annie's for dinner.
Even when he pretended to be sick for refusing to give awards to people he didn't like, I kind of admired it. His sarcasm came out in his own way, and he was able to feel his disgust and make it happen.
In fact, he knew what he wanted since he was a child, but he also learned to use a fake smile mask in society.
Maybe he was an artist at the top.
And I, just a narcissistic murmur.
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