This article is written by T2
"Big River Love", I saw it 18 years ago. Brad Pitt also influenced me for a long time at the time, and the chic and uninhibited nature of "Legend of Autumn" also filled my youth with memories.
At that time, watching this movie, I was so fond of Paul, the youngest son played by Pete, that his death was a gorgeous end.
Times have passed, and now I am a father of three children. Revisiting this movie is no longer the state of mind of the year.
Although the plot is not complicated, it is full of life, life is actually supposed to be like this, but it is also full of emotions. Father and son, mother and son, brothers, couples, all tell the extraordinary in the ordinary.
(The young Paul in the picture is a child star Lushev, so young to sell cute)
Fathers are traditional fathers, and I like fathers like that. Be harsh but not violent with your child. With a strong cultural heritage, it is also very possible to educate children. But the two sons embarked on very different life trajectories.
At first, the eldest son, Norman, was competitive and fought, but later became calmer. The second paul worshipped the eldest brother, and learned from the example, from quiet to stubborn. The eldest went out to study for six years and didn't return, and I thought he was going to get lost. After returning from school, he found himself again and met love. Paul returned home to see his brother handsome and handsome, able to write and dance, and his psychology was inferior. Paul also had a sense of superiority over his brother. Norman was too reserved, he didn't know how good he was. Paul was also unaware of his own fragility.
The girl Norman pursues is not interested in Norman. Instead, when he saw Paul, his eyes were radiant.
Fate does not favor those who are irresponsible to themselves, nor does it live up to those who are truly at peace. It's fate... The fate of the two brothers was reversed. The girl Norman pursues (I forgot the name) gradually falls in love with Norman after slowly getting to know him and begins to let him contact her family. Paul, on the other hand, was troubled by his brother's situation. Once at a family gathering, Norman told everyone the news that he had been hired as a professor of literature at the University of Chicago, and Paul's face was complicated, and he was devastated.
He left home and went to the casino. The second time was when Norman told his brother Paul that his girlfriend was finally in love with him. Paul was already devastated, and he couldn't wait to go to the casino to vent. But he was kicked out because he had too much debt. Unwilling to give up, Paul and his brother Norman say goodbye and return to the casino. He agreed to go fishing with his father and brother at 6:30 the next morning. The next day, Norman waited anxiously for his brother, and at seven o'clock, his brother Paul returned home radiant. As if everything was going well... It looks like everything is going to be good.
Grandpa went fishing in the river, and my father and brother calmly harvested one after another. And Paul was so impetuous that he couldn't catch it...
It was at this time that Paul spotted a very large fish and hooked it. The big fish dragged Paul looming in the river, just as he had when he was young and his brother were rowing in the rapids. Eventually Paul, the handsome and undesirable Brad Pitt, dragged the big fish out of the water. The soaked Paul smiled happily, and his father excitedly took a photo of Paul and the big fish, which is a Western tradition, and the group photo of catching an uncommon big fish... This is Paul's last song...
The next day Paul was beaten to death in a small alley by his creditors...
Norman, on the other hand, fished alone in the river in his old age. Loved ones left one by one, but the river still flowed endlessly, carrying the memories of generations of people...
What are we watching when we're watching movies? What do women look at? What do men look at? What do young people see and what do older people see? Are not the same. Different ideas, different entry points. The conclusion is also different.
Today I stand in the perspective of my father to write this after-reading feeling, and I sincerely hope that the children can be as showy, stable and real as Norman. But who can stop children from being too frivolous about life like Paul did? Why wasn't I Paul when I was younger? Now I am satisfied with my life experience, and return to my family after a wandering youth. Adhere to the belief of choosing one person to grow old. Nurture the children. But can the younger generation reassure their parents? Pity the hearts of parents in the world.
Husbands and wives, each returned to its roots. That river was the root of Norman, Paul, and their father. The flesh goes to the earth, the soul goes to the great river...
What are we watching while watching movies? You can see love, you can see struggle, you can see chaos, you can see unbearable, you can see everything... A good movie is like a good book, after all, we have to see a spirit. Make it our wisdom to frame our outlook on life and guide us.
Whoever learns something becomes a character.
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