Broken Lives is a comedy drama film produced by VVS Films and directed by Jean-Marc Varley and starring Jack Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts. The film was released in the United States on April 8, 2016.
The film tells the story of davis, a successful investment banker who originally had a happy life in the upper class and a charming wife, but died in a car accident, causing him to lose his love. When people are traumatized, they often change dramatically, and Davis becomes a different person. When his wife died, he did not show any sadness, and continued to go to work and repeat his life as usual, but when he was himself, due to the thought of his wife, the beautiful picture of him and his wife warm together kept flashing in his mind, and extreme sadness made him enter an abnormal psychological state. When his wife was sent to the hospital for rescue and declared dead, he bought a bag of chocolate beans on the vending machine, but due to the machine failure, the chocolate beans did not fall, he found the hospital staff, was told to go to the manufacturer to solve, so he began to write letters to the vending machine company, from the complaint to the beginning of writing about his life and depression, the only after-sales staff of the vending machine company, Karen, began to close the group Davis due to curiosity, and the two gradually became friends Davis always remembered that his wife had told him to repair the refrigerator before he died, loaded with a broken heart, so he fell in love with dismantling things, as if this could dismantle all the bad things in the world, he began to dismantle the refrigerator, dismantle his own computer, dismantle the coffee machine his wife bought, dismantle the door of the men's toilet, demolish other people's houses, demolish his own home, and since he had a broken heart, let everything be broken. When everyone treats Davis as mentally ill, Karen's son enters Davis's life, the two of them destroy everything together, the boy has been helping Davis out of the haze of the soul, and finally Davis helps the playground to reinstall his lover's favorite carousel, and when he sees the old building being demolished, Davis finally let go of everything sad and step back into the story of a new life.
The earliest Chinese translation of the film is "Explosion", which directly understands the process of dismantling and reorganizing life in the film. Discussing the real problems of how we should face people under the broken life, the film made me think of the "broken" of traditional Chinese culture - broken, put in a desperate situation; standing, reborn, breaking and reborn!
A rare sadistic ethics movie, a good movie that has a good chance of being missed, makes me really want to describe every plot of the movie! The movie gives all the people who have lost their deepest love a cathartic reason, even if we can no longer see those people, but still can not forget the beauty of the past. The plot of the movie seems crazy, it seems funny, it seems unorthodox, but the bones are full of heartache, all bitterness, and all heartbreak.
Jack Gyllenhaal once again conquered us with his acting skills, supported the film, he used the sadness and joy, joy and anger to interpret a sad and loveless male protagonist to the fullest, the most loved is that he is in the endless crowd, if no one dances, it seems to be indulgent, seemingly dashing, but it also reflects the entire city only he is the most painful inner monologue, looking at the heartache but also seems to give us strength: the tube is broken and not broken, life has to continue, who dies you have to live.
Live, and good things will happen!
After reading it, there was not a single tear, but I cried a thousand times in my heart.
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