Johnny Depp, what do you think of when I mention this man today?
Did you think of the appearance in "Different Skies" that is comparable to that of Xiao Lizi?
Do you think of edward scissors in "Edward Scissorhands", the edward who is ugly on the outside, but incomparably beautiful on the inside?
Is it the dancing teenager who showed his funny talent on the set of "Guillotine Valley"?
Of course, the most famous is the flowing Captain Jack.
But look at his frustration right now. Isn't it a little greasy?
It's no wonder he's just a "professor" who has achieved nothing.
Today was a special day for Richard.
Because his attending doctor told him: You have lung cancer, and even if you actively cooperate with the treatment, you can live for up to a year and a half.
What the?
Can I, a person who never smokes, get lung cancer?
Doctor, are you mistaken!
Just as he was spending his year and a half, his family didn't reassure him.
His wife had been like glue with him before, and that time was really inseparable. But now they are more like roommates renting a house together.
And worst of all, she was so proud to tell Richard that she had cheated on her! And the object of the cheating is his own boss.
For this boss, Richard has always looked down on him from the heart, he will only sneak around all day long, yang and yin, and the most important thing is that his hands are not clean.
You think it's all over?
No, that's not okay!
His daughter broke his heart even more.
At a family dinner, his daughter solemnly told her parents: I am a gay man.
At first they all felt that their daughter was drinking too much outside and talking nonsense. But when they saw their daughter's unusually determined eyes, they were still stunned!
Richard, who had been looking for comfort, suddenly found that the world had made a huge joke for him.
If you ask him how he feels now, it can only be described by these three pictures.
Is he miserable?
He was really miserable!
How tragic is it?
So miserable that even the swans in the pond sneered at him!
This is really a person falling into Pingyang and being bullied by geese!
As the saying goes: if you only have this bad deck on your hand, then you have to play as well as you can! So Richard felt that in the next six months, he would do something that he did not dare to do before.
The film was released on October 5, 2018. Douban scored 7.6 points, better than 74% comedies and 56% feature films. When you look at the rating of this movie, you think it's an ordinary Hollywood commercial movie. The plot is decent, and the actors don't have any appeal (not to mention that in recent years, Depp's popularity is indeed not as high as before!). But when you look at Depp's current situation, you will find that his encounter is exactly the same as richard's encounter in the movie.
When Johnny Depp was young, he was also a handsome guy, and his appearance could be compared with that of Xiao Lizi, who was talented and had a frank star at that time. At that time, Hollywood was completely a super-first-class star, with a top value, holding a variety of excellent resources, really can be called wind and wind, rain and rain.
He created one unforgettable character after another.
But there is an old saying that goes: thirty years of Hedong, forty years of Hexi.
Do you realize by now that he has rarely made his work on the big screen? Originally hoped to come back to life through Captain Jack, it turned out that neither the media nor the audience bought his account.
Recently, the movie "Minamata Disease", which he invested in and starred in, had a Douban score of only 6.7 points, and it was impossible to release it in the United States in this movie, and even he himself said: I was abandoned by Hollywood.
In life, the divorce case between him and his 20-year-old wife has been entangled, and he has even been exposed by entertainment tabloids that he has a tendency to domestic violence. In the face of all this, he chose silence, and others also confirmed his image of a violent man because of his silence. But is this kind of thing necessarily correct to listen to only one side's statement?
Isn't that his bad life?
No wonder some netizens commented: Johnny Depp's best movie in ten years, although the plot is cheesy, but the temperament is charming enough, and the exquisite classicism is soaked in the alcohol of nothingness. Having seen so many movies about dying people, this is a very deep feeling, live well and die well, don't walk gently into that good night, don't live your life at a loss, and at the end of Richard's car rushing into the field, my chaotic heart was also shaken a little.
Well, having said that, let's go back to the movie!
What kind of life will Richard use to spend the remaining six months after he learns that his time is short?
He smoked marijuana in his office;
In their own classrooms, they will all blow away those students who mix time and credits;
In the bar, sit with students and discuss life, ideals, poetry and distant places on an equal footing;
By the way, he also hooked up with a bartender;
He decided to finish a novel before his death;
In the face of the person you hate, you are not only a promise, but spit out your dissatisfaction with him.
Of course, his various behaviors have also brought him a lot of trouble, criticism and incomprehension. But he didn't care at all. All he wants now is to do what he wants, to live the way he wants, and everything else doesn't matter, even if his boss, wife, daughter, co-workers and students don't understand him.
Although he did some things that ordinary people could not understand and was criticized by everyone, he did not lose the bottom line of being a man.
He really treats the people he hates as a blind eye, but he treats the people he likes, his own students, he is so gentle, he is simply their captain!
For example, he would say to his students: Seize the time, seize the life, and create your own life. Celebrate every tiny moment, celebrate every breath.
For example, he would say to someone he had never met: We have betrayed the most important responsibility we have shouldered, which is to live a wonderful and rich life of our own choice.
I've written about so many little people like Richard.
For example, when people reach middle age and achieve nothing, they continue to live through alcohol all day long.
For example, he is a film administrator who is wooden, does not know how to communicate, and likes to be obscene.
For example, a weather forecaster who divorces a husband and wife and whose son is harassed by a teacher at school.
For example, I dreamed of becoming a writer, but I ended up being just an ordinary elementary school history teacher.
Seeing this, you may find that these people are all losers in life like Richard. Some people may ask me: Why do you always like to write these stories that make people feel bad?
Maybe because I'm a pessimist person, people often judge me this way, and to be honest, I don't like to be called that, I prefer to call myself a precautionary person.
Why?
Because we are all ordinary people, we may achieve nothing in our lifetime, we can't do what we like, we can't marry the girl we like, and we may be running for life all our lives. But we still live bravely.
Because bravery is: when you know you're going to lose before you even start, but you still have to do it, and you have to stick to it anyway, you rarely win, but sometimes you do.
In fact, I chose these people's stories only because I wanted to wake myself up through their stories and tell myself not to follow their old path, as Charlie Munger, whom I liked, said: I just want to know where I will die, and then I will never go there.
At the end of the film, Richard finally faces death alone. But when his car came to an intersection, he did not choose the left and right roads, but drove the car directly into the wheat field!
What is he doing?
Not taking the usual path?
Crazy
Self-defeating?
No, not really!
He's just telling us in this way: Cherish every moment, don't settle for mediocrity, try to live, you deserve better.