However, the United States also made many rural movies in the 1980s and 1990s, just as its country music made people daydream. I like to tell ordinary but touching stories with little people as the leading role, because we can see our lives more or less from such movies and cause thinking.
A River Running Through It is directed by robert redford, a famous American director and actor, and adapted from an autobiographical novel by Norman McLean, a professor of literature at the University of Chicago. It is a collection of family drama films starring Brad Pitt (as his brother Paul), craig sheffer (as his brother Norman) and Tom Skye (as his father). It tells the story of two brothers with different personalities who grew up fishing by the Montana river and lived different lives, which is as beautiful as a poem.
Poetic years, whose youth is not publicity?
The film begins with an oral statement by an old Norman. At the beginning, I mentioned that my father wanted him to write an autobiography when he grew up, so that he could understand everything and why. In fact, the whole movie is about a completely different life from his brother. This is more like an autobiography than a biography of his brother Paul.
My father is a devout priest, who recites scriptures and prays every day and teaches two brothers to write and fish. They like every afternoon to night best, because during this time, their father will take them fishing and squatting in the big black feet. The river is gurgling, the trees are swaying, and the mountains and green waters are full, leaving only their dedicated figures.
However, brother Paul and brother have completely different personalities. He has a strong will and determination to pursue his heart, and will refuse to eat cereal because he doesn't like it, and fight for it all night; The downstairs is crowded with prostitutes, dancing for them; After being bullied, my brother rushed forward without hesitation and joined the fight.
I have to say, when I was young, Pete was really bold and handsome. No wonder he became famous in one fell swoop. When friends grew up together, Paul discussed going rafting. They stole a wooden boat and ran along the river bank. In the cheers, Paul couldn't restrain his eager heart. However, when he stood on the boat and asked his friends, they all flinched.
A swift river is like a whirlpool that can devour life at any time, and the outline of life is endless. However, when he asked his brother Norman, he took a deep look at his brother and got on the boat. Norman is very rational, just looking at his brother's expectant eyes and not wanting to let him down.
Here, they staged a thrilling drifting trip. The reef lurks, the river surges, and the height difference is great. Before long, they went down the river and were drowned by the rapids. The friends ran anxiously to look for the two brothers, but Paul jumped into the river at the corner of the river bank. ...
The scenery is picturesque, the years are beautiful like prose poems, and the violin is melodious with the running water. However, they were greeted by their father's scolding and punishment. The stubborn brother took all the responsibilities and didn't take it to heart. My brother is depressed. As the eldest son, he took on more responsibilities. They had a fight, and when Paul insisted that Norman eat sardines, he broke out. My brother follows his father. He hopes that he can behave himself and be a good son and brother.
Why did they fight? Is it a long period of depression or the accumulation of contradictions? My brother has been trying to satisfy and protect his younger brother, but he will grow up eventually and understand that he can't tolerate his younger brother for life. They grew up under the constraints of the church, knowing that brothers should love each other, but they didn't really understand each other.
As expected, they had a disagreement. Even if we have lived together for more than ten years, the more familiar we are, the harder it is to avoid this contradiction. Brother Paul is free and easy, pursuing freedom; Norman's brother is mature and sensible, taking care of the overall situation. In fact, there is nothing wrong with both of them. They care about each other, but one lives in the present and the other looks forward to the future.
No matter how much people love each other, there are also places that are difficult to understand. After all, everyone's soul is unique. They made up again, and no one talked about the fight. But in their hearts, both of them have understood that the past youth is gone forever, and they will eventually embark on different lives.
Two different lives, the river only flows in one direction.
19 19 In the autumn, Norman went to Damace College, 3000 miles away from home, where he gradually became like a duck to water and studied hard. Slowly, he found that he liked teaching, just like his father, and he came up with the idea of teaching and educating people. Norman's brother is on the right track, which is the pride of his parents and his hometown. Yes, he lives the life his parents want.
My younger brother Paul is unwilling to leave his hometown and Daheijiaohe because he loves fishing, so he is studying in a local university. After graduation, Paul became a journalist, still bohemian. Paul was the same Paul many years ago, playing with his friends, gambling in casinos and exposing the scandal of the mine owner. ...
Paul pursued himself fearlessly, pursued freedom and even published his name in the newspaper. As we all know, this surname makes his father feel ashamed. There is no doubt that he and his brother belong to two different worlds. After many years, my brother came back and returned to his hometown. However, his relationship with his parents seems unfamiliar. After all, he has been away from home for so long that his parents can no longer treat him as a child.
Fortunately, Paul doesn't pursue everything, as his brother said, "My brother is tough inside, and he knows he is better than others." He fell in love with an Indian woman regardless of the obstruction of society at that time, and broke the rule that Lulu pub did not allow Indians to enter and danced freely.
Paul got into a fight and was sent to prison because someone insulted his girlfriend. Whenever, Paul makes his life look free. He belongs to the river, belongs to nature, and is not disturbed by any worldly distractions.
On the contrary, my brother Norman is much more boring. I met my favorite Jessie for the first time and chatted with her. Call Jesse's house and avoid her mother. However, even though he was bored, he moved Jesse with beautiful love poems and irresistible enthusiasm.
Soon, my brother Norman was hired by the University of Chicago. Yes, he will be a professor. For the first time, he chose to share with Jesse and said affectionately, "Because of you, I don't want to leave here." Jessie left tears of emotion, and they fell in love.
Paul didn't seem particularly happy to learn that his brother had fallen in love. For him, his brother Norman began to lose those freedoms, and he was no longer so close. Their personality determines their different lives, but it does not prevent them from revealing their true feelings.
Jessie's brother Neo came back from Europe. Although it was ridiculous, he was taken care of by the whole family. Norman neglected his family for Jesse, but Jesse ignored him for her family. When Norman asked Neo if he could fish, the whole family scrambled to mention that Neo had a fishing rod and could fish. At the request of Jesse's family, he promised to take his younger brother and Neo fishing in Blackfoot River.
However, at the appointed time, Neo was late and drunk. Followed by him, is a prostitute. His brothers all know that Neo doesn't like fishing at all. Paul, who has been fishing all his life, is very dissatisfied with this: "In Montana, we are never late for work, church or fishing."
When Brother Paul heard that his brother had won the professorship, his face was full of sadness and loneliness, not unhappy, but sad for his present situation. He can't live like his brother and be the pride of his parents, but isn't Norman envious of Paul?
He envied Paul's intimate conversation with his parents, and also envied Paul's graceful dancing of fishing line by the big black foot river to become a work of art. They envied each other's lives, but they were unable to change each other's yearning. Actually, isn't it?
As Fortress Besieged said, "People outside the city want to go in, but people in the city want to come out." But no matter how you live, there is always an object of envy, which has nothing to do with achievement. Live high's life track, like Norman religion and Paul's fishing, can be envied by others.
Everyone has the right to pursue his own life, and everyone has his own life track. We will envy other people's lives, but we haven't lived the life we want. Live like you like, isn't this the life that others envy?
What we don't know,
But is the person you love okay now?
Norman doesn't understand her brother, and Jesse doesn't understand her brother. Paul is addicted to drinking and gambling, but he never asks his brother for help. Neo was absurd and degenerate, living a life of drunkenness and dreaming of death, and finally left the shelter of his family. Whether you take responsibility alone when you are young, or you owe gambling debts when you grow up and refuse everyone's help. When I was young, I was confused when I grew up. Paul has been pursuing his own value.
Paul is like a work of art, he has been looking for his own life all his life. He violated his father's four-beat fishing method and created his own rhythm; He refused his brother's bait and stubbornly let go of the fishing line. As far as I can see, there is only one big fish left. Even if the torrent overflows my head, I still hold my hands tightly and never give up.
Isn't Paul sensible? I don't know what to say, except that our life is far from his wonderful. He has an artist's pursuit, but fishing seems to be incompatible with art. I often wonder if he can get some understanding if he pursues music and painting.
What is success in parents' eyes?
President Truman's mother may have given the answer. When the reporter interviewed her, she asked her if she was proud of having a son of the president, and she replied yes. However, she said that another son also made him proud. The reporter asked, where is he now? He is working in the field now, his mother said proudly.
In fact, Paul is also very good. He is wild and fearless, and dares to face all difficulties. His life is free and closely connected with the river. However, he doesn't live in a secular framework, he lives in a palace of art.
Jesse's brother Neo slept naked on one side of the bush with a prostitute while fishing. The sun burned them, and Jesse's family was very angry because Norman didn't take good care of him and help him. Jesse once asked angrily, "why don't you help my brother?" Why do people who obviously need help the most refuse to help? " Norman didn't understand either, just as he didn't understand why his brother refused his help.
Neo left and never came back; Paul was killed by people in the casino, and the Norman family was immersed in grief. Their last memory is in the river, in the picture of Paul catching the biggest squatting fish ever. Time seems to have frozen, frozen in Paul's instant satisfaction and smile.
Father had to admit that Paul was a master of fly fishing and a gift from heaven. When the river flooded Paul, there were only big fish in front of him, and when the dream came true, there was no regret. I think Paul did it and realized his childhood dream of "professional fly fishing". I also understand why Paul refused to live in Chicago with his brother. Even if there are more than a dozen newspapers there, the news is all over the street; There are wide rivers and endless fish here, but none of them belong to the bohemian Paul.
Paul's father gave the last sermon: "In our life, there are some people closest to us, and they are usually unpredictable. But we can still love him, and we can wholeheartedly love people we don't know. "
Norman finally understood that his younger brother had been pursuing art all his life, just like the protagonist in The Moon and Sixpence. When sixpence was everywhere, he looked up and saw the moon. Artists have been pursuing perfection all their lives. Their brother Norman and their father know that no one can save Paul.
Robert redford, as always, pays attention to the rural scenery like oil painting with a calm narrative technique, reflecting the harmony of daily life. The director was very clever, and did not describe the scene of Paul's murder positively, so he restrained his sadness well. Who wants to see a sunny and charming boy beaten to death and devoted himself to the pursuit of art? This is cruel.
The director used the last 10 minute to tell the final destination and ending of Paul. Isn't life like this? Impermanent life, relatives we don't know, constant pursuit ... I seem to understand that love is not blaming, but unwilling to blame. This is not a kind of doting, but a respect for Paul's artistic pursuit of "there is no professional flying fisherman in the world", but he has a son Paul who lives for his dream.
People we love, but we don't know. We are worried, we don't understand, and we try to get them back on track. We hope to change their lives and live the same life as us. However, everyone's life has its own way of pursuing, either sticking to the rules all his life or breaking the rules without restraint.
Robert redford told us that some things are hard to change, even if they don't understand, they love each other deeply. We long for a happy ending, but we have to accept the unchangeable fact. The paralyzed man in the movie "I in front of you", although deeply in love with that woman, finally chose euthanasia. For them, it is not life and death, but knowing that there is always a pursuit in life that is far more important than life.
There is always a kind of person in the world who breaks free from the shackles of the secular and lives a life he likes. Most of us can't live like artists, but this never prevents us from enjoying those beautiful works. Deep down, I am glad that I still have a soft heart.
What is the meaning of living? Everyone has different answers. But the only certainty is that there is a "Paul" living in our hearts, living in the unruly and struggling of our inner world. Who knows what will happen in the future? If I tell you that tomorrow is the end of your life, maybe you can understand Paul's choice: be loyal to yourself and not regret this life.
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