Choice can change a person's life, the environment can blunt a person's edges, and failure can wear away a person's will, but nothing can change a person's character. This character, or nature, is basically finalized after childhood and adolescence.

So when a phoenix is ??born in a chicken coop, it will be depressed, struggle, and try its best to spread its wings and fly to the sky. Or with broken wings, die slowly and painfully in a place that does not belong to you.

This example does not attempt to compare the two Jacks' two lives, which one is better and which is worse. It just means that everyone has his own destiny. And many things are due to people's own choices, and this choice is guided by the established nature.

But yes, I still want to say that the first Jack was the Phoenix.

This is not a poorly made movie. In fact, it shouldn’t be rated so low for Cage and the little girl in the film. My two stars are for the script, because there is a huge character. The incomparable bug is that the first Jack and the next Jack are completely different people.

The first Jack, as he said, has a plan for everything, never doubts, and never regrets. After success, I didn't see how lonely he was. He was satisfied with his living situation. If you insist on saying that he doesn't understand the beauty of the world, throw him into a pile of daily necessities, rice, oil, salt and diapers. Show him many memories, photos, videos, etc. of the latter Jack, and continue to brainwash Jack. It also brainwashes the audience, saying, look, this man should be like this, how good he is.

But why should he be like this? Because it fits most people’s warm imagination of life? Universal agreement on the definition of happiness? Because this Jack is better?

Not familiar? This feeling. Ever since you were little, many people have told you what you should look like, what we want you to look like, and what will make your life better. Be a good boy, be a good man, look, you can be that good too. This is very happy, isn't it?

Well, try imagining yourself as Jack. Will you like it if I force you to go from the first to the second? Do you like it? good. So with this feeling of liking, now I force you to go from the second to the first. Do you like it? In short, you are told that you are not who you are, you should be like that, and you need to change. Do you change it?

Remember the rule of this game is: what needs to change is the part of yourself that you understand and identify with. The direction of change is the other "you" that others call you. There is no better or worse, just different.

Is it interesting? Are you having fun?

At the beginning of the film, an unspoken rule is set: if they go to London and leave for a year, the two of them will definitely break up - but please think about it, why? Would it be the same if there were two other people, or are all lovers in the world like this? Well, the two did break up. Thirteen years later, Jack, who had become famous, was still single. He can't find a woman to marry other than Kate? In terms of his status, it is impossible, which only means that he does not want to get married. He loves himself more than he loves others. wealth. status. free. Right from the airport.

This is the first Jack.

Okay, there is another period in the imaginary life. He met the big boss in the tire store, so he won the supervisor's job by relying on his eloquence and confidence. He wanted a better life. When he took Kate to have a big meal, he took a bite of the food and closed his eyes happily and said that he missed this taste. He can love now, and he can love himself and his family at the same time. If you want to live a good life with your family, you don’t have to treat egg rolls from the supermarket as the world’s delicacy.

Everyone has their own upper limit of ability. It is happiness to realize and be content. For example, if you can buy a second-hand suit for luxury once in a while, then you will be happy when you wear it, okay. No problem. But when you have the ability to tailor-make your own suits but can only wear second-hand ones, this is not happiness.

Jack knew his abilities, and he tried to change everything. However, Kate began to brainwash her, talking about how the whole family could be happy here, and finally made a sacrificial gesture, saying that because I love you, I can Sacrificing a house with 122 loans, a good school for her children, and the life she was used to...

Her man spread his wings, but she felt that she was compromising for love. The character itself is too thin. She always seems horribly optimistic, cheerful, and positive, and sometimes she is almost heartless. For example, she can be very happy immediately after a quarrel, and her man is so lost that she doesn't realize it. Her happiness is that the man continues to make sacrifices for her, and she also makes huge sacrifices in return (If I didn't marry you, I might also be awesome. Although it may be true.) Her happiness is that the man is extremely romantic, and her birthday Sing before sex, say I love you before sex. This is all OK, except for one thing: Jack is not such a person. Even after the brainwashing was completed, he still wanted to fly. He didn't want to have to think about high and low when buying a bag of salt in the supermarket, and he didn't want to become a person who "just let nature take its course and get by". Although it was later said that he had changed, according to the movie script.

This is sad.

Everyone has a dream, why do they feel noble when the dream is about love and family, but so miserable when it is about career? Many people will even sympathize with him, just like Jack in the play: Yes, you are rich, capable, and awesome, but haha, you don’t understand friendship, love, family, you are lonely, you only have casual relationships, no woman really loves you, you don’t even have to spend Christmas. It's inhumane to live alone, and it's so impersonal to call someone to work for a meeting because you don't understand. What I'm most satisfied with is that the beginning of the film didn't show Jack as a pitiful man who cannot live in a high place. In fact, he has his own life circle and way, food, travel, women, career. And, very satisfied.

This film wants to say to a man who has rafted on the Kenai River, participated in the Running of the Bulls in Spain, and skydived high in the Mojave Desert, no, no, no, this is not happiness. , Happiness is playing bowling with a bunch of sweaty buddies.

What I can’t even understand is why a happy life must be ordinary. This is another forced unspoken rule: rich people don’t understand happiness. Ordinary happy family life will be destroyed by strong work ability. When you come home anxiously selling a bunch of tires, you will be happy because of an egg roll. But when you come home confidently completing a merger worth hundreds of millions, your The poor wife doesn't know how to share such a huge success with you, because an egg roll can't satisfy you, and she only knows egg rolls. She is afraid, afraid that your ability is too high and she will not be able to restrain herself. It is happiness to have sex after eating egg rolls and wait for the children to fall asleep. It is also happiness to have sex after drinking champagne to celebrate, but it is not as high as the former. What's more, rich people are evil. They will definitely raise Xiaomi and have a mistress, and the wife can only stay at home. Manicure your nails and raise a dog to raise a puppy—has this situation become a truth in the universe? Did this situation come first and then this unspoken rule, or did this unspoken rule add fuel to the flames and make thousands of people feel at ease?

Unspoken rules are often just the excuses of the parties concerned, not the obscenities of the parties concerned. It is not truth or necessity. Not everyone can understand what randomness and chance are, let alone what determinism is.

It stands to reason that this film should transform a person who would choose to fly to London into a person who would fly back from London, but at least I am not. It’s not that I would choose to fly to London, but by the end of the play, I still think Jack should choose to go to London.

Let all the what-if go to hell. If there is a messenger of God who really takes the trouble to help you with the what-if, please tell him, thank you. Because your direction is set. Even if it deflects at this point, it will definitely deflect again and turn back at a later point. Life is always your own choice, as long as you are true to your heart when choosing. No doubt and no regrets.