"Once Upon a Time in America" is my movie. I am this movie. The same movie, we can only make it with mature, gray hair and folds around the corners of the eyes. If I had finished filming it when I was 40, this movie would never be like it is now. ——Sergio Leone, director of "Once Upon a Time in America"
life is like this. When you are in your 10s, 20s, 40s and 60s, your views and attitudes towards life are different Probably the same.
For everyone, love and friendship are an important part of life, whether it is a good person or a bad person, if life is not moistened by these two things, it will undoubtedly become a lot barren and boring. Life is really hard, and people must be somewhat beautiful The things in order to be happy.
tells a story of love and friendship in "Once Upon a Time in America".
Teenage bastards Max and Noodles are both street bastards, and both like a beautiful girl, Deborah. And Deborah likes noodles, but in the end he chose Max, because they are all the same kind of people, ambitious, and do whatever they can to achieve their goals.
Compared with Max's ambition, insidiousness and viciousness, the noodles are pure and pure like a little white sheep, even though he is handsome, smart, righteous to his friends, and a man. But his biggest shortcoming is that he is very rich and has no ambitions, and smart women are willing to choose the most powerful men to breed offspring.
Therefore, noodles are a low-level figure, a loser. And Max and Deborah became a powerful politician, and the other became a dazzling star. They both achieved a counterattack in life and changed their destiny.
But the paradox of life is that people still have feelings and longevity. Even if they succeed like Max and Deborah, they still want to be more difficult after they get what they want. If the material level is satisfied, the spiritual level becomes more important.
Back then, under Max’s design, Deborah flew far away, and the noodles were caught by Max’s trap. He mistakenly thought Max was going to a dead end, so he called the police to stop - you noticed that Max came in after the noodles had finished calling Put the microphone upside down and look proud.
was on the street, Noodles saw the corpses of the gangsters who were killed, they belonged to them. He thought that Max and his brothers had been killed by his informant, so he lost his soul and left his hometown, guilty for more than 30 years.
As for his friends and lover, his career was soaring, and he had a son, and had a good time.
Waited until Max was liquidated by his political opponents, he knew that a catastrophe was imminent, and remembered the debt he owed his "friend" noodles when he was young, so he found noodles, hoping to get his forgiveness-the habit of Westerners before they died, otherwise they would go to hell .
So, Max may not be really guilty and ask for forgiveness, but just want to make himself feel at ease and not go to hell.
Noodles who have been tortured by memory, guilt and pain for more than 30 years looked at this former brother and friend, that he was willing to sacrifice his life and cherish it, but now he understands that it is a dream, which he cherishes. Things are worthless in the eyes of others, and he is just a prop and stepping stone for others to succeed.
"Many years ago I had a friend, a very good friend, I told the police to save him, but he was killed in the end, but that was the ending he wanted, this is a great friendship, he After my death, I am not as happy as ever.”
But Noodles still chooses to believe in their past and are loyal to friendship. And now this high-powered and successful person in front of him is just a stranger, so Noodles has always called him Mr. Minister instead of Call him Max.
With the disillusionment of friendship, there is still love. When the noodles are young, the girl is already old. She can no longer stand high when she meets the noodles. She has been removing makeup. Her pride and beauty are already as cheap as powder. The Japanese lover said, "Years make people grow old, noodles, we are all old. Memories are the only thing we have left. If you go to the Saturday banquet, then our last memories will also disappear." Why?
Noodles knew that this was a conspiracy before meeting Max, until he saw Max and Deborah’s son, the one-size-smaller Max, he fully understood that his life was his best friend and favorite People played with it.
"I once had a friend", the old oneWhen Noodles said these words indifferently, it was full of the vicissitudes of years and the impermanence of fate. After that, the noodles finally let go of the troubles that tormented him all his life, and he could sleep well.
noodles is a person who is loyal to friendship and loyalty. He can really help his brothers and friends. When he saw that his little friend was shot by the opponent, he rushed to kill him fiercely. Right. The little brother is still at a loss about the passing of life. He still doesn't know what life and death are. He just said to the noodles, "I have slipped." This has become a scene where the noodles cannot let go.
When Noodles were arrested by the police and thrown into prison, Max looked at the sky and understood the end of being a gangster, and his ambitions began to swell.
Actually, Max had hoped that Noodles could be his assistant, but Noodles refused because of his disgust with politics, which prompted Max to sacrifice his brother and noodles cruelly. Besides, isn't he jealous of his friend's daring masculinity? He knows his timidity and shame, he also knows the frankness and bravery of noodles.
chose not to forgive Max’s noodles and still believes in the old friendship. In fact, he certainly knows the ins and outs. The two people he cares about betrayed him, but why should he forgive him? It's like Bojack in "Bojack the Horse" seeks the forgiveness of Herb he has hurt, and Herb said, "You come to see me now just to reduce your inner guilt, but I will not accept your confession. I will never forgive you. "
has the right not to forgive the noodles who have been disappointed for their whole life. In his heart, his friend died thirty years ago.
Rushing, surfing, endless.
Life is like this. After friendship, love, power, desire, money, conspiracy, betrayal, killing, time is merciless, and after the noise, everything is dust.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" said, "What really matters in life is not what you have encountered, but what you remember and how you remember it."
How wonderful life is, if it is, it is actually not a major event.
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