What is difficult and what should be done are often the same thing.
"Weather Man" mainly tells the story of Chicago weatherman David (Nicolas Cage) facing all kinds of puzzles in his work, life and emotions, and finally letting go of his obsession and choosing to change himself.
The film depicts a typical image of an ordinary middle-aged person: the hero is not good, but not bad, an out-and-out ordinary person. His job is to tell the audience the weather in the coming week in front of the camera. The content is boring and often ridiculed because of the wrong prediction. He is divorced and lacks the warmth of his family, but none of the troubles of his children's growth can escape; He has been living in the shadow of his father's reputation. No matter how hard he tried, he suddenly learned that his father had reached the advanced stage of lymphoma. ...
See, life is like this, one worry after another, it seems that there will never be a quiet moment.
1. In the adult world, there are no easy words.
At the beginning of the film, David drove to pick up his father and deliberately put his novel manuscript in the passenger seat to attract his father's attention. However, my father sat down and didn't notice his "careful design" at all.
Life is like this. The more we care about other people's attention, the more depressed we will be. Everyone is too busy dealing with their own troubles to pay attention to others.
As a TV host, David didn't get any degree related to meteorology, but his feelings on TV were professional. He is very good at telling the audience about the weather in the coming week in front of the green screen without anything. However, the weather is like a gust of wind, and it is difficult for you to judge whether the next week will be sunny or rainy. When the weather is bad, the audience will take it out on him.
Not only does he do boring work, but occasionally people who recognize him on the road throw chocolate juice, coffee, hamburgers and so on. At those moments, he felt like a complete failure. His life is like those things that hit him. It's all fast food, no nutrition.
In the adult world, there is no such word as easy. We are all going our own way, looking at our own scenery and thinking about our own problems.
Life is like a taut string, you never know when it will break.
In terms of family life, David is also a mess. Because of frequent quarrels over trivial matters, he and his wife divorced, and sent their children home on weekends, so they could only sit in the car and watch the warm lights that once belonged to them.
At the same time, my son Mike is addicted to marijuana and is giving up drugs, but the drug rehabilitation consultant has a strange feeling about Mike and wants to flirt with him. Daughter Shirley is overweight. She was called "camel hoof" by bad students at school because she was too tight. She is always sad and lonely. She has learned to swear and smoke. ...
I don't know which tight string of life will suddenly break. When he was overwhelmed by the feelings of husband and wife and the trivial matters of children, he learned that his father had lymphoma and it had spread, and time was running out.
It's all like the weather forecast. Every time he tries to control the situation, everything becomes more complicated.
3. Difficult things and things that should be done are often the same thing.
"Life has abused me thousands of times, and I regard life as my first love." When people reach middle age, we gradually understand that the difficult thing and the right thing are often the same thing.
David wanted to change his working environment, so he submitted his resume to Hello America, which was also favored by the program group and earned considerable income. However, he can't give up his family and children, and he has to take care of his sick father.
In order to encourage his daughter's hobby, he signed up for five hours of archery training class, but her daughter didn't persist in any class, so David had to go to archery class by himself. As a result, he often walks in the street with a bow and arrow on his back, and no one dares to throw fast food at him anymore.
He wanted to get back together with his wife, and they even attended a psychological counseling class to heal their relationship. However, all these efforts were ruined by David's casual impulse and bad temper.
Adult life is full of thorns and tribulations, and not everything in life can be controlled.
You must forget some things before you can move on.
David's father is very clever. Seeing his son's fatigue in the face of life, he gave advice: "For this shit-like life ... we must throw something away." There are always things to take care of, and you still have time. "
At the end of the film, David found his place under the guidance and encouragement of his father and reached a settlement with his life. He accepted a well-paid job in new york, divorced his wife peacefully, and went back to Chicago to spend the weekend with his children, which also gave a lot of comfort to ordinary people. A happy life is not standard. He has been confused, struggled and collapsed, and finally reconciliation with life is the way for adults to redeem.
As the writer Xue Xiaochan once said, "When people reach a certain age, they will recycle. When they receive the last one, they will have three or two confidants and a cup of light tea to live the life they want. "
The success of the film lies in that it does not win by the high entertainment of commercial films, nor does it deliberately grandstanding. Instead, with a calm narrative and a slow pace, it deduces a life experience that ordinary people will encounter and understands how to face life.
Just like the monologue of the hero in the film: "I remember imagining what my life would be like and what I would be like a long time ago." I imagine I have all these qualities, excellent qualities, qualities that make people stand out. But as time goes by, I hardly get these qualities. And the possibility I faced at the beginning, the kind of person I might become, is also decreasing year by year. There is only one left in the end, and that is me now-Mr. Meteorology. "
Everyone's life is different. If you can't change it, you must learn to accept it, face it calmly, accept the cruelty in reality, and strive to make yourself better. You must forget something before you can move on.