I just want to be an actor

Chapter 164 I Can't Beat It
I don't know how long Zhou Sen has been tossing Su Jingwen before their English class officially started.

Although things like English can't be greatly improved by relying on a short class of training, Zhou Sen suggested that they should have enough time to study and review English in bed every day.

Su Jingwen flatly rejected the proposal.

The reason is that this plan may make Su Jingwen not have enough energy and mind to guide Zhou Sen's English.

Their learning place has shifted from the bed to the dining table.

Su Jingwen was cooking dinner slowly, while answering Zhou Sen's questions from time to time.

Although he didn't fully understand the script, Zhou Sen still tried his best to use his own English skills, and with the help of Su Jingwen, he slowly gnawed down the "Manchester by the Sea".

The entire script is completely based on the male protagonist Lee Chandler as the center of time, space and emotion. Two sets of narrative clues are constructed from his perspective. One is Lee's own memories and memories of his past family, and the other is Lee's memories here. Behavior at the moment, the so-called realistic perspective.

In the very beginning, actor Lee's brother, Joe Chandler, died unexpectedly of a heart attack.

This is the reality at this moment given by the script.

However, the subsequent development is that Li received that he was about to become the guardian of his nephew Patrick. This sudden responsibility made him fall into painful memories of the past.

In fact, Zhou Sen didn't quite understand Kenneth's narrative style in this movie the first time.

His first reaction was that some of them were too fast and chaotic, so that he might not be able to picture those images well in his mind.

But when he thought and imagined this narrative over and over again, he understood the general situation.

Falsh.

Flashback.

Kenneth used a flashback narrative technique to reveal some important information about the whole story of the fire incident caused by Lee's negligence.

Let readers and audiences understand why he is in such pain, and also understand from his perspective, what an unforgivable mistake Li himself feels he has committed, and how much pain and responsibility he has borne.

It wasn't until Li ran into his ex-wife Randy on the street that these two narrative romances were supplemented more completely.

In fact, these two narrative chains are not too complicated, and they are both narrated in a sequential manner, but because of the special narrative technique of flashback, the narrative chain belonging to the "past" is interspersed into the "past" narrative chain. In the "reality" narrative chain, the two narrative chains are intertwined, switching time, space and emotion without warning.

This way of switching back and forth between past and present, memory and reality adds a lot of suspense and story tension to the whole movie, which is actually very plain.

When the whole story came to the end, Li's background was really spelled out in a complete form, and his previous behaviors in reality were highly strengthened and understood because of the complete background.

If you have seen the end of the film, then the audience will definitely have a sudden sense of relief and enlightenment.

Plainness is the tone of this story, not its weakness.

But it was this plainness that allowed Zhou Sen to be patient and review this story over and over again.

This is not how shocking the story in the script is, but the excellent narrative technique and the narrative tone that makes people constantly empathize, which made him keep asking in his heart: "And then? Then?"

If you summarize all the plots, it is actually very simple.

Li, an ordinary maintenance worker played by Zhou Sen, rushed back from Boston to his hometown, Manchester, to deal with his funeral after receiving the news of his brother Joe's death. Became guardian to nephew Patrick.With his own heavy past, Li opened up to Patrick little by little and got to know each other. It seemed that Patrick grew up under Li's care, but in fact, it was Li who gradually became complete under Patrick's acceptance.

However, it has a different ending.

It has a completely different meaning from most of the current Hollywood hero movies.

Lee Chandler's final result was not satisfactory. Patrick accepted Lee, but he did not leave Manchester. With Lee's help, he stayed at his father's friend's house.After Li arranged his nephews there, he still couldn't get out of the past, and he still chose to return to Boston, avoiding his own spiritual winter by staying away from his hometown.

Until the end, his line "I Can't Beat It" still runs through the entire story.

He never seemed to be able to get out of the wound in his heart.

From a certain point of view, this seems to be an unsatisfactory ending, but it cannot be denied that this is the most realistic and realistic ending.

But Zhou Sen likes this ending very much.

He felt that such an ending was the story he really wanted.

If the ending of the script given by Kenneth is a happy ending of mutual acceptance, getting out of the trauma, and starting life again, Zhou Sen probably rejected the script directly.

But whether it was Lee Chandler desperately trying to kill himself by swallowing a gun in the police station, or hoping that the court would convict him in the police station, or bursting out "I can't beat it" in the frantic struggle , I really can’t get out.”

Or maybe it's the unexpected ending of the movie. Nothing has changed in the world, and I thought it was back to the original starting point. Life is still so hard, bad, helpless, and unbearable suffering.

It made Zhou Sen feel a kind of trembling from the soul.

That's what it feels like.

He loves scripts like this!
Put the cruel reality and the beautiful hope together, and choose the side that faces the reality.

Whether it's Cheng Dieyi who committed suicide for his dream in "Farewell My Concubine", or Lei Zekuan who continued to move forward into the unknown in "Lost Orphans", Zhou Sen prefers to present the bloody reality in front of the audience and tell them.

Hey man, this is life.

You have the right to choose to be strong, and you are also entitled to choose to be cowardly. We are all just ordinary human beings. No matter what choice we make, we are not wrong.

"You've read it many times. Is there anything that needs to be revised with Director Kenneth?"

Su Jingwen saw Zhou Sen reading this small script over and over again, thinking that there was something about the plot that he didn't like.

"No, I just feel that I may need to play a game now."

Zhou Sen put down the script in his hand and let out a long breath of relief.

He took a laptop out of the bedroom and opened LOL.

Ruined Lord Viego, locked.

"I will never lose my love, and my eyes will be broken."

(End of this chapter)