Eavesdropping on women’s hearts

This is a comedy movie about sex, family, and work.

A good movie should make people think deeply and leave enough space for the audience to feel the details of the movie. As a comedy movie, it does not lack comedy and laughter, but it is also heartwarming and touching. In addition, the small stories interspersed with the main plot moved me very much. The storyline from beginning to end is not greasy, the happy ending is not muddled, and the sensational parts are stopped in time, leaving the audience to think and feel. It is indeed a good movie worth watching.

First of all, let me check the plot of the movie on Baidu so that everyone can have a simple understanding of the movie story.

Nick (Mel Gibson) is a small manager of an advertising company in Chicago and a typical macho man. He is even more dissatisfied with his new female boss Darcy (Helen Hunt). Darcy asked Nick to design a creative advertisement for women's products, which gave Darcy a headache. Inadvertently, Nick received an electric shock in his bathroom. This accident gave him a magical ability - mind reading.

With this unexpected gain, Nick can now easily know the thoughts of the women around him. He gradually became addicted to this, and was surprised to find that Darcy had always had a crush on him. So, Nick decided to take advantage of Darcy's worries and tease her. He tried every means to get close to Darcy and please her, but he didn't know that he was falling in love. Since learning about women's inner world, this grown man finally realized their beauty and fell in love with his incompatible female boss. The above is the main line of the movie's plot, and the plots interspersed with the main line are particularly evocative.

I extracted a key core from the movie-"understanding".

At the beginning of the movie, Nick portrays a company manager who has a chaotic private life but is also somewhat capable. He feels good about himself in the ideal country he has built. But in our lives, few of us really know what we are pursuing. Our lives are blindly followed due to ignorance and confused by desire. In reality, Nick's ex-wife is married to someone else, and his daughter never calls him daddy. Even the method he thinks he is best at flirting with girls is extremely disgusting in the eyes of women. You never know that a person who flatters you and smiles at you has ten thousand words of MMP in his heart that he has not said out loud.

Later Nick had a superpower - mind reading. He could hear the thoughts of any woman and understand what all women thought of him, so he began to change his self-perception. It turned out that few female colleagues in the company had a good impression of him. Of course, Nick is a macho man, and these external comments cannot cause any particularly painful interference to him. At this point in the movie, I thought of a question: Should we live as we see ourselves in the eyes of others? Or is it yourself in your own eyes? We are all independent individuals, each with different personalities and lifestyles. Like Nick, who spends his days drinking and drinking, immersed in his life of picking up girls and working, he is quite content. But when Nick learned about others' negative comments about him, he did not suffer from long-term distress and self-blame, and eagerly changed himself into what others saw. I still insist on being myself, but I just understand it personally through my own continuous experiences, and then make changes. Therefore, we should not care about ourselves in the eyes of others. Only we can have a say in everything we have experienced. What we need to do is to explore, think and understand in our own lives, so as to make the changes we think are right. A person's strength lies in his independence of thought, rather than following the crowd. ?

Let’s return to the principle of film-understanding. The first thing I thought of was the line between father and daughter. When a rebellious young girl meets her cynical father, the story between them is vivid and interesting. When Nick's ex-wife got married, Nick didn't have super powers. When he entrusted his daughter to Nick's care, Nick mistakenly thought that his 15-year-old daughter was only 13 years old. He was ridiculed by his daughter and ended in embarrassment.

Later, he began to use mind-reading skills to pay attention to his daughter's life, leading her to buy a dress for the graduation ceremony, caring and encouraging her daughter after she fell out of love, and finally touched her daughter through many aspects of life, and the father-daughter relationship was perfect. end. Parents' love for their children is based on understanding and respect. Many things need to be reasoned with, but more things need to be left to the children to experience on their own. Too many parents explain the truth into legal rules and do not give their children the opportunity to experience it. Naturally, the children will not understand the meaning behind the truth. Personality is enriched by experience, and human nature matures by setbacks. You need to understand what your children are thinking, know what they value and care about, tell them the truth, leave them some space, and also spend time with them. When he encounters setbacks, listen silently instead of telling a lot of truths. After the child has finished talking, you must encourage him to identify with him, just like the episode with Nick after his daughter broke up in love, which made me special. move. ?

Then what I thought of was the story of Eileen.

Irene is an ordinary employee in the company, a person who delivers files in obscurity. Her inner monologue portrays her inferiority complex, but she is so ordinary that no one notices her. Even some colleagues in the company do not know who is in the company. There was a person named Erin.

The movie is interspersed with Erin's monologues, and these monologues were heard by Nick, who has super powers, and Nick began to pay attention to this girl with low self-esteem. When he heard that she didn't come to work one day, Nick was worried that something might happen to Eileen, so he hurried to Eileen's house to look for her. It happened to be a stormy day. On the way to Erin's house, lightning struck the wires. Nick lost his superpowers in the spark environment. When I arrived at Eileen's house, I found sleeping pills on the table (I guessed) and a letter written to my mother (probably a suicide note) on the bed. I suddenly felt sorry for this girl. Fortunately, the camera turned and Irene appeared in front of Nick. Nick used what he had learned about Irene through mind reading to give this lovely girl hope for life. I think this is the most touching part of the whole movie, and I almost cried.

We live in this world, and everyone desires to be noticed and recognized, but we are so small, sometimes as small as Irene. We repeat the same work day and night, always thinking that our efforts will be recognized by our bosses. We are waiting for opportunities to come and for our dreams to come true, even if it is a small wish. But opportunities do not happen to everyone. For example, Erin has worked in the same position for two years, and her job application has not been approved. Due to her personality, she cannot attract the attention of others no matter how hard she works. I'm thinking, if Nick doesn't have superpowers, what will be the fate of this girl? No one understands me, and I am unwilling to say it. Even if I say it, who will really care about my feelings? People with low self-esteem, they all long to be understood. When Nick said what Irene was thinking, Irene's tearful smile from the heart warmed me. She had suppressed it for so long. The emotions were finally liberated.

Be kind to every ordinary person and take every decision you make seriously. The higher the position, the greater the responsibility. A decision that seems insignificant to you may really change a person's life. It doesn't matter if you do good deeds, fate will favor a kind heart.

Finally, let’s talk about the emotional line. Regarding the main line of the story, I really don’t want to abuse the dog, and I leave it to everyone to taste. What I want to express is: Love is a process, it does not need to be so deliberate, it attracts each other through sincere communication, it is enough in the ambiguous period, and there is no hesitation when making a decision. Love is afraid of hesitation, and regret is the most incompetent self-blame. No matter what the outcome is, just do what you feel like. Here are quotes from the movie:

Nick: It's too late to find her now

Nick: Of course it's not too late, it's never too late to do the right thing.