Douban 8.7 "The Great Lady Mercer" Dream is a condiment, and career is a lifelong pursuit.

The novel The Moon and Sixpence is based on Gauguin and tells the story of a painter. When the hero was in his thirties, he suddenly fell in love with painting, abandoned his wife and ran to Tahiti to start painting. Many people often forget to look up at the moon when they bend their heads to pick up sixpence.

In The Great Lady Mercer, the heroine suffered a great change in her life-her husband cheated on her and was forced to run away. Go to a department store as a cosmetics salesman and go to a bar as a stand-up comedian. In the process of gradual progress of the plot, how to carry out your own career is becoming more and more clear.

Of course, in the process of upgrading, I met all kinds of people and saw a certain side of myself in them, which prompted me to make up my mind and make my own choices.

About dreams, what is a dream.

Joel said he didn't know what the meaning of his job was. Without the support of dreams, he can't go on working. Actually, my father found this job through connections.

What is the dream? A dream is to escape from daily life, from a job you don't like, and then hide in another small world in the name of a dream. But now, this dream has also been shattered.

After work, I am a talk show comedian. Talking about jokes borrowed from other comedians, day after day. Suddenly one day, my wife suggested that you can tell a joke about a hole in a sweater off the cuff. However, he failed and there was no laughter. Besides, my friend is in the audience. They came to pay tribute.

Joel's dream was shattered. He couldn't accept failure and the collapse of his image, so he ran away.

The husband ran away from home and packed his luggage with his suitcase. Mom said, what did you do to let your husband leave? Father said, get dressed and get your husband back.

Mickey wants to go out for a walk. She was walking in the street and caught in a heavy rain. I happened to walk into the bar where Joel usually performed. Naturally, all my complaints were spit out and won applause.

All this, one after another, is closely linked. For Mickey himself, there is no "dream" and nothing to escape. My husband likes talk shows, so he supports his dream of talk shows. Cook beef brisket in exchange for better performance time, record the audience's reaction and laughter during the performance with notes, and write down some inspiration and jokes about the performance. Do all this silently.

Later, Mickey's mother said that it is also suitable for use here. If your life revolves around a man's whim, how fragile and vulnerable it is.

Before he could think about how to deal with today's chaotic situation, Mickey stepped onto the stage and began to spit out everything about himself to entertain the audience.

When Susie, a female Bole, found her and said that she was a genius and would become a superstar, Mickey didn't feel anything and didn't have this dream. It's just a whim, and then I have to go back and clean up the mess.

Only later, life played more jokes on her. These jokes became jokes on the talk show stage, which made the audience laugh. Mickey tidied up his life, working as a cosmetics salesman in department stores during the day and performing in bars at night.

Later, Benjamin appeared, a golden bachelor. Mickey also began to consider remarriage and began to look at wedding dresses.

During this period, Mickey's dream of being a talk show actress is similar to that of her ex-husband, and she goes to bars from time to time to talk about her life after work, which is similar to Joel's "dream". This "dream" is just a spice in her life, and everything can go back to her previous life. Then she met another painter.

The changes of the characters in the play are all gradual, with certain foreshadowing, and then suddenly at a certain moment, everything becomes clear, just like our life. The painter is a foreshadowing.

In order to buy flowers for Benjamin, they visited the painter, a man who didn't play cards according to common sense. His works are expensive, but selling paintings depends entirely on his mood.

The painter invited Mickey to see his most satisfactory work, which was locked in another room.

Mickey asked, how much are you going to sell it for? The painter said, sell? Let this painting hang in someone else's house? Or, in the museum? This is the best work in my life, and it is reserved for myself. I want to hang this painting in my home. But now I know I can't have a home.

One person. This is his own best work.

In my opinion, this line is really great. Few articles can clearly explain why genius is lonely. It's not just a genius. In The Bankrupt Sisters, Caroline's final destination is wealth and loneliness.

The painter said that if you want to achieve your career, you have to do your best. You can't have everything. You lost your family and felt at home. Because all my things have fallen there, and there is nothing left.

It is this passage that has brought great influence to the heroine. When she makes a choice, she won't hesitate. Besides, she knows what she wants to give up.

Speaking of painting for myself, it reminds me of Haruki Murakami's Assassination of Knight Leader. In the novel, a painter painted all his anti-war feelings in a painting called "Assassination of Knight Leader" and sealed it in an attic.

I painted this for myself, and it has never appeared in public view. This painting was seen by two people by chance. They had many fantastic experiences. Later, the painter died, and the painting was buried in the fire because the house caught fire.

Speaking of devoting my life to pursuing a career, it reminds me of the novel The Moon and Sixpence at the beginning of this article. The painter in the novel, in order to pursue painting career, disappears in daily life. His wife is another tragedy. Obviously, this lady doesn't have the strong will like Mickey.

So, the opportunity came. When a singer asked Mickey to be the opening guest, Mickey agreed without even thinking about it. Of course, she knew everything had changed. These are my own choices.

Talk shows are no longer the spice of life, but have become their real career and their only pursuit.

Lanny is a real person in history. He was jailed many times for daring to speak. He said that all the money he earned was used to hire a lawyer.

The situation now is that he only has one chance to perform on stage. He was told not to tell those outrageous jokes. Then, the heroine said, I am an audience of this performance, hoping to calm Lenny Bruce's mood.

This kind of performance is actually the pursuit of career and loneliness. It tells the story of a couple. They are full of energy, on and off, quarreling, getting back together, quarreling and getting back together 55 times in seven years. Finally one day, both of them were bored and completely separated.

Because the performer is a male, the narrative will begin from a male perspective. He said, I'm free at last, and I can do whatever I want. I finally succeeded, but I was alone.

As for that woman, she is still young and charming. Of course, there are many people around her, and she can get a lot of love. However, I can see that after 20 years, her future is bleak and hopeless.

Then, Lenny Bruce showed the scene of their reunion after twenty years. The woman has been living in a rented house, renting furniture, cooking with radiators and sitting on the living room floor watching TV. However, this person is not alone. He used his time and experience to do business and invest, and eventually became a rich man, but he died alone.

The time of this performance, neither early nor late, is just right. The hostess also decided to develop a talk show career, refused to remarry, and became a nearly perfect fiance. She also decided to be a lonely success.