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Leaving Las Vegas is a hardcover book written by John O 'Brien and published by Chongqing Publishing House. The price of this book is 39.80 yuan and the number of pages is 23 1. The article gives some readers' thoughts after reading, hoping to help everyone.

Leaving Las Vegas's Thoughts (1): Flowers in Thorns

-Read "Leaving Las Vegas"

"Void void, everything is void." The words of the preacher, the son of David. The wheel of history rolls on and on. When human beings face the universe, it is so insignificant, just like the misty smoke in the vast world. Emotion and despair are drowned in the crowd and scattered in the cold wind of the years. After leaving no trace, it seems that it never happened.

Love and hate are the same.

Leaving Las Vegas is a story featuring two drowning men and women. It is the first novel by john obrien, and it is also an autobiographical novel. Known as his "suicide note", the atmosphere of despair haunts the whole book.

* * * Sarah receives different men every day and is always in the best state of "work". She can bargain with others calmly, can accept being driven out of the house by her neighbors, and can accept Al's cruel treatment. She has been able to find a short pleasure from the most difficult life without making life too ugly. She is a girl who sees through people's hearts but still has expectations. The drunkard gave up completely, his wife left, his job was lost, he was in a daze, and he lived on wine, so he was estimated to die. He is a childlike heart who doesn't want to wake up.

In Las Vegas, full of desire and money, addiction and camouflage, they are all abandoned by God and live alone in the corner-if they have never met, they may die in silence and loneliness, and no one knows.

Meeting in the most desperate time is a touch of light given to them by God. So they can chat, live and joke like ordinary people, get along tacitly and simply, touch each other's lonely souls and get a little warmth. But they are independent and alienated from each other. Sarah is still receiving guests outside, and Ben can't live without wine. Perhaps for them, I didn't expect a company too far away. Originally, it was just a short-term comfort for two hearts, but it made people want to cry.

The novel is divided into four chapters: Cherry and Bar introduce Sarah and Ben's past lives respectively. The third chapter "Lemon" adds the state of getting along with Sarah and her ex-boyfriend, Al, which enriches the story and deepens the charm of "Despair". It was not until the fourth chapter of Plum that Sarah and Ben finally met.

Many montage structures and fragmented sentences in the novel enhance readers' sense of reality when reading. Immersed in such a depressed atmosphere, I can't extricate myself, and there should also be reasons for the author's own injection. The feeling that a person doesn't understand when watching a movie suddenly becomes clear after reading the novel, and then he remembers Nicolas Cage's eyes in the movie and suddenly receives the sadness of waiting for death.

"Heaven and earth are ruthless, and everything is a dog." Perhaps this meeting is just a crossing of nothingness in life. Love is not obvious, but it is like a flower in full bloom among thorns, which shows Ben's last absurd time and shines a little comfort when Sarah looks back on her long life in the dark.

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Leaving Las Vegas's Feelings (2): The Story of Despair

The story of this book is simple. A frustrated screenwriter was fired from the company after divorce and lived by drinking all day. When my life is coming to an end, I choose to come to Las Vegas (because I can drink without restraint) and drown myself in the sea of wine. Lonely and desperate, he met * * who was also devastated by life in Las Vegas, so at the end of his life, the screenwriters "Ben" and * * * "Sarah" began a beautiful journey.

If there is a theme in this book, it must be "despair". The two protagonists in the book, Ben and Sarah, and Al, the pimp, are desperate people. There are two reasons for Al's despair. First, life is getting harder and harder, and there is less and less money in my pocket, so that I have to pawn my accessories to make a living. On the other hand, as an immigrant, he did not get the "respect" he sought in this land since he was a child. Sarah's despair is the life and helpless loneliness that she has to face. Even her favorite neighbor, who thought she could trust and rely on, betrayed her after learning the truth that she was * * *; Ben's despair is that he is tired of himself. He doesn't want to be an alcoholic, but he is deeply involved. He never thought that he would lose his wife, but he divorced her because of alcoholism and lewdness. He screwed up everything himself and hated himself.

"Loneliness" is also the characteristic of these three people. Al came to Vegas to find Sarah not only because of money, but also because of his loneliness to a large extent. On the other hand, Sarah is a completely lonely person. After being betrayed by her only trusted neighbor, she can no longer trust anyone and has no friends. But Ben's loneliness is that others cannot understand his self-destruction. In others' eyes, he is just one of the 110 million alcoholics.

In this way, three lonely and desperate people came to Las Vegas with different purposes. Al came to see Sarah, intending to make a big deal and redeem the gold ornaments he pawned. In his eyes, those pawned accessories are like his lost dignity, and he must win it back. What he doesn't know is that he has no real dignity. Sarah came to Las Vegas just to live a little more. Here, her daily life is to receive guests, and if possible, she will go to the casino to play. She lives a numb life every day and has long lost hope for life. Life for her is just like receiving guests, but what she does every day. There was only one purpose to go to Las Vegas, and he drank himself to death here. He screwed up everything, his marriage, his job and his health. He came here to end himself in a way that made him comfortable and anesthetized.

The theme of this book is Ben's meeting with Sarah. It was originally a simple change, but it was changed because of Ben's sincerity and frankness. Ben and Sarah developed feelings, and two desperate hearts comforted each other. However, the author did not give a happy ending, and this short love did not change Ben's mind. If Ben's life is self-destructive, then his final destruction is that he called prostitutes behind Sarah's back. Maybe he doesn't like that girl, but he really doesn't like her. He only looked for that * * * to ruin his relationship with Sarah, just like ruining his own life. I'm dying. Why should Sarah feel sorry for herself?

This book is full of tragedy and despair, but I don't think it is the real soul of the novel. On the contrary, love and hope are revealed at the end of the novel. Dying Ben and Sarah expressed their love incisively and vividly at the end of the hotel, and their despair was full of warmth. Maybe Ben is really an alcoholic and Sarah is really an alcoholic, but their love is pure and hopeful in this short time.

Reflection on Leaving Las Vegas (3): Black after the game.

Ben died, left Las Vegas, and ran away from everything he was attached to and not attached to. Sarah opened her eyes wide in the dark. Maybe the rest of her life will only be this dark without light. After the story is over, will Sarah continue to use her works to prove that she is still alive until she finally dies in the trash can, Cadillac trunk or somewhere else, or will she just let the last moment come early?

No later, the story came to an abrupt end at that moment. Leaving Las Vegas took Nicolas Cage to the position of Best Actor in the Oscar, and also brought the life and love of two people at the bottom of the most prosperous city-drunkards and * * * into the hearts of countless readers. Heavy color people see the body, heavy emotional people see the heart, heavy social people see the real human feelings, romantic people see desperate love. Although it is about the love of two desperate hearts, the two sides met in the last chapter of the book. The first three chapters respectively state the lives of Sarah and Ben, a small part of their lives, and their respective lives for a period of time before they met. Al mumbled "Sarah, you are a lonely man" like a mantra. He used to be the love in Sarah's heart, the kind of love that was abused and inferior, without self-love, the distortion of Stockholm syndrome. It was not until Sarah met Ben in a street stall that this relaxed, equal and trusting interpersonal relationship freed her from the slavery complex.

Before meeting Ben, Sarah's dirty, chaotic, sad and numb life at the bottom of society was recorded in detailed and straightforward words. Her activities were almost all in the dark, in the streets, casinos and hotels after the night ... People who lived a stable life and a quiet life looked at the following with a hint of superiority and pity to satisfy their weak and excited prying desire; Ben, who is self-destructive and addicted to alcohol, has made an unrestrained chronic suicide plan for himself, which is as curious as a reality show. Ben's life is chaotic, there is no concept of day and night, and the surrounding colors are also chaotic. Is the intersection of these two people a prank played by God on impulse? God knows why they fell in love, but some things did change. Only then did I find out that Sarah also has daytime. She will tidy up her room and buy many lovely ceramic decorations. She is a girl, too. Ben who met Sarah was no longer just waiting to die in chaos. He struggled to make many changes, but he still couldn't catch the gear of fate. He gave Sarah a glimmer, but the brake valve he slid to the finish line never pulled.

Las Vegas, an ecstatic cave, was opened by money and desire, indulgence and destruction. In the darkness behind the glitz, a pure flower of love blooms on the carrion that breeds sin and death. The broken body is deliberately ignored, and the two souls desperately want to catch each other's glimmer to comfort their dark and hopeless lives. You can say that this is a desire for love and the future, or you can say that this is another form of desire. Ben and Sarah's life is so depressing that they can't see tomorrow. Love is as humble as dust, there is really no way out and nothing to do, so there is shocking energy. As soon as you open it, you know that love is a dead end, you know your own ending, and you forget it on purpose. For example, Mayflies covet the beauty of a day, and extreme contradictions combine to show pure humanity. The combination of cleanliness and filth is a true portrayal of all human nature struggling in contradiction, which makes readers crazy.

Jane Eyre said, "Do you think that because I am poor, humble, unattractive and short, I have no soul and no heart?" There is no fixed way to match a person's body, status, identity and soul. The sex between Cinderella and the prince is not nobler than Sarah's, and the love between Sarah and Ben is not humbler than anyone else. Even if the twilight is fleeting, her life is a black that never ends.

Leaving Las Vegas's Reflection (IV): Death is nothing but rebirth.

Life is meaningless to me, but meeting you is my last spark in this cold world. Although I couldn't stop myself from falling into the abyss of perdition, we still met and fell in love until death came to me. In the prosperous and flashy times, you and I were so lonely and desperate. Although love is only fleeting and short-lived, I have died without regret. The door of death has been opened to me, and the dazzling light makes my heart shake and yearn. For you, love is everything, making you desperate and willing to die, but for me, love is nothing, my ultimate soul destination and my ultimate ideal kingdom. Death is the end and the beginning; It is chaos and darkness, and it is also a bright hope. Death will eventually make me break through the shackles of this muddy troubled times, break the cocoon into a butterfly, and move towards the other side of the light. Luxurious and dazzling Las Vegas is the most luxurious and gorgeous stage I can choose. On this stage, I hope I am still graceful and elegant in your eyes. Death is nothing but a new life.

Leaving Las Vegas's thoughts (5): endless hell

This is a book full of sadness and despair, without joy and hope. Nicholas Cage's film based on this book finally won an Oscar, written by John? O 'Brien shot himself two weeks after selling the right to adapt the novel.

The novel is about two lonely people (three if Sarah's pimp is included) who are lost on the edge of society. After seeing no hope, the impoverished screenwriter Ben chose to drink and commit suicide slowly. * * * Sarah wants to live a normal life and integrate into the city, but she is dragged back to the abyss by pimps again and again, which is painful. These two lonely and broken souls finally meet in Las Vegas, a gambling paradise full of money and money.

Will two lonely hearts be hotter together? Look at the author himself, John? O 'Brien, who drinks all day, LLV is his first novel, and the book in it is a true portrayal of himself, so LLV is his autobiographical novel. After the novel was successfully adapted into a film, he ended his short life of more than 30 years.

So the encounter between Ben and Sarah in the book is doomed to be a short encounter, just as Xu Zhimo wrote in his poem:

You and I met in the dark sea,

You have yours, I have mine, direction;

You remember it well,

You'd better forget,

The light that shines on each other at this intersection!

Although * * *' s situation made them sing "We are all unhappy-forever, we meet. We understand. What is the relationship between acquaintances? " What will happen after that? The entanglement of pimps and the decadence of a dying heart ruined the happy ending.

In the whole story, only Sarah is the most unfortunate. She has confidence in life that she didn't even realize. Although she was tortured by fate many times, she still didn't give up. The encounter with Ben suddenly made her feel a sense of belonging, and life finally began to turn warm.

However, Ben is "not a returnee, just a passer-by." Sarah is just one stop on his suicide trip, and she will never stay for long. Death is the end he wants. Although in the end, Ben regretted it, but the old dream can't be relived.

Loneliness may be even more lonely when it comes to loneliness, and the collision between misfortune and misfortune may not necessarily spark happiness. This is life. There is no glitz and happy ending in TV series. The warmth and kindness of this city seems to have closed the door to them intentionally or unintentionally. Just waiting to die.

The third person in the book, the pimp, should be a metaphor, symbolizing the invisible hand of society, watching Sarah all the time and peeping at her privacy. When Sarah began to put on her undressed clothes one by one, the hand rudely stripped her off again and left her in public.

I don't know if it is because the author often drinks, the writing of the novel is a bit confusing, and montage is used too frequently. At first glance, it is a bit overwhelming. You can't read the story fluently unless you know it.

Reflection on Leaving Las Vegas (ⅵ): Giving Freedom a Dimension —— Comment on the New Edition of Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas is the only job in john obrien. He's gone, although he wants to stay in this world-Ming.

John obrien's Leaving Las Vegas was once made into a movie. I only knew its name before, but I have never seen it.

I'm sensitive to novels, or I'm picky. Before considering whether to read this book and write something for her, I unconsciously searched her information online. You can see my final decision from this note.

I think the content of the work is the expansion of the title, which must be related to violence or vulgarity! But this is not the case.

The symbol of Las Vegas is Las Vegas, and the symbols of Las Vegas are bars, drunkards and * * *. These three signs have really become the theme of the work. However, "Leaving Las Vegas" is not that simple, otherwise john obrien would not have shot himself after the film adaptation rights were sold, and the adaptation of this work would not be a great motivation for Nicolas Cage to ascend to the throne of Oscar winner.

Tell me about Ben. Ben is an alcoholic. He is the body double of the world that should be forgotten. His life is contradictory, and his life is full of self-destructive helplessness. But he always thinks that his way is right, he lives in his world and he likes the dimension of freedom that belongs to him. He defected because he wanted to get rid of his incompatibility with the world, so alcohol was the best antidote. Because of this, he can lose all his property, even his own soul.

Another symbol of Las Vegas is * * *, a symbol spurned by people. Salad is a microcosm of this symbol, but it does not meet the standard of * * *. Many people live for some special reasons, while some people are like walking dead. Sarah tried to make money, hiding the other side of dignity, and proved that she had noble pursuits. She tried to get Al's insults and beatings with her body, but only in this way did she feel alive and respected. I think she wants to rely on these to touch the warmth and coldness of society, in a person who is willing to face up to its existence. However, at least in Al, she didn't get what she wanted. In fact, Al's strange behavior is just a question mark or footnote that Sarah wants to get rid of her fate. Unfortunately, this question mark is always a question mark.

However, Sarah has a chance to turn the question mark into a period or an exclamation point. This opportunity comes from the appearance and existence of Ben. Salad is not for guests to win three meals a day (perhaps her fate), but we still don't know why. However, she can feel the value of fate (everyone has the right to pursue value) by spending the service fees earned on people she recognizes. At the moment, if what she wants to escape is Las Vegas, it is better to say that what she really wants to escape is herself who always looks strange in the mirror. That's why she can sing with Ben, although Ben uses another way. I wanted to anesthetize myself with alcohol and make myself hallucinate about the world, so as to win a moment of inner peace. Sarah understands because she is also trying to turn despised work into life, even love. At some point, Ben tried to respond to this clue, but he was doomed to be unable to control his hallucinations. He always wanted to Leaving Las Vegas, always wanted to leave his body, and finally, he did it.

At this point, salad has become synonymous. She is complaining about why helplessness always falls on her-although she always looks so calm. Ben's melancholy, hesitation and refusal aggravated the helplessness of salad. Therefore, she finally had to face the fate of losing Ben.

From Ben to Salad, from Salad to john obrien, they are actually just telling the author's escape from the confusion of life. For himself, success is the end. In Leaving Las Vegas, Ben's passivity won Sarah's love. In the event that the film copyright was sold, the author once again won the recognition of the world. However, like Ben, john obrien is doomed to leave. This set the stage from the moment Ben * *, or earlier, when Sarah told her that she could not accept Ben's "deviant" behavior. Fate is so cleverly arranged that the success of the work is recognized, which is the best thing to prove yourself. Then, the author is destined to Leaving Las Vegas. He wants to go his own way and leave a series of laughter-laughing at those of us who live so hard.

To put it another way, in life, why should we care so much about the gains and losses of interests and the ups and downs of life? Pursuing one's own soul is the best soul comfort. I believe john obrien agrees with this view!

In this case, aren't you looking for yourself when you look at this work? We all need freedom!

Leaving Las Vegas's Thoughts (7): Ode * * *

* * * ode

-Dedicated to "Days in Leaving Las Vegas"

* * * Ah, I want to praise you.

You are emotionally stable and optimistic.

You are a lonely night watchman, still guarding the soul of a man's crotch.

People are divided into three or six classes, and you read countless people, serving the princes and grandsons, and serving the beggars in cloth.

You are our spiritual sustenance. We don't care about Plato, let alone Socrates. They are just moral hypocrites.

* * * Ah, I want to sing a hymn to you.

Your service is thoughtful and all-inclusive.

You are radical proletarians, and at the bottom of society, you still have a faint fragrance.

Everyone has worldly desires, and you know it like the back of your hand. You can sit on Lotus Guanyin and go straight to Huanglong.

You are our spiritual comforter. We don't care about the ideal country, let alone the world being one. Those are just a mirage that deceives us.

* * * Ah, here you are,

I want to be an alcoholic,

Drunk to death between your legs

You gently touch and hum old songs.

That kind of feeling is like returning to my childhood hometown.

Your face is like the bright moon by the stream in your hometown.

Don't care about love and hate, don't care about cheating.

I only see flowers bloom and fall, I only see fate come and go.

One day, you will wither and eventually wither.

At that time, I would still be silent,

Love you silently.

In heaven,

Appreciate your beauty.

Leaving Las Vegas's Reflection (8): Men are turbid and women are pure.

A dream of red mansions says that men are turbid and women are clear. There are also books that say that men have nothing and women have it. * * * is a label and a profession, and no one will really comment on it, especially men. Cultural differences, cognitive differences or our own personality will affect our judgment in this respect.

However, through Sarah's eyes, you can see the truth on the other side of the world.

It's cruel. Humans have never lacked cruelty. Sometimes we only love ourselves, only know what we want, only know that we are important ... and never notice the harm we do to others and the world.

The novel is about two lonely people (three if Sarah's pimp is included) who are lost on the edge of society. After seeing no hope, the impoverished screenwriter Ben chose to drink and commit suicide slowly. * * * Sarah wants to live a normal life and integrate into the city, but she is dragged back to the abyss by pimps again and again, which is painful. These two lonely and broken souls finally meet in Las Vegas, a gambling paradise full of money and money.

Sarah represents the dark side of society. She lives in the dark, neglected and spurned. Are you all right now? I'm really into it. We may feel this way about Sarah, but it's absolutely temporary and won't last long. She lives a dirty, chaotic, sad and numb life in the lower classes, in the streets, casinos and hotels at night ... But she is real enough, and her soul is visible and light.

Then she met Ben.

Ben is more real than her. Because Ben is very close to the author himself, even almost himself. John? O 'Brien, who drinks all day, and this book is his first novel, Ben's life state is his real state, which is his semi-autobiographical novel. Like the hero in the story, he gave up on himself, drank all day and led an unrestrained and chronic suicide life. His soul was already in the abyss, and then he met another soul Sarah who was also in the abyss.

They didn't come to perform a reality show, but their stories were adapted into movies and attracted wide attention and enthusiastic pursuit. After the novel was successfully adapted into a film, he ended his short life of more than 30 years.

Is this book alive, real life, Ben's life or John's life? O 'Brien. The life span of a book far exceeds the author's limited life span. In the struggle between life and soul, their world is always thought-provoking and painful.

Las Vegas made a love story between Wang Feng and Zhang Ziyi. Sometimes it's heaven and sometimes it's hell. You see the noise of an alcoholic, and you are about to taste the darkness and cruelty, sin and death behind the glitz. In such a world, a flower of love blooms in the dim light, which is the most prosperous and unforgettable highlight in the book.

Ben and Sarah met and fell in love, but how to support this love?

They are as humble as dust and can't go on healthily.

The whole world has a clean side and a dirty side, even between the lines, close to each other.

It's just that the ending is always so painful.