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Who is not grieving to the bone while working hard to live?

Yes, I am talking about "BoJack Horseman".

This animation is rated PG-13 in the United States,

"Children under 13 years old, please watch with parental supervision."

Because it is too pornographic ? Is it because it's too violent?

No, it’s because I’m super sad.

Therefore, it is rated as "the most boring cartoon in the world" by many people.

Although it is super sad,

But if you ask me to recommend an animation with the most depth,

I will definitely recommend "BoJack Horseman" .

"Horse Man" has been on the air for 5 seasons.

The lowest rating on Douban is 9.2, which is scary.

In 2018, "The New York Times" once again listed "Horse Man" among the top ten of the year:

"All things being equal,

I don't want to After listing the same show for several years,

"BoJack Horseman" is the first exception."

This seemingly super sad animation,

In fact, the three views are correct in my heart.

It answers an eternal proposition:

Is a hopeless life not worth persisting in?

The young BoJack Horseman

became a household name in the United States because of his role in the sitcom "Ponyboy"

But after middle age, he gradually lost his temper,

and slowly became a loser and a scumbag.

All day long:

Drinking alcohol,

Smoking,

Taking drugs,

Hooking up,

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Relive "The Little Pony" on the sofa,

Remember the glory of the past.

Not only that,

He is also selfish, narcissistic, irritable and irritable,

does not know how to cherish and is irresponsible,

always It’s hurting the people around you,

whether it’s your partner or your friend.

All the shortcomings in us,

can be found in BoJack.

What’s even more frightening is that

This big loser

doesn’t even know what kind of person he is,

and often I thought everyone liked him.

This animation proposes a concept - the freezing point.

“The freezing point is the moment you stop growing.

Everyone has a freezing age,

After this point in time,

we will not continue to grow,

The mind only remains at this moment. "

The concept of age-freezing point,

actually has the same meaning as Romain Rolland's famous saying:

"Most people reach the age of freezing point in their twenties and thirties. Die,

Because after this age,

they are just shadows of themselves,

and spend the rest of their lives imitating themselves. "

BoJack was in this state at this time.

At the moment when he finished filming "Ponyboy",

he was actually "frozen" "age".

BoJack's manager and sex partner "Caroline Catwoman",

really couldn't stand it anymore,

every day "Knocking" BoJack

In order to regain his strength,

BoJack decided to publish an autobiography

But BoJack was procrastinating.

After delaying writing for a year and a half,

the publisher had to find a gunman for him - Diane

After living with *** for a while,

Diane wrote the real BoJack

She posted three chapters online,

and it caused a huge sensation.

After BoJack read the article,

was frightened when he saw his true self.

He refused to admit that he was such a scumbag.

Refused Publish this book,

"In five days, I rewrote "The Autobiography of BoJack Horseman" by myself. ”

The result is as you expected,

BoJack wrote nothing.

BoJack ran to the Gunfight to find Diane,

"I know I am selfish and narcissistic,

and have self-destructive tendencies,

but deep down, I am a good person,

I need you to tell me I'm a good person,

Diane, tell me, please,

Tell me, I'm a good person. "

Diane did not speak, silent.

Later, his old friend Todd told him:

"You are not a good person,

If you can readily admit this,

Maybe you can sleep a little more soundly at night. "

BoJack realized this time:

He is a complete scumbag.

But BoJack never expected that,

This autobiography ghostwritten by someone else,

This autobiography that he hated so much,

actually won the Golden Globe Award,

As a result, BoJack " "Famous".

After BoJack became popular again,

was selected by the movie "The Proud Horse",

starred in the film "Proud Horse" as the male lead .

BoJack is so happy,

because the original character of this movie, "Pride",

is his childhood idol.

In order to film "The Proud Horse",

BoJack started to get busy,

quit smoking and drinking,

exercised,

Listening to inspirational chicken soup,

He wants to become a positive Zelda.

Zelda and Zoe,

are twin sisters in the sitcom "Mr. Peanutbutter".

Zoe is pessimistic and introverted.

Zelda is sunny, positive and outgoing.

Zoe represents the pessimist,

Zelda represents the optimist.

Deep inside everyone,

Either Zelda or Zoe.

There is no doubt that BoJack is a typical Zoe.

Therefore, he really wants to become Zelda,

He wants to live a positive life.

BoJack is so "positive",

that when filming the scene where the proud horse loses the race,

he couldn't get into the character's emotions,

I took many shots but couldn’t pass them.

At this moment, BoJack's mother called him.

"I read your autobiography, BoJack.

How narcissistic do you have to be to think that everyone will buy a book about him? .

…………

I know you want happiness,

but you can’t get it

You inherited it. The ugliness inside me and your dad

You were born broken, this is what you were born with

Now even though you can use your work, your books, your movies,

You still have your little girlfriend to enrich your life,

But you are still not complete,

You are hopeless. ”

Mother’s advice. The phone call immediately chilled BoJack from head to toe.

He became the BoJack he was before.

Why is BoJack such a scumbag?

Just because he was born in an unfortunate family,

He has a hysterical mother,

and an unreasonable father,

BoJack grew up with his parents scolding him.

Because their married life is extremely disharmonious,

Both couples blame BoJack for their failed lives:

“My life is so bad because of You."

"You ruined me, BoJack"

From Season 1 to Season 4,

Whenever BoJack's parents show up. ,

There is only one theme - endless humiliation of BoJack.

BoJack imitated the people on TV smoking,

choked and coughed,

His mother saw it and asked: What are you doing?

BoJack puts out his cigarette: I'm sorry.

My mother said: This is a fine cigarette, you have to finish it.

BoJack said: But I don’t want to smoke anymore.

Mom said: You must finish it.

BoJack had no choice but to cry and light a cigarette.

BoJack asked: Are you punishing me because I smoke or because I steal cigarettes?

Mom said: I punish you because you are not dead yet.

BoJack shows his love to his dad,

He makes a heart-shaped greeting card.

BoJack: Happy Father's Day, Dad.

Dad asked: What is this? Green beans?

BoJack said: It's the heart.

Dad was disdainful: Your skills are too poor.

BoJack: I tried my best.

Dad: You didn’t try your best! You are definitely lazy!

Dad slaps BoJack hard.

When he was a child, his mother gave BoJack a lollipop.

"If you want to get your mother's love, go outside and perform and sing for them."

This way Various behaviors of

They are also conditional.

For example, I like his performance and his money.

This results in BoJack's "love inability".

He neither knows how to accept love,

nor how to love others,

That’s why he always doesn’t cherish things, always gives up, and always offends friends and partners who are good to him.

This is how a scumbag is made.

Finally, while filming "The Prodigy",

BoJack had a conflict with the director,

BoJack didn't even say hello,

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He drove away from the set - the show was over.

When he came back from his wandering life,

found that "BoJack" had been filmed.

The director used special effects to create "BoJack".

BoJack, who messed up everything, finally understood and admitted:

"I am indeed a very scumbag person."

So he wanted to make a Change,

He started running again.

Why does BoJack run?

Because when he was 9 years old,

he wrote a letter to his idol Jiao Ma complaining:

"I am a good child, I like to play and go to school,

But sometimes I feel sad

Is there any way not to be sad? ”

Jiao Ma answered this question:

"BoJack, when I was your age,

I was sad a lot,

and my family wasn't happy.

But one day, I started Run,

Everything makes sense

So, BoJack,

When you are sad, just keep running.

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There will always be people in your life who want to stop you and slow you down.

But don’t let them succeed. Don’t stop running.

There is no way back. The only thing worth looking forward to is the front.

"

After running a few steps, BoJack wanted to give up.

He collapsed on the grass.

At this time, a passerby appeared and started talking to him. Said:

"It will get better,

It will get easier every day,

But you have to keep running every day,

Keep running That's the hard part. "

So BoJack started running again,

"Zoe may never be a complete Zelda,

But we can choose to slowly become less Zoe. ”

I never expected that

this special effects movie without BoJack’s participation

would actually be nominated for an Oscar,

BoJack was expected to win the Oscar.

BoJack was so happy that he went on road shows to build momentum.

Then tragedy happened.

BoJack was busy for many days before he learned that

He was not actually nominated for an Oscar.

The reason why he was nominated was because

It's because host Peanut Butter lost the nomination list,

so he made one up in the dressing room

BoJack's mood,

He fell from heaven to hell.

His self-salvation failed.

Since then, he has been unable to recover.

He went to find the actress Sa who is also a has-been idol. Taking drugs.

Sara and BoJack were sitting in the motel,

taking drugs and watching TV.

Unexpectedly, a dramatic scene occurred. :

“Sarah actually won an Oscar. "

After Sarah found out that she had won an Oscar,

she was very excited at first,

and then felt endless disappointment,

"Oscar is not will make you happy forever,

won't solve your problems,

you win an Oscar,

you'll still be yourself the next day. "

These words completely crushed BoJack.

He thought that after winning the Oscar,

life would be full of meaning,

But Sarah told him that was not the case

During the road show, Spider-Gill said to BoJack: Nothing lasts forever.

BoJack said: Get an Oscar. Life has meaning.

What happens next?

I will be remembered.

What happens next? /p>

In the end, BoJack was talking and realized that he didn’t know anymore.

Now Sarah used practical examples to prove,

“Everything seems to be meaningless. . ”

As a result, BoJack collapsed.

After a drug trip with BoJack,

Due to an overdose,

Sara died in BoJack’s arms,

BoJack suffered another huge blow.

He felt that living was meaningless.

So after offending everyone around him,

He drove a car straight to the wilderness,

preparing to spend the rest of his life here.

"We live like Sisyphus who keeps pushing stones.

Since life is so absurd,

Why do we still live?"

When BoJack let go of the steering wheel,

was about to commit suicide,

suddenly saw a wild horse running in the desert,

"This group of Wild horses,

run for the sake of running,

just like Sisyphus,

although it looks absurd,

But they seemed so happy."

Is it meaningless for Sisyphus to push the stone up the mountain every day?

It actually makes sense to him.

Suppose that every time Sisyphus pushes the stone,

he can save 5 people from the sea of ??misery,

and then push it again the next day,

Five more can be rescued,

Then pushing rocks every day is not meaningless.

BoJack understands immediately:

"If what you do makes the world a better place,

you will feel,

What I do is not repetitive and meaningless work.

In this scary and boring world,

The warmth between us is.

Isn’t that the point of living? ”

BoJack gave up on committing suicide.

After the fourth season of "Horse Man" was aired,

everyone was surprised,

because Horse Man did not appear in the first episode.

Where is BoJack going?

He did not commit suicide at the end of the third season.

He drove back to his parents’ hometown.

In the process of repairing his parents' old house,

BoJack gradually learns everything about his parents.

BoJack's mother, Beatrice,

was a lovely girl when she was a child,

born into a happy family of four.

BoJack’s grandma,

is also a warm and sunny person,

and BoJack’s grandpa,

is a very famous businessman.

But unfortunately,

the war took the life of Uncle Bojack.

BoJack’s grandmother lost her son,

She became depressed from then on,

went to bars all day long to get drunk and take drugs,

BoJack Her grandfather couldn't bear it anymore, so he performed a frontal lobotomy on her.

Grandma Bojack's frontal lobe was removed.

From then on, her temperament changed drastically—— Bad temper, numb and indifferent.

Beatrice grew up in such an environment.

Because she was treated roughly since she was a child,

she became a scumbag.

Grandpa BoJack originally wanted to marry Beatrice to his partner’s son.

By chance,

BoJack’s father appeared.

This literary young man who longed to become a novelist,

used his sweet words to attract Beatrice,

turned raw rice into cooked rice,

Grandpa Bojack had no choice but to agree to the marriage.

But soon after BoJack was born,

his parents were quarreling all day long.

Beatrice regretted marrying Bojack’s father,

“My good life has been ruined.”

BoJack’s father also felt aggrieved.

Because he was forced by his father-in-law to work in the family business,

"My literary dream has been ruined."

So the two talked about the unsatisfactory marriage. ,

It all fell on BoJack,

"You trash, you ruined my life."

In the past, BoJack did something bad or wrong.

He pushed the responsibility to society and parents.

Now he discovered that

In fact, parents are also victims.

"Beatrice, who grew up in such an environment,

was unable to establish intimate relationships with others,

because she had never received love,

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Of course he doesn’t know how to give love.”

After knowing what happened to his parents,

BoJack doesn’t hate his parents so much.

Even some sympathy arose:

"The world needs good mothers."

The reason why BoJack and his mother are so scumbag,

can be traced back to the root cause. In the original family.

People are the sum of experiences.

Each of us is composed of countless experiences.

These experiences will become imprints.

There are good and bad,

eventually carved into what we are now.

No one is born that bad,

Unless they are born into an unfortunate family.

The world not only needs good mothers, but also good fathers.

The fifth season of "Horse Man" is finally here,

The sixth episode of the fifth season,

The rating on IMDB is 9.9,

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Infinitely close to perfect score.

This achievement was not achieved even by the TV drama "Rick and Mordy".

It is really astonishing.

In this episode, BoJack's mother dies.

The entire story of this episode,

is BoJack's monologue at his mother's funeral.

Facing the coffin, BoJack said a lot.

He said that his mother said to him before she died - I see you.

BoJack was so happy,

because he had never received his mother's love and attention in his life.

But on her deathbed,

My mother finally "saw me."

BoJack has been waiting for the sentence "I see you".

At the age of 54, he finally waited.

But BoJack's happiness only lasted a very short time.

Finally he discovered that

what his mother said before she died, "I see you",

was not actually "I see you",

It’s the intensive care unit sign—ICU.

BoJack was very disappointed:

"The mother's attention that I have been pursuing all my life,

has never been received.

I have never received it since. I'll never get it again."

This result,

is nothing like the Chinese TV series "Everything Is Good".

At the end of "Everything is Fine",

The old man finally repented and became better.

But this result is more consistent with real life.

BoJack always wanted to prove himself,

But no matter how hard he tried, his mother never praised him.

Do you know why Beatrice never praises BoJack?

Because if she praises BoJack,

she will lose control of BoJack,

and as long as she keeps torturing him,

He will always please himself.

Isn’t it always like this in many families in real life?

The death of his mother

also made BoJack realize,

"You can no longer put the blame on your mother."

When BoJack made a mistake in the past,

he liked to put the responsibility on his family of origin,

meaning,

"Without such a mother, how could I It will be like this."

But now that his mother is dead, he can no longer find excuses.

His friend Todd said it to the point:

“You are bad because you are bad.

Don’t use your family of origin as an excuse to live like a scumbag. .

Don’t blame alcoholism, drug abuse, and irresponsibility on your family of origin and parents.

You are bad because you can do it. Bad things."

BoJack was depressed,

feeling that he was a hopeless bad guy,

and could never be a good person.

But Diane said something like this to him,

"There are no good people and bad people in the world.

We are just... human beings.

Sometimes you do bad things, sometimes you do good things.

If you do bad things at the moment, you are a bad person.

If you do good things at the moment, you are a good person. . ”

BoJack finally understood:

It’s actually very simple to become a good person, just do good things.

So BoJack became active again,

Trying not to be confused anymore,

Trying to interact well with others,

Trying to film again,

Despite the conflict with the director,

but this time he did not choose to escape,

but chose to communicate.

BoJack also tried to quit drinking,

but it was too difficult to quit drinking all at once,

so he painted a mark on the bottle,

Only drink a little a day.

linzithelord commented that this detail was well designed:

“This detail is amazing!

Nothing in life is achieved overnight,

From one victory to another,

It’s just a matter of time.

You say you want to get better, but you don’t know how.

It’s very simple, start with small things and get better little by little.”

But at the end of the fifth season,

BoJack had another accident,

He broke his back at a Halloween party,

so he took painkillers.

After one dose, he became addicted.

This is a really frustrating thing.

If it were BoJack in Season 2 or Season 3,

he would definitely choose to evade or run away,

But this time he has no habit of doing so. Instead of choosing the easy road,

I chose a very painful road - entering a drug rehabilitation center.

"Hi, I'm BoJack, you know who I am because I'm famous and I called ahead."

"I'm here because, I Need help."

BoJack is still a jerk,

but he's trying to get better.

“If you persist every day, it will get easier.

The hard part is that you have to persist every day.

But as long as you persist,

It will really get easier day by day. ”

No miracle will happen.

No one will come down from the sky to save you.

You can only rely on yourself.

Save yourself a little bit every day.