In This Shit Life

We can figure out how awful the life is for David Spritz from the very beginning of the movie: his marriage had broken up, his daughter was a fat, self-closing girl and a smoker at 12, his son was having drug treatment, and his job, making TV weather reports everyday, was dull and his audiences liked to throw things at him in the street because of his forecasts turning out to be wrong. What can we learn from watching a man standing out his midlife crisis? I think, it is that we have to carry on with our life against all odds, and also learn to give up something that enshrouds our true self.
David tries hard to make things go better, but life isn』t that easy to be controlled by everyman. What was worse, he finds out that his ex-wife gets a new boyfriend, his daughter is being called camel toe by her schoolfellows, his son has been molested by his drug counselor, and his father gets cancer. Life is like the tough winter in 芝加哥, where he lived. However, he still carried on. In this shit life, perseverance is the strongest power that supports ordinary people to walk through hardships. He began to retort and counterattack those who took delight in annoying him. The daughter set up confidence about her appearance because her father encouraged her to try a new clothes style which was well-suited；the man who had molested the boy got a good dusting and warning from a raging father, both of which proved that David began to really concern about his families. In his program, the wild guess of the weather disappeared, instead of which was just the faithful report of the weather.
As David’s father said,」 Easy doesn』t enter into grown-up life.」 We can』t expect doing everything perfectly, so we have to be realistic and give up something. David gave up pretending a perfect father in front of his children: unfolding his weakness and the wordy conflicts with their mother, gave up the futile effort of making his ex-wife come back to him finally. The most important thing is that he gave up all his unrealistic fancies about himself and his life and admitted at last that as time went by he was further and further from the man he used to think that he would be. Eventually, he dug out his true inner self—he was not the Savior, he could not do everything perfectly, he was just a weather man, and he did pretty well in this position.
The movie told us: life is shit, but we must take care of it, persist on in the face of all difficulties. And in this shit life, we must chuck something; we must chuck them, like throwing away those unnourishing junk food.