"Sideways" records what happened during a week when two middle-aged men drove a slightly coquettish convertible red car in an attempt to escape from life.

Miles is a boring middle school teacher who dreams of becoming a writer, but he has not received a reply after submitting his manuscript. What's worse is that he and his wife have been divorced for two years, but he still cannot accept the reality that the marriage has failed and the love he loves has left him. Miles, who had always been in love with wine, now couldn't help but drink bottle after bottle. After all, drinking can make himself feel better.

At the beginning of the film, Miles overslept again because he drank too much. Getting ready to go out in a hurry, I simply packed breakfast at a fried fast food restaurant and hit the road. His destination is a wealthy manor, which is the home of the soon-to-be wife of his good friend Jack. Now Jack is spending the last leisure time before marriage with his future parents-in-law and his wife's family.

In fact, Jack is waiting for Miles to drive him to a vineyard far away to taste wine, and more importantly, to make the final struggle of being single and wandering away from life. He shows off his masculine charm and never misses any opportunity for a one-night stand. But what Jack was planning on Miles wasn't entirely clear. In Miles' plan, he just wanted to taste wine, play golf, have a good rest in the hotel, and spend this ordinary and simple week.

The differences between the two men were obvious from the beginning.

The biggest disagreement comes when the two plan to date two attractive single women.

Jack found that Miles and Maia were very compatible. And it's obvious that Maiya has a crush on Miles. He decides to make them happen and goes on a date with the Asian girl he met at the winery to pour wine for a night of passion.

But Miles was very repulsive. He clearly knew that Jack had a fiancée waiting for him to come home to get married, but he wanted to help him hide this information. So that he can have sex with the girl next to him tonight. This may even happen several times in the next few days. Besides, he just found out that his ex-wife remarried. He originally thought they had a chance to get back together. He still couldn't digest the news. Now I have to open my heart to another love that may also bring harm.

Miles' anxiety and dissatisfaction with his best friend kept him acting out throughout the dinner. He took the opportunity to go to the toilet and made an unhappy call to his ex-wife from a public phone. Then Jack took advantage of the two girls' temporary absence to scold him in person.

Later, Miles cheered up to make the atmosphere more harmonious. After the four of them finished, they went to the Asian girl's house to have sex. This night Miles gave his friend what he wanted. He himself chatted with Maiya all night long.

Maiya was very charming when talking about wine with her. She is very thoughtful and compares wine to life. From peak to decline, this is exactly the reality that a group of people in life have to face. Everything will eventually decline, but they still have life to live.

When Maia put her hand on the back of Miles' hand, Miles flinched.

In the bathroom, I slapped my face with cold water and cursed. After leaving the bathroom, he gave Maiya a kiss.

But at this time Miles was still worried: if she knew that I was poor, that I was down and out, that I was bored. I'm not a writer, and my books aren't published...will she still be interested in me?

One day later, when Miles and Maia were alone. An accidental leak. Maiya knew that Jack was going to get married, and he came out to have fun with girls and met her good friend. She was shaking with anger. And clearly communicated his disappointment to Miles. Her past marriage was unhappy because of her husband's deception. So she got divorced and worked hard to get out of the abyss of being cheated on. Now the love that is about to begin is also accompanied by deception. This was too cruel for her. So she couldn't bear it.

Of course, Jack also followed suit.

Everything I wanted to hide could not be hidden.

Everything you want in the end is worse than never getting it.

The second half of the video. Miles had to face reality. His novel was rejected for publication, although it was excellent. His wife is already married to someone else. He fell in love with a girl who had broken his heart. He admits that he is insignificant and not a superhero. His life was declining. He is as small as dust.

He said, I am worthless to this world. I am redundant.

But when he began to face reality and admit his own mediocrity and weakness, he suddenly became more powerful.

Friday. On the day they were about to return.

Miles opens the door to his naked best friend in the early hours of the morning. Only then did he find out that the waitress he hooked up with yesterday turned out to be a married woman. Her husband came home in the middle of the night and found them having sex on the ground. As a result, Jack had to run 5 kilometers naked through the ostrich farm in the middle of the night and return to the hotel.

The matter was not over yet, and then Jack found that his bag had been left at the other party's house. And in the bag was his wedding ring. He had to get it back. Of course, it was Miles who helped him steal it back before wiping it clean.

Finally, to conceal the source of the hurt on Jack's face. They also caused an accident involving Miles' car.

This short week has been a chaotic time for Miles. Being pushed all the way to say goodbye to his regular life and his past marriage. Say goodbye to his singleness and say goodbye to his love (not really goodbye).

When returning to the original life. He reached a reconciliation with his ex-wife and resignedly accepted his life as a teacher. And received a message from Maya...

The end of the story stops at the moment when Miles knocked on the door of Maya's residence.

When we are expecting the door to open and Maiya’s gentle and beautiful figure to poke out from behind the door. The screen fell into darkness.

It took me three times to finish watching this movie intermittently. This movie is really like wine, bitter and hard to swallow, but it seems to have a lingering fragrance after drinking it. I couldn't help but pour a little more and have a little more aftertaste. But the taste is always bitter and I can only try to taste a little sweetness in it.

"Sideways" was a popular film in 2005. Although the actor is not a big name, he has no good looks. The story is still very slow. The cost was also very low, but it dominated the nominations.

Pinot Grape

Miles is very fond of wine made from a grape called Pinot. This grape is very pretentious. It takes a lot of attention and a lot of effort to grow well. But even with a lot of attention and care, it is still inconspicuous and only grows in the corner. When Miles talked about these grapes, I had a picture in my mind. The image overlapping with the grapes in the corner is Miles himself.

He is also one of the many inconspicuous, ordinary and useless grapes. Although it is not much use, it needs a lot of love and care.

There is also a lot of wine-related content in the video. I actually can't stand it. The four people in the plot all know a lot about wine. It is said that due to filming needs, several leading actors have been drinking so much that they feel like vomiting at the sight of alcohol.

1961

In the middle of the episode, Miles mentions that he has a bottle of 1961. Maiya was very surprised and asked him why he didn't drink it. If he didn't open it, he would decline. Miles said it was because he wanted to wait for a special moment, a special situation and a special person. In fact, he originally planned to drink it on his tenth wedding anniversary.

Obviously, the divorce hit him so hard that he couldn't touch the bottle of wine.

And Maia told him that when you open the wine, it is a special time.

At the end of the movie, Miles drinks his 1961 out of a cheap paper Coke cup in a deep-fried fast food restaurant.

Sex

I don’t know why there are so many sex-related things in movies. Will it affect the plot if these sexual content are deleted and not filmed? I'm not sure.

Maybe I didn’t get what the director wanted to convey.

I think these sex-related contents are still worth pondering, such as:

Jack has a beautiful fiancée who is about to get married. The two are deeply in love, but have almost no contact in the story.

Miles once had a wife whom he loved very much, but the marriage was still unhappy. So Miles also had affairs within his marriage and had sexual contact with other women.

During the week-long trip, from the moment Jack started to come into contact with Asian girls, the sexual aspect inevitably came to the fore.

1) The night the four of them went on a date

2) The scene where Miles bumped into him when he returned to the room the next day

3) Maya took Miles back Home

4) Jack was caught hooking up with a waitress and then ran naked back to the hotel in the middle of the night

5) Miles went to the waitress' house to steal Jack's bag, but the hero came with his bare buttocks Chase them.

Most of the characters in these scenarios are single after divorce, or have broken their vows in marriage.

Perhaps such situations are inevitable when people reach middle age.

Acceptance

I heard a passage in a parenting class before. Says children spend their entire childhood searching for answers to three questions:

To find the answer to the first question. As soon as a baby is born, he will cry to express that he is hungry, sleepy, cold, hot, uncomfortable... If he cries, someone will come to solve the problem for him. It means he can survive.

In order to find the answer to the second question, a 1-year-old child will confront an adult - "Baby, don't throw the toys on the ground." After hearing this, he deliberately threw it to the ground in front of you.

If you don't punish him, he knows he can do what he wants. No need to give in to all your orders.

If punished, he will become frustrated. Feeling unaccepted. He will learn to be "obedient" and "behaved" under pressure and violence, and then wait for a while before repeating his old tricks to see if he will be allowed. This process will continue forever. The most obvious one is adolescence. The so-called rebellion is just children trying to be themselves and resisting being suppressed by their parents during their infancy.

To find the answer to the third question. Children will strive to be first and strive to be better than others. Work your way up the food chain. Strive to gain the appreciation, recognition and likes of others.

Many of us are actually still looking for the answer to the third question.

Miles was eager for his book to be published. It is because I hope to be recognized, and publishing is a proof of recognition. The editor said it was very good, and the publisher said it liked it, but it was useless. As long as it is not published. He just felt useless.

The ex-wife is married to someone else. There is no option to get back together with him. It is also a kind of disapproval of him. He felt that he was being compared and that he was not recognized and praised.

He accepted Maiya’s initial kindness. But he was scared. I was afraid of Maiya because I thought I would appreciate him only after his novel was successfully published. Maia wouldn't like him if she knew he was lying.

But later, the lie was exposed. He and Maiya still had troubles.

Miles began to dare to face all this. He begins to admit that he is just a toilet paper.

He confessed to Maia.

He no longer struggled with himself, he accepted himself for who he was. He returned to his ordinary life.

Later, he got a reply from Maiya. Mai Yaming knew that he was deceiving, but she did not completely deny him.

She also finished reading his book and told him "who cares if it's published, it's so beautiful and sad."

At this moment, Miles achieved perfection.