Zhang Ling emphasizes the love between Mike O’Donnell and his family members in her paper。 She thinks love develops throughout the movie。 Twenty years ago, Mike gave up the opportunity to go to university because he loved Scarlet。 Later, he doesn’t want to porce because he still loves her。 As to Mike’s children, when he becomes friends with them, he strives to help them。 

This paper researches the movie’s benefits to people in modern life。 It makes people understand midlife crisis concretely by combining relevant plots and authoritative theory。 It gives people some suggestions which are helpful to their middle age。 It connects the movie with daily life which makes people understand and accept more easily。

3。 The Enlightenment to Modern Life by the Movie 17 Again

3。1 Dealing with the midlife crisis accurately

People from 45 to 59 years old usually are defined as the middle age of lifetime。 There are some changes in terms of physiology and psychology, when people are in their middle age: some physiological functions will decline, and strength, coordination, physical agility will decline gradually; with the accumulation of knowledge, the ability to solve practical problems will improve, but to learn new knowledge will reduce; most people will change their characters to some extent。 (Zhang 750) Middle-aged people suffer from psychological discomfort which comes from obsessions and problems in daily life。 Confucius once said, “at thirty, I can earn my own living; at forty, I’m not suffer from perplexities any more”。 Middle adulthood is a phase of taking stock and reviewing one’s previous achievements。 (Alexandra 588)In fact, at the age of 40, people face many life lessons which can be described as “midlife crisis”。 Middle-aged people are faced with the dual pressures of life and work。 They not only support the elderly parents, but also fulfill the responsibility of education and upbringing of their children。 Meanwhile their children are in the adolescent phase, so parent-child relationship is a great challenge for them。 According to statistics, among middle-aged people, especially in the city, the pressure of middle-aged men is mainly from the aspect of enterprise and economy, while middle-aged women’s stress mainly derives from the emotion and family。 Men are nearly three times more likely to suffer from midlife crisis than women。 Uncertainty about what constitutes a standard yardstick or proper time for achievements, symbolic of successful adulthood may in itself generate feelings that a crisis is approaching, even when conditions of life are relatively good。 (Wethington 88)文献综述

Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung makes such an analysis of the difficulties in his theory of personality development that human race may encounter in middle age: the personality of the inpidual changes from extroversion to introversion。 Although some people have been working hard to pursue their own dreams, the realistic society can’t meet the ideals and desires of all people。 The achievement is difficult to peak, so there must be some people who will be disappointed because of the lack of ideals。 Therefore, middle-aged inpiduals often recall the young and wonderful time in the past, and they start to reflect and recall much more, rather than continue to work hard。 (Liang 90) The middle-aged Mike tallies with two performances of the midlife crisis analyzed by Carl Jung。 On one hand, his wife is determined to porce; he has no common language with his children, and they do not want to have anything to do with him。 On the other hand, he has worked at the company for 16 years。 However, in the end he fails in a competition of promoting。 Mike is dissatisfied with the status quo。 Even high school friend Ned now is richer and more comfortable than him, so he complains to his wife frequently that “I am disappointed of my life。。。。。。 If I could go to college。。。。。。”。 At the same time, he likes to go back to his high school where he stands in front of the picture and looks at it, recalling the brilliant days in the past and wondering why his life becomes so terrible。