The US's present middle-aged generation have metamorphosed from youthful anti-war protesters and hippies into yuppie managers of multinational corporations, and from idealists into materialists. The tensions and trauma of that transformation cause their "midlife crisis" to be especially complex.
美國中年世代，從年輕時的反越戰嬉皮，蛻變為跨國集團的雅痞主管；從理想掛帥，翻轉為功利第一，其間的拉扯與轉折，使得他們的「中年危機」份外複雜。