21 grams, a movie I've always wanted to see, I'd rather attribute it to a romance. Paul's love for Christine is 21 grams. The last shot is enough to redeem any kind-hearted but desperate person and help them return to the "life to go on" they have always wanted and long for.
In the double track of intertwined flashbacks and direct narratives, the constantly changing space and time segments are connected, and three seemingly different families are connected to each other's fate because of a car accident. Since then, the fate of everyone and even every family has been changed, and he has fallen into the whirlpool of revenge and tolerance. Paul, who has been suffering from heart disease for a long time, is dying, Jack who has lost his footing and longing for redemption and salvation, and Christine who has been addicted to drugs and partying and has a short-lived happiness after reforming. Everyone needs redemption, but in the face of another trick of fate, they understand that they can only save themselves after all. The best way to forgive others is to forgive yourself, and then you can forgive others by letting go of yourself.
It is said that everyone loses 21 grams of weight when they die - that's the weight of the soul!
Instead of treating Paul's 21-gram love for Christine as a love fairy tale, the movie pushes it to despair and pain again and again in an almost brutal way. We don't have to get to the bottom of whether Christine loves Paul or her dead husband's heart here, we can only say that in such a story of life and life continuation, love is the hope to save them.
When I saw that Paul didn't shoot Jack after all, I had some incomprehensible doubts. I kinda got it when he lied to Kristen about killing Jack. And in the end, when Paul saw that Christine was almost crazy to kill Jack, he shot himself in the chest, I finally realized that killing Jack would only make Christine deeper and deeper, but not at all. get rescued. Maybe only those who really face death can understand life more clearly, so Paul's last shot, while regenerating himself, also saved Jack and Christine.
I see a lot of people saying it's a story about religion, life and love. Of course you could also say that Jack's salvation came from the Lord he had always believed in. But when I saw that Jack was disappointed in everything, including his faith, he cut the cross drawn on his arm with a knife, and I got sick to my stomach. Rather than the Lord redeeming him, he redeemed himself, and he desperately drove Paul to the hospital to confess his guilt to the police. Well, you could say this is what the Lord made him do, amen.
The silent ending at the end of the story can touch people's hearts even more. I believe that after so many life experiences, no amount of language is superfluous. Paul calmly faced the original death, and the medical tube inserted into his body was regarded as a ridiculous accident by him. Jack finally gets redemption and returns to his long-awaited family. When Jack can finally face Christine, and Christine looks at Jack in the hospital, we know that she and he are rescued. Christine's pregnancy with Paul's child allowed Paul's life to continue, and made "life goes on, no matter what." The strong words of "life is unbearably light" were once again cruel or hopeful. is confirmed. Because life is always that "quiet".
End the weekend with Jack's inner monologue: How many times have we lived, how many times have we died? They say we will lose 21 grams, the moment we die, everyone. What's in 21 Cree? How much have you lost? When did you lose 21 grams and how much did you take away? How much did you get, how much did you get? 21 grams, the weight of five coins, the weight of a hummingbird, a chocolate bar... 21 grams, how much?
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