Heidegger believes that death is "being to death." (Being-towards-death) or "life to death". This assertion is one of the most frequently quoted, but most difficult to understand, mantras in modern thought. Heidegger calls physical death "death," while philosophically death is the name of the mode of being by which Dasein exists to die. Death is more fundamental and primordial than death, because Dasein can only die when it is dead. People generally think that death means death, and death means death. Even if the two concepts are different, for example, death can refer to a process, and death refers to the result of this process, and death will not become a "condition" for death. Yet this distinction is the crux of Heidegger's ontology of death. Heidegger's point of view is that as long as people are not dead, they live in the way of existence toward death, that is to say, they always live in the way of "having death" or "being able to die". This existence of death that runs through all "living" precedes any form of death.
Finished pulling the flag and making tiger skins. The plot of "A Single Man" is actually very simple. George, a middle-aged professor, suddenly got the news that his same-sex partner Jim, who had lived with him for 16 years, died in a car accident. He fell into great grief, so he decided to commit suicide. On the day he planned to commit suicide, while recalling the warm moments of living with his partner, he was also illuminated by the small beauty in real life. At last he realized that all good things will pass away, he can't grasp them, he can only try to get close to them and enjoy every minute of the present moment. When everything was clear in his mind, he suddenly suffered a heart attack and really died.
The ending wasn't George facing the sun the next day, but a heart attack, I think maybe it wasn't the director playing dark humor on purpose, it was for the subtlety of the structure - to let the whole story happen and end the day after the bad news within. However, this kind of ingenuity will inevitably lose the possible weight. For example, George decided to commit suicide immediately after receiving the news of his lover's death. In fact, people could not feel the level of his emotional changes. When the bad news came to the decision to commit suicide, he should have thought a lot in the middle. Bar? It seems that a middle-aged professor should not be so emotional. But when he was about to die, I don't think George would sigh that fate is impermanent. He saw that everything will eventually pass away, and life is a state of living towards death, and he should be able to accept the sudden arrival of death. It's just that there is a sense of impermanence in the world. The original plan really can't keep up with the changes.
It is said that director Tom Ford is a fashion designer, so every scene in the film can be called delicate and charming. Especially every time George felt the little things in life, his face was illuminated by a warm light.
In the end, the "Senior Member of the Appearance Association", who has been drinking all the time, jumped out to vent. Wow~ The old handsome Colin Firth is back in shape again~ My favorite handsome and sunny guy, Matthew Goode, has transformed into a gentle and lovely fan~ Nicholas Hoult has grown up and has become more tidy, and his blue eyes are really charming. Wow~ There is also a glimpse of the beautiful Spanish boy ~
I insidiously speculate that Tom Ford's purpose is to find a serious story to shoot all kinds of handsome men. Do you have the same thief's mind as Xu Jinglei's filming of Du Lala?
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