How do you know she must not hear?

Joesph 2022-04-22 07:01:30

I watched a movie in the name of learning Spanish, and I watched Almodovar's "Talk to Her" tonight, which is very different from when I watched it many years ago. Before, I paid more attention to falling in love, but this time I couldn't stop being "in a coma" in a coma for a long time.

At the end of last year, my grandmother suffered a brain hemorrhage and was saved, but she is still in a coma. She's so old that the chances of her waking up are slim to none. She opens her eyes and grabs things with her hands, but doctors say it's not conscious behavior. I confided to my friend C that in my heart my grandmother was gone. Even though I was by her bedside, I couldn't get any comfort. I wanted to talk to her, but I felt that she couldn't hear it, so I opened my mouth and swallowed it again.

C told his story. He was born prematurely, many days early, and most babies like him didn't make it. During the most dangerous months, his family found that whenever someone played the violin in the ward he would laugh and become very happy. The family tried to play the recording, but it was useless, it had to be played by a real person. It seemed that the vibrations of the air from the playing of the instrument had some kind of miraculous effect on his. So during those few months, the family found a violinist and played the violin for him every day in the ward for an hour. The family later felt that the incident helped him survive.

The human brain is extremely complex, he said, and we know too little about it. We don't know what sound and light can do to our brains.

"How do you know that she must not hear?" We can judge "hear" and "inaudible" only based on the other party's reaction. The other party's lack of response does not mean that the information has not been accepted or left no traces on the other party's body.

"I can not".

What's more, she said it was also for herself. I want to tell her what I have been doing for the past few years and how I am doing. I want to tell her that I often dream of her. I want to tell her how much I want to see her again and smile. Can we speak again.

I plan to go back next month and have a good talk with her. What if she could hear it?

This world should be a little more mysterious and gentler.

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Extended Reading
  • Melyna 2022-03-21 09:01:58

    One of Almodovar's personal favorites. He really got the core of storytelling, how to manipulate the emotions of the audience. In the exquisite time-space structure as always, several character relationships are explained. When you are lonely, please talk to me more. It was an extraordinary love that, through years of company and care, turned into an unshakable faith, into an unforgivable sin, and finally into a miracle that could not share joy.

  • Godfrey 2021-12-11 08:01:28

    He walked into her body and never came out again. Thoroughly visualize the true meaning of love. The infinite giving of love means self-destroying without complaint, but maybe in the end only a soft groan in her dream.

Talk to Her quotes

  • [last lines]

    Katerina Bilova: Nothing is simple. I'm a ballet mistress, and nothing is simple.

  • Marco Zuluaga: Love is the saddest thing when it goes away, as a song by Jobim goes.