After reading it, say two words

Brennan 2022-04-19 09:02:01

First of all, the subject of 911 is a sensitive topic. If you are not careful, you may be vigorously criticized by "people who have been deeply affected by the incident", but this movie uses a delicate and vivid plot to soothe the pain and face the reality. to get out of the pain.

The boy inside kept emphasizing that "the coffin is empty" and "we didn't find my father's body", which was actually escaping his father's death. Including the whole process of searching, he has always followed the path left by his father, eager to feel the existence of his father from the search, and therefore when he found that the final result of the search was far from what he expected, the boy collapsed. I don't know what to do without my father. No one can easily accept the departure of a loved one, but there is a deeper pain behind not accepting it. "The search for my father not only failed to appease, but also confirmed the fact of my father's death."

Not only that, the film also added discussion of family issues, like Oskar saying to his mother: "I hope you can die instead of him", which shows that he only pays attention to the care his father brings to him but ignores the love of his mother, but in fact his parents give him love regardless of each other

But what touched me most was the performance of my mother, the dialogue "Why did you come in?" "I want to come in and tell you I love you" and later when Oskar collapsed and said "You have no idea how tired I am" but Mother has gone all the way and even where he's going, trying to ease Oskar's pain in her own way, "I know, I know it all" The place you know will guard you silently, even if you don't understand it, you will still love without regret. This is really only the parents can do, this love without regrets, really, too beautiful.

And the creation of the protagonist is also very interesting, like a genius. The nine-year-old child created a set of equations to find Blake, drew a map to determine the route to find, and could record all images of Blake and all the streets he walked through. (Talking to the tenant and playing the recording is really good) The image of "if it's not depression, it must be a top student in school"

Even this nine-year-old depressed child can come out, what reason is there to pretend to be hypocritical and use the pain of the past as a permanent shield?

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Extended Reading

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close quotes

  • Oskar Schell: It's just a box! An empty box!

    Linda Schell: I know it's an empty box! I know this. But I did it for me, and I did it for you so we can at least try and say goodbye to him. Because he's gone, Oskar, he's gone and he's not coming back. Never. I don't know why a man flew a plane into a building. I don't know why my husband is dead. But no matter how hard you try, Oskar, it's never gonna make sense because it doesn't. It doesn't... make... sense!

    Oskar Schell: Fukozowa you! You don't know anything!

  • [first lines]

    Oskar Schell: There are more people alive now than have died in all of human history, but the number of dead people is increasing. One day, there isn't going to be any room to bury anyone anymore. So, what about skyscrapers for dead people, that are built down. They could be underneath the skyscrapers for living people, that are built up. We could bury people 100 floors down. And a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.