Only when you face it can you truly have it.

Abby 2022-04-23 07:02:17

Forgetting a person can't be as easy as clipping your nails.
Forgetting a person is like clipping a nail, perhaps - erasing it from the mind again and again, and growing hopelessly insane again and again.

Love someone too much, but lose him.
How can I perform surgery on the wound in my heart?
You can choose to work 24 hours a day;
you can choose to sleep around the clock.
But when you wake up and calm down, is there really no pain?

Oscar chose to complete the "scavenger hunt" his father left him.
On the journey of exploring secrets, he met all kinds of people, learned about the joys and sorrows of others, and gained support and inspiration from strangers;
during the journey of exploring secrets, he learned about the love stories of his grandparents and found the love story of his grandparents. His grandfather;
on the journey of exploring secrets, he walked into his mother's heart, and he finally understood that his mother was enough to support him in the day when his father collapsed because of the 9/11 incident.

Oscar grew up like this.
At the end of the film, he relied on his own strength to swing the swing very high.
He can finally face the pain of his father's departure calmly - instead of having difficulty connecting to his father's phone as on the day of the incident.
He can finally confess his love for his mother - instead of shouting "I hope it's you in that building" to his mother who is as tender-hearted as him after the incident.
He finally learned to bury the four years he had given to his father in his heart, and then lived a strong life.

Don't run away from sadness, don't run away from separation.
Only when you face it can you truly have it.

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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.