A good director can make an unpleasant subject beautiful

Lexie 2022-04-23 07:02:21

First of all, I am a person who believes in science, and I absolutely don’t believe in anything behind the scenes, psychics, and the like. Mediums are almost liars. The opening of the film expounds such a point of view that after death, there is a heaven and a beautiful hereafter. This is quite annoying to me, it's almost a plot that only vulgar B-movies and TV series have.
But as the plot progresses, the film raises the question: If it's a fact that doesn't need arguing, why are you so afraid to talk about it? The spirit of science is to constantly ask and think. Even the so-called indisputable facts actually have their conditions. So, I began to patiently watch the evolution of this movie, until the last scene:
the psychic saw the only woman in the world who understood him, the only woman who could completely suit him. They are the natural best match. I understood the essence of this movie. Psychic is just a pretense, the real love is the "harmony" that we Chinese have been talking about. We Chinese (Chinese government) like to say that harmony is created, but in fact harmony is natural. Only natural harmony is most perfect.
This last love scene really touched me. And pushed the whole slow-paced symphony to a climax.
In this world, there is one person out of more than 6 billion people, and he or she is completely compatible with you. Isn’t this actually what Buddhism calls karma? This is heaven.
The director of the end credits sees Clint Eastwood. I really admire it. His understanding of movies can be slowly engraved with age, just like Tai Chi. (In the end, I almost believed in mediums. But still, mediums are really liars, remember everyone.)

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  • Darius 2022-04-24 07:01:08

    Very not Dongmu, the somber tones of Tom Stem, the photographer who has been cooperating all the time, can make people guess that this is Dongmu's film, other than that, only Matt Damon is left. Regardless of whether Dongmu can rank among the most outstanding directors, the old cowboy movies really depend on the script. Unfortunately, this time he gave up his historical and political themes and turned to psychic Peter Morgan, and let Dongmu fans together. Big disappointment.

  • Xzavier 2022-03-26 09:01:06

    I really like the little boy line.

Hereafter quotes

  • Dr. Rousseau: You know, as a scientist and, um, atheist my mind was closed to such things. Oh, absolutely. Afterlife, near-death experiences. Like everyone else, I thought people saw bright lights, Eden-like gardens and so forth because they were culturally conditioned to do so, but after twenty-five years in a hospice working with people, many of whom were pronounced dead but then miraculously survived, the account of what they actually experienced were so strikingly similar it couldn't just be coincidence. And add to that the fact that when they had these experiences they were almost all unconscious, a state in which, my enemies agree, the brain cannot create fresh images.

    Marie Lelay: So you think I really did experience something?

    Dr. Rousseau: Oh, yes.I think you experienced death.

  • Billy: [about George] He said, "A life that's all about death is no life at all."