The reality you thought was denied, but the world you saw was something that had never happened in the eyes of others, and your memory was overturned again and again, until the world you had been holding on to gradually collapsed. Others say you are sick, sick, go to rest, but those things that happened in your world, it's messed up, everything is messed up, they break your beliefs, you don't know who to trust The duckweed floating on the water has nothing to rely on, and it seems that the leaves on the tree keep falling, and the memory of life is gradually chaotic.
Such a sense of helplessness is shown in the movie "Father Trapped in Time" by Anthony, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. The film adopts the method of interlacing reality and the world from Anthony's perspective, so that readers can't tell which is the real thing for a while, until his daughter Annie denied Anthony's memory again and again, and Anthony's face became confused and confused. The expression of disbelief, we can only know that what just happened just happened in Anthony's memory.
The film opens with her daughter, Anne, helplessly and sadly telling her father that she is leaving here, going to Paris, and starting a new life with someone else. Anthony couldn't believe it at first, then became afraid, afraid that Annie would leave him alone. But when the camera turned, Annie appeared in front of Anthony with another face with the chicken she just bought. The transitions of the film shots are very natural and follow the sequence of events, so as viewers, we sometimes fall into a confused situation and have questions such as "who is Anthony's daughter?"
Annie, who came back with the chicken, looked at her father looking at her as if she was looking at a stranger. The family relationship for so many years was forgotten by her sick father, and her heart was extremely desperate and sad.
And off-screen, after getting familiar with the description of the film, from Anthony's perspective, we are truly showing the symptoms of Alzheimer's patients gradually forgetting the appearance of their relatives. The film uses an artistic, fantastical approach to reproduce the helplessness of Alzheimer's patients from the perspective of them. And Annie is the one who is different from Anthony's world. Only the appearance of Annie can pull us out of Anthony's world. Before we know it, we will not be able to distinguish between Anthony's world and the real world.
Maybe when people get old, the thoughts in their hearts will be stronger, and those who have been remembered all the time will appear in the world of people with Alzheimer's disease. After Anthony quarreled with the previous carer Angela, Annie found another carer, Laura, a young girl who looked like her own daughter Lucy. She loved to laugh and be patient, because she resembled her youngest daughter. Anthony also likes the caregiver
When we first met, Anthony was very active. He also said that he used to be a dancer and improvised a tap dance. With a smile, he felt that this nurse looked like his daughter.
It's not stated in the movie that Anthony's daughter died in an accident, but in some ways we can tell. First, Anthony was lying on the bed and heard Lucy calling him. He followed the voice and came to a ward in the hospital. Lucy was lying in the ward with all kinds of instruments and injuries on his face. "Dad". This is a dream of Anthony, including the carer who appeared earlier, it is Anthony's heart for his daughter Lucy. Even if I forget many people and many things, I still can't forget the concern in my heart, that is my family. The movie borrows Anthony to show that many Alzheimer's patients still remember the names of their relatives and the concern in their hearts after they become ill. The disease isolates Alzheimer's patients from the real world, but it keeps severing the blood ties.
In the process of watching the movie, you will be attracted countless times by the charm of this sick old man. The voice that said, "I will outlive you, and I will speak at your funeral",
And performing tap dancing in front of the new nurse, sipping whiskey, or wearing headphones, leaning on the recliner and enjoying the music, these all let people see Anthony's stubbornness and vitality, and sometimes you will be in He saw the shadow of the child on him, mischievous, moody, capricious and persistent.
But he was also vulnerable and helpless like a child. The watch on his wrist is not so much a tool for him to keep track of the time, but rather his "soothing pacifier". He is insecure if he doesn't know the time. He almost always doubts his watch for those around him who don't trust him. Will be stolen by them, this object is his connection to the real world, and it is also a thing that follows the name of the movie - the father without the watch is so scared and helpless, the father is trapped in time. And when he began to realize that his world was not right, he began to be afraid, he did not dare to be alone, he was afraid that he would meet some strange people again, and some strange things would happen. This kind of fear of his was when the nurse who looked like his daughter Laura left after feeding him the medicine, suddenly appeared the man who claimed to be Anne's husband at the beginning of the movie, this man, with an indifferent expression (the man's true identity It is the nurse in the nursing home. In Anthony's world, he turns his appearance into such a cold and heartless person, and also wants to reveal the existence of some elder abuse nurses in the nursing home, and express the darkness of reality very implicitly), Walking into Anthony slowly, after speaking viciously, he slapped Anthony, and Anthony was extremely scared. Although he covered his face with his hands, his palms still landed on his face, and again and again, Anthony was scared. Gotta cry. The movie began to change from fantasy to reality. Anthony covered his face with his hands, crying with fear and sadness. Next to him stood a new man Annie met, standing in confusion. Anthony, who had lost his aggrieved child, was buried in Annie's arms, crying helplessly.
There are many scenes in the movie where Anthony is alone, whether it is listening to music, making coffee in the kitchen, or standing in front of the window, opening the curtains, and the moment the sun shines into the house, it is all soft tones. , but it was also a bit desolate. After getting old, Anthony fell ill again, and he had become more and more distant from the real world and normal life. The old man's loneliness and desolation looked distressing.
A very poignant sentence in the movie: Once people get old, they become more and more annoying. When life gradually comes to an end, it is unacceptable that we have gone from a healthy body and able to take care of ourselves completely to the loss of memory and even the ability to live independently. This sentence does not appear in the real world, but in Anthony's world. Can we understand that Anthony feels guilty in his heart for his old age and illness, which has increased the burden on his daughter, so In his world, fearful and self-blaming, he finds himself more and more annoying.
At the end of the film, Anthony sat on the bed in a dazed look. After getting out of the bed, he went to the window and opened the curtains. Although the sunlight came in, the room still looked dim and cramped.
Soon, Annie came in and told him that she was leaving London for Paris. At this moment, his world collapsed again, because at the beginning Annie told her that she was leaving, but then she denied it all the time. In the end, Annie broke up again. Forgetting his memory, he sat beside the bed and told Annie helplessly, "Didn't you say you can't leave? Are you going to leave me alone in London?" The helplessness in his voice was distressing. Anne finally left. Laura appears at the end, but instead of appearing as Lucy, she appears as Annie at the beginning, a nurse in a nursing home.
The end of the film is the most tear-jerking part of the film. Anthony, who used to be a husband and a father, was crying helplessly for his mother at this time, curled up and buried in Laura's arms, crying so sadly. Anthony said, he saw the leaves fall one by one, just like his life was slowly fading away, and his memory was slowly being erased. Anthony at the moment is sensitive, vulnerable, lonely and confused, just like we just came to this world.
The overall timeline of this film is very messy. If you don't watch the end, you probably won't understand the story and the message he wants to convey to people in this world. But it is this way of intertwining the virtual and the real that makes us feel more involved and better understand the world of Alzheimer's patients. Their world also has its own logic and way of life, which may be different from ours, but please People with Alzheimer's patients around them have enough patience and kindness for them, they don't want to get sick, they don't want to forget, they don't want to burden their families, it's not their fault that they're sick, we should try our best to do it. Understand his inner loneliness and helplessness and give him the greatest help. This film not only allows us to better understand the Alzheimer's group, but also allows us to see that people are also very anxious in the process of getting older
I hope this movie can make more people understand the helplessness of Alzheimer's patients and be more patient with the elderly around them. May our world have more love and kindness.
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