Not a movie review.
I went home this time to see my grandmother. Because of her illness, my grandmother stayed at my uncle's house. When I came, my uncle's family was absent, so my grandmother was at home alone. It took a long time to knock on the door before the door was opened. As soon as we came in, we greeted each other as usual. It was strange that we were grandmother and granddaughter on the surface, but in fact, neither of us knew who the other was. I didn't know her past, and she didn't know my life.
After watching TV for a while, she suddenly asked me if I could buy her an alarm clock. When I asked why, she just wanted to know the time. I feel vaguely bitter, a clock is a tool for young people, it reminds you to go to work, study, and go on a date, while an alarm clock is nothing to an old man who has limited mobility and can only stay at home every day to watch TV, eat and sleep ?
In the movie, Anthony has been looking for a watch. For him, the watch has lost its current tool properties. After all, he does not need a job or a date. But he needs the watch, just like he wears a suit every day when he has nothing to do, instead of going through the day in pajamas, he tries to live with dignity. At the same time, the watch is the symbol and materialization of good memory, the only thing Anthony can grasp in the chaotic memory and time and space, but it is only a watch, which he is looking for and losing in vain.
When I was a child, I read books and said that some old people would even wear shrouds and sleep in coffins. At that time, I read these as horror stories, and secretly thanked that my grandmother did not have such a hobby. Maybe I'm wrong, the clock here is to some extent the same as the coffin, it is accurately predicting your death every minute and every second, you have already been in the coffin, and the rest is nothing more than Sooner or later, all the processes are familiar, and death is no longer scary. This is the true meaning of "waiting for death".
At the end of the film, Anthony said that his leaves had fallen, and the camera switched to the window, which was full of green and green, which was quite ironic. It is said that many poets choose to use springtime. When I heard this statement for the first time, I thought it was very strange. Spring is warm, spring flowers are blooming, and all life is revived. Why would anyone want to die? And Eliot's "The Waste Land" bluntly said: "April is the season of cruelty".
Ge Fei has a short story called "Awakening". I think at the end of the film, the shot is given to the green leaves outside the window, which is probably what it means:
"Spring is cruel, because it is full of life, it is like a mirror, reflecting your old age, decline, staleness, uselessness. All life is growing well, and we are dying."
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