On January 16, 2022, I watched another good movie "Father Trapped in Time".
After watching this film, I deeply feel that the translation of our mainland version can be rated as the best of the year. A few words sum up the content of the film very well, and it can also resonate with me. There is a feeling that this is how it should be. . Secondly, I was deeply impressed by the acting skills of Anthony Hopkins. He deserves the best actor Oscar. I can understand his confusion, fear, helplessness, doubts and repetitions with empathy from his acting skills. Impermanence. My grandfather also walked like this in the last few years. I was not at home and could not feel the daily changes of grandpa, but the general trend was that he became a little strange. From the beginning, he knew that I was his granddaughter, but in the end he didn't know who I was, and then the whole person could only lie on the bed and couldn't move, and his physical needs could not be controlled. He watched the family come and go, but he did not know them. People, there is a little fear in my eyes, I am a little scared, if one day my close relatives also get Alzheimer's, I never thought that I would be afraid of hard work, but it will definitely be in all kinds of cold words, capricious collapse. I hope that medical progress will be able to develop a drug for this disease as soon as possible. Here's my personal analysis of the film.
1. Summary of the main content
The old man has two daughters, the eldest daughter is black-haired Annie, and the youngest daughter is blond Lucy. The youngest daughter should have died unexpectedly a long time ago. The old man likes the youngest daughter very much. The old man should have lived alone in his apartment at first, and asked Angela to take care of him. The eldest daughter's ex-husband James expressed great disgust at this, and even violently confronted the old man, so the eldest daughter divorced and took care of the old man alone for about 6 years. After that, the eldest daughter moved to Paris and sent her grandfather to a nursing center. This is the approximate timeline and characters as I understand it.
2. The structure of the room
The structure of the rooms in the play is unified, and what changes is the layout of the furniture. At first, the khaki-colored room should be the old man's own room. After moving to the eldest daughter's apartment, it became a slightly modern decoration and decoration, and finally the cold room. Hue's care center. Viewers can get some clues with the help of furniture and background colors, but the old man's timeline is chaotic, and he can't distinguish space and time.
3. Characters
The old man's memory was confused, and he couldn't distinguish the people around him. So he once thought that nurse Catherine was his eldest daughter Anne, which proved that the old man should like this nurse Catherine very much. Another male doctor, Bill, the old man regarded him as the eldest daughter's ex-husband James, the old man should not like this male doctor, so he brought him into a nasty person. There is also a nurse Laura in the center. The old man projected the image of his little daughter on this person. I was thinking that Laura may be a person or may represent a group of people. I don't think she is the previous Angela, because if It's Angela, the old man shouldn't project the old Anji who was quarreling with him on the little daughter he loves.
4. Props
The old man's watch, the old man has been looking for his own watch, hiding it, losing it, suspecting that others have stolen it, all shows that the old man has no way to control his time, even if he knows it is very important, he is blowing a wave of translation rainbows Fart, the translation is really good, the father trapped in time, the title and the image.
The old man's clothes have been getting worse, from the first decent to the last hospital gown, which symbolizes that the old man's condition is getting worse and worse.
The green plants on the windowsill of the eldest daughter's kitchen. When there are green plants, it seems that James is there. After the divorce, the eldest daughter lives alone, and the green plants are gone, which also symbolizes the hard life of the eldest daughter.
The painting of the little girl in red on the wall. The girl in the painting is the younger daughter Lucy. From painting on the wall to taking it away, it should show that the old man moved from his house to the eldest daughter's house, and then moved from the eldest daughter's house to the nursing center. .
Two-color plastic chairs appear repeatedly in the porch in front of the gate. This kind of plastic chair is more like furniture in a nursing center than for household use, so the old man Ming had already confused the space very seriously at that time, and the eldest daughter should be The old man has already been taken to the nursing center, so the old man knew that his daughter was going to leave at that time, but he was reluctant, so he felt that his daughter was going to leave, and then he was very happy that his daughter was not going, and the old man was there at that time. I already knew subconsciously that I was going to enter the nursing center.
There is a section in the film where the eldest daughter touches her father in the middle of the night and tries to strangle him. This should reflect the pain of the eldest daughter's psychological level. There is a kind of despair that I can't bear, you die, you don't have to drag me down when you die. At the same time, I think it is also possible that at that time, the eldest daughter decided to send her father to a nursing center and go to Paris to start a new life, because from the daughter's point of view, sending her father away is actually abandoning her father. It may also be another "murder" for children.
My husband watched a movie with me. He said that he was very happy that the old man told his daughter "Thank for everthing". I agree with this. The pressure and pain of the eldest daughter is understandable for taking care of such a patient for a long time. of. I sometimes feel that our culture seldom says thank you to people close to us, because we always feel that we have such a good relationship and it is hypocritical to say thank you. But I really think from the bottom of my heart that just because I am close people, I have to say thank you, thank them for their efforts, thank them for their kindness, and let the other party feel our heart and respect. So please don't be stingy with your thanks to those we love.
Finally, I want to share the old man's poem at the end of the film.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Millet Li's Interpretation Version
Don't step into the quiet night
Even old age should burn in the twilight
Resist, resist in this passing time
A wise man knows the night before he dies
Their wise words will not be able to light the fork in the road
Don't step into the quiet night
Good people, when the last wave roars by, cry out to your heart's content.
Small actions can also dance brilliantly in youth
Resist, resist in this passing time
Warriors who chased the sun and sang
They came to their senses, but it was too late, they were immersed in grief and could not extricate themselves.
Don't step into the quiet night
The dying man with bewildered eyes
Blind people can walk like shooting stars
Resist, resist in this passing time
My father, you are in this time of heartbreak
I pray now curse with your hot tears, bless me.
Don't step into the quiet night
Resist, resist in this passing time
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