"We should go out for a walk while the sun is shining, because good weather like this is always fleeting, isn't it" "Father Trapped in Time"
At first, I couldn't seem to get out of the impression of Anthony Hopkins' acting on Hannibal, whether it was the over-successful portrayal of the character or the obvious restraint of the character itself, I couldn't tell, but the 83-year-old man's extraordinary acting skills allowed us to See the world and things over time from the perspective of someone with Alzheimer's disease.
The first time I saw this movie, I was really dizzy because of the complicated timeline, the inability to connect the plot, the vagueness of the characters, and the rapid changes in the living environment. I just wanted to say at the first time, what is this? , I didn't know until I checked the background knowledge of Alzheimer's that it is difficult for the elderly with this disease to remember the complete food, and the memory presented is as broken as in the movie, and the things that seem to be connected on the surface may be in the middle It's been a long time, and it's even just imaginary. In fact, I didn't know how to read this film and write down my feelings, because it felt illogical, and it was only described as "broken", so I could only try my best to write what I thought and understood. Come down, my personal opinion.
The camera lens of the film always focuses on the decoration and furnishings of the apartment for the elderly, showing a kind of extreme symmetry, showing a depressing and solemn atmosphere, and hiding all sounds, making people feel in the lonely situation of the elderly. I believe that the screenwriter also passed The description of the background suggests changes in time and place, from starting his own apartment, to temporarily living in his daughter's house, and at some point in a nursing home, even mistaking the nurse for his daughter. Or the old man didn't get out of the nursing home at all, all his memories of the past, just like the title of the movie he was trapped in time, the movie also highlights that the old man was always looking for his watch, always fantasizing that someone stole him as if He is also taking into account the title of the film, he can't find his own time, so it seems that every time he has a watch on his hand, the narration of the film will be related. The face "pretends" to his family, expressing that his memory of this moment is clear. The old man always likes to lie at the window of the bedroom and look out the window. The scenery outside the window is changing, and the changes of the store also contain clues to the change of time. as a day's memory.
Although the old man played by Anthony is humorous, he is extremely stubborn and conservative. It is all to highlight the anxiety and weakness in his heart. He is unwilling to leave his apartment in death. Delusions: My daughter wanted to send him away, but I didn’t know where to send him, and then took the house, demoralized her daughter’s morality, and finally said stubbornly, “I must live longer than you, and I will wait for you to die. I still live here" caused my daughter to cry silently in the kitchen, which undoubtedly cut through her heart like a sharp sword, so much so that she wanted to suffocate her father while he was sleeping (I don't know if the daughter tried to kill with a soft hand in this paragraph, or if she also tried to smother him in his sleep. It belongs to the old man's persecution delusion), but at an unknown time period he thanked his daughter for taking care of him and everything she did. The old man likes classical music very much. In an illusory situation, it is impossible to distinguish between reality and fantasy. In fact, the old man is deeply immersed in memories, unable to distinguish the real illusion from the real memory. It seems that in addition to the exact eldest daughter in the film, the old man also has a younger daughter, who appears in the image of a nurse, or the image of the nurse is the reflection of the little daughter in his heart, and the little daughter seems to have an accident ( The flash of the film. Lying on the hospital bed, she was dying, calling her father and guiding him to see. Maybe this memory was too painful. The old man always talked about her but said that his little daughter went somewhere. Looking at himself again, full of complaints, the elderly father was stunned in front of a photo of himself and his two daughters.
As for guessing the time spent at the daughter's house, the daughter takes good care of her but is coldly regarded by her son-in-law. Two of the actors play the son-in-law (I don't know if it was the husbands of the two daughters or his misidentification that created the image of the two sons-in-law) They all showed their disgust for the old man, and they were blunt and disgusting. One of them even slapped him directly. At that moment, he looked so weak and kept calling for help. Then the camera turned to his daughter coaxing him, and everything just seemed to vanish again. , so that the audience does not understand. Therefore, the daughter called "little dad" like a child, and all his stubbornness and stupidity seemed to cover up his weakness.
In the end, the story happened precisely in the nursing home. In fact, the daughter had already abandoned him and moved to France, leaving him in the nursing home. Only the nurse who had mistakenly thought her daughter was taking care of him. He cried for his mother. The behavior of the old man was so pitiful, he could not live in his familiar environment but was deeply trapped in chaotic memories.
"I feel as if all my leaves have fallen off, those branches, those winds and rains, I don't know what's going on anymore, I don't have a place to sleep at night", the sentence seems illogical, and the old man's memory In the same way, he gradually forgot what had happened, the ups and downs since childhood, the scars of life are fading, he can only live on the bed of such an unknown nursing home, he cried like a child Now, no one cares about him, the old and nowhere to go is vividly reflected, and a sense of pity is born in my heart. But the nurse seems to represent the hope that "we should go out for a walk while the sun is shining, because such good weather is always fleeting, right?" It seems to contain an answer to him, everything in the world is fleeting, No one will be with you all the time, but you can't miss the beauty because of the haze of life. Even if you don't remember one day, at least what you have experienced is part of your life. Cherish this beauty in the dark and end the film.
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