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Elliot 2022-04-22 07:01:31

Where does the pain come from? With this question in mind, we can get closer to the truth. Pain guides us like a driving force in life.

(In the movie) What is the pain of the father? He tried to appear normal, but he failed. Because his timeline is different from others, he can't keep up with others' timelines. Events are discontinued, people's appearances are replaced with each other, objects appear and disappear out of thin air, and places and bodies jump and change. His desire to reclaim a dying order must be in vain. His attempt to preserve a disintegrating dignity was bound to fail.

This obviously wrong pursuit is not worthy of sympathy. Since this pursuit is wrong in old age, it may also be wrong in youth. Why are they right and I must be as good as they are?

All the father's feelings are true, all his knowledge is true, and all his judgments are true. Yes, the world has changed, so accept this change, accept this new life. Stop pretending to be a normal person, I am the center of my world, I am the only criterion for what is right and wrong, and I am the only truth in heaven and earth.

Don't be nostalgic, look to the future. Adventure is not the prerogative of young people, and curiosity is not just a child's forte. I was finally able to get rid of this boring life, I was finally able to reach this strange new world.


Oops, that would be too fast. It's all crazy fast. When you abandon the world, the world abandons you. Give you medicine, tie you up, give you medicine to tie you up, then explain that you're sick, it can't be cured but it can be controlled like this. This does not treat you as a person, but controls you as an object. Because you can't communicate with us, we can't communicate with you anymore.

Go crazy before you get the truth. We are not satisfied with this answer.

In the end, we are not willing to abandon human beings and go crazy alone.

This matter is negotiable after all. Find a balance between being submissive and going mad, and live.


Simple is honesty. Don't pretend you're normal, expose your faults, and accept them. On this basis, continue to realize their value to the society. love others. We always have to pass the baton of life to the next generation, then take this as a pursuit, and strive to pass on our mission and our proud tradition.

We don't need self-esteem. We can accept any harm. When someone abuses us for fun, we too can understand and rejoice in this wicked pleasure. We can finally give up those obligations that are beyond our ability, not to punish those evils, but to promote these good ones. We no longer have to overcome difficulties to climb higher peaks, we still have to work hard to let the clear water flow and burn the remaining light and heat in ourselves.

Like photosynthesis, absorbing sunlight, accepting the good and evil of others, transforming it into our own vitality, and giving this vitality back to younger people. We do not dwell on the past, we believe in the future. We accept our own death, but until the very last moment, our life still has value, and we strive to realize this value every second.

We don't need empathy, we can empathize with others. Sympathy for all those who are alive after we die. We don't need to despise ourselves. The day we live, as a conscious and self-sufficient person, we will have a dignity that cannot be taken away by anyone. On the other hand, when we lose this awareness, we no longer deserve to be loved as ourselves, and our life ceases to exist for ourselves. Even if we are still healthy, strong, active, and in control of the life and death of others: as long as we are not really living, we are not worthy of love or existence (at this moment).

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  • Alivia 2021-12-16 08:01:02

    There are many movies that tell the story of the elderly with Alzheimer's disease, and they generally adopt the narrative from the perspective of relatives. But the narrative technique of this film is very unique. The director and screenwriter have carefully designed many "obstacles": use jumping and reciprocal editing to blur the concept of time; use apartment-clinic-nursing home similar or similar room structure to disrupt the space experience; use alternately confused actors with role identities to confuse characters. As a result, the audience was stunned by the dislocation development of the line-like plot, as if it had always been substituted into the first-person feelings of the elderly with Alzheimer’s disease, and fell into deep confusion, doubt, grievance and inexplicable helplessness, and it was difficult to wake up like a nightmare. . In addition to the deliberately created chaotic structure, the dependent and tense relationship between father and daughter runs through the film, and it is also supported by the acting skills of Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Coleman to move people's hearts. Audiences with such elderly people at home will be more impressed. However, who can guarantee that when we get old, we will not have such a terrible experience of being unable to distinguish the reality and being irresistible? Samsung and a half

  • Elmore 2022-03-26 09:01:06

    Unnecessary suspense. What the camera lets us see is what we see, and there is no secret. The sentimental heartbreaks we make up our minds are what we endow the film with, not the film.

The Father quotes

  • The Woman: First... we'll get dressed, shall we?

    Anthony: Yes.

    The Woman: We'll get dressed, and then we'll go for a walk in the park, shall we?

    Anthony: Yes.

    The Woman: Good. The trees and all the leaves. Then we'll come back here, and we'll have something to eat. And then you can have your siesta, all right? And then if you're feeling on good form, we can go for another little walk in the park. ust the two of us. Because it's such a lovely day. It's sunny outside. And we have to go while it's sunny. We have to take that chance. 'Cause it never lasts long when the weather's this good, does it?

    Anthony: No.

    The Woman: So... let's get dressed. Is that all right?

    Anthony: No.

    The Woman: Come on now.

    Anthony: No.

    The Woman: Come on, baby. It's all right. Come on... Shh. Easy now. Easy. You're going to feel all right in a minute, I promise you. Everything will be all right.

  • Anthony: World is turning.