only brush once

Karley 2022-12-22 18:14:36

Movies are so long and slow, just as life is long and slow. Life is like a drama, drama is like life, the plot is flat without twists and turns, the rhythm of the movie is like the process of the director thinking about life, how to shoot this drama, you will not know until the end of life, death and life are also big, a person living in the moment is not enough. Possibly future episodes. In life, there are gatherings, separations and reunions, life and death, love, regrets, and desolation. What does photographing all of these show? It shows that life is like a dream. It shows that people are incapable of predicting and controlling life, and it is illusory. What the director wants to express, I don't understand it after reading it once, and I don't want to watch it again. The director has too many things to express, 40 years is too long, life is too long, let's just fight for the day.

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  • Sammy Barnathan: I've watched you forever, Caden, but you've never really looked at anyone other than yourself. So watch me. Watch my heart break. Watch me jump. Watch me learn that after death there's nothing. There's no more watching. There's no more following. No love. Say goodbye to Hazel for me. And say it to yourself, too. None of us has much time.

  • [over radio]

    Millicent Weems: What was once before you - an exciting, mysterious future - is now behind you. Lived; understood; disappointing. You realize you are not special. You have struggled into existence, and are now slipping silently out of it. This is everyone's experience. Every single one. The specifics hardly matter. Everyone's everyone. So you are Adele, Hazel, Claire, Olive. You are Ellen. All her meager sadnesses are yours; all her loneliness; the gray, straw-like hair; her red raw hands. It's yours. It is time for you to understand this.

    Millicent Weems: Walk.

    Millicent Weems: As the people who adore you stop adoring you; as they die; as they move on; as you shed them; as you shed your beauty; your youth; as the world forgets you; as you recognize your transience; as you begin to lose your characteristics one by one; as you learn there is no-one watching you, and there never was, you think only about driving - not coming from any place; not arriving any place. Just driving, counting off time. Now you are here, at 7:43. Now you are here, at 7:44. Now you are...

    Millicent Weems: Gone.