He was dying in bed and muttered to her: "I should really take the time to treat you well and cherish it. Our love, instead of wasting your whole life on the ambition of selling insurance."
Maybe he said to her very ordinary things, such as: "Take care of yourself".
Or we have to continue his physical pain to the end, it is better to say: "Morphine can not alleviate my pain now."
Maybe he said something unimportant at the end, maybe he would say: "I want to know where the key ring you gave me 25 years ago, the one that looks like a horseshoe".
No, he didn't say anything before he died. It was her who spoke, Brenda. She said, "I wasted too much time because of you, Mike, I lost the best time of my life."
Unexpectedly, what Mick said before his death was:
I want to understand some things now, Fred, people are either good-looking or ugly, and the ones that are neither beautiful nor ugly in the middle can only be said to be cute.
You said that emotions are exaggerated, that is nonsense, emotions are everything to us.
Do you know what I am going to do, Fred? I want to start preparing for a new movie again.
After speaking, Mick went to the balcony and jumped off with a stool.
Fred understood him, sat in the chair without speaking, and his body trembled.
In my opinion, I don't even think it is a subject matter of the elderly, it is a realism about life and the meaning of life.
When Fred was young, he devoted himself to music. As a great musician, he retired from the world and refused the invitation of the queen. The reason is that his world-famous "simple songs" are made for his wife, who can no longer sing. He said: "As long as I live one day, she will be the only singer of these songs." The only romantic thing I have said over the years was to the queen's envoy.
Mick, a first-class director, has won over 50 female celebrities. He took the young screenwriters up the mountain, and asked the young female screenwriter to look across the binoculars and say, "Did you see the opposite mountain?"
"I see it, it looks very close."
"Yes, that's what you saw when you were young, everything seems very close, that's the future."
Then Mick turned the telescope to show her her partner and said: "When you are old, what you see is like this. Everything is so far away. That's the past."
This is the cruelty of life. You can only move forward and never look back. . What has happened is the only thing that has happened. And those memories are so far away from you no matter how clear they are, so far away that a person can never be able to, only if they haven't happened, they are within reach.
The two old people once liked a girl-Gilda. Fred thought more than once, what would happen if he ever slept with Gilda, Mick said he also wanted to know very much. Fred had a noncommittal expression. Looked at Mick and said: "Liar"! And all that has become a thing of the past, out of reach.
One of Mick’s popular female stars, Brenda, is also the heroine of Mick’s last film "The Last Day of Life". She chose to move forward, choose a better opportunity, and temporarily changed her mind and refused to appear in Mick’s movie. Mick knows exactly what this means. "Last Day of Life" is also the last movie in his life. Brenda's refusal means that this movie will never be made. She led the prostitute for a while, trying to feel some youthful memories as much as possible-Mick once said to Fred that I will never remember what happened before when I am old, my parents, my childhood , And the only thing I can remember is the memory of learning to ride a bicycle when he was a child-later Fred learned that Mick compared his first and only time holding hands with Gilda to learning to ride a bicycle. Holding the prostitute's hand also implied that he had accepted and felt the memories of Gilda again in the last period of his life.
Calmly, sent away the young screenwriters, and told them that it was nothing more than a delay in shooting. Don’t complain about Brenda, Brenda is a clumsy, we are all. If you want to live in this jungle, you have to get it. In this way, a good script is our passion, we are all extras.
Having said this, and sending away the young screenwriters, Mick saw all the actresses he has been popular in his life, and they appeared in classic scenes before his eyes. At that moment he understood that not only did he make them, but they made him. Finally, he saw the image of the old Mexican woman who had given up on Brenda to play in his movie. At that moment he was completely relieved. He understands Brenda, he accepts it, and he understands that his last "posthumous work" can only be completed by himself.
When Fred was talking to the doctor, he said, "I'm getting old, but I don't know how old I am."
Murakami once said: "I always thought that people are getting old slowly, but in fact they are not. People get old in an instant."
And the doctor said: "Do you know what the outside world is? Youth"!
It was also during this conversation that Fred learned about Gilda, and Mick never lied to him. His most intimate act of Gilda was holding hands when he was a child—he called "the moment when he learned to ride a bicycle."
So Fred began to let go. After he had not visited his wife for ten years, he first went to the cemetery to visit the tombs of Teslavinsky (the great Russian musician) and his wife Vera-they were buried together, cuddling each other, I went to visit my wife again. It also implies that Fred accepts it frankly, and he also wants to be buried with his wife in the future. Facing all this calmly, he accepted the Queen's invitation and performed "simple songs" for the last time.
Fred finally recalled the sweet young days of the two in front of his demented wife:
"They didn't know, we were already together at the time, and we withstood all the fatigue, pain and hardship. They must never know, you and I, no matter what happens, treat each other as'a simple song'".
What life is, life is youth, friendship, love, marriage, children, career, future, and past. Life is a complex stage full of emotions, emotions, and Mick said before his death, emotion is all we got. The director took these Emotions came slowly, not overly exaggerating the grief of death, and the lost youth without sensationalism, everything is out of reach in front of you, but on the outside, there is youth on the outside.
Keep your youthful enthusiasm, accept all the emotions that are coming, and when you get old, don't sigh "this affection can be a recollection, but it's already lost at the time", and you can also toast a glass of wine together to respect memories that are never reachable.
PS. To add a digression, Fred said that smart people have no taste, so I have been avoiding being smart all my life. Shaking so cleverly.
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