There is also a movie, which is more like cold Irish coffee. You can experience the bitterness, coldness, and the dizziness brought by alcohol at the same time. You can taste it carefully, but it has an endless aroma.
"Transcendence" is the latter. A good movie, like other great art, can always cleanse the soul. Sometimes you just need to let your emotions flow with the light and shadow in a quiet manner, and watch the pictures or sounds that move you up and down. Volt, and then at the end, gather the bits and pieces that rose to the depths of your thoughts, and then slowly settle down to fill your personality.
This is a journey of depression from beginning to end. The director seems to be dissatisfied with the freeze frame of warmth in the sun, and also deliberately arranged "The Fall of Usher's House" to continue the despair and loneliness to the end, so that the hearts of the audience are filled with The desolation of the house, sinking to the end together.
Henry is a substitute teacher who lived in the shadow of witnessing his mother's suicide in his childhood. The incest between his childhood grandfather and his mother was like a lonely tower in a desert island, and he was trapped in it and could not escape. As a result, it is easier for him to read the hearts of those lost children than outsiders. In his own way, he tries to establish a strong self in their spiritual world so as not to lose their way. He always wanted to escape from a relationship that was too close, changing from one school to another, and sending Erica away regardless of Erica's pleading, the reason was the shadow of childhood and a lifetime of paranoia about loneliness.
There is a line from Camus in the movie: "The distance between my soul and me is so far, and my existence is so real." It is the most naked description of this loneliness. Henry is sensible, gentleman, forbearance. His childhood experience taught him to write all his pain in his diary and learn to control his emotions. But even if he tries to maintain this sense of distance from the world, and looks on from the sidelines after seeing through the fallacies of life, he still can't restrain the torture of his memory, and he can't escape the shackles of his mind. He can save others, but no one comes to save him.
It is just like that. Loneliness is one of the few wonderful feelings of all human emotions that can be compared to love. It is the conflict between human animal nature and social conflict, the evacuation of individuals and the appeal of the group. It is not loneliness. , there is always a chance to encounter it unexpectedly, as "I feel trapped. like the cat".
Life is impermanent, nine times out of ten. As the movie says, everyone has their own predicament, take them out of the house in the morning and bring them back. Henry comforted Meredith, "We are all the same, we all feel pain, there are messy parts of life, life itself is pretty confusing, I understand, I don't have the answer, but I know if you write it out, everything It's all going to be okay." This was his way of dealing with pain, and that diary had recorded the pain he had nowhere to talk about. Reading and writing are good medicine for a strong soul, but at the same time he knows that it is also weak, and some things are released only by a heart is not enough, otherwise he will not cry again and again on the bus, and he will not be unable to calm down. To hug his students, not to get angry when the female teacher accuses him, not to kick Erica out of the house when she finds out she has a crush on Erica.
That rejection happened to be the last straw for Meredith. I think the director must have liked Camus very much. He happened to have a discussion about suicide in "The Myth of Sisyphus": "The real philosophical question is suicide. Deciding whether it is worth living is the first question." He also denied the suicide of the body, The former is a passive way of escaping from reality, and the latter is spiritual delusion. As if to correspond to Descartes' "I think, therefore I am", he proposed "I resist, therefore we exist". He believes that with the desire for reality, with great enthusiasm and yearning for freedom, we are always exploring a path, and in the process of exploring, we have obtained such an experience without turning back. As described in "The Myth of Sisyphus", "But when he saw the face of the earth again, re-appreciated the caress of the flowing water and the sun, and touched the fiery stone and the wide sea again, he never wanted to return. Go to hell." Even though Sisyphus spent his whole life in painful reincarnation (here I think of a movie called Triangle, which is a mythical metaphor, and it is worth watching), but "Sisyphus is silent. His whole joy is in that. His fate is his. His rock is his thing."
Well, if you see the urge to close the page here yet. So what I really want to say is that even if things are impermanent, it does not prevent us from experiencing the pleasures of life. The real power is learning to enjoy every dish that fate has prepared for you. There are two kinds of nourishment for life, one is as warm and delicious as chicken soup, and the other is as incised as poison. It is often easy to drink delicious soup, but we cannot bear the pain caused by poison. Learning to experience in adversity, be grateful in suffering, be peaceful in grievance, be proud in humiliation, and be brave in fear is the real growth.
Just like the saying in the movie: "A person can easily learn not to care, but learning to care requires a hundred times more courage and effort."
After all, we can't avoid indifference and alienation, why not try to taste loneliness, be grateful, and not As for getting lost.
One day, you will also have a heart that has been tempered and smiled.
At the end of the film, the grandfather finally detached himself from the comfort of Henry's disguised daughter and died peacefully. Henry's lonely tower seemed to collapse at this moment. With his apology to Meredith, he finally came to the orphanage and hugged Erica tightly. , At this time, the backlight of the sun hits, and the warm halo of seven colors makes people want to cry, like flowers blooming at the bottom of the cliff of despair.
At this time, I still prefer to believe that the shackles in his heart have fallen, and his detachment is finally due to the return of love and kindness, and finally ushered in the dawn of self-redemption.
PS: This scene full of sunlight reminds me of an old movie starring AB, called "The Fantastic Jacket". At the end, the hero and heroine sat in the car until they were gradually submerged by the tidal warm light. It is also recommended. .
PPS: The only enjoyable part of the film is when Erica and Henry get up early together, do blood tests and shopping, and then exchange gifts. Accompanied by Ray LaMontagne's "Empty", which is also very nice.
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