Time is not a butcher knife, but a bucket of pig feed

Keith 2022-04-19 09:02:26

A retired musician in his 80s, a director in his 80s who is committed to making a "posthumous" film, in an Alpine resort, every day he enjoys arguing about who urinates more, one drop, two drops, not one drop. In this closed environment, everything seems to stand still, like a naked body suspended in a swimming pool.

What is more terrifying than the twilight of the beauty is that the hero grows old, because the audience is harsh, they never allow the hero to grow old, so Achilles is far more famous than Agamemnon, just because Achilles died in Troy. Therefore, the veterans do not die, but gradually fade away, which is actually very sad.

It is said that high places are too cold, and even more so for artists. It is not a false high, because only by understanding loneliness can we create eternal works. As the musician said after his daughter's rant: "I won't try to cheer you up with lies and talk to you about things I don't know at all, music is the only thing I know because music doesn't need words or experience. Understandably, music is music." Yeah, for some people, music or something else is what they exist for. Retirement is just going through the motions. The love for music is rooted in the heart. Otherwise, I will not take a piece of candy paper and rub out the tones of "Simple Movement", or I will not be on the open hillside, facing the cows, making the action of commanding the performance. .

The biggest highlight of the film is the left-handed man who is so fat that he can't take care of himself. For Italians who regard football as their life, especially for Naples-born director Paolo Sorrentino, the left-hander was once a god. That hairstyle, that earring, that tattoo, not Diego Maradona, who else? It's just that the old horse after getting fat is very fat, but it is far from the point of this film. It can be said: "You say years are a pig-killing knife, I say years are a bucket of pig feed." When the musician and the little boy are in the swimming pool When he was talking about left-handers being special, a fat figure slowly came over and said, "I'm also a left-hander." The actor, who has always been regarded as Mr. Q by the audience, replied, "The whole world knows that you are left-handed." Ball. Wang pondered for a while, said, "Thank you", and left with satisfaction. It turns out that the old horse also likes to be cute. Later, following the musician's gaze, we saw an old horse playing tennis on the tennis court. We vaguely saw the once-powerful Pampas eagle. At that moment, Diego must have returned to Buenos. The streets of Sailis returned to the place where the dream started. The phrase "I see the future" is even more embarrassing. On the balcony, he must have seen the man who scored the goal of the century in the World Cup in Mexico, who humiliated the English with the hand of God, and who was regarded as a nation by the Argentines. The heroic Maradona, the Maradona that the old horse himself misses immensely.

Although this film takes the elderly as the protagonist, it is named after "YOUTH". Perhaps what it wants to tell us is that the inner aging is the real aging. As long as the heart is not exhausted, life will not grow old. Musicians, directors, daughters of musicians, football champions, actors, Miss Universe, masseuses, everyone in the Alps has completed a new life in different forms.

The end of the film is a little sad, but we will be relieved by the happy smile of the musician. It is because of the unknown that life is full of surprises. It is impossible for each of us to know where we landed, and this is the meaning of life.

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Youth quotes

  • Brenda Morel: You're old, you're tired, you don't know how to see the world any more, Mick. All you know how to see is your own death, which is waiting right around the corner for you.

  • Luca Moroder: Would you like to try climbing?

    Lena Ballinger: You know, I can make a man go wild in bed if I want.

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