"YOUTH", which was shortlisted for the "Best Original Song" in the 2016 Oscar finals unit, was a serious companion in various competitions that year. Director Paolo Sorrentino wanted too much to tell the story of death and decay when a person is dying, willingly or unwillingly.
Although the movie is named "YOUTH" and the Chinese translation of "Youth and Vigor" also makes a pun, but the story has nothing to do with young people. The young people in the story are just passers-by and spectators in the war between the protagonists Fred and Mick and time. These two actors and screenwriters who were once prosperous are now old and weak, even with all the highlights of the past. Moment is not worth the youth that time takes away, and the aura they regard as a treasure.
A life without youthful brilliance makes people powerless and desperate, and finally realize that there is no more time and opportunity for them to "transcend themselves". In the last life journey of life, it is more like waiting than walking. Waiting for time to flow by, waiting for the end of life to creep in.
Compared with the days of youth, aging is a kind of powerlessness, and in the face of this powerlessness, you need to accept it calmly. The male protagonist Fred uses "indifference" to maintain his life strength, and he stays out of everything to remove his emotional burden. He has no "posthumous work" that he must complete, no "milepost" that he must establish, no one he must meet, and nothing that must be remembered. He understands that he is old, and those joys and sorrows, encounters and partings that were unreasonably heavy when he was young, have now become feathers covering his eyes, and no longer have the power to sleep at night. Taking a nap under the parasol in the garden in the afternoon will make you miss the scorching red sunset in the evening. After walking for a few kilometers, the scene in front of you and the memory in your mind are intertwined into "reappearance of yesterday", and the topic of the conversation changes from a specific person to a Feeling regretful, because I can't remember who is the missing person. Fred used indifference and confusion to retain his last dignity and ease, no longer struggling with "unwillingness", and completed what seemed to be a formal reconciliation with himself. However, such a life has completely lost its tension, because emotion is what distinguishes human beings from other things, and is everything that human beings have.
If you eat too many things at one time, you will get tired; cold foods will also hurt your body. The director chose an extremely restrained and rational way of narrating the sad event of the passing of time and natural aging that everyone has to face. The meaning of the dialogue is all hidden in every tender and beautiful scene of Biggs. This kind of strong contrast and contrast processing has instead rendered the inward repressed emotions to the critical point: we must admit that the more we want to be remembered by others, the easier it is to be forgotten by ourselves, but we must make a choice.
Age is an illusion, and old people and young people are essentially no different, because time never stops or slows down for anyone, and everyone is unable to turn the tide in the flood of time. Young people are getting old, and old people can continue to be young. It depends on the attitude towards life, the understanding of death, and the degree of struggle in life. Some people are always persuading, look at it, life is all the same with small differences and the same goal; this is correct, but young and energetic people are not, because they are always reckless, do not hit the south wall and do not turn back. Fear or desire, this is an attitude; only by climbing up, can you achieve true freedom. This is the way to go, and the way to go.
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