It's probably two semicircles, so they form each other's circles

Ellen 2022-04-19 09:02:25

love it.

Probably my favorite comedy. But it's not just comedy that strikes me.

I haven't experienced heart-wrenching pain, but maybe that's why I don't think it's just Manchester by the Sea that portrays pain. Life will always move forward, and time will slowly wash away all emotions and the past. Rose will marry someone else and have children, and Mia will leave Seb after her Hollywood dream.

No matter how dark the nightclub is, it is slowly dawning.

This film is actually very realistic in portraying Philip walking out, thanks to the performance of the actors. An old-fashioned English gentleman, with eyes like the old well and the voice on vinyl records, with elegant words and unsmiling words, he will always look at him in a decent and self-contained manner. This is a person who has no attachment to life, but has a high social status and is well educated.

The movie makes us look at such a person and laugh slowly. At that time, the ribcage was also gently rising and falling off-camera.

The actors are so well chosen.

Phil certainly wasn't reconciled to the wheelchair. Therefore, of course, people who hold the posture of the savior will be fired round after round. They gave alms from the top, saying that disability is nothing, but it is full of sympathy and compassion from the superior.

He also curled his lips more toward Dell's hobby at first. But like that fairy tale about circles, Dell was the missing piece. The bluntness of impulse in Dell's character, and the passion that goes along with it, is exactly what Phil needs to get more when his body is limited. If the area of ​​activity can only be like this, to maintain the so-called decent, then the rest of life is probably only calm.

A cigarette burning to the finger, hot dogs from 14 street stalls, a cone from a chain of cold drink shops, and drugs filling the house. Dell gave him not only a way of life that he didn't have before, but also an opportunity for a new life.

That afternoon, the wonderful thing was that Dell talked about the Doberman pinscher with arrows, so that painting became an introduction to his life change, and finally let the family see his apology, responsibility, and ability to grow slowly.

That afternoon, the wonderful thing was that after he crossed the line and dialed the phone privately, a message sounded. Phil can choose his own life, and there are opportunities to give up. Dell's efforts and mishaps, he retains all the dignity and choice, to govern that letter, and his own feelings.

But not all attempts will be successful.

Sometimes I muster up all the courage to go forward, but I will still be severely rejected.

Seeing Lily's eyes and hesitant footsteps appearing in the restaurant, my heart skipped a beat. As expected, like most people, she treated the person who described her as Light as a "whisper", Brave as an "arrow" with the most common attitude.

Phil is of course despairing.

His softest side, which was carefully taken out after being closed for a long time, was seriously injured in a straightforward and undisguised manner. He left the table angrily, trying to retain his last dignity, but he couldn't leave the crowded restaurant flexibly and decently, so he bumped into the guests, knocked down the kettle, covered with tea, surrounded by people, showing them His apology and sympathy also have a pitiful meaning that can't wait and is beyond words.

"Look at that man, he looks like a dog"

The movie was really well done. When I watched it, I couldn't hold back the laughter in many places, but when I thought about it when I wrote the movie review, I thought of the not-so-funny clips.

The scene of smashing things at the birthday party was so well done, it really showed Phil's grievance and anger vividly, and really brought their friendship to the next level. One second, the two of them were still arguing with red faces, but the next second, Dell was keenly aware of Phil's anger, and he couldn't control his hands, and he couldn't show anything. So he started helping him smash things.

That bottle of wine, that painting, that bull.

I lost my favorite, I couldn't control everything about myself, I couldn't even express my anger. But what I saw in my eyes, that thing was finally able to shatter in response. After so long, I finally no longer have to restrain myself, and I finally seem to have my feet on the ground.

The shattering of glass hitting the floor is accompanied by a choked roar from Phil's throat.

So dramatic.

Another influential scene is finally flying in the sky again in a wheelchair. In fact, I don't like the last scene, it's too straightforward and too deliberately sensational.

But what was Phil thinking at that moment?

His whole body was only able to move from the neck up.

Will he feel gentle when the wind blows gently on his face?

BTW, I really wondered a few times if Dell was a deep cabinet if Yvonne didn't show up in the end

And I really like this kind of movies that sanely retreat from each other's lives after mutual redemption, such as LALALAND, such as The Upside

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Extended Reading

The Upside quotes

  • Dell Scott: You can have any girl you want, man. You rich and you available. What about this lady right here with all the botox? Y'all be perfect for each other. You can't move your body, she can't move her face.

  • Dell Scott: You here for the cleaning gig?

    Guy in Elevator: Uh, life auxiliary.

    Dell Scott: Life what?

    Guy in Elevator: Auxiliary.

    Dell Scott: That's what they calling it now?

    [chuckles]

    Dell Scott: White people got a name for everything.