The title of Demolition was first changed to "Blasting/Demolition", and finally changed to "Broken Life".
The translation in Hong Kong is "Love First Half‧ End".
Taiwan is "destroying life."
Just like the translation of the title, this film is quite difficult to interpret. I myself really like the connection between "broken", "dismantling", and "collapsed" with this film. I like this film very much, but it is a bit difficult to describe myself. Mood.
I think the director uses a very delicate and unique way to interpret the "sorrowful" reaction of "important others" after the death.
When psychology refers to grief reactions, it mentions three stages of reactions:
(1) Shocked period: crying, sentimental, or... "emotional numbness", "unreal" emotional reactions, mentality may deny or suspect loss fact.
(2) Repeatedly think about the dead: Some people will experience anger, sadness, insomnia, loss of motivation for many things, etc.
(3) Find a new way to dilute or replace the grieving reaction: emotionally more stable, better able to recall the happy past with the deceased, and return to life.
Of course, not everyone will necessarily go through such a process, and everyone will react differently to the passing of important others.
This is also my favorite part of this film. It tries to tell us:
"Everyone presents pain in a unique way."
From the perspective of the male protagonist, it may be difficult for others (for example, the wife's family) to understand his face. Why is there no "common" grief reaction to his wife's passing away, for example: crying and depressed, what he showed was a kind of "indifferent" and "numb" emotional reaction, and he went to work and returned home as usual.
But didn't he show any grief reaction?
The movie does not deliberately describe his inner pain, but presents it in the plot. For example, there is a bridge where he disassembled the door of the toilet at work and the refrigerator at home, trying to repair it, but it is difficult to recover.
I was really impressed by these few bridges.
The film did not overemphasize his grief, but what it showed was...
His life is no longer the same as before. It is "broken" and "broken". He wants to "repair" and bring people back on track. .
However, later, the protagonist also found that this matter was difficult to achieve, and
his life really could not be restored to its original appearance because of the absence of the "she".
Jack Gyllenhaal's performance inside is really impeccable, really great, real, natural and very infectious.
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