Looking for an antidote for pain

Jamir 2022-04-21 09:03:51

I've been seeing some prison-related stuff lately. Most of the scenes in Tolstoy's "Resurrection" are in prison, "The Reader" is also about the story of the people in prison, plus "Love You For A Long Time". Although the stories are different, the angles are different, and the methods are different, it is obvious that this topic has touched many writers and directors, and it is constantly brought up. I guess it is probably because in extreme scenes like prison, human nature is magnified to the greatest extent, and the essence of human beings can be displayed in the most dramatic way. Similarly, the protagonists of the two films "The Reader" and "Love You For a Long Time" cannot be said to be "innocent", but at least they are excellent hiders. In these two films, the prison is no longer a forbidden place for personal freedom, but has become the best place to hide secrets.
When the protagonist Juliette said in tears at the end: "The death of my son is my prison", I began to vaguely understand this mother, who once made no refutation of the accusation of killing her son in court, preferring to use a prison window To bury the mother who had lived a happy life. Suddenly, in the face of great pain, the truth can be so trivial. But, is it too heavy a price to bury a painful memory with 15 years of prison life and the misunderstanding and abandonment of the dearest person? Every time the issue of price is involved, it always leaves me at a loss. So I leave the question mark of whether it's worth it, and turn to a more fundamental question: Is the cost valid? Can pain be relieved or relieved in this way? In fact, the film does not answer this question directly until the end. But offers another answer: love.
It is not the 15 years of isolated prison life, but the tolerant love of her sister Liya, the love that Marshall understands, and the true love of the little nephew girl, so that Juliette can start a new life. This new life does not deny the pain of the past, but heals the pain with love. When elder sister Juliette and younger sister Lia sat together in front of the piano and played and sang "Love You For a Long Time" that the sisters often collaborated with when they were children, I guess Juliette should understand that love has never left her.

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Extended Reading
  • Delmer 2022-03-31 09:01:09

    Kristin Scott Thomas, Best Actress in Europe 2008, deserves it!

  • Bailee 2022-04-02 09:01:15

    Fifteen years have passed, and today's woman is silent, unhappy, with a slender cigarette in her hand, and is disgusted by naughty children, but the rich feelings in her heart, I believe, can be forgiven.

I've Loved You So Long quotes

  • Léa: The novel's narration is impersonal and incomplete, as he refused to give one world view. He knows it's multiple, that intentions are multiple as are truths.

  • Léa: We were there! Didn't we matter?

    Juliette Fontaine: Do you think others matter then - that one cares what they think or do? You were all well and alive! You belonged to the kind one comes to hate for the mere fact that they are there.