Of course, this assumption will never exist, and if so, it would not be called life.
But in today's medical conditions, within a relative range, people can predict the date of death.
The hero of the film is told that he has an incurable disease, and his life has entered a countdown. He decided not to tell his family for now, just said hello to his girlfriend who was about to get married, and started his western Canada trip on a second-hand motorcycle he just bought.
With this premise, even the picturesque scenery along the journey and the gentle singing along the way can't erase the heavy weight that weighs on the hearts of the audience.
National Tobacco advertisements have repeatedly taught us that: life is like a journey, you don't care about the destination, you have to care about the scenery along the way and the mood of watching the scenery.
But what about reality? Whose life path is not directed at one goal after another from the bottom of his heart? Even if you don't care about the purpose yourself, the people around you will never let you go, and they are eager to break your heart for you.
So you can smoke Chinese cigarettes, but don’t believe a word of the copywriting of Guoyan’s advertisements. This type of copywriting, which is typical of standing and talking without back pain, is as illusory as smoke.
Under what circumstances can your life not care about the destination?
The movie makes a good assumption for us - that you really don't have to care about your destination when your death date is set, which means that it doesn't make sense to set pragmatic goals for the rest of your life. So, how to arrange the rest of your life? In this sense, this movie makes the audience have a strong sense of substitution, at least I have.
Most people will cooperate with the doctor for treatment and fight against the disease. With strong will and good luck, they can last for a few more years.
There's nothing wrong with doing this, but so what? From the day you went to the doctor, you lived for the sake of being alive. What's the difference between being dead?
The male protagonist chose to temporarily get away from his side and travel alone.
In fact, travel is a very interesting thing. The interesting thing about it is not the scenery along the way, or the scenery of the destination, and the mood of watching the scenery, but that it allows travelers to discover themselves unconsciously through all this. - Of course, for people who really like to travel.
Why travel, and not any other way? I think there are two reasons, one is that travel can pull yourself away from familiar life and familiar crowds, and let all kinds of strangers and different landscapes collide and stimulate your cerebral cortex, Continue to give you fresh inspiration; second, because there is actually a lot of time to do nothing during the journey, the brain is also idle, and it is easier to imagine, because of the stimulation and inspiration along the way, it is easier to sublime at this time. Or precipitate some life insights, this is the reason why travel can make you think about life and discover yourself.
The title of the film "One Week" refers to a week in which the hero travels alone. (Some Chinese translations of the film superfluously translate this film as "The Last Week" is wrong.) This week is different from any previous week. He went to several places, He met a few people, and thought about some of the most basic life issues that he had never been able to meet, take care of, or deliberately avoided. When he returned to the place, although the disease had not changed, his heart was like a clear spring, and he had a lot of thoughts about life. his own answer.
Some people say that the countdown to life is only a few days, and the answer is not the answer, does it still matter?
In fact, it is very important to die knowingly. Everyone is born in a daze. There is no doubt that there is no way to do this, but it is possible to die knowingly. It is a basic realm of life in this world, and a criterion for distinguishing people from the walking dead. They came to this world in a confused way, and then died in a confused way. To put it more harshly Son, as a human, it is a waste of life.
How to count death is clear, it does not have a fixed benchmark, it depends entirely on the individual, and if you understand it in your own heart, this matter is over. However, knowing death is a big problem, and maybe it really takes a lifetime to experience and discover.
In the process of watching this movie, I was thinking about it, and some outdated chapters of other travel movies kept popping up in my mind. I don’t think this is a distraction. It means that this type of movie is more likely to leave an imprint in my mind. It popped up in my memory, and the movies that come to my mind include Japan's "Elephant Back", the American "Bucket List", "Wild Survival", "Life with a Glass of Wine", and Taiwan's "Cycling Around the Island Log-Etudes" and so on. In fact, they are not all pure travel movies, but they are similar in that the people in the play have experienced some life situations through travel, and these movies can make me unknowingly put myself in and The place where the people in the play travel together, to think, to imagine life, this is where they are powerful.
I even thought of "Long Live Youth", thinking of those boys and girls in the cardamom years of the 1950s, with their innocent faces glowing with vigor, I remember the big characters stacked on the screen at the end of the film: "All the days, all the days, Come on!" And this is exactly the opposite of the situation and mood of the film "One Week", where the situation is: "All days, all days, goodbye."
People always die, but people When you are alive and healthy, you often don't think about death, and a lot of good days are waiting ahead! Only when you know that your death is waiting for you, can you start to try to look at life more soberly, and you can't cry without seeing the coffin. This is really human nature.
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