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A movie, how much it tells us, or the information it reveals covers geometry. "Everything in Everything" (also translated as "Love is Everything" 2017) directed by the emerging black female director Stella Meggie, seems to be more than just about rare diseases, the desire for freedom of access, and the unanticipated love. Remind us that it is possible for us to live in a world blinded by illusions. And this illusion, after careful weaving, and then long-term control in the name of love.
Think about it, how terrible this is. When you don’t know the truth, you have to be grateful for it, just like that caricature, the person in the deep pit calls for help to the person above. Indeed, the person above also extended a helping hand, but was helpless. In fact, there is a long ladder beside the person above, but the people in the pit can't see it. In this way, "Everything in Everything", besides its simplicity and warmth, also has profound meaning. We must not underestimate this image that does not look cool.
The film begins to use a foreign voice to describe the 17-year-old girl Mantilin (played by Amandra Steinberg), who suffered from a rare disease "severe combined immunodeficiency" since she was a child, and has never stepped out of her own threshold. She and her mother depend on each other. In order to prevent germs, the house is built with special materials. Mantilin, who stayed at home, seemed to be imprisoned in a transparent glass space. Any outside bacteria will be blocked. In this world, the only people who have direct contact with her are the mother, the caregiver Carla and her daughter Rosa.
Amandra Steinberg, born in 1998, has a black American mother and a white Danish father. He has Eskimo descent and has been a child star since childhood. In 2012, she became well-known to the audience for her appearance in "The Hunger Games". In "Everything in Everything", Mantilin, played by Amandra Steinberg, lives in a completely enclosed space and receives daily routine examinations by the female nurse Carla. Having nothing to do, she can only learn about the outside world through the Internet. For this highest level of "spotlessness", she dare not have any dreams about the outside world.
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When the new neighbor moved in, the handsome boy Ollie and his younger sister brought cakes made from home and gave them to the neighbors from house to house. Ollie said that every time we moved to a new house, we would give our neighbors cakes. But Mantilin's mother said suspiciously that our situation is a bit special, and we really don't need it. The glass door closes automatically. This family is really strange, there is also a cute girl in the house. This attracted Ollie's interest. He took the initiative to communicate with her face-to-face, gesturing and writing the phone number, so he knew each other.
The film is not rigid. It is not limited to online communication in the air, but uses a situation where the virtual and the reality are compatible, allowing them to walk into a closed space, as if entering space. This kind of communication from the virtual to the real is only a deductive imagination. , Undoubtedly makes the film full of agility and fun, avoiding you and me in the boring virtual world. Mantilin told her the truth about staying at home. In sympathy, Ollie also laughed and said that Princess Mantilyn lives in her glass castle. They talked about topics of interest to young people.
After Mantilin's repeated requests, the female nurse Carla finally agreed to let the boy Ollie come in and sit down, but the two couldn't get close. In this way, after 23 minutes of the film, Ollie came in cautiously. They couldn't hide their excitement and became incoherent. He asked her where she would most like to go if she could go out. She said ocean. The boundless ocean brings vastness to people, but also brings freedom and unrestrainedness. But this is just her dream. She said that my life is a limitation. What else can he say. Being imprisoned by a rare disease is the most helpless thing after all.
At 33 minutes of the film, when Ollie came again, they couldn't control so much anymore, they couldn't wait to hug their relatives. At 35 points, when she saw Ollie being beaten by her father by the window, she couldn't help rushing out of the house. This was the first time she stepped out of the house. Unexpectedly, it was in this way. This frightened her mother and pulled her into the house. Under compelling questioning, the mother fired the nurse Carla, so that her daughter would terminate contact with Ollie. This makes Mandylin feel bored. What is reluctant to give up love. She said she wanted everything to be the same, and talked with Ollie till dawn.
After a long period of suffering, Mantilin confessed that she can't say that depression of love will kill me. I would rather be Ollie's than her mother said Ollie can find another her. If this goes on, it is undoubtedly waiting for death. No, she is going out. Ollie told her that every ocean is worthy of your appreciation. She wants to go out with Ollie. She left a handwritten letter to her mother. She said that I did this not only for Ollie, but also to choose how to live well, not to die. If I don't go out, I don't know how it feels to be alive.
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After 50 minutes of the film, Mantilin resolutely stepped out of the sturdy home, this time she really came out. She followed Ollie to the island of Maui, Hawaii that she dreamed of, where her father and brother died in a car accident when she was only one year old. This is a memorial and a farewell. Ollie taught her to swim in the sea, dive from high cliffs together, sit on the beach together, and of course sleep together. They broke all the taboos and courageously talked about love with ordinary people. Nothing can stop them from being together. But in the middle of the night, she really vomited.
Sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, received oxygen, and called. Looking down from the sky, Mantilin woke up. After she recovered, her mother took her home and never allowed her to step out of the house again. But she received a call from Maui Memorial Hospital, saying that this myocarditis was just because you were too tired. Mantilin said, isn't it because of my severe immunodeficiency. If the doctor said nothing, you can’t see that you have that kind of disease. This made her wake up like a dream. She searched through the medical records, but did not see that she had "severe combined immunodeficiency." Any mild pathogen from the outside world can be fatal, it seems to be nonsense.
She argued with her mother, and after her mother was speechless, Mantilin rushed out of the house. The mother was forced to tell the truth. It turns out this is a big lie. When the daughter was one year old, after the mother lost her beloved husband and son, Mantilin did suffer from allergies. She was afraid of losing her daughter again. In order to gain a sense of security, she lied that her daughter had "severe combined immunodeficiency." In this way, the daughter will not be in contact with the outside world, and will stay with her forever. Mantilin said, I can forgive my mother, but I must find my first memory. So she flew to Hawaii again.
In a bookstore in Hawaii, she met Ollie as scheduled, and she said if this was the first time we met. Ollie smiled and said, I am also glad to meet you. They hugged each other tightly. After suffering a severe psychological injury, a mother did not get rid of the fear of losing a loved one in time. Instead, with a traumatic sequelae, she weaved a big lie and imprisoned everything about her daughter. All of this comes from the mother's "love", which is an incredible thing. Undoubtedly, Mantilin was lucky, she met Ollie. As the so-called love is everything!
From this to the other, as I said at the beginning, any illusion made with lies, no matter how beautiful it looks, is illusory and harmful. Only after clarifying the fog, we grasp the truth and reveal the truth, then we can be ourselves. The owner. This is true for a country and for the reality of the individual.
If a society has been deceived for too long, people have become accustomed to this false situation, all wearing masks speaking insincere, doing insincere things, the reality is everywhere being disguised, people are muddled, the organic body of society Gradually eroded, and eventually everyone can only sigh while drifting with the crowd.
2017, September, 22
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