This is the movie that touched me the most this year. I kept thinking about it when I watched it. It felt like the first time I came into contact with "Brothers Karamazov".
This movie is not called a horror movie, but a family movie. The plot of the movie is extremely simple. Grandma (I can’t remember her name so I call her “grandmother” in the movie)’s father is old. When no one took care of him, he died in his hut in the forest. Before he died, he was very painful. He fell from the side of the bed to the gap between the bed and the wall, and rotted in it without any attention. The body was like charcoal. After his death, the hut was demolished, and only a glass mirror was placed as an ornament on the door of Grandma's new house. After Grandma was old, she developed symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Once she was lost suddenly (it should be lost in an alien space at home). Kimmy and daughter Sammy came to her house to look for her. In the interpersonal relationship, daughter Sammy found a different space in the home, while mother Kimmy found her mother's terrible alienation—the skin fell off, like charcoal. Grandma was very afraid of dying alone like her father, so even though she was alienated and crazy, she still wanted to keep her daughter and granddaughter, but failed. She could only wait on the floor for the final approach of death, while Kimmy was the last Choosing to send the alienated mother who was about to die, peeled off her skin with his hands and hugged her tightly on the bed. Sammy also rushed back at this moment and hugged her mother Kimmy. The whole play ended.
This movie gives people a lot of thinking. The so-called alienation is nothing but a concrete manifestation of aging, and when the skin like coke is all over it, it is death. At first, Sammy and Grandma had a very good relationship. She was very concerned about the tension between her mother and grandmother, and even lost her temper with her mother for this. She once declared that she was moving over to live with her grandmother, but when she got along with her grandmother for a few days , She was crushed and shaken by her grandmother’s Parkinson’s disease and the weird house, and even prepared to escape. At this moment, she entered the weird space. She found a lot of things with the memories of her grandmother and mother. I personally It is a metaphor to be more inclined to this alien space. It is a metaphor of the grandmother’s memories and lifestyle. This is also the answer to the grandmother’s asking "where have they gone?". The grandmother’s friends and peers have passed away. For the grandmother Only memories and lifestyles are left behind, so they heterogeneously created that space, and at this time Jimmy and Sammy entered this space, entered the memories and lifestyles of their grandmothers. In fact, it refers to the two of them taking care of their grandmothers. , Living with grandmother.
This also understands why there are things placed in almost every place in that alien space. It is Kimmy and Sammy and even grandmother's own childhood things. Why the house is dilapidated, often leaking rain and mildew, why the building The styles are all decades ago, and these are the reflections in reality, the reflections of the contradictions and disputes that three generations get along with each other in reality. Full of pain, boredom, and fear, Kimmy yelled that it was not your grandmother. In fact, she just couldn't accept that in reality her mother was getting old, becoming troublesome and anxious, and even wanted to abandon her.
But in the end Kimmy chose to go back and take his own responsibilities to take care of his mother's death, and his daughter, who also hugged her mother, made a silent promise to her. In any case, she would not abandon her mother, just as her mother would not abandon her grandmother.
The touch that this movie brought to me is that I actually stand on Sammy’s point of view a lot of times. My parents and I are almost a generation apart, a full 40 years old. It’s hard for me to really appreciate how hard they can do it. Love to me, so that I can choose to work. From childhood to adulthood, they have overcome the insurmountable and endurable torture of ordinary people before they raised me (about 1/5 of my classmates did not go to college), and I was treating them A little giving makes me feel very complacent, there is a kind of happy charity, very funny.
I am carefully examining my own responsibilities. My parents will eventually get old and will eventually become a kind of "burden, fear, and pain" like in the movie, and whether I can take on my own responsibilities like Kimmy in the movie. Love them, take on all that, and make my promise? I think no matter what, I need to do this, just like they did to their parents and my grandparents, full of immense simple and unspeakable love, crushed by the great wheel of life, with tenacious love, stroking dryness. My skin shed tears.
It touches me too much. It's a great movie. This movie requires a soul capable of introspection before it can be watched.
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