Mary (Kate Hudson) is like the heroine in most romantic comedies in recent years. She has a successful career, open style and bold words, which seems to echo the representative appearance of modern women. However, life is impermanent, Mary's figure is gradually thinning and her face is haggard. After examination, she is found to be suffering from colorectal cancer, and she will not have many days to come. If you knew that your life was about to end, what would you want, or what would you do? This hypothetical question really appeared in Mary’s life. She made a wish to the black female god (Whoopi Goldberg) in her dream: first, I want to fly; second, I want a million; finally, I have no idea. Does she really not know? God replied, "You know, but I just don't want to admit it." I think all the audience should be well aware of Mary's unspoken wish. The question is why Mary doesn't want to admit it?
There are a few scenes at the beginning of the film: Mary takes the children for her friends and couples and wants them to enjoy the fun of fish and water; At the meeting of the advertising agency, Mary successfully persuaded several big men to set the condom clients as women, because she thought Women would buy condoms; after calling her friends to come to the house and finishing the work, Mary rejected the man’s proposal to further develop a stable relationship. Through these passages, we can see how open Mary is to sex—whether in words or deeds—and dare to face her own sexual needs. In addition, it can also be used to read out a piece of information: Mary does not want to love. In fact, as the plot goes on, it is not difficult for the audience to perceive the reason for Mary's timid love for love from the relationship between Mary's parents and the interaction between her and their parents. This also brings out the first love Mary must learn: family affection. When Mary’s parents learned of her daughter’s illness, her mother (Kathy Bates) burst into tears, but after that, the parents quarreled in front of Mary. The mother accused her father (Treat Williams) of only loving money. , The father scolded the mother falsely. Obviously, the bad parental relationship made Mary discourage her from love. Not only that, the image of the father is like a traditional strict father, because he is too focused on his career and is not good at expressing his inner feelings, which makes the father-daughter relationship not very harmonious. I believe this also indirectly affects Mary's attitude towards love.
The failure of family love makes Mary fail to care about her friends. Mary, who is suffering from cancer, may not be willing to bear the gaze of excessive pity from everyone. She always shows her with a cheerful side—just like she chose to take the news of her cancer in a relaxed tone at a happy occasion at a gathering of friends— ─However, friends are forced to suppress the sadness and perseverance in their hearts, and pretend to be happy to accompany Mary shopping and shopping. Especially for the pregnant Renee (Rosemarie DeWitt), she has to face the death of her friend at the same time The sadness and the joy of the new life are even more tormented, and finally I have to choose to alienate Mary deliberately. So, how do you care about it? The film teaches us a very simple method. When the father tried to mend the relationship with Mary, but he quarreled again, facing his sick daughter, the father was very anxious and said, "I love you very much, please tell me what to do?" Mary replied, " You are already doing it.” It turned out that caring for someone is so easy. My father didn't seem to have done anything, but what he said did a lot for him. Love has to be spoken. This is a very simple but easy to ignore truth. Sometimes only a short sentence is enough to convey full love and care.
The same goes for love. The poor relationship between her parents made Mary afraid of being deceived by men, and the fact that she was about to die soon brought her into the contradiction of wanting to love but not daring to love. On the other hand, the approaching death made Mary fall into all kinds of fears. She was afraid that her mother would be heartbroken, that the dog would be left unattended, and that she would not have time to do what she wanted to do. At this time, God finally succeeded in inducing Mary’s third wish, asking her to say to the attending physician Julian (played by Gael García Bernal): "I love you." This love came too late but not too late, because Ma Li felt "that incredible throbbing" at least before the end of her life, and this throbbing made her feel alive.
"Want to Love Now" on the whole does not seem to be very different from most American romantic comedies. Although it has both laughter and emotion, it does not have too many surprises. However, I really like the hidden view of life and death in the film, and the right God's setting. Mary has a cheerful personality, and she always keeps her mouth on jokes. Even when she goes to the hospital, she can tease the young handsome doctor: "You look familiar, have we had sex?" That's it. To avoid the movie’s misplacement between joy and sorrow, the topic of death will not appear too tragic and heavy. Although Renee once hoped that Mary would stop playing jokes, laughter is also a way of looking at death. Birth is inherently accompanied by death. This is a two-sided matter-so the director cuts Mary's death and the birth of a newborn together-it is also a common journey that everyone cannot avoid. If life is joyful, then why should death be treated with sadness? Just like Mary entrusted her mother to organize her funeral like a party, so joyful and warm.
In addition, the God in the film is played by Whoopi Goldberg (Whoopi Goldberg), whose image completely subverts everyone's established impression of "God". She is not only a woman, but also a black. Regarding this point, God said: "I just show up in the image you want." And Mary just likes the actor Hubi Gober, so the God she sees naturally appears as Hubi Gober . Such a setting may touch the sensitive nerves of some religious radicals, but for the general public, and even atheists, it is definitely the best interpretation of God, or more precisely, "God". Whether it’s white, black, male, or female, after all, there is a god and a godless mind. It depends on what you want to believe, right?
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