Can't go home

Krista 2022-01-17 08:01:57

(Said that I am not a professional film critic, but only some personal thoughts of myself. My thoughts are very confusing,

so let's take a look.) Just came out of the cinema and took a deep cigarette. Dolan was too heavy this time.

It’s the first time I saw Dolan’s movie in a movie theater. I was very excited at the beginning, and finally I was able to enjoy his lens aesthetics on the big screen. I regret that I didn’t watch it when mommy was released. The opportunity to see Duolan’s pinnacle work in the cinema... It’s

just that the protagonist at the end of the world is too heavy. Maybe Duolan is a little too heavy to control. The previous films are all from the perspective of young people, or from mothers. It is easier to understand for most people, but this movie is a 34 middle-aged man who has not returned home in 12 years, and people who have not drifted outside will not understand it.

The host was afraid to return home, and saw his mother, brother, sister, and brother’s daughter-in-law, a family with endless conflicts but love each other, and felt that he could no longer fit in. I feel like an outsider when I hear the closest people around me tell stories about his absence and childhood.

I don’t know if anyone has the feeling that they love the place where their family was born, but they just can’t go back because it doesn’t belong to them. I also choose to study abroad. My mother is looking forward to going back after school, but I don’t want to go back. I feel that no matter how much wrong I have suffered outside, I don’t want to talk to them. I love their parents and have been together since childhood. My long cousins, every time I go back, I feel like I can’t stay any longer. I can’t express the excitement of seeing them pick up the moment I leave the airport. Instead, the first sentence is "Let me smoke a cigarette first." I told them that I was homesick and I never expressed my love. I don’t know why I can’t say it. Outside and at home, I’m totally two people. I live mine and you live yours. There is no intersection in our lives except for blood relationship. I always feel like I will be scolded after saying this. Hahaha.

Dolan used the long and short dialogue between the protagonist and everyone to explain the plot to the final climax of leaving. Lea and Vincent performed well. Many people said that they hated the role of vincent's brother. I think He loves him and hates him, loves him because he is his younger brother, hates him because he just left for 12 years, leaving the family aside, leaving his mother and younger sisters to himself with no news of life in the sky. Those conversations between my brother in the car and my sister in the room are asking one thing: we don’t understand you, we don’t understand your life, as if everything has nothing to do with us, you never came to care about us, why? Until the end, the male protagonist failed to tell the news that he was dying.

It's like returning home this summer and quarreling with my mother. My mother said: Yes, you don't tell us anything anyway. We don't know what you think. I don't even know if you are a virgin now.

Finally, I want to say, Dolan, I love you, but close-up shots of people who rarely use it. It's too depressing. I hope the next English film will be good.

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It's Only the End of the World quotes

  • Louis-Jean Knipper: There I was, after 10 years, well, 12, to be precise. So after 12 years of absence and in spite of my fear, I was going to visit them. In life there a number of motivations that are no one's business, that force you to leave without looking back. And there are just as many motivations that force you to return. So after all those years, I decided to retrace my steps. Take the journey... to announce my death. Announce it in person, and try to give the others and myself one last time, the illusion that I am, until its very end, the master of my life. Let's see how that goes.

  • La mère: I don't understand you. But I love you. I love you. No one will take that away from me.