(A film review 2 years ago)
I took a break at the unit at noon. My father called and responded to my text message, saying that he had been uncomfortable for 20 days after watching "Gulag Islands", and he remembered a lot of his childhood. I am silent. Uncomfortable. In turn, I talked about the painlessness in life and the good news and bad news as always. This is the content of the text message at 2 o'clock in the morning yesterday: "Dad, I have cried twice after reading page 44 of this book."
The smog in Beijing buried the entire city and also buried my appetite. I'm not in the mood to eat at noon and take out "Trueman" to watch. I have written many small film reviews and book reviews. In short, it is a little bit of my own thoughts and thoughts. But I have never wanted to write something so seriously this time. To Truman, to the nearest self.
Truman is an old dog raised by the owner Julian. I don't understand dogs. I checked it is a bull mastiff. At the beginning of the movie, the second protagonist Thomas is planning to visit and accompany him for a few days after learning that his friend Julian is terminally ill. He said goodbye to his family in the early morning and left the cold "Arctic" Canada for warm and humid Madrid. Start a journey of sadness and mourning. The boats and carts were struggling and came to the door of a good friend's house. Julian opened the door. No noisy greetings, warm hugs. Thomas smiled as if he had put down the stone in his heart, and he seemed to say "It's okay, you are alive and well". Julian leaned on the door and looked at him, and both of them were in tears. The two looked at each other with a smile, and hugged each other, as if they were a few centuries apart, like the 73-year-old Henrik and Conrad meeting 41 years after the end of the candle. Warm and sad. Her heart was tumbling with the turbulent waves of the Pacific Ocean, but her face was the calm water of a small bridge. The Hungarian writer Maloy Sandor said that a man is a silent animal. He has to endure all the pain in the world, and he has to endure all the injustice, separation and loss, and he cannot speak out. Be silent. That's probably what it meant.
This is a farewell journey for Thomas, while Yu Julian is more like a countdown to life.
4 days. Thomas can spend time with Julian in Madrid.
Let's write it in combination with a few points below:
friendship
The ancient Roman philosopher Cicero stated in "On Friendship": because a person looks at a true friend as if he looks at a certain copy of himself, therefore: although it is not seen, its voice and content are as in front of the eyes; although there is Needs but dare not lack; despite being weak but still strong; what's harder to say is that death is still alive.
The tacit understanding of Thomas and Julian’s conversation in the film, mutual humility and tolerance from beginning to end. When Paula (Julian's cousin) asked Thomas if he had tried to persuade his brother to receive treatment, Julian replied, "I tried." Paula was very angry. She felt that Thomas had not tried her best to persuade, and she said, "I don't know that it takes a reason to persuade others." Because Thomas understands that a person needs many reasons to live and die. After experiencing half a hundred vicissitudes of life, he told him that if he is terminally ill, his good friend Julian will be like him.
In the four days, they first went to the pet hospital and consulted about the psychological problems of what the owner would do if the pet dog died. Only then did the audience know the fact that Julian was about to die in warm and astonishment. At this moment, the director used a long lens to lock Thomas's complex expression when he heard this conversation—just like you and me: sad, sad, strong, and strong enough not to make friends uncomfortable. Then the funeral home, and then arrange the adoption of the dog. The first family who was willing to adopt Truman wanted to stay with Truman for one night, but the protagonist was unwilling, silent, and did not answer. It was still a good friend Thomas who made the siege, resolved the embarrassment and allowed him to pass this hurdle. This hurdle is the fact that sooner or later he will leave Truman. Coming out from there, he wept in the taxi, at a loss as to what to do. Thomas sat quietly beside him. This is the company of friends, this is the courage given by friends. There is also a whimsical trip to Amsterdam. This should be one of the few film reviews that makes us relaxed. It's not so easy. When he learned that Julian's son would be his 22nd birthday tomorrow, Thomas offered to have a meal together to celebrate, which also made Julian happy. Julian ran to turn on the computer to book a plane ticket. He was happily like a child, saying let's go to Amsterdam, where my son is. This is a very documentary film that talks about money without any obscurity, instead of ignoring such details of life like many rough films. Thomas said, do you think round-trip air tickets are cheap? Julian said that the idea was not good, just like the child. Then see Thomas' face embarrassed, because after all, he is an ordinary middle class. Such consumption is not a small expense for anyone. Then quickly add, we don’t need to go, I make some sandwiches, and then we rent a boat to go play... the screen switches to the plane. (Extremely warm) Thomas still agreed to go to Holland.
I remembered what they learned from each other in a conversation. Julian said that he learned generosity, generosity, and never ask for anything in return from Thomas. Thomas said he learned bravery from the other party.
What have we learned from our friends? What do we respect our friends? We can be friends with Lelius over two thousand years, because we appreciate his trueness and wisdom, and we can be friends with our parents over a generation because of their tenacity and honesty.
The French philosopher Derrida said that death cannot separate two friends, but it is the existence of death that can prove friendship.
Lonely
This is a favorite topic of literary works. Solitude is a kind of romance in oil paintings, and you can look far away but not play with it. We are often moved by the protagonist’s sense of loneliness when we watch films and TV works and read books. Sometimes we even yearn for such a lonely life instead of cherishing the good life in front of us. This is a terrible thing, a disrespect for life. In the film, Julian is a divorced theater actor who is about 50 years old and has a son. "I've been cool, too" and "It's so young to be young" to make people embarrassed. Lamenting the passing of time and the cost of loneliness. The typical home life of a bachelor has no meal, never cooks in the kitchen, no dinner after get off work and good morning kisses when he gets up early. Is this what we yearn for?
Loneliness is far more terrible than we thought. The few lonely back images in the film and television works and the simple sentence "40 years have passed" in the book cannot make us feel the same.
The protagonist of the film is lucky and not so lonely. He sometimes worried about his body but never expressed his son, he divorced but cares about his own ex-wife like a friend, and Thomas.
When we come alone, we will also walk alone. The road in the middle is to embrace the warm people and the beautiful world. After all, we have to walk alone for a long time.
Truman
Recently, I was cried by two dogs, one named Baily (from the movie "A Dog's Mission") and the other named Truman. I feel sorry that animals can't speak. Human beings use their own feelings to explain the thoughts of animals. Paranoid and naive. Wishful thinking is not just person-to-person. There are also animals. We saw two happy dogs, but there were countless unfortunate little animals. Not to mention. There are not many Truman scenes in this film, but more of a medium that conveys the protagonist's feelings and a mirror that expresses the protagonist's three-dimensional sense of life. The director is very clever and did not blindly use the mouth of others to show Julian's life, but with the eyes of a dog. Unique and full. I don't have much experience in raising pets, I only raised a cat when I was a child. One week. It's called Christopher Robin. Because the mother refused to let her raise, she was ordered to betray. I can't forget how difficult it was for me to hold it to the cat and dog market every step of the way. Then we sat on the side of the road crying, waiting for someone to buy it, hoping that no one would buy it. Then, someone finally bought it. I went back crying. Hate my mother for two weeks.
Everyone should have a Truman, whether it's a cat, a dog or a friend. To accompany you through this not long life.
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