No man is an island

Gideon 2022-01-19 08:02:14

Especially classic movies that require careful taste, Emma's acting skills and John Donne's poetry complement each other. The selfishness of watching movies is to know what literary research can mean to people. The film seems to show that literature is a kind of faith for Vivian, but at the end of life, it seems that faith itself is not enough.

The most tearful scene in the film is that her mentor comes to see her and holds her to read to her. The mentor already has a five-year-old great-grandson, and she is still alone. When we face sickness and death, what we fear most is actually loneliness. In addition, the film also seems to allude to the lack of humanistic care in medical treatment. Only the dark-skinned nurse gave Vivian the last-minute care and love. The intern looked at the female professor who was suffering from illness, and even a word of comfort and a warm gesture. nothing. Is this to blame him? They were all educated in this way. He said, always thinking about the meaning of life and death will make people go crazy, so will they lead a better life if they don't? An untapped life is not worth living. When I become a teacher in the future, I will tell students that metaphysical poets must watch this movie.

I don't know why the name of the play was translated into this name, but I can't think of a more suitable translation for the time being.

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  • Coralie 2022-03-23 09:03:10

    Quiet and cruel, when we really experience it, we will empathize with it and reflect on our past. When pain comes, no matter how strong a person is, they will also show vulnerability, because she is facing a powerful force that she cannot control. Only understand it, accept it, and reconcile with it, at the last moment of life. And the actors of this film spoke to the camera more, breaking the fourth wall of the film, letting the audience know that they were watching the film, pulling out the story and thinking about their own experience. The actor's acting is so good, I want to call like crazy

  • Reginald 2022-03-16 09:01:07

    As a medical student, I was amazed by the precision of this movie. Illness, treatment, death, the doctor's psychology, the patient's state of mind, the subversion of self-cognition, the deprived of dignity, the unbearable pain, the hard breath, and finally return to childlike fragility. No deliberate sensation, no pretentiousness, everything appeared in the most ordinary posture. Yes, death is neither great nor glorious at all.

Wit quotes

  • Jason Posner: She's research!

    Susie Monahan: She's DNR.

  • E.M. Ashford: You take this too lightly. This is metaphysical poetry, not the modern novel. The standards of scholarship and critical reading which one would apply to any other text are simply insufficient. The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful.