Due to the change from Margaret Edson's drama, the main body of the film is basically supported by Vivian Bearing's monologue.
So we saw that after a teaching inspection, she explained with a mockery, “I’m still involved in teaching activities here. It’s just that when I was in school, I was the one who was teaching, and here, I was used to The one that teaches. Of course, the work here is much easier, because I only need to show the face of a cancer patient.”
Contrary to the transformation of Vivian’s identity from a professor to a teaching aid, it’s Jason Posner. An ordinary student who hadn't been noticed by her in her class became the doctor in charge of giving orders. In sharp contrast to Vivian's gradual exhaustion, it was Jason's youthful ignorance. He is so young that when Vivian enters the hospital in the middle of the night, he rubs his sleepy eyes, yawns and sells Meng and says to the head nurse, "Wake me up when the situation changes." He is so young that he will talk to Vivian, who is suffering from advanced ovarian cancer, about how amazing the cancer cells are that fascinates him. He is so young, he will talk about humanism in front of Susie Monahan, the head nurse, and the latter will carefully help Vivian cover his body with a quilt after he has completed the examination and hurried away. He will remember being gentle after Vivian loses consciousness. When Vivian is seriously ill, she will explain to her that there are two options of “continue first aid” and “prevent first aid” after the patient’s heartbeat stops. Jason will disregard Vivian’s personal wishes for the continuation of medical research. I tried to stop him when calling the emergency team.
In the eyes of audiences who are accustomed to watching Hollywood scenes and intense plot conflicts, this film full of monologues by a large number of characters inevitably seems a bit boring, and it can hardly be said that there is no enjoyment to watch. Duan's laid-out but extremely objective and calm way of expression presents us more impressively the dying life of a cancer patient and the mentality of a "senior intellectual" who uses literature as his partner in a serious illness Process, this ultimate discussion of life versus life and death is undoubtedly thought-provoking. The lightness and coldness of the colors in the film also highlights the heaviness of the topic, which makes people calm down and consider life and death, dignity and survival.
Regarding death, Vivian’s original opinion was as she kept chanting verses:
Death, you are not proud, although some people say
how powerful and terrible you are, you are not like this;
you think you have defeated so and so, in fact ,
Poor Reaper, they didn't die; you still can't kill me.
Rest and sleep, these are just portrayals of you. If it
can be enjoyed by
others, you must provide more; the sooner our best people go with you,
the sooner we can rest in the body and liberate the soul.
You are the slave of destiny, opportunity, monarch, and desperadoes.
You live with poison, war, and disease.
Compared with your blows , poppies and charms
can even push me to sleep better; then why do you arrogantly ?
After a short nap, we will be awakened forever, and
there will be no death again, and your god of death will also die.
The poet believes that death may be eternal, and eternal life after death will also be eternal.
When Vivian was tortured by illness and whimpered in front of her former stern teacher, she was no longer willing to think about the difficult verses and abstract metaphors, but quietly listened to the relaxed fairy tales in the arms of her teacher. At this moment, for her, simplicity is the greatest truth in the world. Vivian, who lost her hair and eyebrows due to chemotherapy, listened to fairy tales and sobbed on the hospital bed, so she looked like a newborn baby, probably there is no absolute gap between life and death, and returning to innocence is the extreme complexity of everything. The end of wisdom to the extreme of wisdom.
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