Anthony's death

Allan 2022-11-04 03:19:49

With its powerful deconstruction ability, this film dismantles various creeds and ways of life endowed with justice by modern civilization, which not only contain the reality of religion and human nature, but also imply the entanglement between male and female rights, material and soul. It calmly withdraws the goodness constructed by moral self-consciousness in a simple society, forcing us to re-examine many seemingly fixed issues. And the last part of this is the death of Antonie.

Here, death becomes a sad but simple part of the natural cycle, a plank road for the exchange of information and materials between the predecessors and the younger generations, between man and nature. "She understands that this is the last day of her life." In addition to a touch of sadness, it is indeed a particularly peaceful joy - surrounded by relatives, sober, saying goodbye in a natural aging way, feeling as if extremely sleepy I can't open my eyes anymore. Yes. Death is supposed to be a peaceful and serene farewell, an honest duty of life.
"She wants to call her beloved by her side. Bass will make her a coffin, and Olger will arrange her carefully as usual, without the slightest shame." At the

end of the film, Anthony saw the new sun rising, her love Sitting on the edge of the bed, still jokingly cast a wink at her; her daughter, under the pretense of calmness, hides the great sadness that will overturn the studio for a while; granddaughter Slashi, thinking calmly at the moment The exact volume of her grandmother's breathing; and the still young great-granddaughter Sarah, Antony does not know whether her death can answer her curiosity about life...
Death, in Antony's interpretation, becomes a ritual, A ritual of separation of the soul from her majestic body

ends here.
Everything goes back to the beginning of the story.

"Even though the sun was up, Anthony knew that her time was running out. She knew better that this was the last day of her life. She didn't feel sick, she was going to call her loved ones around and tell them She is about to die." She even dressed herself in the mirror and said calmly to herself in the mirror; "Ja, tijd om te sterven" ("It is time to die")...

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Antonia's Line quotes

  • Antonia: Yes. It's time to die.

  • Antonia: She's got a point. Father was a dirty old man. Used to feel them up round the clock.