If words like disease and health don’t happen to you or the people around you, they must be unfamiliar, and you should reject them as much as possible. You always think that those skin pains are related to dying old men and old women with hunchback. I thought so too, until the young instructor who was in good health suddenly entered the intensive care unit one day, and until the father of a wealthy friend suddenly contracted cancer. The same is true for the beginning of "The Anti-Cancer Me". At the age of twenty-seven, a handsome young man who is handsome and rich in his career has a good career and love. He has a wealthy family. He has produced a radio program introducing volcanoes. There is a beautiful white and thin person. Beautiful girlfriend, and a good friend who loves to take you to romantic places to hang around for many years. At the beginning of the film, the method of "suppressing desires first" was adopted to express all the elements that belong to the category of young people's vitality. Relaxed and comfortable accompaniment music, accompanied by the male protagonist in the pleasant weather in the city, the morning jog on the seaside boulevard, the male muscles surrounded by shampoo and shower gel faintly appear in the encumbered bathroom, talk about annoying career and life before going to work, by the way Get the kiss of lover's toothpaste. Take a break and sip coffee to refresh yourself. Good friends still don't forget to tease about your room. Being blocked by the boss for being late, the result of hard work may be just another channel change within two seconds. Everyone is busy, everyone is chasing, it belongs to the days of young people, the film has a delicate and trivial outline at the beginning. Until one day, minor problems escalate to major problems, you may not realize that the drama of life is far more bloody than movies.
But everything did happen. The odds of winning the lottery are spread by you. You don't smoke, drink, have a fast metabolism, and have a harmonious sex life. But the only illness is to fall in love with you. If it were an Eastern ethical drama, it would be necessary to dispatch the three aunts and six aunts to perform a play with tears, shouting why God is so unfair. If it is a commercial comedy on the Hollywood assembly line, a "good dream one-day tour" under the pretext of "cancer" may be shown in some exaggerated fairy tale. But as a script adapted from the real experience of the screenwriter of the film, an independent essay at a small cost of 4.5 million US dollars, it abandons the extremes of the two and draws a picture of life in a simple way. It may not be appropriate to define the film with the labels of "inspirational" and "comedy" alone. It mirrors the light of life but does not reject the darkness of human nature. It is embellished with embarrassment but it does not hesitate to burst into tears. It does not deliberately exaggerate the pain of the patient receiving treatment but is willing to reveal the heartfelt feelings of the dying person. It rejects the utopian sweet preaching but is happy to witness the growth of the people in the film. When cancer comes, how should a young man choose and how to deal with it? Life is like a volcano, once it erupts, everything will be over again. Family relationship: a father suffering from Alzheimer's directly indicates the absence of patriarchy. The mother tried to reconcile with the son, but the son could not bear to bear with the weak mother. In love: The person next to the pillow who could have talked about dreams and life, also chose to betrayed day and night. Friendship: One is a good friend who uses the words of the upper body to guide the practice of the lower body. At the most vulnerable juncture of your life, you still don't forget to take you to have fun. One is a female psychologist who just started working at the age of 24. Her patients are not even tens of digits. The three most important links in life: family, love, and friendship, interspersed between stories, they are all ordinary people who can't be more ordinary, with shortcomings, a fragile mentality, a heart that cannot be crossed, and some that cannot be cured. Illnesses, but they help the hero to complete the most difficult self-salvation in life, and at the same time everyone completes self-transformation. There is no good or bad binary opposition in the film. It is difficult for the psychologist to heal his heart disease that he "still misses his ex-boyfriend and does not forget to check on Facebook to see if he has a new girlfriend". The actor's girlfriend is not absolutely indifferent, she is entangled in responsibilities and desires, trying to repent and reconcile as before. The protagonist is not the straight-line toughness of a Hollywood hero. From being unacceptable at the beginning, he gradually tried treatment, gradually reconciled with his family and friends, treated with a counselor, and faced life with the old man who suffered from cancer. The character’s mental state tends to be more realistic and linear, with optimism expecting healing, and
"Disease" is well known and is a "big cliché" of movie themes, but if you think about it carefully, what exactly is a cliché? Birth, old age, sickness and death are major propositions in life that have to be faced. Eating, drinking, sleeping, and eating is an integral part of daily life, and emotions are the basis for maintaining people's survival. Everything is in a reciprocating cycle, repeating it over and over again. We have to face these steps in life, but it does not mean that we can seek an unconventional way of expression to express our inner feelings. Thinking of this year’s hot "Sunset Car God", the driver played by Ryan Gosling is somewhat similar in nature to the cancer patient played by Joseph. The same "cutter" subject matter, but you can feel the delicate emotions of the characters and the ups and downs in the micro waves of stagnant water. There is no doubt that the vision of the times has never lacked grand subject propositions, but the only thing missing is a retro, reverted, and authentic character feelings in "Anti-Cancer I" and "Sunset Car God".
Looking back, I unexpectedly discovered that life is a simple thing, as the movie says.
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