Borrowing the title of Grandma’s book, because Third Star tells such a story, the protagonist James made his own life choices and used the last path he chose to question three friends : Tell me, how do you live.
Saying "questioning" seems to be James’s perspective, just as his friend Miles said when his friend Miles said "cancer is not an excuse for extreme egoism", of course, he is not extreme egoism, he just "thinks and reads when his life is about to end." A lot", it can be said that the "questioning" of his friends is his last "hypothesis".
The film begins with the protagonist’s monologue, "The one thing about life is—" James, played by BC, said it twice, but he didn’t finish it. This has already hinted at his own ending. If you happen to know it In half a sentence, you will understand why James continued to laugh that kind of unwilling and helpless laughter. The complete sentence is "The one thing about life is that one day you'll be dead". One thing that is certain in life is that you will eventually die, but usually people don’t know which day and time frame the word "final will" represents. James, who has just turned 29, already knows his future. -Live less than 30.
So he made a decision about his final life. He wanted to take three friends on a road trip to his favorite place-Balafonde Bay. He wanted to talk to his friends about "how to live" before he died. At the same time, he still hid a secret, and this secret was about his own life.
Through James’ monologue, we roughly understand his three friends: Davy, the former head of the public relations fund who has been taking care of him after losing his job, Bill, who works in a TV station and has troubles with his girlfriend, and Miles who wants to be a father-like author. The attributives before these names are the problems James wants to solve through road trips.
For Davy, James’ question was “What do you want? It’s not about what kind of cards are dealt to you in life, but which hand do you think is safe to play?”; for Bill, James’ question is “You are the TV station Filming and sharing the rent with a girlfriend who doesn’t like that are all for the purpose of repaying the mortgage. You become more and more vague and plain, why don’t you do things according to your actual wishes? For Miles, James’s question is, “Why do you live? Under the pressure of always trying to catch up or surpass my father, why am I not as good as you, I can also become a writer".
Tell me, how do you live? They all made a choice. Of course Davy will look for work again after James leaves. The question is, will he find a hand that he feels safe to play? With a sense of responsibility, Bill chooses to continue living with his pregnant girlfriend who he doesn't like that much. Will he be happy or smooth? Will Miles' book be published, and Miles also has a secret, will he and James' married sister have a happy ending?
There are no answers to these questions, but you can decide how to live your life and "stick to my decision" (Bill in the play), whether it is painful or full of hope.
For James, who has not much time, The one thing about life is not one day you'll be dead, but you're dying. In the few days left, he chooses to end one thing himself. That is to end his life with a clear consciousness. He should not linger on the sickbed or be eaten by the pain. This is not caused by cowardice. He has to choose his own way of death, go to his favorite place, to Balafonde Bay." Feel the huge, terrifying, and courageous feeling of fighting against the sea."
In fact, this choice itself is huge, terrifying, and full of courage. This is what James told us-his life.
[Illness hits me, it’s them who endure the tragedy]
For the rest of his life when the ticking countdown, James wanted to guide his friends to think about how to live before he died. At the same time, he didn't want to die alone. He wanted the company of friends, so just as his line in the play said : The sickness may be mine, but tragedy is theirs (The sickness may be mine, but tragedy is theirs),-his friends, watching their friends "suicide" in front of them, not only unable to stop them, but also suffering The earth extended a "helping hand" to help "suicide".
In fact, from an objective point of view, James’s preaching to his friends, the lines are really weak, and the explanations about life—constant energy, reincarnation, continuation of life, what to believe in, what you want, and what you don’t want, are all. Repeating the words of the predecessors without new ideas, there is no shocking inspiration.
The unexpected gain is that the friendship between the four people that was brought out during this preaching and counter-teaching process, between the dilemma of choice, deeply moved me. After watching the film, I fully understand and forgive James. Those unreasonable, self-righteous questioning, and envy his friendship.
The friendship it exhibits is not unreserved and selfless giving, not a vacuum of disregard of facts, not a blazing enthusiasm, but a dispute between those friends, those slightly malicious dissatisfaction, those little things. Innocent deception, the sympathy that arises from friendship, the heartfelt confession to each other, the unscrupulous jokes and jokes, the complaining but unrepentant giving to each other, and the reconciliation after the fight comes to mind.
And the final climax is those dilemmas, painful, and compelling choices.
After witnessing the inhuman pain and torment that James experienced, they were helpless to prevent James from becoming slumped. They respected his choice heartily and accompany him to swim into the sea to help him "sink". These friends, compared to James, I don't know which one is more brave.
They were also not afraid. Miles begged James like a child in the water, "Shall we go home?", he cried and said, "James, I'm so scared." However, he finally did it and took his own The friend was in the water because James said, "I don't want to be alone, please." And Davy, the kind Davy who took care of James the most, the Davy who said "You hurt my sincerity" to James, the Davy who "he needs me, I'm there" to his friend, who almost drowned. Davy returned to the shore without Bill's help. The only thing he could do was to choke and shout "Sorry, sorry" to James, who was unable to accompany him to death. And Bill, the friend who was taught by James to "life is getting blurry", he seems to be the most vague among James' three friends. He can't be like Miles, because he has experienced nausea, shock, escape to struggle and acceptance. He became clear from the confession. He was not like Davy. He became prominent because of the care of the mother-in-law with a little complaint but no regrets. He just pushed the cart silently and carried people silently. He came to repair the car when the car broke down. In the middle of the night, he found that the morphine had been lost. He was the most decisive and went back to look for it. He came up with the idea of fireworks and brought James a great surprise. The Saskatchewan seems to be the kind of person everyone will fall in love with." Before James, who was dying of illness, walked into the sea, after James returned to the land after his death, he was always in Bill's arms. (How can it be said that these three people are not like James' "good" friends?!)
James's last monologue said "My life, there is no tragedy", and his tragedy will be borne by friends for him.
[I will be a special person]
(The following contains HC ingredients, if you feel unwell, please stand up against the wall)
Maybe it's because of the scene of broken grass flying between the faintly visible tombstones, maybe it's the rhythm of the music with thumping eagerness, but more maybe it's because of the sickly face of James on BC, which sets him down and thick. "I’m James, I’m 29 years old today and I will not live to 30" because of his skinny appearance sitting at the table in that suit, and because of his slanting back, leaning on crutches from the edge of the table. The standing up weak back, at the beginning of the film, people couldn't help but feel a little choking in their throat.
BC is an actor who can act with his whole body. It is not necessary to elaborate on his body and various small movements, especially his eyes. The director and photographer seem to like his eye performance very much. He gave a lot of shots: what he saw when he was holding a goodbye to his father. Sadness; unwillingness in his eyes when holding goodbye to his mother; crying when he is holding goodbye to his sister; anticipation in his eyes when sitting in a car and driving to a life of his own choice; the crystal in his eyes when Bill taught him to fan the fire while camping Bright; Suddenly received a white feather of "Angel" flying in the air and raised his head to look at Miles. There was a small vibration in his eyes; when he asked Davy on the beach under the night sky his thoughts on life, his eyes were full of "love." "Yes" (please don’t get me wrong); when looking at the night sky talking about heaven and Buddhism, I feel a little confused and thoughtful; when I look at the fireworks blooming, my eyes are joyful but sentimental; my eyes are tormented by the hallucinations brought by morphine. I don’t know what to do; I feel unwilling when I wake up early in the morning when I squat in the grass; I feel disdain when Miles interrupts me when I question Davy; I don’t see iron in my eyes when I question Davy; I am when I learn about the relationship between Miles and his sister. The shock in my eyes; the request in my eyes when I said I was going to swim; of course, there were also the painful eyes overflowing from countless illnesses.
And the most remarkable thing about him is that the role of James is really unpleasant, like a "sick-white-Oprah" (Miles language in the play)". The most tragic thing is that the language is basically not good. , But BC has this kind of ability. After the performance, you think you are asking this and teaching that. In the end, you will feel that he is like a puppy with wet eyes, making you scratch your heart and liver with love and sadness in your throat.
BC walked out of the corrupt country with the role of Sherlock Holmes in the digital age. After he became known to us, he turned back to see his early film and television works. Whether it was playing soy sauce, the deputy protagonist, or the leading role, they were actually very mature and excellent performances. (Especially Hawking), the experience he accumulated in the stage play may have helped him. The parents who are both actors may have given a certain inheritance, but more, I think it is the feelings and thinking he puts in each role The most famous example is that a reporter interviewed him on the Sherlock Holmes set, and he was totally different from the one he saw in the interview a few months later. The reporter later realized that the BC in the last interview was still stuck in the role and did not come out. The writer played by BC in "Rewind Life", that is, the screenwriter of the film, suddenly discovered that BC was not only wearing the same clothes as himself, but also acting very vividly with him, and suddenly he woke up. This "jerk" has been secretly observing. For himself, he devotes his feelings and thinking to the characters and acts with his "heart". This can also be seen from one of his speeches to reporters. He said that I had to reduce stage performances, not just for financial reasons, but It is mentally and physically (not just fiscally, but mentally and physically). Unfortunately, I have only watched two BC stage plays, but the film and television works I can find, except Small Island, have been watched. I can see that he is serious and talented in playing each role (of course, his Genius may come from accumulation), he never repeats himself, his characters seem to come from different performers, I don't want to talk next to each other, I just want to praise in one sentence: each role is each role.
Today, when commercialization is the highest and the box office is the highest, there are still a lot of workers who insist on "truly" treating performance as a culture, as an art, and thinking. BC grew up in this atmosphere. Excellent public school education, drama studies at Manchester University, advanced studies at the London School of Music and Drama, and various stage performances. The result is a BC with outstanding acting skills, great intelligence, hard work and hard work, beautiful appearance and temperament. There is a fan, a silly inner art, a low and sexy voice, a rich nagging language, a madman with behavior, and a white horse (face) prince with countless advantages.
The name is as long as the face—ah, I really don’t want to use the cheesy noun and adjective "prince" again—I don’t know if he is already very popular today, but I firmly believe that in the near future , He will be purple. That is something that most of his movie fans and drama fans would like to see. However, for them, the biggest regret is that he can no longer do the same as he could do not long ago, when he walked out from the backstage of the theater alone to fetch it. When the large locomotive returned to his home in North London, he was able to approach him, handed a lozenges to him, and took pictures of his welfare when he changed his shirt.
James in the play said when he got angry: "I could have been a special person", and Mr. Benedict Cumberbatch, he has become a special person.
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