The unbearable weight of life

Andreanne 2022-01-26 08:11:52

When we die, our bodies are only 21 grams lighter. What kind of weight is that? Five pennies, a hummingbird, or a bar of chocolate might be the equivalent of our puny human soul.
I remember looking at the "21 grams" that night, outside under heavy rain, friends and nest together in bed watching the film, and finally I asked him feel, he hugged me, "cold, especially in the movie!"
Indeed, this does It's not a love movie, except for the scene where Naomi Watts and Sean Penn hug in a motel, and the whole movie spends nearly three-quarters of the time about three people walking away. The tragedies that happened together, the constant flashbacks and the intertwined narratives, brought people into suffocating pain time and time again.
Maybe you will realize that life is so insignificant in the face of fate, but this is not just a movie about a sad fate statement, it shows how fragile we can be, and how strong we can be; sometimes it is not difficult to throw away 21 grams , However, life is like this: loneliness, exhaustion, fatal injury, unsupportable forward, and the hands that are stretched out on the opposite side, the body that is close, and the mind that depends on each other.
Should life go on? Since the beginning of the movie, we have been shrouded in the shadow of death: some people indulge in spiritual pain, some people are burdened with repayment, and some people yearn for eternal redemption. Here, the death of a loved one is just one of the countless indelible injuries in a person's life. In the midst of the world, the body and mind that cannot be perfected, the happiness that disappears in an instant, the fault that cannot be repaid in an instant - such pain. , The hardships that are so heart-warming, it seems that there is nothing worth entanglement and nostalgia for. But if in this world, there are still people who care about your pale face on the streets of rainy days, who say to you, I love you very much, and who are willing to hug you all the time to warm your cold heart, then life is worth paying. Therefore, in many places in the film, despite the gloomy tones and the dim mood, we can still feel that our hearts are slowly approaching. Although there are twists, unwillingness, and mania, what makes people the most vulnerable and strongest animal? When we slowly pick up love and let her penetrate life, the weight of 21 grams will not become so humble.

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21 Grams quotes

  • [hitting his son upside the head to punish him for hitting his sister]

    Jack Jordan: There's no hitting in this house.

  • [holding a glass jar containing his surgically removed heart]

    Paul Rivers: Ah. The culprit.