Tim Blake Nelson's "Insensitive Love" (2015), the worthy title, together with the point of view of the people in the film, make the film really have a dull and gradually charming charm. People, sometimes are slow enough, especially for their relatives, lovers or friends, even if you say "thank you", you can't remember to say. This kind of numbness comes from insensitivity of course.
Once the subconscious becomes inertia, insensitivity is inevitable. Of course, there is also a sense of insensitivity, not only dullness, but also insensitivity. This involves more realistic situations, such as identity, status and interests, which is another matter, and has nothing to do with the dull will conveyed by the film.
When Adam told his old father Walter that his wife Jill had ovarian cancer and would need surgery soon, the old man was shocked. Over the years, he neglected to care for his wife. As a professor, he taught the university for 34 years and decided to accompany her after retirement.
On the last day of his retirement from the university pulpit, his passionate speech deeply moved his students. Leaving college is light. He went to the flower shop as usual and told the shop owner, "You don't know my name yet. My name is Walter. Give me a bunch of lilies. More than 40 years ago, when I proposed to my wife, it was the lilies."
Unexpectedly, when he turned around, he met Joe, who had just come out of the drug rehab center. He stopped him and hoped to give him some money to eat, but the old man gave it to him with a smile. When the old man was gone, the flower boy said to Joe that the old man was such a good man. Joe stared at him and left. Then, the old man saw a black man stopping a pair of little girls. The old man said that you should not stop them and scare the children. I will give you money.
After the black man took the money, the old man rushed home with a happy face. Really unpredictable. Unexpectedly, when approaching the door, the black man suddenly appeared to grab the old man's wallet and stabbed the old man with a knife. Hearing the old man's exclamation, Joe ran over to rescue the old man, but was also stabbed a few times by the black man.
This exclamation alarmed the people upstairs. At this time, Sam, who was on a tryst with his lover, heard the cry for help, so he ran downstairs, called 911, and took the old man and Joe to the hospital together. This is the plot from the beginning to the end of the film. The film adopts flashbacks and tells it in a simple way. Just like people around you in reality.
Sam's beautiful wife, Sarah, with her daughters. He always said he was in Shanghai on business. But the wife told his girlfriend Meredith, I don't really believe that Sam is in Shanghai, because I stayed in Beijing for a year, and every time he heard the sound of police cars on the phone, it was more like in New York. But she didn't know where Sam was. She only drank stuffy wine secretly.
Once when she sent a pair of daughters to school, the eldest daughter said that because her father was not around, you would drink alcohol secretly, right? She was speechless. When the little girl got out of the car and walked away, Sasha cried and said sorry, it's not right for mom to drink, please forgive me. The eldest daughter is very sensible and said sadly, my mother forgives me.
It is because her husband Sam is insensitive to his wife, he will stick to his 33-year-old lover. He said I don't want to go home. She said no, you have to go home. Once, when the two of them were hanging out at the flower market, they were almost bumped into by their little daughter who was taking a photo with a tablet, and he was scared and ran away.
When he experienced the night that he rushed the old man to the hospital, this morning, he called his wife Sarah and said that he wanted to go home, but the wife said no, I don't know where you are, and I don't want you to go home. His wife's refusal made his insensitivity reverberate like a bludgeoning blow.
Likewise, as Adam takes care of his wife Jill to the hospital for surgery, they must settle for their children, Howl and Amy, who secretly smoke marijuana. Because their relationship with their parents has always been in a state of alienation and tension, their insensitivity to their parents has reached freezing point.
When Adam called the lazy ones over to say one thing, they didn't want to hear it. It was only when it was said that your mother had ovarian cancer that the children were awakened. The son said it was late. The daughter glared at him, asked her mother if it was true, then hugged her mother and said sorry.
Because of the patient, kinship is activated and liberated from insensitivity. This is indeed a misfortune in kinship, but it is better than insensitivity. The night when Jill successfully completed the operation and became a monk, Adam received a call again, saying that his father was stabbed and lying in the hospital. He brought his mother Martha to the hospital. Sam told them I was the caller.
The old man Martha pulled Sam and said what the old man said at that time. Sam says he's going to give you a bunch of lilies. What else did that say. Sam thought about it, oh, he said don't forget the cabbage field. The old man woke up suddenly and said to his son that he lived in Montana many years ago, planted a piece of land, neglected to take care of it, forgot to water, and the cabbage he planted wilted to death. Unexpectedly, after so many years, he still remembers such a small thing.
Before the old man left the pulpit, he felt ashamed of his wife, and now, his wife felt ashamed of the old man's affection for her. Does this kind of awareness have to be awakened when death is imminent? But life is like that sometimes. Thus, death does not lie in the dead, but in the repentance of the living. This argument makes sense.
The old man is still in the intensive care unit, and it can be said that he is dying. Adam's son took the initiative to visit his grandfather on behalf of the family, and both Adam and his wife nodded. Hower took his grandmother to the intensive care unit, facing the old man who was full of tubes, the family affection that was thicker than water, galloping like a torrent. This kind of imprint of family love and pain will surely affect Hower's life.
Another interesting character in the film is the female graduate student played by Kristen Stewart. She is withdrawn and independent. According to the old professor Walter, this child is smart but sick. Indeed, her sharp eyes made it difficult to approach. Once, a boy moved the chair and made a noise, which attracted her questioning, but she didn't expect the boy to curse, "bitch bitch", which made her feel ashamed.
Walter saw the scars on her arms and belly and said sadly, why are you doing this to yourself. She shivered and said that only pain makes me feel alive. I fell in love with a girl, but I didn't get a response from her. What else can the teacher say, I hope she can get back on her feet. Afterwards, she saw a psychiatrist, and it seemed that the effect was not very big. She still sought physical pain. Rather than saying it made her feel alive, it was a deep insensitivity of the mind.
Black Joe, who was originally a top student, could not be himself because he was infected with drugs. His friend, the black lawyer Jeffrey, wanted to save him. This time, Joe, who ran out again, snatched his wallet from the bus and met Walter, an old man who was buying flowers. Walter is the axis of the film, which is scattered in all directions, and is connected with him by chance, direct or indirect, irrelevant to it. This is where the film is difficult to grasp and extremely subtle.
When Joe was about to run out of rehab, Jeffrey was in court on a case. Before, he and Rachel, the opposite female lawyer in the same case, had a kissing foreplay in the elevator. The lawyers of the prosecution and defense should be insensitive, but they have real feelings because of their feelings. But the next day, Jeffrey read in the newspaper that Joe was stabbed to death, and was so shocked that he stopped the car and vomited. Jeffrey has always hoped that Joe can be relieved in the drug rehab center and come out to be a useful person. He encouraged him on the phone to say I love you.
This kind of friendly love cannot make the insensitive Joe truly recognize himself. It was only at the end, when he bravely rescued the old man, that he showed his insensitivity after awakening. He said to the murderer that he would stab the murderer a few more times. It was just... a person who felt useless to society, and the last words of pain he said were enough. dismal.
I remembered what the old man Walter said when he was walking with his wife, "Marriage is like sticking your hand into a snake's nest, only to catch a handful of eels." Life is not like this. Thinking and doing will never be the same, nor are they at the same level, and the outcome will be very different. This is an insensitive life. Only when human affairs touch the essence of life, the waves of the pool of water will have the meaning of clarity and flow. This is the endless life.
2016, 7, 27
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