piles of sadness

Delphine 2022-01-27 08:23:03

In many movies, we often cry silently as the plot goes on. After the movie, wipe away the tears and it will pass. This movie, the narrative is plain, I can't shed more than ten tears from the beginning to the end, and I just felt very sad at the moment of watching it. However, five minutes later, I almost burst into tears without warning. I don't even know the exact reason for my crying. Maybe it was the sadness of that hour and a half that slowly piled up and now finally collapsed.
Yes, this is a very sad movie. Ann, twenty-three years old, her father was in prison when she was a child and never saw him again; her mother hated and cursed the whole world; she gave birth to her first daughter to her current husband at the age of seventeen; At that time, he gave birth to a second daughter to the same man; now the family lives in the RV in the mother’s backyard and does college cleaning every night; in the hospital, it was found that there is a tumor in the ovary, the cancer has spread to the stomach, and only the remaining Two or three months of life.
So she made a list of all the things she had to do:
1. Tell my daughters I love them several times.
2. Find Don a new wife who the girls like.
3. Record birthday messages for the girls for every year until they're 18.
4. Go to Whalebay Beach together and have a big picnic.
5. Smoke and drink as much as I want.
6. Say what I'm thinking.
7. Make love with other men to see what it's like.
8. Make someone fall in love with me.
9. Go and see Dad in Jail.
10. Get false nails. And do something with my hair.
In order not to spoil the feel of the original, I didn't translate it. In the movie, some of these ten things are done, some are not done. She sent the children to school, said i love you to herself after the children turned away i love you over and over; she invites another ann next door to the house for dinner, hoping her kids and husband like her; she speaks out what she wants to say to others, including praise and criticism; she does it for herself A beautiful fake nails; she went to see her father in prison; she fell in love with another man.
She did the things on the list one by one without telling anyone that she was about to die. The movie doesn't even tell her final story, but at that moment, she's gone. my life without me, I don't even know how exactly to understand the name, I think it says that ann's life goes on, just that ann is gone.

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My Life Without Me quotes

  • Nurse #2: [annoyed] Do you know how many nurses we have here at this hospital?

    Ann: Do you know what it's like to be waiting at the school gate all on your own with your nose freezing to death, while all the other kids get picked up by their moms?

    Nurse #2: [a brief image is shown of the nurse as a child, waiting all alone in front of a vacant school] ... Yeah, I do...

  • Ann: [trying to joke around] I knew something was pretty serious when you sat down here beside me.

    Dr. Thompson: [awkward] They're renovating my office, changing the air-conditioning and...

    [looking suddenly really sad]

    Dr. Thompson: no, that's not true... l can't sit down in front of someone and tell them that they're gonna die... l've never been able to...