Some movies, some novels, are so beautiful that they tug at my heartstrings and stick in my memory. Every time you relive it, it will be like reliving a beautiful dream. It makes you feel that you are truly alive, that there are still many beautiful things in this world, that your fragile heart is stronger, and your sinking heart is less hopeless.
I still remember watching "The Pianist at Sea" over and over again in college, and the loneliness and ego of 1900 deeply attracted me. "Free Zone" has also been watched many times, and the death and despair performed by Julian Moore will never be forgotten. I am an egoistic person, or a selfish person. The heroine Brenda in "Zone of Freedom" said a sentence I always remember: "I've been always away from people for the whole time of my life". The storyteller in the novel "Wuthering Heights" said: "I found that people here are more focused on their own affairs and more focused on their hearts." I am also a person who likes to live in isolation. I don’t like socializing with strangers very much, and I don’t like socializing very much. It can be said that I am very autistic. I clearly remember that when I was young, I went to the river in front of the village to watch the sunrise by myself, enjoying the tranquility and serenity, and hoping in my heart that I would never leave that place. Now that I grow up, I can't help myself, and the farther I leave the place I used to be attached to. But still like those novels about loneliness and sinking. The more people who focus on their own heart, the easier it is to sink, which is almost inevitable poison.
When I think about my favorite novels and movies, I find it harder to write reviews when I think about them. What can we write about loneliness? What if we keep sinking into loneliness ourselves? Writing reviews of these works is like writing about my inner feelings. How much do I know about my inner feelings?
Of course, we can comment on a movie from many aspects, such as plot actors, directors, photography, etc., but it is easy to overlook some of the most essential things. What is this movie really about? Addiction. I can't find the most accurate Chinese word to answer this question at the moment, "sinking" may work, but it's too unspecific. Yes, they were both sinking, Jerry sinking into drug addiction, Audrey sinking into thinking about her husband who died. Two people have an extraordinary connection because of the deceased, one is the deceased's wife, and the other is the deceased's best friend.
I don't know how the director or screenwriter wrote the script. After watching the movie, I always felt that Audrey's story was the main line. Of course, at least from the plot point of view, she was the biggest protagonist. She asked Jerry to live with them. Jerry just followed Act according to her requests and feelings. Her nostalgia for the dead runs through almost the entire film, and there are very few of this type, if any, with plots like murder and revenge. The closest is probably "21 Grams", but "21 Grams" has three intersecting plotlines and is not as delicate and calm as this film. Maybe it's because missing is a too personal feeling, especially mourning for the deceased. And there is also a very important reason: people don't like to watch this kind of too real and delicate things, just like many films about the dark inside story of counter-terrorism do not have a good box office. I heard that the box office of this movie is only a few million dollars. There are also many works of mourning in literary works, the most famous is probably Tennyson's "Mourning Collection", but this long poem explores many non-personal things from the death of a friend. The first thing that came to my mind when watching this movie was Joan Dean's "A Year Full of Wonders," about what it was like to be in the ICU after her husband died and her daughter was in the intensive care unit. This book is the most nuanced and personal tribute I have ever read. Why do I keep emphasizing personalization? Because in fact, most of the time, the thoughts of the deceased do not involve the feelings of any other person, and are the most personal thing. When we temporarily avoid the interference of all foreign objects, we will find that the most personal things are the most essential and the hardest to bear. In this film, Audrey brought Jerry to live with them and the latter chased him out and found him all because of his longing for her husband. She asks Jerry what it's like to be on drugs because she can't shake the pain of missing her. Jerry left because he couldn't stand Jerry unintentionally playing the role of the father of his child.
As mentioned earlier, Jerry's drug use is described more plainly. Compared with "Trainspotting", "Requiem of a Dream" is simply beautiful. Jerry is a drug addict who is recovering from drugs, but he doesn't have the evil temperament in "Trainspotting". On the contrary, he is so upright that Audrey finds that he wrongly blamed him for taking her husband's change. He used to be a lawyer and the director didn't tell us why he was taking drugs, it was only when Audrey brought him back from the ghetto after he started taking drugs again that he looked like an addict. This doesn't mean he's not good at acting, on the contrary Benicio Del Toro's performance is more than perfect, it's almost incarnate. Drug addicts are also ordinary people, some are not worse than ordinary people, they are just easier to sink than ordinary people. When Audrey asked Jerry how he felt about taking drugs and said he wanted to take drugs, Jerry tried to kiss Audrey and told her how terrible it was to fall. This is also my favorite scene.
Aside from the two sinking movies that gave us a love story, Audrey and Jerry's relationship was portrayed in a muted way because it's a story in and of itself that doesn't get any results. When Audrey's daughter Harper asked Jerry why they couldn't get married, Jerry said, "That will make it seems that your dady never exist". When I watched this episode, I was thinking: Is that so? Can't all widows be married? But the problem is that Jerry and Audrey have an unforgettable relationship with his husband, and they can't pretend it didn't happen before. This is the saddest thing, right? They are not destined to be together.
About "Accept the good": This is what Jerry told Audrey's husband, and Audrey finally used this sentence to encourage Jerry. As I said before, this movie is very bland, unlike "21 Grams" where there are so many coincidences and stories, and there is no pain and redemption in "21 Grams". A plain story is a more real life, and in such a real life, the words "Accept the good" have become dispensable. At the end of the film, Jerry talks about his dream: in a deserted city, he is calm with drugs in one hand and money from drug sales in the other. There are two explanations for this scene. It can be explained that the drug has become a comfort after leaving the Audrey family, or it can be explained that the drug itself is the norm in Jerry's life and can't ask for more. Or both. Yes, we accept good things, but we are still alone.
Let's talk about the two actors, Halle Berry's performance in this film is impeccable, and you need to watch it a few more times to enjoy it slowly. Only her temperament is mentioned here. Halle is undeniably beautiful, but she's not Angelina Jolie's wild sexiness, Nicole Kidman's radiance, or Elisha Cuthbert's girl-next-door. She is very dedicated and her acting skills are obvious to all. But what moved me the most were her words in "In the Actor's Studio," where she told us her father was a drunkard with a penchant for domestic violence and died when she was a teenager. When the host asked her what she would most like to say to her if God existed, she said: "I would like god say to me that: welcome. your father is waiting for you". She is such a good girl, even though her father was mean to her in his lifetime, he still misses him.
Benicio Del Toro's performance can be described as amazing, and he happens to be one of the main actors of "21 Grams". He is more mature than the white-faced Brad Pitt, and he is more refined than the muscular tough guy like Schwarzenegger. Apart from his appearance, he has a quiet strength. He is also the "Che Guevara". " starring. I don't think I really understood his performance and continued to review it.
The two little actors are very cute, especially the one who plays the elder sister should be a Halle-level beauty when she grows up. Several supporting roles are very good, almost can not pick out a bad performance. This should be attributed to the director. The director is a Danish. When you mention Denmark, you will think of Hans Christian Andersen, the fairy tale writer. This movie also feels a little fairy tale. Especially the roof of the kid's bedroom is arranged like the night sky on a summer evening.
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