A farewell to the life of an old intellectual

Therese 2022-10-14 00:37:05

An old intellectual who had a romantic life and suffered from a serious illness in his later years. A family that has long been torn apart. in the last period of life. Old people walked with their children, ex-wives, lovers, friends. The lost family was awakened little by little, and finally everyone said goodbye to the old man and made him sleep peacefully for a long time.
The story is supposed to be plain and simple, but because the screenwriter made up a son who is too rich, the majority of angry youths couldn't help but complain that it's impossible to play without money! Well, maybe don't write that your son is so rich, that he borrowed money everywhere to relieve his father's pain, and he was so devastated that he could not wait for another drug smuggling to go to jail or something, so everyone can relieve his anger. . .
In fact, what the story itself wants is a quiet and peaceful atmosphere without ups and downs. Life is as it should be. Why must you be entangled in the muddy waters of having money to make a ghost push the mill? Not the point at all.
The point lies in the director's method of filming and editing, and the delicate editing. This intellectual may be different from ordinary people. The rhythm has always been very relaxed when it comes to regaining kinship with the children and ramble about life regrets with a few friends. Adding a few flashback clips is not abrupt but full of contagiousness. The farewell ceremony before the last death, farewell to relatives and friends one by one, and the repeated flashback of the last old man when he was dying, immediately reached the highest point of emotional ups and downs. In an instant, you no longer feel that there is anything wrong with the old man's romance, buried deep in his heart with his most cherished memories.
Thinking about the subject of euthanasia, I really see a lot now, but there are really not many people who can shoot so kindly and peacefully. There is no doubt that this film can be called a masterpiece.

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  • Rémy: [in French] Contrary to belief, the 20th century wasn't that bloody. It's agreed that wars caused 100 million deaths. Add 10 million for the Russian gulags. The Chinese camps, we'll never know, but say 20 million. So 130, 145 million dead. Not all that impressive. In the 16th century, the Spanish and Portuguese managed, without gas chambers or bombs, to slaughter 150 million Indians in Latin America. With axes! That's a lot of work, sister. Even if they had church support, it was an achievement. So much so tha the Dutch, English, French, and later Americans followed their lead and butchered another 50 million. 200 million dead in all! The greatest massacre in history took place right here. And not the tiniest holocaust museum. The history of mankind is a history of horrors.

  • Rémy: We've been everything: separatists, supporters of independantists, sovereignists, sovereignity-associanists...

    Pierre: At first, we were existentialists.

    Dominique: We read Sartre and Camus.

    Claude: Then Fanon, we became anti-colonialists.

    Rémy: We read Marcuse and became Marxists.

    Pierre: Marxist-Leninists.

    Alessandro: Trotskyists.

    Diane: Maoists.

    Rémy: After Solzhenitsyn we changed, we became structuralists.

    Pierre: Situationists.

    Dominique: Feminists.

    Claude: Deconstructionists.

    Pierre: Is there an -ism we haven't worshipped?

    Claude: Cretinism.