It's never too late to start living

Green 2022-09-04 18:55:53

This film reminds me of a novel "A Pilgrimage by One" that I read half a year ago. The protagonist of the novel, Harold, walks more than 1,000 kilometers, taking 87 days, across England to visit his friend Queenie, who has cancer. The protagonist in the movie, Rex, is a cancer patient with only three months to live. He drives his own taxi to Darwin, a city in northern Australia, more than 2,000 kilometers away, to be the first volunteer to accept legal euthanasia. By.
They are all old men who are in their old age. One is burdened with guilt and annoyance and becomes numb, one suffers from illness and has lost his courage; one is walking on the road longing for life to shine again, and the other is driving to the end of death in the boundless darkness. Like, not like, but they are all common reactions of people when dealing with death, fear. Harold experienced the drowning of his young son, and he was about to face the death of his only friend, Queenie; Rex experienced the death of his father when he was very young, and he was unavoidable. of death. Afraid, afraid of losing, afraid of facing, afraid of seeing tears, afraid of tasting despair, so you must do something before you fall down! Do something! ! Do something! ! !
In the novel and in the movie, the two protagonists have lived in their own small towns all their lives and never left, and this trip made them both prominent public figures. Harold was regarded as a saint, People of all kinds continue to join his "pilgrimage", which is a farce; and Rex's yellow taxi is also forced into two uninvited companions, a black guy with the same mess, and a man with A Caucasian girl with a high degree of education who likes to wander around. The simple and clear contrast of characters adds a touch of light to Rex's journey of black death: endless roads, endless beauty, dead trees with wild cats hanging in the dark night, sunset Beneath the golden Baili Spring, the loess and flies in the eyes, the guitar plucked in the wind that shakes my mind... It's just that I didn't learn the language well, I couldn't fully describe my inner feelings and shock at the moment in words. , hey╮(╯▽╰)╭
Harold has a wife named Maureen. The shadow of the child's death casts a chasm in their hearts that can never be opened. All love disappears with the passage of time and selective indifference; Rex has a neighbor named Pol, who is a cheerful and enthusiastic black woman, but the inherent discrimination against Aboriginals by white Australians has always isolated them across the street, and love is within reach but out of reach. However, when they all embarked on a journey away from home alone, the only thing in their hearts was her, and the only one who wanted to tell the other end of the phone what they had seen and heard couldn't wait to be told was her. So please don't doubt, if there is such a person in your life, she (he) must be the one you love the most.
I don't know much about euthanasia. I don't want to discuss too much about its legality, rationality, or whether it violates or respects human nature. What is a real dignified death? Is it lonely to press the cold confirmation button to self-destruct? Or hold your lover's hand and suffer in pain? What will Rex choose? I don't know all the actors in the film. Michael Caton, the actor of Rex, has very little information on the Internet. Even finding a high-definition picture of him is a lot of work, but it is such a low-cost movie without a luxurious cast. , but entered people's hearts and touched people's souls. Death is nothing to be afraid of, it is always lingering and waiting at the end of life, and what we have to do is to live well before the end comes... It's never too late to start living.

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Last Cab to Darwin quotes

  • Rex: If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

  • Dougie: Here's to us and fuck the rest.