I watched it almost with tears in my eyes. At the beginning of the film, when Henry appeared as a genius boy, he seemed to have a premonition of the plot behind and began to cry. But the plot developed to Henry when he found out that the neighbor girl was raped by his stepfather.
Even if Henry was diagnosed with a brain tumor later, he was still expecting a miracle. Even if Henry became an ordinary boy after the operation, at least he would not be able to live.
But if so, perhaps there would not be a will-like Book of Henry.
I admire the mother in the film. When she saw the deceased son's notebook and heard his son's voice, even with tears and grief, she still carried out the murder plan set by her son step by step.
In the end, she burned these things, maybe because it was illegal, maybe because she wanted to move on, but no matter what the reason, they were all precious relics of her son, and the reason why she gave up these things may be to implement the son's settings. In the process of rescuing the girl next door, she also became strong and healed.
Another tearjerker in the film is the performance of the little brother. He was bullied by his classmates and called an idiot. It was his brother who protected him. He was unhappy. His brother used magic to make him happy. After his brother fell ill, he sat alone on the ground in the hospital. The seven- or eight-year-old boy looked so lonely and sad. His mother had already collapsed and no one could hug him, but after his brother left, he began to learn to be strong. , he slept in his brother's bed and told his mother, don't talk to me like a child.
The ending of the story finally showed the expected development, the little girl was saved and became a member of their family, but Henry, the genius boy, left forever and ever. Just like the end of the film, Henry's monologue, he said this is a story about you, me, my mother and brother, and the girl next door, and now my story is coming to an end, and your story continues.
Perhaps the writers borrowed Henry's words to interpret the theme at the beginning, when discussing inheritance in the class, he said that inheritance is not the number we have in the bank, but the people we have and the memories we share with them. And in the hospital, when Henry was leaving, his mother said, you were the best part of my life. Lived, loved, lived in the moment with all your strength, and worked hard for the beauty of the world, maybe this is the meaning of life that the film wants to present!
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