The Canadian winter was a fitting backdrop for this elderly-themed film—white, gray, snow, cold, lifeless trees...so much so that when a few yellow plants appeared, they were full of life and bright The color was shocking, just like the scenes of the few young people in the film, which temporarily relieved the heavy feeling of watching the movie.
A childless elderly couple, the wife suffers from Alzheimer's disease and decides to let her husband send her to a nursing home before she loses her memory completely. A new relationship has begun, and the distressed husband still goes to the nursing home to take care of his wife every day, witnessing everything between his wife and another man.
Memory is the carrier of all traces of life and emotional experience. Those who have lost their memory are poor, and those who need to face the memory gap are even more pitiful. Sora guarding a lover who has lost his memory, should he give up in the middle or stick to it? Young people will definitely choose the former, because with youth as a bargaining chip, everything can be done all over again. But if a person reaches old age and the other half is almost the most important part of his life, he may have no choice but to persevere to the end, because giving up at this time is equivalent to giving up his life for the past few decades.
It's a pity that the expression of the actor who plays the husband is extremely stiff. The one that appears most frequently is the same old injured face. At first, such an expression can still arouse people's sympathy for him, but as the number of times increases, it finally changes from sympathy to sympathy. numbness. The film was originally slow-paced, and this lack of layered performance made it even worse, adding to the dullness of the film. The wife's performance is relatively more precise and even richer, and plays a confused, sad amnesia just right.
Touching moment:
The husband took his wife's new boyfriend to visit his sick wife, but the wife completely forgot about her new boyfriend because of the process of nursing alone (this shows the speed of memory loss), but instead, he came to visit him every day. The "stranger" - the husband has gratitude.
wife: U could have just driven away...Forsaken me...
husband: Not a chance.
Maybe, watching the movie for two hours is just to wait for this moment.
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