I vaguely remember that I once watched the film "The Son's Room", but for some reason, I only watched a little, but didn't finish it. Last week on MSN, a friend left me a message: "Please, no matter what, go watch 'The Son's Room'!" So I found the video and rewatched it with a matcha scent on Sunday.
People in life, watching movies are mostly looking for an unusual emotional experience - those that can never be experienced in reality - love that goes with life and death, legendary and thrilling experiences, if this is the case, "The Son's" Room" can easily make you drowsy. A story that seems messy, fragmented, or even without a complete plot, can easily make people lose their patience in watching, but it is such a film with an obvious realistic style that deeply moved me and brought tears to my eyes.
I have seen too many movies and too many "death" in the movies, but they are more to set off other things, such as describing the cruelty of youth, the impermanence of fate, the insidiousness of politics, etc., in order to deepen the theme. But in fact, we are all ordinary people, and what we see most is the most ordinary death.
"The Son's Room" describes such an ordinary death, a very simple accident - diving accidentally terminated the growth of a life, leaving the family in boundless sorrow. Many people will even say that this film can only be regarded as a fragment of life at best - a family experienced the life before and after the accidental death of their youngest son, and the grief they fell into and out of, but this is the charm of this film, the director's intention. Having lost a son in a once-perfect and harmonious family and plunged into life confusion, let us reconsider the attitude towards life that people should uphold in the face of accepting the irreversible facts. Therefore, the whole film has real credibility and contains the warmth of human nature.
The naughty little son is lost, the light in the son's room at the end of the corridor is permanently off, and the enthusiasm for family life also loses its light: the mother has become extra sensitive to everything about the son, which makes the look The weak sister was the first to bravely come out of her grief, trying to heal her parents' wounds. But the one who suffered the most was his father, Giovanni, who more than once assumed that he did not go to the doctor that morning, but went for a run with his son, so that the son would not drown; Weeping uncontrollably. This cool, intelligent, bearded man was crushed by disaster. No longer able to listen to the patient's pain calmly, to share the bed with his wife, he closed the clinic, deeply remorseful for turning the psychiatrist into a patient.
Everything will pass, life must go on after all. This is a simple truth, we all understand, just watch quietly, how the Giovanni family will come out of the abyss.
A month later, the mother received a love letter from afar to her son, a girl named Annie - this girl who once loved her son brought great hope and happiness to the mother, she tried to think Find some shadows of sons from here. The father was so excited because of this, he tried to write to tell Anne of his son's death, but several times ended in tears.
The elder sister understood her mother's thoughts. She found Annie who initially refused to meet her mother, and used her method to convey her mother's wishes to the girl - so on an inadvertent day, Annie appeared in this fragmented family with a photo of her son. . When Anne told the couple that she was going to take a ride with a boy to France, the couple wanted to take them to a nearby gas station, but there were so few cars at night, so they drove them across the small coastal town of Italy. night. At dawn, the French flag fluttered outside the car window.
It was this kind girl who gave the family a reason to get back together. In the dark, the parents looked back to see three children asleep in the car, and they smiled knowingly at each other, as if their son were sitting among them.
Watching the first half of the movie, I was a little puzzled. Why did the director take the trouble to show the details of his father's psychological counseling for the patient. Later, I realized that it was to better highlight the identity of a psychiatrist. Maybe according to general logic, a psychiatrist should be better than Ordinary people are more likely to face death, give up grief more easily, and guide their wives and daughters out of the haze of their hearts, but this is not the case. As Haruki Murakami said in "Norwegian Wood": "When you really face death, no matter what truth you know, you can't relieve the sorrow brought by the death of the loved one. No matter what philosophy, No amount of sincerity, tenacity, or tenderness can relieve this sorrow."
The death of a loved one is not an ordinary sorrow, the dead have no pain, and for the living, life must go on, everything Just the beginning of the pain. If we say that time can make our brain forget everything, we are just kidding ourselves. Sometimes, the recollection of a person or thing that has passed strengthens our memory, so the level of grief will be wider. Therefore, if you don't want to live with sadness, the way to save yourself is not to forget, but to open your heart and give more people more love. The ending of the movie gives us a similar answer.
At the end of the film, the family sends the girl and her friend to the French border overnight, and the girl waves goodbye to them. This is a film that doesn't pose or deliberately exaggerate, and still ends with an indifferent, loose composition. Father, wife and daughter are walking on the beach by the sea. Wife and daughter are facing the sea. Father is pacing on the beach with his head bowed. their sorrow. The void will never disappear, the rift will always exist, but love will always arise from the bottom of my heart persistently and tenderly; there will be no lasting happiness and no unchanging pain. The pain was gently wiped away by the tide, and the tears and smiles that settled down were deeply touching. It is this kind of movie, simple and quiet; it is this kind of life, the stubborn pain and the faint warmth, make people stop and devote themselves fully.
It's a simple movie, and it manages to turn simplicity into power. The power of spreading time turns the film into a tender requiem.
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