Villefort's old-fashioned, Reggie's stubborn infatuation, Sissi's playful and cute, Jane's arrogant and fragile, and other wrinkled-skinned and gray-haired old ladies living in the nursing home, all of them are old, but still so vivid. comfortable. Everyone says that the most terrible thing is "beautiful twilight", but they don't want another kind of warmth behind twilight, enough to make people see the meaning of a life when it comes to an end. It is true that we are always happy with those bright and beautiful faces. There is a stark contrast between the young and beautiful nurses and doctors in the nursing home, the energetic garden nurses, who are young and those who are old. Perhaps, director Dustin Hoffman wants to tell every young audience watching a movie, don't laugh, don't be disdainful, everyone who is still young at the moment will become an old man with limited mobility one day. It's just that at that time, did you have the courage to make the old time so colorful?
Don't think that this is an action movie like "Red Sunset", which is difficult for the elderly, but from the perspective of the plot, it is simple and outrageous. Four old friends from the past regrouped for the fundraising activities of the nursing home. Jane, who was arrogant at first, refused to agree, but under the persuasion of her ex-husband Reggie, friends Sissi and Villefort, they returned to the group, and they still fell in love in the end. Own Reggie together. What can be said clearly in one sentence, Hoffman took an hour and a half to tell such a story procrastinatingly. For the pursuit of excitement, or the pursuit of suspense, or the freshness of literature and art, it is impossible to meet the expectations of the general audience for the movie. Except for a few dirty jokes, there seems to be no other gimmicks for the poisonous tongue and bickering of the old opera bones. This is undoubtedly a warm movie, and it feels too tasteless even to pass the time.
However, this is a movie to stop and watch. You will find the fun in it. Whether you are young or old, you will have your own unique experience. "Art is the never-ending loneliness, and nothing is closer to them than a sense of crisis." One sentence expresses the aspirations of the old artists. When Jane said "You have to understand, I used to be famous. I don't want to destroy the me in my memory" and Villefort directly scolded "Whose memory? The fans? Your fans are long dead, gone, scattered. , bought a farm, except for moving here and waiting to die, we are all old, and the years climbed up without even realizing it. I'm still the same old Villefort, fortunately, my sexuality is not as strong as it used to be Now, I'm going to say something more rude to you, just fucking sing it!"
The talent of his youth is long gone, and Reggie can calmly say "Our talent is gone. Besides, Jane, this is life." The innocent Sissi said the truth that exists in life casually, "Oh dear, old age is not for the coward." It doesn't matter what others say or think. , all we have to do is enjoy it. A coward has no old age. He can't live to old age, can't bear the process from freshness to withering, and can't wait for practical joy and permanent tranquility.
"You look very handsome"
"You look very beautiful"
"We are both old"
"Then let's get married!"
Two people, going around in circles, when they are old, people who love each other will always meet again after they miss them. You don't even need to be tempted to confess, just go straight, I just love your devastated face, you can't help me.
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