We have a big house, that is our warm home. In the morning we wake up together and watch the sun illuminate the mountains; in the evening we lie down together and listen to you read to me; in winter we go skiing together in the mountains, and in spring we walk in the forest together.
good and forgotten
In the story of the movie "Away From Her", Grant, a retired college teacher, and his elegant and lovely wife Fiona live in such a leisurely manner. However, with the gradual onset of Fiona's Alzheimer's disease, the beauty in her memory was gradually forgotten. The couple, who have been together for 44 years, have been together for 44 years, and their marriage has also begun to erode.
On a street where night falls, Grant finds Fiona shivering with cold. He called her, she responded politely to him, and at that moment she not only forgot the way home, but even forgot him.
Fiona decides to stay in a nursing home, and Grant, who loves his wife, has to compromise. According to hospital regulations, family members cannot meet for one month after Fiona is hospitalized. When Grant reappears in front of Fiona, she finds that she has forgotten herself and is in love with Aubrey, a patient in the nursing home.
Grant was overwhelmed by this sudden change. At this moment, Aubrey leaves the nursing home, and Fiona is very sad. Grant found Aubrey's wife, Marian, and tried to convince her to send her husband back to the nursing home.
Although she firmly disagreed at first, Marianne was still moved by Grant's sincerity. Grant, who couldn't bear his wife's sadness, took Aubrey back to the nursing home, and Fiona seemed to remember Grant at this time.
love and redemption
In the story told by Xu Xu, the director shows the cruelty of life directly and simply. She not only depicts the "love" in marriage, but also calmly presents the "sin" and "salvation" in marriage together.
When Grant drove Fiona to the nursing home, he couldn't remember how long Fiona had lived here, but he still remembered clearly that her husband cheated on the female student Veronica. This is the "sin" Grant committed to his marriage 20 years ago. The guilt of betraying his partner triggered Grant's moral awareness and the "redemptive" behavior of self-improvement in the spiritual world.
So, he quit his university job and chose to return to a peaceful life with Fiona. When faced with the fact that Fiona fell in love with Aubrey in a nursing home, Grant felt the heartache and helplessness of being betrayed by his lover. When unable to approach his wife, he silently guarded her like a bystander.
In order to make his wife happy, Grant actually went to ask Aubrey's wife to send her back to the nursing home, and even accepted her seduction and had sex with her.
Grant used loyal betrayal and selfless love to realize his wife's spiritual derailment. This seemingly contradictory and absurd behavior is Grant's self-salvation.
If the derailment with the female student is the origin of Grant's "sin", then having a relationship with Marianne is the completion of his self "redemption". He let go of his dignity and ego, and everything aimed at the other party's happiness. His love for Fiona became Grant's power to redeem himself.
real lady
The story of "The Willows" is adapted from the short story "The Bear Came Over The Mountain" by Alice Munro, a female writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The female director Sarah Polley, following Monroe's concern for women and her inner thinking, brought the story to the screen and shaped "a true Lady" - positive and brave to life, to the world A female image full of love, realizing the expression of female consciousness.
In the forest, Fiona reached into the lily petals and said to Grant, "You should put your hands in the curled petals and feel the heat of the flower...". The 60-year-old Fiona still maintains an innocent personality, and this personality comes from her love for nature and warm kindness to all things, which is the never-ending passion of human life. So, Grant said, "I can't live without her, she's the spark of my life."
Faced with the fact that she was ill, Fiona chose to face it bravely and made the decision to go to a nursing home. Before Fiona left home, she put on lipstick in the mirror, then turned to ask Grant how she looked. In Grant's eyes, she was still so natural and sweet. The director also used a large close-up shot to let the audience see a wrinkled, but still clear-eyed, calm, elegant and sweet face. With the help of Christie, a nursing home worker, the creators expressed the ideal female image in their hearts - "she is a real Lady".
Indeed, when 18-year-old Fiona jokingly proposed to Grant, "Do you think it would be fun if we got married"; when 60-year-old Fiona apologized to Grant for inadvertently bringing up Veronica, The real Lady has not only implied the bravery of women, but also the consciousness of gender equality has been fully expressed in the female role of Fiona.
The love for all things, the passion for life, the courage for life, and the equality of the sexes, these female characteristics shown in Offina have made her charming soul and a real Lady, which is exactly what Grant The spark of life that cannot be abandoned is the ultimate power of Grant's self-redemption.
In the melody of Neil Young's "Mid-Autumn Moon", Grant and Fiona, who were about to part, pressed cheeks against each other, dancing gracefully, and the Christmas tree in the corner of the house was colorful and flickering. At that moment, the strong emotion moved the heart.
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