Crying for no apparent reason

Ora 2022-12-08 21:35:20

The fourth film in 2019. What I saw in Cai Lan's book, given that Cai Lan's style is a lively and wonderful person, so I believe that the movies he recommends are also good. It tells the story of a terminally ill father who spent the last days of his life in the company of his family and friends. The father's fascination and obsession with women when he was young led to the alienation of the children. In the last time, the children still did their best to forgive and accompany him to finish this journey. Friends also gave up their own lives and came to accompany him. He's gone through the only time he has. The old man finally committed suicide with heroin, which is not painful and warm. Maybe people's life is short, and it has been in a hurry for decades. We should feel and embrace everything God has given us with the greatest enthusiasm, including imperfect birth, poor family, not too warm family, and even unfaithful lover. And friends who are sometimes invisible and sometimes appear, they have tried their best to accompany me through every journey of life. At the end, I don't know why I cried, maybe it was moved by the constant family and sincere friendship that human beings gave up. Also, why is it called a barbaric invasion? I don't understand, I don't know if it's a limitation of translation. The rating is a bit low, I give 5 stars.

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  • Rémy: [in French] Contrary to belief, the 20th century wasn't that bloody. It's agreed that wars caused 100 million deaths. Add 10 million for the Russian gulags. The Chinese camps, we'll never know, but say 20 million. So 130, 145 million dead. Not all that impressive. In the 16th century, the Spanish and Portuguese managed, without gas chambers or bombs, to slaughter 150 million Indians in Latin America. With axes! That's a lot of work, sister. Even if they had church support, it was an achievement. So much so tha the Dutch, English, French, and later Americans followed their lead and butchered another 50 million. 200 million dead in all! The greatest massacre in history took place right here. And not the tiniest holocaust museum. The history of mankind is a history of horrors.

  • Rémy: We've been everything: separatists, supporters of independantists, sovereignists, sovereignity-associanists...

    Pierre: At first, we were existentialists.

    Dominique: We read Sartre and Camus.

    Claude: Then Fanon, we became anti-colonialists.

    Rémy: We read Marcuse and became Marxists.

    Pierre: Marxist-Leninists.

    Alessandro: Trotskyists.

    Diane: Maoists.

    Rémy: After Solzhenitsyn we changed, we became structuralists.

    Pierre: Situationists.

    Dominique: Feminists.

    Claude: Deconstructionists.

    Pierre: Is there an -ism we haven't worshipped?

    Claude: Cretinism.