This is a Canadian movie. In my dull thinking, I thought it was an ordinary family ethics film. It wasn't until the second time that I slowly figured out the taste.
It is about Sebastian, a white-collar worker working in London, who suddenly received a call from his mother, telling his father Remy to be hospitalized in critical condition. He hurried back to Montreal to accompany his father through the final moments. Although he and his father had different temperaments and often argued with him, when his father was dying, he still tried his best to follow his father's wishes, notified his father's friends, changed a comfortable single ward, and even bought drugs to relieve his father's pain. Until finally borrowed a lakeside cottage, where my father ended his life peacefully.
After reading this warm story, what I think about is, what is the most desired thing for a person living in modern society? What is the meaning of life?
Sebastian has a great job, as his friend put it: the perfect young man, the perfect career, the perfect fiancée. His daily job is to sit in front of the computer and face a slice of numbers. Even while caring for my father, I kept answering the phone and talking to customers about various prices. His monthly income is higher than his father's annual income. When bored, go to the arcade to play racing. Her girlfriend's life is similar to his, and she has a strong entrepreneurial spirit. During the auction at the auction house, she answered Sebastian's phone in one hand and reported the auction price with the other phone. Remy's old lover said: "My evening pastime is now handled by Toshiba's digital big screen." Another old lover of Remy said of men: "Emotions and wisdom are not my business, as long as he is majestic Powerful." Relative to them, almost every man on the show has an affair, with Remy's friend Pierre having dinner with his mistress every two weeks. Remy himself had many lovers. Drugs are rampant in the city, and even the police have no choice but to turn a blind eye. The traditional church is empty and the various items placed inside are worthless. Everyone who lives in it, including moviegoers, feels normal, life should be like this, and the world is abnormal if it is not like this.
We also see in the film that money plays an increasingly important role in social life. Sebastian can use money to buy single-person wards that are impossible to live in, and to buy high-purity heroin. Not only that, but he can also buy false feelings. He pays Remy's former students to visit Daddy with a bunch of sweet talk. Even Remy's friend Pierre thought it was strange: "It's incredible, these illiterates are really touching!" At the same time, when the students took Sebastian's money, they said, "We'll be there for you at this price. ." With the money, Sebastian can quickly retrieve the lost computer and can find Natalie's drug hideout. Almost everything becomes a business transaction.
We live in such a society. We enjoy the convenience and abundance that modern society brings to us, and spend every day in these commonplace routines. But in Remy's heart, he still felt that something was missing. He and Natalie have two conversations.
Seeing Natalie's constant drug use, he asked, "You don't care much about life?"
Natalie: "I don't really care."
Remy: "I'm the same age as you. I can die at any time, it doesn't matter. But the older you get, the more you love life. When I think about the countdown to my life, I have twenty, fifteen, ten years left. Years, thinking about the last time doing these things, wanting to buy the last car, wanting to be in Genoa, Barcelona for the last time."
Natalie: "I won't live that long."
Remy: "How do you know?"
Natalie: "I regularly overdose."
Remy: "You can't even predict this. Maybe one day, you'll get out of drugs and live very old. How can you predict the future if you can't understand the past? No one knows what's going to happen, except me."
Natalie: "Are you scared?"
Remy: "Scared. I want to live. I love life too much."
Natalie: "Love what?"
Remy: "Everything. Wine, books, music, women. Especially women."
Natalie: "It's not your life that you can't let go, it's your past. The past is long gone."
Remy: "Maybe."
Remi stood in front of the window of the ward, looking at the reinforced concrete woods and endless traffic, with infinite emotion. Unlike his son, Remy loves life and cherishes affection. What Remy wants is the sincere emotion between people and the harmonious coexistence between man and nature. However, the barbaric invasion of modern civilization has squeezed out the most sincere and primitive emotions in people's hearts, melted them into our consciousness, and made those precious concepts disappear. Everything, including our daily life, our work, our entertainment, our emotions, and even sex, can be calculated and digitized. People have become accustomed to the charm of money and the temptation of pleasure, and are unknowingly satisfied and accepting these quiet intrusions. Bids on the auction floor replaced laughter among relatives and friends. Game arcades and nightclubs replace the beautiful starry night sky. Coyness on TV replaces cozy family gatherings. Crazy star chasing replaces hero worship. Sex replaces love. Emotions have also become transactions. Modern society no longer needs wisdom, emotion, and belief.
In one such scene in the film, Sebastian and Natalie were chatting by the fire when his phone rang and was about to answer when Natalie snatched the phone and threw it into the fire. Looking at the burning phone, they both smiled knowingly. Mobile phones, a typical product of modern society, have brought a lot of convenience to our lives, but they have also caused countless troubles. Not to mention the endless business calls and fascinating games, it is the communication between friends. , there are also many disadvantages. When you meet distant friends through your mobile phone, you inadvertently alienate your loved ones around you. Your privacy is unreservedly exposed to everyone through your mobile phone, but your time that belongs to you is unreasonably occupied by your mobile phone. In fact, it seems that the mobile phone is no longer a tool, and people have become the slaves of the mobile phone.
At the end of the film, Remy said at the last moment: "I am very happy to have friends in my life, and I will leave with your smiles." His dying words seemed to give modern people a glimmer of hope. And this kind of true emotional farewell will gradually disappear with the formal mourning hall, high-sounding eulogy, countless irrelevant people pretending to be sad, and the same cookie-cutter sound of sad music.
The topic of euthanasia is involved in the film, but unfortunately this topic is too big, and I have no intention and no right to comment. I don't know if a person has the right to commit suicide, or commit suicide at the hands of others? If it is said that euthanasia is forcing him to make this choice because of unbearable physical pain, then in many cases, the pain of the soul is far more intense than the pain of the body. Does the person who suffers from this kind of pain also have the right? To choose death? I have no idea.
The filming of the film is very particular, and the proportion of each character is also very comfortable. It is best to read it twice.
My rating: 8.0.
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