The film tells an intriguing true story. The protagonist Raymond was paraplegic due to an accident when he was young, and he could not move his body below the neck. He completely relied on his family to take care of him, but his thinking was exactly the same as that of ordinary people. Thirty years of bedridden life made him want to end his life as soon as possible.
However, people can't choose to live, and they also don't have the ability to choose their own death, especially Raymond, who doesn't even have the ability to kill himself to end his own life. As a result, he hoped to use legal means to end his life, but Spain is a country that does not allow euthanasia, and Raymond's request ended in failure. But in the process, two women broke into his boring life. However, Raymond's closed world is reopened by the arrival of two women.
The female lawyer Julia came to help Raymond to fight for the right to euthanasia. Raymond's dusty past and overflowing literary talent slowly showed in front of Julia, and Julia was deeply attracted by Raymond. But Julia, who suffers from some kind of degenerative disease, is likely to become paralyzed or even blind like Raymond. Raymond kept writing letters to comfort Julia. Although the two had different attitudes towards death, Julia, who didn't understand Raymond very well, began to get closer and closer to Raymond. Rosa is a divorced woman with two children in Raymond's local area. She believes that Raymond wants to die because of lack of love, so she hopes to persuade Raymond to change his mind about death. However, as Rosa further communicated, Rosa realized that she needed more talk and comfort from the other party, and Rosa gradually found that she fell in love with Raymond.
Julia, who shares his life with Raymond, promises to die with Raymond after his book is published. But in the face of death, Julia backed away. In the end, the desperate Raymond took poison with the help of Rosa, and he got his wish and ended his life, finally putting an end to his extraordinary life.
The film has several very touching details. Julia looked at the photos of Raymond when she was young, and saw that as a crew member, he traveled all over the world and was full of enthusiasm for life, but when the picture changed, it was Raymond who had been lying in bed for thirty years; Raymond, who was taking a nap, came In the dream, he dreamed that he got up from the bed, rushed out of the window like a child, flew freely among the fields and hills, and landed next to Julia who was walking by the sea. The scene changed, and it was still Raymond who was helpless in bed
... The film is based on a true story, and Raymond does have someone in Spain. At the age of 26, Ramon Sampedro was paralyzed from the neck down after a diving accident at the seaside. In 1993, 50-year-old Raymond launched a lawsuit, asking the Spanish government to allow him to commit suicide by others. The euthanasia was ultimately unsuccessful. In 1996, Raymond published Letters From Hell about his experiences and feelings. Ultimately, Raymond committed suicide in January 1998 with the help of unidentified people. At that time, the Spanish police immediately arrested Ramon's 22-year-old girlfriend on the charge of assisting suicide, but in the following week, almost all the more than 3,000 residents in the town where Ramon lived "turned themselves in" and admitted assisting Ramon to commit suicide. This event shocked the whole world and still has a great impact to this day.
Although the film revolves around the issue of "euthanasia", the director of the film said that the center of the film is not this issue. In the face of issues such as death, the tone of the film will become low, but we see the protagonist Raymond smile all the time.
Perhaps most of us don't understand why Raymond wanted to take his own life so badly. On the one hand, it may be because we can't really feel his situation, but can we really understand him when we are in his situation? Julia, who faced the same problem, and the archbishop, who was paralyzed like Raymond, couldn't fully understand him. Humans are indeed different, just like the difference between different animals, as Raymond said.
Raymond chose to die not because he was not strong enough, but because he longed for a state like death. Each of us will face death, and for this question, because of the temporary remoteness, we will avoid this topic, but for Raymond, this question has been directly in front of him for thirty years. We need to think about this together because it is the one we all face and the one that touches our deepest emotions the most.
I have always thought that many people who choose to die are not without courage, but have great courage. It really takes great courage to choose death, because after all, there are many things in life that are worthy of nostalgia. The destruction of human existence by reality is too serious, and it will definitely oppress many people to the brink of life and death.
Death, Raymond's choice, may be confusing to many people, but for Raymond (or a similar person), death is full of temptation, which is what the title of this article means.
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