That's a line from Snow Cake, from the diary of a deceased, I think it was a diary, scribbled like Full of fantasies, ravings, and broken dreams.
"Snow Cake", produced in the UK in 2005, directed by Marc Evans, starred Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weave, and Carrie-Anne Moss.
This should be a literary and artistic film, there are no big stars, at least Alan is not big enough to be known to everyone, and it is just about the joys and sorrows of small people. Alex, Linda, Maggie, three people, each with their own difficulties, are all individuals who cannot be fulfilled. When they come together, something inevitably happens, but this is by no means a conventional plot that crushes oneself and nourishes others. At the end, no hero retreated completely, and the peaceful life continued, but the still water was running deep, and the little people finally embraced their own dawn.
There are very few characters in the film, except for the three mentioned before, there is also Vivienne, who died in a car accident shortly after her appearance, a girl with an extremely punk appearance but a pure and innocent heart. She is the only one in the play who is healthy from the outside to the inside. A beautiful person with pure ideals, a warm personality, and a clean soul. Alex said she was so alive. Yes, she is hope, an angel. She came to the world and pointed out the location of your gods, but this angel who gave people hope finally died in a car accident, and Alex, who was devastated, survived unscathed.
This arrangement seems to be a sick sentence, or some misplaced plot, abnormally contradictory and dazzling, but in fact in this play contradictions always exist at any time: Linda, who has severe autism, is very talkative and willing to Helping Maggie betrayed her excellent husband because she was unwilling to be lonely. As for Alex, the reason he appeared in wawa was ridiculous, he kindly gave Vivienne a ride, they sang "It's great now", and hit the truck the next moment, he A victim of a car accident and a participant in the death of Vivienne, innocent yet guilty. He went to wawa to express his apology to Linda, grieved the present, and at the same time mourned the past emotionally, and the son he mourned was actually a stranger to him... These countless contradictions are intertwined to form a life.
When life becomes so contradictory and the angels are no more, people can only save themselves.
So, I resisted, tolerated, quarreled, and fell in love. I once wanted to wipe the past into a blank sheet of paper, but in the end I was able to calmly tell others what kind of bad deeds they had. We support each other, be honest, perceive and discover the fresh side of life, through this long and harsh winter, to meet the thriving spring.
Alex left Linda a cake made of snow when he left, which seemed to be his understanding and blessing for her way of life. Every way of life deserves to be treated well, because either one can teach you to see things in a whole new light.
At the end of the film, Alex faces the sunset and replaces the outdated glasses with sunglasses. This move not only implies that he has finally opened his closed heart, but also tells the audience that his attitude towards life has also taken on a new look. He knows how to be kind to others and thus be kind to himself. . He once didn't know where he was going. After meeting by chance, he was still alone, but he was no longer the lonely man when he first met Vivienne.
Vivienne said that the past is a memory, the future is only an illusion, and only now are we truly alive.
We're alive and it's good to be alive, so Alex, Linda, Maggie, and everyone who has hurt or been hurt, please keep this serious and grand life going. Love the sunshine that illuminates all things, thank the birds and insects, and cherish everyone who passes through life. Maybe our life will never be perfect, but our hearts will be enriched.
I've been talking about this drama since I fell in love with Alan, I'm a movie watcher, and I always lack the patience to sit down and watch a movie, no matter how good the outside world is about it, and when I occasionally have such behaviors, basically because of some impure motives. I don’t know if this is considered a bad mentality?
"Snow Cake", there is no doubt that I watched it for Alan.
I watched it three times in two days, excluding the sporadically played clips in between. I went forward and back again and again, seeing the details of his face, the changes in his limbs, the expressions of his emotions, and then I gradually forgot that it was because of Snape that I fell in love with this cute fat old man. I can't even remember him. Snape's actor. Yes, at the moment he was just Alex, not Snape. He raised his eyebrows habitually, but there was a big difference between raising eyebrows and raising eyebrows.
He's an actor like water, changing his form to fit any kind of vessel - uh, really don't know what to say, sorry for my poor articulation - he's done a transformation, you can't see the trace, But he is so willing to accept and fall in love with this change that you even thought he was like this, and next time, you will think that he should be the new look at that time.
Let the audience's perception change with his changes, he has this ability.
There is nothing else to say. For Alan, I can only admire and worship him.
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