"Night": When you are dying, what are you thinking?

Karl 2022-10-18 05:43:12

This is what I wrote 13 years ago

Have you experienced a person's death? Have you ever experienced someone's life slowly disappearing from your hands? Have you ever experienced a loved one leaving peacefully in front of your eyes? Do you know their life? Do you know what kind of picture is in his mind at the moment? The film "Night" {Evening}, through a mother's memories of her own life when the night of her life is approaching, and her two daughters who are at a certain point in their life's understanding of their mother's past little by little, makes people begin to understand. The meaning of one's own life leads to thinking about what is important and what is to be forgotten. When lying on the side of the bed and recalling the mistakes in her life, Ann was still tossing and turning like that. "The first mistake a person makes is like the first kiss, which will never be forgotten." She always thought that she and Harris killed Buddy together. Can't let go. He was also obsessed with harris's failure to end: "where is harris?" This is a sentence she often repeats. But, just like she said to buddy: don't keep thinking about me, forget me, keep writing your novel, first line, second line, keep going, don't keep that stupid note in your body ! But I haven't been able to let go of my feelings for Harris in the past 40 years. It's a contradiction, isn't that how feelings are? When we are extremely infatuated with someone, our life will be in an extremely dangerous state. Ann's life is bad, several unhappy marriages, and a bad singing career, what is it? Is it because there is always too much desire and can't let go of something? I always think that I and someone I have missed are the original happiness, but the happiness just disappeared. For her daughter Nina, she also encountered such a problem. Facing her boyfriend luc, she could not be sure and was always worried that she would regret it, but Ann finally calmed down and let herself and everyone feel relieved: "There is nothing wrong. It will be forever, and in the end you will not care about anything..." The most heart-warming part of the film is the ending, when Nina told luc that she was pregnant and that she was very happy to have this child, luc was speechless with excitement, I danced and danced with tears of happiness. It is undeniable that when I saw this, I also cried, tears of absolute happiness, for Nina, luc, and Ann, because at this time, she had fallen asleep quietly and peacefully, It's like reincarnation... PS:

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Evening quotes

  • [Buddy comes up the cliff with his bottle of wine and takes a mouthful of it]

    Buddy Wittenborn: It's kind of salty.

  • [Ann slaps Buddy when he comes up the cliff]

    Young Ann: You're not a hero. You're pathetic!

    Buddy Wittenborn: Oh Ann!

    Young Ann: Have some *guts*. Go live your own life.

    Buddy Wittenborn: What? This isn't it?

    Young Ann: Write a first line and then write a second one. *Kiss men if you want to. Horrify your parents.*

    Buddy Wittenborn: Annie, what...

    Young Ann: *Be a man.* Just leave me out of it. Don't carry around some... some stupid note I wrote you years ago.

    [pause]

    Young Ann: You're not interested in me. You just have this *idea* of me. Have the nerve to admit it and just... leave me alone.

    [Walks away]

    Buddy Wittenborn: Hell, I got the note all wet.