The Chinese translation of "Collateral Beauty" is "The Most Beautiful Arrangement". The overall rating of this film is not high, but it moved me a lot. I think there are a few great points:
* A strong cast of stars, all very familiar faces. Everyone's performance is superb and natural.
*The whole movie is strung with the words "love, time, death"; they are not only the main line of the film, but also the main line of life.
*The way of "play within play" is very special and novel.
*The subject is very deep.
At the opening, Will Smith's protagonist's speech is impressive.
"We are here to communicate. The three concepts of love, time and death connect everyone in the world. Everything we yearn for, everything we fear to lose, everything we end up buying. Because in the end we crave love, hope With more time, fear of disappointment."
This is a confident declaration of a big boss of an advertising company, as if he has seen through the essence of life, and has great confidence to face everything in life.
But life played a joke on him. After three years, he lost his beloved daughter and was completely helpless. Desperate, he even wrote a letter to time, love and death to express his anger and dissatisfaction!
Here is what he wrote:
To [Time]: Everyone says that you can heal wounds, but they don't talk about how you destroy all the beauty in the world, and how you turn beauty into ashes?
To 【Death】: You have traveled with many myths, causing much pain and causing great fear. But to me you're a paper tiger, you can't even make simple transactions.
To 【爱】: Farewell, love! We can neither choose who to love nor who to love us. I trusted you, but you betrayed me, you broke my heart.
And then the best part is that the three actors come on stage, play time, death and love, treat reality like a theater, and argue with Howard. Also through their dialogues, let us once again think about what time, love and death are, and what are their meanings?
[Time] said, I am rich, I am a gift, even when you stand there talking nonsense, I still give you gifts, but you waste it!
[Love] said, as long as you live, you can't refuse me, I am the essence of everything. I am in you, I am in all things. I am the reason for everything, I am the only reason. If you want, you can accept it, maybe you can live again.
[Death] said, you are wrong, I am not a weak middle-level executive, I only follow orders. I don't want to exercise the trade, that's up to me.
The first and last echoes in the film are also very well set, and the big collapse of the dominoes in the two games before and after:
At the beginning of the film, it seems to show that Howard, who was very successful and confident in facing life, has collapsed after losing his daughter, and his beliefs and values have collapsed; this is the collapse of despair.
The collapse of the domino at the back of the film seems to imply that everything can be rebuilt, and it is possible to rebuild after being knocked down. This is the hope of rebirth.
[Be aware of the beautiful arrangements that follow around you]. This sentence is the finishing touch of the whole play.
The old lady who said this to Howard's wife was also the actor who played "Death" to contact Howard. She seemed to be sent to wake up Howard and her wife.
She is also a beautiful arrangement of life!
The other side line is also wonderful. The three colleagues also have their own problems in life. A father who is not accepted by his daughter; a husband who is seriously ill and afraid to tell his wife; a woman who misses the best age for marriage and childbirth... However, because of "this drama", they let go of the barriers in their hearts and move forward Take a step.
This is also the beautiful arrangement of life!
Everything is connected, everything is connected, everything is the most beautiful arrangement.
We cannot judge every situation in life. There is no way to know the big hand of the universe behind this, the meaning of making all this happen. But everything has a reason.
The ancients of China said that fortune lies in the back of misfortune, and misfortune lies in the back of fortune. Life is inherently ups and downs, ups and downs, joys and sorrows, there are no eternal highs, and there is no eternal low.
Love is still there, time is still there, and death is still there.
They still coexist in life and will never disappear...
Everything is connected, this is the most beautiful arrangement!
Ps If you want to know more about "Everything is Connected", I recommend reading the book "The Infinite Web" and the British drama "Point to Point of Destiny"
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