What is there to miss in the past?

Ole 2022-03-21 09:02:52

When I watched it at home, I felt that this story was boring at first. The more interesting it is after watching, the main director can make a very sad event unremarkable and even a little funny. A man who lost his memory after being beaten. He is being told from all sides of the country that he has no name, no past and no worthiness, and may even be a fugitive. After all, apart from fugitives, who else is ashamed to tell others their name? He didn't look for the past, and it's intriguing that he didn't look for the past. Why don't you want to know about your past? But you can see that he is relaxed without the past. He got a new job, and had his new home (meaning a shipping container) cosy (well maybe his girlfriend). There seems to be nothing wrong with the days, so why insist on looking for the past?

Once the past is gone, it's like a newborn re-examining the world. People don't seem that good, but they're not that bad either. Urban management rents uninhabited houses to you for free, but at least they give you a place to go. Someone from a charity organization will give you an address and let you go there to find clothes to wear and take care of yourself. The owner of the restaurant brought out an excellent lunch, but said that it was all lunch to be dumped anyway. Even in an accident like a robbery, the robber didn't hurt him. There is also a first love girlfriend who will never give up even if he has a family and forgive him for making sandwiches for him. The rebirth of a beaten amnesiac is quite good luck.

His past was not very good, because of gambling and divorced his wife (so it would be good to beat people who are addicted to gambling to amnesia bushi). Just left home to find a job. He no longer has any nostalgia for the past, and is bent on starting a new life. After reading it, I will fall into contemplation. The past seems to be a burden and shackles. If I don't have the past, it will probably be a completely different life from now.

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  • Manley 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    I would love to see it again. . . even more

  • Chaim 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    This is definitely the best movie of Archie Kaurismaki, the post-industrial atmosphere, the cold story, the loneliness at the bottom, the near-perfect music mastery, and the precious happy ending `I've always been worried about the director's final turn , let the protagonist go back to loneliness~~ I can't help laughing when I see that the new husband of the protagonist's wife is the male protagonist of "Light of Twilight".

The Man Without a Past quotes

  • [M is cooking dinner]

    Irma: Are you sure I can't help?

    M: I think it's ruined already.

  • M: I went to the moon yesterday.

    Irma: I see. How was it?

    M: Peaceful.

    Irma: Meet anyone?

    M: Not really; it was a Sunday.