"Away From Her" is a film co-produced by Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. It was originally called "away from her" and was adapted from the short story "The Bear Comes from the Mountain" by Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. , therefore, attracted me to find out.
The word "Liu Yin Hua Ming" has the imagery of Chinese culture, and it has the meaning of turning a corner or not, and this movie has been chased to the end, and I did not get this feeling. The ending of the story left me feeling lost and uneasy.
The story tells about a deeply affectionate couple who have lived side by side for 44 years. The wife suffers from Alzheimer's disease and has symptoms of memory loss and mental wandering. When she is still awake, she decides to live in a nursing home and begins. Their first month-long separation after their marriage.
A month later, the husband came to see his wife with flowers, and found that his wife had gone deep into the life here, completely forgetting his husband, and caring wholeheartedly for another old man in the nursing home - an old man in a wheelchair.
The husband comes to the nursing home almost every day, watching his wife from a distance. The wife accompanies the man in the wheelchair every day and takes care of him, and his spirit is also very good. A husband who is unable to change his wife can only let her live in the world of Alzheimer's disease, and he is lonely in the world of normal people.
Soon, the man in the wheelchair was picked up by his family. The wife lost her lover, and her spirit immediately deteriorated, because she could not get out of the "lovelorn" emotion, she became more and more decadent, and her health became very poor.
The husband loved his wife so much that he even thought of taking the man back to the nursing home. He asked the nursing home for the man's address, and really rushed to his house recklessly.
The story doesn't end here, what will happen to the husband, can he send the old man back to the hospital, and what will happen to her wife? Allow me to sell for a while.
What I want to say is that facing your lover in front of you and lingering with other people, you can accept and fulfill, do you really have such feelings? If so, is such a feeling worthy of praise?
The furthest distance in the world is not life and death, but I am standing in front of you, but you don't know that I love you. - Tagore's famous quote is apt here.
The heroine Fiona, played by actress Julie Christie, has gray hair and is nearly old, but her every move, every smile and every smile is still elegant and charming, so that everyone who sees her will think: Erosion does not destroy a beautiful mind.
However, Fiona's life only has fragmented memories. She can't remember her identity or recognize her husband, but she still longs for love and pursues love passionately.
When you see the beautiful Fiona, see her light footsteps and charming smile, it's unbelievable, is she really sick? Or is life a test for the couple?
"I thought when I got married that I could walk the last leg with someone, and bet you'd think the same as I did, but...well...it didn't happen."
Forty years of marriage, in the face of reality, we can only reluctantly compromise: the feelings of more than forty years can only be broken down fragilely in loneliness and hopelessness.
Accompanying for many years, such a separation occurs near the end, life has given them too many jokes! resist? accept? In fact, they can't help themselves.
The husband can't get the echo of his wife's feelings, it's just a nominal form of marriage, and he has to watch her flirting with other men in front of him; in such pain, he still loves her and does incredible things for her.
The husband in the film does not have too many expressions from beginning to end. He does things in a silent and methodical manner: delivering flowers, delivering books, driving, shoveling snow... People can only see him with scars from his eyes 's heart.
Who said that lonely people are shameful.
To try to get the wheelchair man to meet his wife again, the husband personally visited the man's home and met the other's wife. Moreover, the plot took a sharp turn, two cups of coffee, a few phone calls, a dance, he and she actually started dating.
The husband has been separated, and the film is interspersed with memories of the past from time to time-the pictures of the couple skiing and reading books together show that the husband is struggling with his own feelings. Maybe, he really doesn't know what he is doing; but on the other hand, he And he knew exactly what he was going to do.
Is this a sign that he still loves his wife deeply and wants to fulfill her? Or does he want to use this to liberate himself and get rid of the shadow of his betrayal of his wife in the past? Is he trying so hard to make the wheelchair man get close to his wife again, is he trying to make up for his mistakes?
Some things cannot be explained clearly; some thoughts have no answers. We are always so ignorant in life.
Editor Monroe is good at writing such stories, picking up ordinary life and shaking it down for you to see; the inextricable stagnation and lingering love between couples are shown one by one under the camera, allowing the audience to experience the difference in life with the camera. Stages, people's choices and changes.
The young director directed this slightly heavy and low-level emotional flow, which is so smooth and expressive, and the soundtrack of the film also effectively sets off the atmosphere in the play.
Love, although the theme of life, is sometimes a variable. "Just like that bright corridor, you and I are gradually walking further and further away, but I still want to follow your footsteps and never part."
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