The background of the story is the best years of life.
Love at that time was as pure as crystal dew. You didn't have to think about the past or worry about the future. When you fell in love with someone, you were willing to give everything for them.
When the most beautiful love in life encounters the most difficult disease in the world, Ops, is it an old-fashioned plot?
Yes, I am very responsible to say that the plot is indeed not novel enough.
But the difference is that this movie is enough to shock the heart, I mean, shock every soul that is numb in mundane life.
Just because when we were young, we all thought that what we knew could hold the whole world, and the truth at that time was the most true, different from the real chicken soup for the soul.
It is precisely because we are young that we can love without any scruples, hold an obsession, be sincere, and even put life and death aside.
However, with an open ending, the infinite vision and absolute optimism we had for life was instantly eliminated.
1. Happiness comes from the truth, and sadness also comes from the truth
The film sets its sights on destiny.
In that ward with pale blessings and strong joy, behind the strong smile is a broken life.
Stella, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, lives a life full of discipline, boundaries and self-control, until she meets Will, her charismatic patient.
Cystic fibrosis is one of the most intractable diseases in the world. It is a genetic disease in which the mucus that the patient's lungs use to carry away metabolic waste and bacteria is too thick, not only making the lungs unable to work properly, but also becoming bacteria. breeding grounds.
Close contact between a patient and a normal person is not contagious, but if it is two patients, it is very easy to be infected.
Then you may have doubts: since they are all sick, they are contagious, and they are all sick anyway.
Just like in "Send You a Little Red Flower", Li Weiyihang said that eating barbecue will cause cancer, but Ma Xiaoyuan replied, "Anyway, you have cancer."
I'm going to tell you very seriously: this disease is not the same!
If there is no cross-infection, and a suitable lung is found, it is possible to live for another 5 years. Once cross-infection occurs, there will be no chance of changing the lung, and it will die anytime, anywhere.
So the couple with cystic fibrosis must maintain a distance of at least 6 feet to prevent cross infection.
The optimistic and self-disciplined Stella's sunny smile was deeply imprinted in Will's heart, who was so-so-treated. After a few quarrels like foreplay, they fell in love.
Six feet is their safe distance and the death gulf that lovers can never cross.
A 5-foot billiard cue became a bridge between them. The pessimistic Will began to actively treat, while the sunshine-warm Stella was immersed in the sweetness of love and became more courageous. For this reason, she Also took back 1 foot from fate through knowledge, reducing that gap to 5 feet.
At the end of the film, a line appeared: I would like to pay tribute to Claire Wineland with this film.
That's right, this Claire suffers from cystic fibrosis. She is also the production consultant of "Five Feet Away". She provides the play with information about many diseases, and some cystic fibrosis patients are facing treatment, The psychology of life and all kinds of emotions, which helped the performance of actress Hayley Lu Richardson who played Stella.
Claire's book, Every Breath I Breathe, has a passage that vividly describes her feelings:
"It took me a while to let go of my control over my life so that I could calmly say to the doctor, I'm giving my life to you. I think this was one of the toughest challenges I've had in my coma: trying to stop I struggled and asked them to give me therapy. I finally understood that I had to let go. I heard people around me say, "Relax, calm down, everything will be fine. "The first thing I could think of was, no, it's not good at all! I have to make myself better! But in the end I came to terms with it and realized I couldn't do anything about it."
Claire herself
The same is true of Stella in the film. In the face of illness, she has excellent willpower, but their perseverance has a strong desire for control similar to obsessive-compulsive disorder.
But thanks to this desire for control, let her take the initiative to fight with Will, otherwise this love may not happen.
But when they are alone, they, Stella and Claire, will linger in the painful and repressed reality and the sea of reshaping spiritual pursuits, soaking up any slight heat around them, making the blocked sense of oppression realistic.
The tragic thing about this disease is that it's innate, and they're born sick.
The pain they have experienced is far longer than we imagined. They have to report to the hospital regularly, take a lot of medicine every day, and "place a tube" in the chest (that is, directly insert a plastic tube into the blood vessel, and can directly connect the infusion tube when injecting, which is suitable for Patients with frequent infusions), a hole should be opened in the stomach, and a lid should be closed like a bag for beverages.
Claire's Diary
Even so unbearable, the love of adolescence must be a fruit candy in this bitter fate
It is the next ferry for the spiritual journey.
Stella in the film, like Claire in real life, got a lung transplant.
However, Claire died before the movie was released after suffering a stroke after a lung transplant.
However, she participated in many public welfare activities before her death, and she often popularized cystic fibrosis to the public, which attracted the attention of the society to this disease.
She told the world that you may not be able to suffer and still be unscathed, but you can still give back when you are in misfortune.
The quality of your life is not determined by health or illness, poverty or wealth, but because you were born, experienced, made a difference, and given something.
2. Have hope and live to death
The movie begins with the three girls trying on clothes. A good best friend is going on a trip, but the protagonist Stella cannot go with her because she is going to the hospital. But the atmosphere in the room was not filled with depression because of this, but it was still very high. They joked with each other, laughed at themselves, hugged, and said goodbye.
In this cheerful atmosphere, you can't even tell that Stella is a terminally ill girl.
After her friend left, Stella's forced smile disappeared, she took a deep breath and returned to her own world.
This movie has been in ambush from the very beginning, and people can feel a little moved in some subtleties from the middle of the movie.
Stella is really like a warm little sun, no matter how many wounds she has on her body and her heart, she gives everyone around her a big smile.
The opening of the film undoubtedly subverts people's perception of terminally ill patients. They are very close to death, but they know how to enjoy life.
Cystic fibrosis is like a cold barrier, which makes Stella's heart that wants to see the whole world unable to move. She can't feel the beauty of this world like normal people, and can only get all kinds of things in this world through the Internet .
But all this did not overwhelm Stella, she could happily chat with her friends about what was happening in the outside world, she gave them advice and brought them joy.
He does not shy away from his friendship with "good friends", and like a grandmother, urges him to take medicine on time and exercise on time.
Even if you wait for a suitable lung source, do a large thoracotomy, and get a new lung, you will only be able to live five years more.
Just for these five years, she planned her life in the grid on the diary, which was full and neat.
Both in the screenwriting and in the presentation of the plot, they are very attentive, and do not spend too much time on creating dramatic effects or deliberately create a very poignant or sad atmosphere, but in the most sincere way to narrate a paragraph that may really happen stories in reality.
Every line, every plot, and even the interaction between every character has its meaning, and even the lyrics of the movie soundtrack can be matched with the movie plot, making people more empathetic to the current situation of each character.
However, the most admirable thing about the whole movie is that its plot echoes from beginning to end, and it also hides many crying points in many details, even if it is just a fleeting picture or a seemingly inconspicuous one. Items, after the movie is over, you will find that every detail of the arrangement has its meaning.
Although the whole film is filled with the stigma of death, it seems to be wrapped in a chocolate shell, which is full of hope.
3. Follow your heart or self-discipline, this is the torture of fate
The 5-foot distance is at the heart of the entire film.
The director uses various camera perspectives to present a sense of distance that is close but far away, and cleverly uses elements such as objects to materialize the invisible distance, and this distance is not just an illustration of Stella and Will's desire The love that can't touch each other, and the attitude that wants to show people's life and death.
The two actors Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson, who play the male and female protagonists, are also among the heroes of the movie.
They lose weight like crazy in order to more realistically portray the patient's frailty.
Especially the actor who plays Will, his appearance is simply unbelievable, and just smearing his appearance is enough for me to watch "Five Feet Tianya" 520 times without any regrets.
Even though he has sick makeup and scars all over his body, he is still handsome in my heart.
I just like this type, why is the director so good at casting, give the director a compliment.
Simply handsome!
Especially when he looks sad and helpless, it breaks my heart.
Sorry, it's gone too far.
The film also led to a thought:
The self-disciplined Stella supervised her good friend Apo to take medicine on time and cooperated with the doctor for treatment. As a result, her good friend suddenly died. He doesn't like taking medicine very much, and he hangs around all day long and lends the ward to a friend, Will, who is full of energy.
This completely broke Stella, who was similar to obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Her collapse was like a tornado.
Neat and neat pill boxes lie on the ground in different directions, the pictures on the wall are incompletely hung on the wall, and the colorful pills are like a rainbow rain that has just fallen.
Life is full of uncertainty, especially for people like them.
Xiaobo's death also changed Stella's concept, she began to feel that life should bloom, not to live to live, just like Will at the beginning.
Always cautious, she put on gloves and pulled Will, who was bewildered, to escape from the hospital and go to the snow-covered hillside to see the lights.
This throws us a question, what is the right way to live in life?
Is it to ride the wind and waves for the things you love, or to live carefully for those who love us;
Whether you want to indulge in the Quartet and enjoy yourself, or you want to keep it safe and secure;
Is it a short-lived pleasure or a long-term boredom?
Well, as someone who once suffered from a malignant brain tumor, I didn't hesitate to choose the former before getting sick, and all of the latter after getting sick.
I don't know why, maybe it's just an instinctive desire to survive.
Back in the film, Stella showed great respect for life. She actively participated in the treatment, and she treated all this with tenderness as if she was participating in activities in the hospital.
But compared to Stella, Will is more like an optimist who sees through life and death, as he said:
"You have to learn to relax, that's life, and sometimes it's over before you notice it."
He wanted to take advantage of the only life he had and enjoy it all.
In the end, Stella was saved, the lung transplant was a success, but Will's medicine still didn't work.
Although this is only a plot in the movie, the power to make this choice is still in the hands of everyone.
All the gifts of fate have already been marked with prices in secret.
Fourth, when you can still hug, hug in time!
Touching each other is our first form of communication, safety, reassurance, comfort, in the gentle caress of that finger, or the light kiss on the cheek, that connects us when we are happy and inspires us when we are timid We move on.
We are excited when we are passionate, and when we feel love, and we crave the touch of a loved one as much as we need air. But I never understood the importance of touch.
This line, which appears twice in the film, explains to us the deepest meaning of the word touch.
In the last scene, outside the floor-to-ceiling window of the operating room, Will arranged for Stella the kind of light she had always wanted to see. He walked out of the dazzling place like a prince, but he could only say the last sentence I love through the glass. You, then turned and left, disappearing into the dim light.
He said: I never believed in the nonsense of letting go if you love someone, but now I understand that I am in love with you, and I will bring you danger, so I can only leave you.
Please close your eyes, you look at me like this, I am afraid I will not be willing to leave.
Leaving is his best love for Stella and respect for the rest of her hard-earned life.
This reminds me of what Salinger wrote in Heart of Broken Stories:
Loving you is the only thing that matters to me, Miss Lester. Some people think that love is sex, marriage, six o'clock kisses, a bunch of children, and maybe it is, Miss Lester. But you know what I think? I think love is to want to touch and then withdraw.
Unable to touch due to illness, the two protagonists have very little physical contact. The only kiss was when Will gave Stella artificial respiration in the ice and snow to save her.
One of the most distressing scenes I remember is that after Apo died, Will couldn't help walking over to comfort the collapsed Stella. She screamed and blasted away as soon as he put his hand on her shoulder.
Even the final farewell is separated by a layer of glass.
Throughout the film, when they try their best to get one step closer,
How many healthy people, how many lovers, how many intimate couples, relatives whose blood is thicker than water,
But swiping the phone back to back,
No more hugs, no more expressions of affection.
The "Five Feet of Heaven", which will be released on White Day in 2021, may remind us to cherish the neglected love around us.
It is a blessing to be born as a human being and to be able to hug the loved one hard.
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