the art of aging

Afton 2022-03-22 09:02:14

We Who Farmer Director Psychoanalyst Oscar Actress Movie Master We Always Get Old

we all are ageing

Like his other film "The Beautiful City"

This is also a movie about aging

You once climbed to the top of the world, now I just hope the world forgets you

You've had romances with dozens of girls, but you'll never forget the girl you loved and never got

Your marriage is falling apart, you haven't visited your demented wife in the hospital for ten years, and you think about her every day, but about her decades ago

Your ego has stabilized, you don't believe you can create anything new, you don't want to get accolades that don't make waves, you feel like doing anything is a waste of time

Your body is aging, except for elegant clothes and etiquette, you are like a rotten rotten wood, pain is everywhere, your face is full of wrinkles, loose skin, dense spots, prostate problems, calculating the amount of urine every day, can no longer get an erection

You've invested in fun, but you find that parties are the loneliest

You observe everyone around you, the messenger who works for the queen, who is young and rude; the actor who is imprisoned in his former role, silently admiring him; the transformed Miss World, she is beautiful and smart; the one who plays Hitler The man finally understands that life is not politics, but desire; the couple who have been silent for a while, slapped the woman, and then had sex frantically in the woods, the two screamed to orgasm

Everyone struggles, and we watch others suffer to understand our own lives

You can't even remember your childhood memories, everything becomes vague and unimportant, and on the eve of your death, the only thing left in your mind is the first love and lust of life

You have witnessed the suicide of a friend of sixty years, and you are in grief, but life goes on

Your daughter has a backlog of resentment against you, she says you're psychopathic, you even doubt yourself, and you admit that intimacy sucks

And if you don’t believe in God, guilt eats away at you, and you can’t even be redeemed

Finally you got on stage and directed the last "simple song"

The woman has tears for your crooked eyes and you feel nothing and you are indifferent to these ego and stupid feelings

you are getting old

The art of aging is boundless patience, so that pain is left to ourselves as much as possible, it makes us look a little more decent.

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Extended Reading
  • Rylee 2022-03-30 09:01:05

    The moving shots maintain a fluid beauty, and the rich and interesting dialogue has a sense of humor on the positive side and a depressive negative on the decline. Maybe this film is not so deep, but what is unfolding in front of you is a scene of old age, especially following a few super paragraphs. The realistic dream-like scenes pursue the sweetness and sentimentality of past memories. Although it is a fragmented and scattered narrative, the film can still condense the hidden emotions and warmth.

  • Cletus 2022-03-30 09:01:05

    Piazza San Marco, the title shows a group of people going to dressing and bathing, on the lawn, Hitler appears. Magical, MAGICAL moments. but. Storytelling can happen without anything (actually, a lot has happened), but there must be a loose story arc, this film feels melancholy and funny from beginning to end; and there are too many lines and too messy: light Whether it's the two old men, or the old man No. 1 and the people around him, don't go together.

Youth quotes

  • [last lines]

    Fred Ballinger: [sitting in his wife's room] I waited till visiting hours to come and see you. They don't know, Melanie. The children don't know their parents ordeals. Sure, they know certain details, striking elements. And they know what they need to know to be on one side or the other. They don't know that I trembled the first time I ever saw you on stage. And that the orchestra behind my back was laughing at my falling in love. And my unexpected fragility. They don't know that you sold of your mother's jewellery in order to help me with my second piece, when everyone else was turning me down, calling me a presumptuous, inelegant musician. I think they don't know that you too, and you were right that you thought I was a presumptuous, inelegant musician at that time. And you cried so hard. Not because you sold you mother's jewellery, but because you sold your mother. They don't know that we were together, you and I, despite all the exhaustion, and the pain, and the hardship. Melanie, they must never know that you and I, despite everything, liked to think of ourselves as "A Simple Song."Look at me.

    [she staring blankly out the window in her dementia]

  • Miss Universe: I appreciate irony, but when it is drenched in poison, it is drained of its force and reveals something else...

    Jimmy Tree: [pregnant pause] What?

    Miss Universe: Frustration!