trapped in time

Brent 2022-03-21 09:02:01

Father, trapped in time.

I probably knew that this was a film about Alzheimer’s disease, and I thought of similar themes, which is nothing more than a story about family being tested, middle-aged people coping with their parents’ aging while coping with chicken feathers, or describing how a patient suffers. Taking a foothold in society, these contents are actually relatively easy to highlight the conflict of the drama, and can also arouse the society's attention to such symptoms.

However, the film is not limited to that.

Father Anthony, born in 1937, under the guidance of the aria "Je crois entendre encore" (singing that I can't forget), with his superb acting skills, he instantly pulled the audience into emotions. As the plot unfolds step by step, the audience seems to be immersed in the mist of time and into the labyrinth of space. Exactly what is real and what is illusion is elusive. The more seriously I watched the movie and tried to identify the timeline of the story through clues, the more I felt the loss and helplessness of my father. The repeated appearance of the plot, the confusion and escape of the characters, these seemingly absurd fragments, trapped the audience and the father in that period of time that belonged to the father.

This is exactly what makes this film amazing at first glance, and shocking at the aftertaste. I have never tried to imagine what the inner world of Alzheimer's patients is like. The film only takes more than 90 minutes to show it in front of the audience, making everyone feel a real sense of panic. measures, and aroused infinite empathy.

At the end, the daughter still left her father in the nursing home. The father asked, did you just abandon me like this? So what shall I do in the future? The fragility in his eyes brought tears to his eyes. But who can blame the daughter's decision? We have all seen the struggles of our daughter and the pain that her father's illness brought into her life. What impressed me was that after my daughter took her father to see a doctor in the hospital, the two looked at each other for a long time in the hospital corridor. There was warmth and more helplessness. The disease doesn't just afflict the patient, it also hurts those around the patient who love him most. But what can be done? With the increase of aging in today's society, this disease and countless other diseases will inevitably become problems that countless small families have to face.

The disease is still tormenting, but I still hope that the time trapped in my father can bring him less pain and let him retain more of the beautiful past.

As the lyrics say: Ah beautiful and lovely night full of endless joy and sweet memories come to my mind, memories of past love and happy dreams...

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The Father quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Anthony: They don't even speak English.

  • Anthony: Paris. They don't even speak English there.