The beginning of the film is really "ugly", because the audience's perspective is from the old man Anthony, but every time we get new information from the old man's perspective, the previous "seen" will be denied. , so the audience can't figure out which thing is true and which thing is false, the only thing that can empathize is that the old man is in pain, because the audience has been brought into his perspective. We felt his fear of going to a nursing home, his perception of his daughter's exhaustion, his apology for disturbing his daughter's family, and his helplessness when he was slapped by his daughter's husband. These past memories were put into a blender and recombined countless times in his mind. Occasionally, when he woke up, he found himself in a nursing home. So he hugged the young nurse and cried non-stop. An elderly man said: I miss my mother, and my mother's eyes are very beautiful.
In fact, the first half describes the hallucinations in his memory, which is similar to the fantasy that mathematician Nash saw in the movie "A Beautiful Mind", but this one is obviously more realistic and depressing in handling. In "A Beautiful Mind", the love of Nash's wife, the warmth of his former Princeton classmates, and the Nobel Prize's recognition of Nash's equilibrium are all important "warm colors" in the film. In this film, we only see an extremely tired daughter - his only relative. He used to be an engineer, but now, all that awaits him are endless haunted memories and death.
The first half of the film is about the discomfort caused by the confusion of time and space, and the second half is about the helplessness after revealing the truth and the powerlessness of the old man losing control of his own destiny.
The worst part is that this mental illness can happen to anyone, especially the elderly. And as we get older, we and our parents get older too, and that feeling of powerlessness is really scary.
Cherish the time you are awake, try to create as much happiness as possible, and don't forget the few "warm colors" in your life because you run too fast.
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