Imagine waking up one afternoon, because you have been drowsy for too long, and your perception of time and space is distorted. This is what you really feel when watching this film. The lens substitutes what happened in Anthony's perspective from a bystander's point of view, and fully shows the temporal and spatial confusion and increasingly serious amnesia caused by Alzheimer's disease through the plot. It is not known how many places Anthony lived in, who his daughter and son-in-law were, and whether this episode happened in real or imagined.
Anthony Hopkins has performed several states of his father too well. From the very beginning, accompanied by the opera, he was a little majestic and confident that he didn't think he was sick at all, until he was constantly attacked and his self-recognition was distorted. Frustrated, in the end, I really realized that I was helpless in the nursing home, forgot my name, and completely lost the sense of mental security and helplessness. Compared with The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal's image is highly concentrated, while the image of the father is a process of change. It is difficult to say whether it is more difficult, but due to the strong contrast between before and after changes, such a richness Every scene in the image creation is restored in place, and it is not too much to take the best actor this year.
I would think this movie is more like a horror movie than Silence of the Lambs, because the state of Alzheimer's that is shown is something that everyone has a chance to experience. When you face the confusion of time and space, you wake up without knowing where you live, Who is the person who is talking to you? When you come to your senses, you think that you have just woken up at 8 o'clock in the evening. The feeling and memory of time and space are disorganized, and there is no one you can trust. In this state, everything is unknown and terrifying. .
The practical significance lies in how we should treat the elderly with Alzheimer's disease. No matter how empathetic people are, they cannot understand the distortion they experience. At the same time, it takes a lot of energy and resources to take care of them, and the benefits are even negative, baby. Can't answer who I am, where did I come from, and where am I going, but they represent infinite hope, the old man can't answer, because they are passive and no longer needed. We believe that they may just be because of the inertia of emotional reluctance? Or is it the spiritual need in the genes for the integrity of the human self-group consciousness that the elderly Zhaogu satisfies? The daughter sent her father to a sanatorium and went to Paris herself, but I don't think anyone has the right to criticize her because no one can guarantee that she would have made a different decision in that situation. In the process of constantly asking why, many ethical questions will find it difficult to ask, but the inherent inertia in human behavior has survived thousands of years of historical precipitation, and it must have its impact on human society as a whole. The benefits of speaking can make rational people do it without thinking about why. As for future changes, the rapid development of life sciences may allow us to have more and more solutions to this problem and become more and more mature, but how to balance resources and human nature, emotion and rationality, this problem may forever be There won't be a perfect answer
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