Happy life at the gate of heaven

Joe 2022-03-21 09:03:17

The general plot

of the story is as follows: Two terminal cancer patients in the same ward, Martin has brain cancer and Rudy has bone marrow cancer, they stand at the gate of heaven.

In the chat, Ludi mentioned that he had never seen the sea before, and the two escaped from the hospital to see the sea.

In the parking lot of the hospital, they stole the gangster's Mercedes-Benz car. They refueled on the way. They robbed the gas station for 3,000 yuan. They had no money to buy clothes. They also robbed the bank of 80,000 yuan.

Then they found another 1 million yuan from the gang in the car. Life began to look better. They lived in the presidential suite and ate an unnamed French meal (after they checked the French dictionary and checked the menu, they found that they were eating cattle testicles). On the big soft bed, they wrote down their wishes with a pen. Martin's wish was to buy a Cadillac for his mother, and Ludi's wish was to sleep with 2 women.

Along the way, despite being chased by police and gangsters, before seeing the sea, they each achieved their wishes.

When they were found by the gang, a small leader learned that they had spent the money and sent them, and decided to shoot them. The boss of the gang had seen their deeds through the newspaper before and knew that the two of them would die soon, so he stopped them. little boss. Ask them what their plans are, and they say they want to see the sea.

So the underworld boss said affectionately, how spectacular a fireball fell into the sea at dusk.

He even let them go.

At dusk, the sky was cloudy and the wind was blowing. Near the seaside, they got off the car and walked side by side toward the seaside.

Rudy said, I smell the saltiness of the sea.

Martin said, Rudy, I have something to say to you.

Rudy said, I know, I'll start by saying, there's nothing to be afraid of right now.

Ludi didn't say it, they saw the sea, and the boundless waves were rushing towards the shore, rushing.

Facing the sea, they had tears in their eyes, their expressions were sullen, and then they looked at each other and smiled. They walked on the beach, and darkness enveloped the sky above them and the sand below them, like their rootless, fruitless, fruitless life (isn't it ours too?). They sat down without saying a word, the sky continued to be dark, the waves were still coming, Martin tilted his head, fell down, and died.

At this time, the music is also sung at the right time, and the name of the song is said to be Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Knockin' On Heaven's Door).

Then, the man in the music is still singing, the subtitles appear, and the movie ends.



After the story floating on the surface of the movie was finished, I was very moved after watching the movie. I wanted to ask myself what moved me.

Is it a cherished friendship that warms me?

Or the ideal of life has not been realized, and it has been transformed into a small wish before death.

Or their dying, happy life at the gate of heaven.

Everyone has their own last time, Martin and Ludi's last time is happy, their history is innocent, but after learning about their illness, they seem to have completely changed into two other people, so the two people are in accordance with the law. They can be defined as gangsters, but they are still kind. They have guns in their hands, but they do not kill innocent people. They return the money for robbing banks and gas stations, and give money from gangsters to those they think should be given.

Everyone has his own court in his heart to judge the right and wrong in the world. When a powerful death is coming, the secular court can no longer restrain him. People judge and act according to their own court. They are both the judge and the executioner. However, what Martin and Rudy have done is not an exaggeration.

The fun of the film, through the story, is to let us watch others, show all kinds of lives that seem to be far away from us, it is to let us look at ourselves, and consider all kinds of human nature that have always been close to us.

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Extended Reading

Knockin' on Heaven's Door quotes

  • Patient im Fahrstuhl: [waking up] What happened? Am I in Heaven?

    Henk - der Belgier: Sure. I am Sweet God and this

    [points to Abdul]

    Henk - der Belgier: is Saint Peter.

    Abdul - der Araber: Salam aleikum.

  • Martin Brest: In heaven, they're talking about nothing but the sea and how wonderful it is. They talk about the sunsets they saw, they talk about how the sun turned blood red before diving into the sea and they talk about how they could feel how the sun lost its power and the coolness from the sea and all that fire was only glowing inside.