The protagonist, George, is a college professor with a decent job, but lives alone in a well-designed house. The transparent and bright floor-to-ceiling glass is hidden in the grass and green trees. He lost Jim, who had lived with him for 16 years, in a car accident. In the familiar corridor, he always saw Jim's figure over and over again. Maybe it was the pain that was like breaking a hand and breaking an arm, which finally made George feel unbearable. So he was ready to choose death. The whole movie is to play the day he wakes up in the morning, and the conversations that occur with the people he meets on this day.
Kenny was his student, with sparkling blue eyes full of youth and energy. On this last day, he tried his best to enter George's life. Kenny followed George to the bar, and I think the dialogue between the two is the shining point in this movie. Actor Colin Firth's performance is nothing short of meticulous, capturing every complex and ethereal emotion of the protagonist. The young actor also performed the uninhibited and inner flame to the fullest. Kenny said something that really touched me:
"Most of the time, I feel like I'm alone. We were born alone, we die alone. We're completely sealed into this body. It's a weird feeling. , is also very scary. In this body, you can only indirectly grasp and feel the outside world through a biased consciousness. Who knows what you really look like, all I can see is your projection in my consciousness .”
This description of seeing the world through limited senses and images, confined to the body, is a very accurate summary of my recent personal experience. "The Tao Te Ching" has a similar description "five colors make people blind, five sounds make people deaf, and five flavors make people taste good". Most people's lives are actually carried out in a state of having eyes but being blind, and having ears but being deaf. The world is not what we see and feel. It's like you're driving a car with cloudy windows and missing mirrors. There is chaos outside, and there is no one around...
George's answer is also reminiscent: "What makes everything meaningful is those few sporadic moments, I feel that I can truly connect with another person." This sentence also seems to break the essence of love. In fact, love is not so holy and so great. In a sense, the desire to love someone in the depths of one's heart and need to integrate with someone is actually just to escape the emptiness and loneliness that comes from being isolated and closed. I love you because I need you; we are together because loneliness can be avoided in a hug. There is nothing great here. But in love, there are great seeds hidden. To sprout or not to sprout, what is needed is a kind of spirituality. The scene of the two rushing into the sea in the middle of the night and swimming freely against the waves in the moonlight made people feel inexplicably moved.
In the end, Kenny used his youthful vitality to finally bring warmth back to George's smile. Looking at Kenny, who was sleeping and full of youth, George made the closing monologue:
"I have felt this absolute clarity of mind several times in my life. In a few seconds, the tranquility disappeared, and I no longer Thinking with the brain, but feeling from the heart. In that tranquility and clarity, things become extraordinarily clear, and the world becomes extraordinarily alive. But I have never been able to last this moment. When I try to grasp it , like everything else, it quickly disappears from my fingers. I live for those few moments..."
These words describe a sense of tranquility. In this tranquility, there is no loss, no pain, no loneliness, only endless clarity. This serenity is also the ultimate way for people to fundamentally escape loneliness. To be born without being, to act without relying on it; to resolve its disputes, to be with its light, and its dust.
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