I think this movie shows us how life can destroy you if you don't open yourself up and recognize yourself. This is how the story begins and ends.
At the beginning of the film, a middle-aged woman comes to the hospital to treat her depression and insomnia. She pouted and grimaced, as if she owed her more and paid her less. No matter how the doctor asked, she couldn't answer the question, all she hoped was to prescribe a bunch of sleeping pills so that she could fall asleep. The doctor told her that this was a temporary solution, but she didn't listen. The doctor asked her to remember to talk to a psychiatrist, but she was also noncommittal. Later, the woman never appeared again. I don't know if she was cured in the end, I guess not, she's still depressed and insomnia, day after day, year after year.
I would love to know what happened to this poor woman? What made her so unhappy?
She is like those passers-by who come and go hurriedly around us every day. For a moment, you will feel that these passers-by are as important as other intimate characters in your life. A very meaningful relationship.
So with questions and curiosity about this woman, the story of the movie "Another Year" began. I didn't know then that I would never see this woman again. And yet at the end of the film, I don't forget her, I think of her again, through someone else - the neurotic, nasty Maria, through whom I think again of the woman at the beginning of the film .
Maria ends the story as depressed and down-to-earth as she is, but it's hard to feel distressed. They all remind me of the phrase "poor people must have their abominations".
I seem to have the answers to my doubts, not through a positive answer, but indirectly from another woman. Maria, yes, from her, I see the reason why the middle-aged woman in the title is so depressed.
spring. Maria is lost. She looked strong, joking, boasting her optimism, and speaking as fast as a machine gun. At the bar she chats with friends, but her eyes hunt for male prey like a hunter. She fell in love with a handsome middle-aged man, and for a moment, she thought that the other party was also discharging her electricity. But in the end it was pitiful to find that someone else was waiting for a younger girl. At that moment, she was very lost.
summer. All meet at a friend's house. A middle-aged fat man who had just lost his love showed his love to Maria. It should have been two people who had the same illness, but Maria didn't seem to feel the same way about each other. She fell in love with Joe, who was younger, and she should be the other's aunt at her age. Her condom was almost disgusting, and half-old milfs were still pretending to be tender there.
autumn. Joe brings back his girlfriend, and Maria feels a huge loss. She couldn't help but speak madly and speak sarcastically, which made everyone in the host's family hate her.
winter. Maria again came to her friend's house like a lost wanderer. A strange man opened the door for her. He was the man's brother, and he had just lost his wife, and the old man looked dull and eccentric. Maria seemed to get on well with him, and perhaps she gained a slight sense of superiority from the other's situation.
This is the story of the trivial things that happened in the past year. I watched Maria become more and more nervous and anxious. The friends around her gradually began to regard her as a nuisance. The best friend said, "You make me too Disappointed". She doesn't seem to realize, or realizes, but doesn't make any changes. In this way, she gradually slipped into a lonely situation, and gradually approached the world of depression. A man, alone, pitiful and abominable.
There is no magic cure for the mind, no one-size-fits-all hospitality, and if you are unwilling to open yourself up and show others how weak and helpless you are, no one else will be able to help you. Listening, tenderness, comfort and Sasuke, these are beneficial, but must be based on the premise of "you are willing to accept".
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