"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), directed by Stephen Daldry. The last time I saw Daldry's work was in the touching "The Reader" in 2008. Oscar Shier's 9-year-old boy... Oscar's father was killed in the 9/11 accident. He heard five phone messages before his father's death, and since then he has suffered from insomnia, fear of elevators, and other sequelae. Inadvertently, he found an envelope with "Black" written on it and a key on his father's bookcase. He then traveled through five New York boroughs every weekend, looking for the man named "Black" and the locker that the key could open.
The trauma of 9/11 to the United States and the American people is incomparable. Many people lost their loved ones, and many people left behind psychological sequelae. More than ten years have passed since the catastrophe of the Twin Towers. Does Dudley's film open up the scars or heal the wounds? Because this subject matter is not so easily recognized (at least for people who have experienced this catastrophe), I think that after watching the movie, you will understand that this is a process of redemption and healing. Find a key to unlock the heart and release those past pains.
Tom Hanks, an old actor, started as a green leaf in the movie. He played Oscar's father, such a good father, but unfortunately, his life was lost by a disaster. He is a role model for his son in both life and thought. Oscar would be proud to have such a father. Compared to his closeness with his father, this child does not seem to have a very good relationship with his mother. After the accident, he became autistic. and "isolated" himself from his mother. The more he loved his father, the farther he was away from his mother. He said to his mother, "Mom, what you don't understand, how much I struggle with what you don't understand..." The mother responded affectionately, "I understand, I understand..." But the son is still shaking his head. There are a lot of Oscar monologues in the movie. He said that if the sun exploded, then it would be comfortable for at least eight minutes. The sun is 149,597,870 kilometers away from the earth, and it only takes 8 minutes and 18 seconds for the sunlight to reach the surface of the earth. These eight minutes are enough. It makes people warm... But Like feels that the eight minutes between his father and himself are getting less and less. To prolong this time, he went into his father's room and found an envelope with a key inside. He planned to go to New York alone. Find the person on the envelope and figure out the lock the key opens.
However, in the process, he gradually understood his mother's love for him, and because he accidentally searched for the key with his grandfather's partner, the rift between grandparents and great-grandparents healed little by little. Oscar's mother cares about her son all the time. She discovered his son's secret and went to find that "Black" every time he searched for "Black" and asked TA to take care of Oscar. In this way, the estrangement between mother and son gradually disappeared in the process of visiting people at the same time... On the way to finding each other, they gradually understood each other. This strong and great mother used her love to redeem her son's, wounded heart...What I see in the movie is such a process, loss, recovery, mutual understanding, support..
Sometimes what you have to do is not to hold on and be reluctant, but to let go. Perhaps, letting go and finding and discovering other good things in life is the most important thing. The process of searching is both the memory of the past and the longing for future life. The key to redeeming the soul may be in our own hands, but sometimes, we do not look down to see what we have, so we only touch the head and break the blood. Flow to find the key to redeem their souls.
Very loud, very close. Cherishing the people around you and loving them well is the best comfort for those who have passed away.At the end of the film, Oscar is sitting on the swing. He has completed the small task left by his father to find the sixth district. He swings on the swing, and he swings higher and higher, with a smile that he has not seen in a long time. Such a sunny ending is also what we hope for.
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