"What's the most unpleasant thing about old age?"
"It's just remembering when I was young and strong."
If I were to imagine my life after entering old age, I would blurt it out, read a book and drink tea. I have never had a quixotic feeling, and I look forward to staying in good looks or taking adventures around when I get old, at most walking around in front of my house.
Aging is something that happens every minute in every life but is ignored by us. It always has to wait until one day, when the child is older and is respected and loved by others, you will find yourself in the mirror with wrinkles and gray temples. Then, start thinking, when did I start getting old? Discovering the fact that you are obviously aging will make you change your previous attitude towards life, be more open-minded or self-pity?
Mr. Streeter fell silent one day when he found himself unable to get up after a fall and had to rely on crutches to move. Old age woke him up like a blow. Yes, when I get old, many things can no longer be done with all my strength, and even those small things in daily life have become insurmountable hurdles in front of me. In particular, when Mr. Street, on that night when the thunder and lightning tore the sky pale, learned the news of his brother's stroke, age was like a little bit of scorpion venom occupying this already unbearable body.
This is the foreword.
Death, this old friend of all things, becomes more and more intimate when people are old. He is like a shadow, chatting with you about old things in life, and never forgetting to play pranks. Freud attributed death to one of two human instincts, the death instinct. He believes that the ultimate goal of all life is death, and death is the final stable state of life. I'm not going to say whether I agree with this view or not. In my eyes, death is like a leaf falling back to its roots. Sometimes it is autumn, and the leaves turn yellow and fall; sometimes it lasts until winter, but it is replaced by new leaves; Let it be, everything has its time.
Later, Mr. Streeter spent six weeks with his lawnmower traveling 320 kilometers per hour at 8 kilometers per hour to visit his brother in the mountains of another state. You will ask, why don't you drive, why don't you take transportation? The passers-by in the movie, A, B, C, Ding, also asked the same question. First, the 73-year-old Mr. Streeter does not have a driver's license. Second, the stubborn Mr. Streeter doesn't like being driven. So he set out on his own.
Yep, this is another road movie. Among them, "Mr. Streeter's Story" actor Richard Farnsworth was also nominated for an Oscar that year. The rhythm of this movie is like the speed of Mr. Street's lawn mower, which unfolds slowly. The stars in the night sky, the earth-shattering thunder and lightning, and the lawn mower driving at a turtle's speed come slowly and slowly. . This is an atypical road movie, based on real events, to restore life itself without pretense.
Compare it to Bucket List rather than to The Last of Us or The Motorcycle Diary before it. Mr. Street's life is full of regrets and feelings of unfinished business. The brother who has not been with each other for ten years, the teammate who killed himself during World War II, and the daughter who was labelled as mentally handicapped, all deeply hurt him. aging heart. The two old people in "Bucket List" finally had an idea to live a good life for themselves, but they were brewing in the hospital bed of terminal cancer.
What the film unfolds to us is the obsessive journey of a World War II veteran, not far, but enough to touch. Different from "Turn the Mountain", the film does not focus on the difficulties and obstacles of the journey, although for an old man with inconvenient legs in his old age, a small encounter may threaten his life like a butterfly effect. Instead, director David Lynch describes the old man's journey in a witty and romantic way. For example, it is humorous that the hat was blown away by the passing cart, the old lawn mower stopped before leaving the city, sheltered from the thunderstorm under the abandoned eaves, and went downhill without stopping the brakes. Romantically, sleeping in the fields at night, smoking and eating sausages and watching the stars. There is no self-pity and regret, and what is more valuable is that his spirit is still independent and does not collapse due to aging. I would rather believe that this is the true state of mind of this veteran. He doesn't feel tired. He said, "I was never frightened in the trenches of World War II. What is there to be afraid of in the cornfields."
Day after day, the sun rises in the morning and the sun sets in the west. During Mr. Street's journey of more than a month, he has changed others while learning about himself. Think about it carefully, the unmarried girl who ran away from home because of early pregnancy represents his daughter who has been deprived of child custody because of prejudice; the young lads who ride bicycles represent his youth; the pair of repairmen who are always arguing Brother, representing his relationship with his brother. Ordinary people, no matter where you are or how you spend your day, it is difficult to change the world, but you are fully capable of knowing and discovering yourself better.
I like the rhythm of this movie, like an old man telling a story, talking, take it easy, take it easy. I also like its picture, there are no fascinating scenery along the way, only straight and straight paths and large tracts of pastoral fields.
It is better not to wait until old age to sigh and then make up for it.
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