Love gave her complete dignity.

Iliana 2022-03-23 09:02:04

While watching this movie, I kept thinking, what would I do if I were George? Is it possible to give her the most dignified end with such persevering care and patience.
When George put the pillow over Anna's face, the camera showed the wedding ring in his hand. He lay down on the bed with no expression and no other movement, only the wedding ring that had accompanied him for decades. My mood was shocked at first, but in the end I felt like Anna, relieved.
When it comes to love, we can easily think of those vigorous stories. At the best time, whether it is Jack sinking to the bottom of the sea for Rose or Romeo and Juliet both sacrificed for love, they are all dedicated to the most passionate love in the most brilliant time of life. This film, which is directly named after the broad term "love", chose the last moments of the two old people's lives, the most embarrassing, lonely and helpless moments, the moments of losing the dignity and decency of life step by step, to show love. Accompanying her little by little, it has merged with the rising and setting of the sun, and the countless disputes and compromises in her life, and she has completed the last journey of Anna's life.
Love is life, ordinary and cruel, beautiful and helpless.
I believe it was love that made George make the cruelest choice for him and for Anna, but it was also the best choice. Anna left with dignity, without those unbearable embarrassment and pain, maintaining her pride and grace. Just like at the end of the movie, George saw her playing the piano with grace and grace. It was the best moment in life, and it was the love for her that George wanted to keep.

Before my liberation, my grandmother was the daughter of the largest landowner in Huairou County, Hebei Province at that time. She was a real lady. When she married her grandfather, there were dozens of boxes of dowry and a girl, which was an incomparable scenery. My grandmother had a good family education and lived a dignified life. Her hair is always meticulously combed and shiny, her clothes are neat and tidy even when she is the poorest, and several of her specialty dishes are neat and tidy. With a Beijing accent, she treats people decently and kindly, never believes in evil all her life, and everyone likes her. However, at the last moment of her life, she was so delirious that she didn't know whether she was hungry or full. Others were afraid that she would be hungry, so she gave a lot of each meal, which often became a joke. It's not that the younger generation was neglected, but at that time, the grandmother was basically unable to take care of herself, and she was incontinent. Even if it was a child who was kissed again, she could not help but feel suspicious, everyone just thought she didn't know it. But in fact, my grandmother often thinks about the youngest grandchildren and grandchildren, and can often recite our names. I think about it now, if grandpa was still alive to take care of her at that time, I think grandma who was so dignified in her whole life would not be so disgraceful in the end, both of them are people who love self-esteem so much.

When watching "Love", I think of my grandma from time to time,
so I respect George's choice,
because I believe it is also Anna's choice.

In the last moments of her sanity, Anna suddenly wanted to look at the family photo album. Facing all the past memories, she said: "C'est beau." (It's beautiful) George asked: "Quoi?" (What?) - Anna replied Said: "La vie. C''est longtemps." (Life, but it's too long.)
That was the last time Anna and George had a decent and complete review of all her life and love.
Fortunately, George did not fail her, and
love gave her complete dignity.

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Extended Reading
  • Rebeka 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    Top-level photography and performances, unmarked scheduling, dramatic events cut to the past, minimalist beauty. Water music, flowers and pigeons, gentle imagery, flashback opening. But forgive me, I really have no sympathy for this kind of madhouse-style relief and a highly developed social system. Not long ago, two elderly people left me after a similar ordeal. How can I contain the pain? Even if a little bit of an ignorant individual from a suffering nation is not the taste. 12 Palms

  • Lucinda 2021-12-18 08:01:03

    Whenever I see an old man who is about to die, he feels more terrified besides pity. Old age means slow action, slow reaction, and memory decline; old age means skin like gully, tooth baldness, and hateful face; old age means sickness, prolonged life, and medicine; old age means surly personality and thinking The old and the new can’t blend in with the new...the sorrow is greater than the old, but I will have an old day after all; the film made a deep fear in my heart.

Amour quotes

  • Anne: What would you say if no one came to your funeral?

    Georges: Nothing, presumably.

  • Georges: [telling a childhood memory] ... some banal romance or other about a nobleman and a lower middle-class girl who couldn't have each other and who then, out of sheer magnanimity, decide to renounce their love - in fact, I don't quite remember it any more. In any case, afterwards I was thoroughly distraught, and it took me a bit of time to calm down. In the courtyard of the house where grandma lived, there was a young guy at the window who asked me where I'd been. He was a couple of years older than me, a braggart who really impressed me. "To the movies," I said, because I was proud that my grandma had given me the money to go all alone to the cinema. "What did you see?" I started to tell him the story of the movie, and as I did, all the emotion came back. I didn't want to cry in front of the boy, but it was impossible; there I was, crying out loud in the courtyard, and I told him the whole drama to the bitter end.

    Anne: So? How did he react?

    Georges: No idea. He probably found it amusing. I don't remember. I don't remember the film either. But I remember the feeling. That I was ashamed of crying, but that telling him the story made all my feelings and tears come back, almost more powerfully than when I was actually watching the film, and that I just couldn't stop.