The first reaction in my mind after watching the entire film was to think of "Doctor Death," starring Al Pacino. Birth, old age, sickness, and death are the most normal things in life. I have heard such a sentence: everyone is moving towards death after birth. So death is not scary; what is scary is the mentality of facing death.
Let’s go back and talk about the film first. Haneke’s films are almost serious in both white ribbon and piano classrooms. There is almost no soundtrack in the whole film, and the few soundtracks are still in the form of piano music. In addition, almost all the scenes in the whole film are completed in a small room, and the feeling of depression in the whole film is formed in this scene. In other words, this is a very "ugly" movie.
This is a movie with death as the axis and love as the force. In the film, Annie can't take care of herself after a stroke, and her life with George is also a desperate situation. The two are tired of dealing with all kinds of setbacks caused by illness, and the ordeal of death is shrouded in death. in the hearts of both of them. Anne's love for George allowed him to persevere in the face of death, and Anne's love for George allowed her to endure these hardships for George. It is love that drives the determination of the two to fight against death. The film spends more than an hour describing how George takes care of Annie, who is unable to move; how Annie resists pain; and how the sorrow of reality adds to Annie's depression.
At this time, the theme behind love also emerged: in the face of illness, should humanitarianism be used to help victims end their suffering?
Let's start with Barry Levinson's "Doctor Death". Who cares what people think, it's what my patient feels. This is a sentence said by the protagonist Jack in the film. The sufferings endured should be done to the best of one's ability to satisfy the sufferer's longing for death.
In contrast, Amour does not have such a big picture. What motivated George to kill Anna was his love for Anna, which made him unable to bear his wife's inhumanity due to her illness. I remember that when the dying patients in the death doctor brought their families to find JACK, these people were a pair of Anna and George.
In a western society where euthanasia is gradually maturing, the law has gradually accepted this bold thing. Whether it is in line with humanism is the second, and more important is how people understand the suffering of the suffering and the sadness of the living.
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