In the face of aging, no matter how young and vigorous before, you will be defeated

Tremaine 2022-03-28 09:01:07

The first time I played it, I might have been in a state of wandering. I always thought that Fred and Mick were in a high-end nursing home, including all kinds of people living in it, stars, Musicians, directors, actors, artists, rock climbers, etc. These people are not just rich people, they used to be people with a certain social status, leaders in a certain field, and now they all come here, In a peach blossom garden surrounded by high mountains, waiting for the end of life. The air here is fresh, and there are computer background pictures everywhere. The sanatorium-style hotel is fully equipped, which is no different from a high-end nursing home. The two protagonists in the film, the famous conductor Fred and the famous director Mick, watch At the age of 80+, I thought that one was ready to do nothing and waited to die, and the other was ready to die.

Of course, ignoring some details does not affect watching the whole movie.
Maybe when people get old, there will probably be two completely different ways of life like Fred and Mick.
Fred's attitude towards old age:
1. No matter how many achievements I have made in the past, now I just want not to be disturbed. The Queen comes to invite me, and I will not go.
2. Meeting Miss Universe is not a reward for me, it's a punishment
3. I'm a boring old man who wants to keep me in shape? It just makes me more boring
4. I don't need anything, not even a Band-Aid
5. I have a bad memory, forget my parents and most things, but I still remember my first love
and Mick, just the opposite:
1. Although I don't have much time left in my life, I still have a lot of unrealized ambitions. I want to direct a peerless movie to make the world remember me
. 2. The figure of a woman is still very exciting.
3. I am angry. , you young people are ignorant, superficial, and don’t understand anything, you all have to listen to
me

In the face of aging, no matter how young and vigorous before, you will be defeated. Will this really be the case at the end of life? Whether a rich person goes to a Swiss health resort to breathe the air with excessive negative oxygen ions, or a person who has no money grows flowers and plants under the dome of smog, we are all moving towards aging, towards a place where all things begin to come to a standstill. The world is like many pictures in the movie. Rows of old people move slowly, and the scene is still. Aging is like a lonely picture that cannot be escaped. You can only enjoy it yourself. Interestingly, like the poster, when such a young BODY appeared in the hotel, Fred and Mick thought about

the actor who became famous because he played Mr. Q, and observed these twilight people in this nursing home, because Q Mr. Q's halo, he was afraid that he would not be able to act the way people expected. The last little girl gave him inspiration. He took off Mr. Q's halo and burden, and chose to follow his inner longing amid fear and longing. The confusion when you are young, the true meaning of life, may not even be seen clearly by the elderly, sometimes you just need a pure child to point out: "No one in the world is prepared in advance, so don't worry."

After this, the movie A twist begins, and what Fred did not believe at first happens, and the monk floats.
Like the poster, Miss Universe walked into the hot spring pool naked. Fred felt that she was completely different from before. He, who had always had no interest in women, actually began to appreciate "the last spring in his life" like Mick. .
Brenda came to the hotel and refused Mick to appear in his movie. This Mick's 53-year friend, the actress who was popular with him, was not only ungrateful, but also thought that Mick's movies were a bunch of shit
.
The things that have been built seem to be crumbling. Those who can accept it begin to change themselves, and those who cannot accept it choose to end themselves

. It seems that every character and every conflict in it can be brought out to talk about it, not just young and old. The theme is marriage. When you don't know the truth, you are very curious. When you know the truth, you refuse to believe that it
is the future. When you are young, everything looks very close. This is the future, but when you are old, everything feels out of reach. , because that is the past.
It's life, thinking, and prejudice. It doesn't matter whether there are lines or not. Every character has a lot of stories. No language, just be loyal to your heart.

Personally, I think this movie is more suitable for middle-aged people to watch, there are changes in progress, and reflections in retreat.

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Youth quotes

  • [last lines]

    Fred Ballinger: [sitting in his wife's room] I waited till visiting hours to come and see you. They don't know, Melanie. The children don't know their parents ordeals. Sure, they know certain details, striking elements. And they know what they need to know to be on one side or the other. They don't know that I trembled the first time I ever saw you on stage. And that the orchestra behind my back was laughing at my falling in love. And my unexpected fragility. They don't know that you sold of your mother's jewellery in order to help me with my second piece, when everyone else was turning me down, calling me a presumptuous, inelegant musician. I think they don't know that you too, and you were right that you thought I was a presumptuous, inelegant musician at that time. And you cried so hard. Not because you sold you mother's jewellery, but because you sold your mother. They don't know that we were together, you and I, despite all the exhaustion, and the pain, and the hardship. Melanie, they must never know that you and I, despite everything, liked to think of ourselves as "A Simple Song."Look at me.

    [she staring blankly out the window in her dementia]

  • Miss Universe: I appreciate irony, but when it is drenched in poison, it is drained of its force and reveals something else...

    Jimmy Tree: [pregnant pause] What?

    Miss Universe: Frustration!