It can be said that the excellent performance of the 87-year-old "Colonel" Christopher Plummer (named after playing the role of the Colonel in the famous musical "The Sound of Music"), made the The audience ignored some of the lack of plot and narrative in "Remember". The last time they saw Christopher Plummer's performance was in the film "Beginner". Lumer has become the oldest Oscar winner. In this "Remember", you can also see old actors such as Bruno Ganz and Jurgen Prochno, which makes him feel particularly cherished.
William Shakespeare wrote in Tat for Tat: "Once we put shame on the back of our minds, nothing is right in what we do..." For the shameful events in human history, It is obviously unwise to choose to forget or obliterate. For the human catastrophe in the 1930s and 1940s, it seems that no amount of recollection and reflection is enough. Therefore, Light and Shadow spared no effort to carry out all angles and all levels. Expression and reflection.
The director of the film, Atom Igoyan, seems to be a man of ideas. He once re-directed the French film "Natalie" into the North American "Chloe", and used this to make a new view of the relationship inside and outside the marriage. Interpretation and interpretation, Igoyan also adopted a new perspective and interpretation mode in the concentration camp theme that has been shown a lot in the film, while the screenwriter Benjamin August introduced Alzheimer's disease into the plot, which seems relatively Fresh, and quite meaningful. The characters are confused between forgetting and remembering, and suffer from truth and disillusionment, which makes the "Murder Tracking", which is more than half a century late, presented in the first half of the film, appear unique.
Is it an increasingly serious disease, or is his true identity more tormenting? For Zev, an old man with Alzheimer's disease, the first half of his journey of revenge after escaping from the nursing home is more terrifying. The disease makes Zev sober from time to time. Sometimes confused, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty for the old man to complete his revenge. A sense of anxiety and urgency always accompanies the old man on the road, and it also makes the audience feel this anxiety and urgency. When the plot reversed in the latter part, the truth became a blow that caught the people off guard, and the oncoming blow, so the scorching degree of the latter was no less than complete destruction.
Borges said: "Any destiny, no matter how long and complicated, is actually only reflected in one moment: the moment when people realize who they really are." At the moment of his own identity, the old things he has actively or passively forgotten are particularly lethal. If suffering from illness is a kind of confusion and exile of self-identity, then knowing the truth of the past makes him believe in it. Everything has come to nothing. In this sense, although the final reversal of the film is not particularly brilliant, it is also straightforward and cruel, and it also subverts the audience's position.
The audience followed the staggering footsteps of the old man Zeev all the way. At first, they saw him trembling on the road with heavy responsibilities, constantly struggling between sobriety and confusion, going to different places to complete seemingly impossible "tasks". . Due to the subjective perspective, the audience has been worried about the patient Zev, worried that his justice and law enforcement will be delayed due to his illness, and even more worried that he will be attacked by "enemies". When watching the old man stumblingly complete the task list and overfulfill the task to kill the middle-aged fanatic Nazi, the audience is still worried about whether he can fight to the end and find the real jailer. However, after the sudden change of identity, the audience Has the kind and persistent old man in his eyes really become unforgivable? The setting of this subjective perspective of the film makes thinking have more layers.
Compared with the old Nazis in the film, the remarks of one of the police officers' sons are even more shocking and alarming. Bernard Shaw said: "It is not the memory of the past that makes us wise, but the responsibility of the future." Remember, in order to make more informed decisions and judgments about the future, it is always good to be vigilant about the future human society.
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