The theme of one issue of "Wonderful Flowers" was "Should I encourage a terminally ill patient who wants to end his life?" The discussion that day was sad because it involved such heavy topics as relatives, life, and death.
If the three weirdos who held the opposite view that day had seen "Truman", maybe they could cite one more example.
Julian, who lives in Madrid, is a theater actor suffering from lung cancer. His time is short. His lifelong friend Thomas flew from Canada to see him. The various things that happened here, in short, Thomas saw how his good friend who had decided to give up treatment and died calmly arranged the funeral, as well as the stories of him and various related people in his life interspersed.
Movies of the same type, such as "Bucket List" and "Still Alice", all talk about propositions such as the dignity of life. "Truman" chose a clever angle. Truman is the old dog who has accompanied Julian for many years. The main line of the whole story is that Julian wants to find a family worthy of trust for his dog to adopt before he dies.
In a way, Julian sees Truman as more important than himself, and before going to see the attending doctor, Julian takes Thomas to the veterinarian, who asks "If I die, what will my dog do? Do you have any thoughts, will you experience the same pain as the human beings who have witnessed the passing of their loved ones?” Questions like this. Then he came to the hospital, and in front of his old friend announced to the doctor that he would no longer receive treatment, because he had done everything he could, and no matter how much treatment he received, he would not get better.
This decision of Julian was not negative, nor was it broken, he also fought, but when the resistance was invalid, death began to make people clear, he just wanted to understand, and then as he said, "everyone have the right to choose their own way of death" chose their own way.
Although Thomas, who first heard about the decision, still tried to persuade his friends to seize even one percent of their hopes, his persuasion may have been just an instinctive resistance to the naked saying of "encouraging friends to die". Good friend, maybe the moment he heard his decision, he knew there was no way he could convince him to change his mind, so after a few fiery squabbles, he actually silently accepted Julian's decision, knowing that What I can do is to accompany Julian to do all kinds of things he has to do or have a strong will to do these days - to meet various families who are interested in adopting Truman, to ensure that he finds a suitable next home for him; to Funeral service company chooses cemetery, coffin, urn; on a whim, flew back and forth to Holland to find my son that day, just to have a meal with him and celebrate his birthday...
even cruel, in the last time, it was as a friend The essence is also the greatest respect for a dying person.
In fact, the people around Julian in the movie did not have any vehement opposition to Julian's decision to give up treatment. Thomas needless to say, Julian's cousin, ex-wife, and son all conveyed their opinions on this decision from different sides. Default and support, especially Julian's son Nick. When Julian flew to the Netherlands temporarily to meet his son, he was still struggling to tell his son that he had decided to give up treatment, but he did not know that his son had learned about it from his ex-wife. When King Julian said that he had been undecided whether to say it or not, Nick tacitly did not pierce the layer of paper. He did not tell his father that he already knew his decision, but gave him the A painful, forceful, almost tearful hug.
This is the tone of the whole movie, there is no deliberate sensationalism, and no deliberate downplay. All restrained and respected Julian's decision not to live.
Going back to the topic that Qi Hua said at the beginning, I think this debate can be derived into "How should we face the dying person". For this question, the film has actually presented Julian's two encounters in the restaurant. in two distinct ways.
The first is that Julian ran into his actor friends in a restaurant, he was sure they saw him, and pretended to ignore it because "people don't know what to say to me at a time like this, they smell death, they're scared, They don't know what to do, so they avoid me."
Also at the restaurant, Julian meets another person he doesn't want to meet, because he once had a relationship with his wife and they divorced. But unexpectedly, after seeing Julian, the man took the initiative to walk up to him to say hello. After the two asked each other about the current situation, the man said, "I heard about you not long ago, and I feel very sad. , I just wanted to come and tell you, sometimes I think of you." For this, Julian felt very grateful. He said: "After so many things happened, thank you for being willing to come and say hello to me as you did just now. I'm really surprised."
These two encounters are really an interesting contrast, Sometimes, in front of the dying, the living are more afraid of death, and because of this fear, they even refuse to say a word of comfort to those who will never see again.
For those who are about to die, they have seen the hands of death waving, and their hearts have been determined and calm. If they can hear the greetings from those who have appeared in life, loved and hurt before leaving , may be the best comfort.
In the end, Truman did not find a suitable adoptive family. When seeing Thomas off at the airport, Julian suddenly handed Truman to Thomas, solemnly, reluctantly and slightly excitedly said, "This is Truman's certificate and ticket. , vaccinations, veterinary certificates, etc., you will use it when you go through Canadian customs...I gave him some medicine in the morning to calm him down, don't worry about him calling...let you guys Naughty child treat it well", I finally gave birth to a subtle feeling of wanting to cry, this is Truman's home, and Julian's.
Death is there, I'm ready, thank you for the last company, thank you for your silent support, thank you for not kidnapping me with love and morality, allowing me to reconcile with this world, and then walk on to another new life without worry. journey of.
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