After desolation, return to silence

Cristian 2022-11-12 06:43:09

No matter what it is, goodbyes are always hard. Especially, when life comes to the end, it is more like a work of mourning. Say goodbye to everything, and then head straight for the twilight valley.

At the last moment, the former friends were with each other, as if they came from the clouds;

the misunderstandings and ravines of the past disappeared one by one in the bell of the evening prayer.

In the last scene of "Dad's One-Way Ticket", Remy, who has been ill for a long time, finally injects heroin. When he was dying, his son Sebastian slowly put his hand down to his chest, and he forgave him.

At this moment, he walked very peacefully.

The estrangement between father and son (one lives in a secluded corner, living with existentialism, structuralism, Leninism, the other is in London, in the financial center of the world, with ease) is not important anymore, family love has a very forgiving side, forgiveness is the keynote.

The Montreal beach in the movie is quiet and gentle. Like the figure of a father and son walking.

How different ways of life must be reconciled in the blood after all.

How a different way of life, after all, has to be attracted and struggled for a long time, and finally still believe in it. After all, the power of habit has a quiet stubbornness.

There is also a sad landscape in the small town of Montreal. Natalie, she takes drugs and promiscuous, seems to see through the absurdity and boringness of the world. In the rogue, she continues the shadow of the Beat Generation, and she also longs for love.

In the car, she almost desperately said to Sebastian, you have a perfect life and a perfect fiancee. And I have nothing... The

fiancee said that there is no love between her and him, and she feels that life should not be built on the melody of "I love you, you love me, why don't you love me...". People who have been hurt have a disgust with the word "love", and it is better to live a real life. She and the romantic Remy are actually a type of person who does not believe in love and has her own philosophy of life.

And after being immersed in reality for a long time, Sebastian also has a trance time. Natalie is undoubtedly his exception. So, when parting, the two kissed wildly.

The ending of the movie is still bleak. He flew to London, and she stared in the corner, making a stop for this short time of "getting together and dispersing in a hurry". There is no lover who ends up getting married. The French-Canadian will not carry the romance to the end. He holds a scalpel and peels off everything in the world. , true, will make people feel down, not so positive energy.

In the process of saying goodbye, the desolation was accompanied by warmth, and finally vanished, leaving only a maple leaf-like silence.

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The Barbarian Invasions quotes

  • Hospital Patient Assistant: [speaking English] Good morning, guys. Welcome to America.

    Rémy: [in English; sarcastic] Praise the Lord.

    Sébastien: [also sarcastic] Hallelujah.

  • Rémy: I wish that one day you will have a son like you.