closest enemy

Joana 2022-03-26 09:01:11

Family ties seem to be a perennial proposition in Dolan's work. Coupled with gender recognition, precise ritual images and music, and hysterical quarrels, these symbols have become several essential elements for his creation and expression.

Dolan's work has a simple storyline. But the emotions involved are very strong. Advanced expression is the ability to convey emotions and attitudes from trivial details. Although there are self-repetitive and highly overlapping emotional expressions, it is undeniable that he must be regarded as a genius-level figure.

[I am about to die soon, I want to say goodbye to the most important person in my life, but the life that has been derailed is impossible to be as beautiful and peaceful as I hoped. In the end, I still couldn't say the most important sentence. Nothing, this is life, and the end of the world is nothing more than that. 】

I don't know how the family relationship of the beautiful boy is going. But the family relationships of the protagonists in his works always seem to be a mess.

Love is one thing, getting along is another.

This is our trouble, the trouble of all.

People who get along with each other day and night are all out of tune, and the family divides chickens and ducks. Not to mention the "family" that I haven't seen in so many years. Self-deception is often the beginning of tragedy. For such a close visitor, everyone eagerly wanted to convey so many years of experiences and emotions to him, and wanted to share life with him, but they ignored the cognition and understanding of each other. Instead, he was in a dilemma, at a loss.

The conflict that finally erupted violently came from the identification of mutual estrangement. Mother, brother, sister-in-law, sister. The dialogue between characters with different personalities and the protagonist constantly reminds him that he belongs here and he does not belong here.

Family ties are a very unique existence. Unlike other emotional connections, it seems to have its own divine light due to the existence of blood ties. It's important, it's domineering, and it doesn't even make sense. We have no way to deal with it freely, no way to easily say no or let go.

But this kind of intimacy often brings the deepest damage. This is especially true of the family of origin. Many or most people spend their entire lives unable to get out of the influence of the past. But people who are hurt are always repeating the process of hurting and being hurt unconsciously.

What we are looking for in the world is someone to understand, someone to love, and what we are looking for is an ethereal sense of happiness.

This feeling is very weak. One of the views I have always believed in is that love is not expressed, much less not expressed, but needs to be felt. There are a few parents who don't love their children, but how many of them can say they love the right way.

In the name of love, but not in love. Happens to be the saddest.

The movie happened to depict such an embarrassing situation of a lover who can't do anything, but hesitant to say anything, but every word is wrong. In the end, it was full of chicken feathers. Storytellers find the problem, but have no way of solving it for us. Problems can only be solved by themselves.

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It's Only the End of the World quotes

  • Louis-Jean Knipper: There I was, after 10 years, well, 12, to be precise. So after 12 years of absence and in spite of my fear, I was going to visit them. In life there a number of motivations that are no one's business, that force you to leave without looking back. And there are just as many motivations that force you to return. So after all those years, I decided to retrace my steps. Take the journey... to announce my death. Announce it in person, and try to give the others and myself one last time, the illusion that I am, until its very end, the master of my life. Let's see how that goes.

  • La mère: I don't understand you. But I love you. I love you. No one will take that away from me.