I recently watched the movie "The Aftermath". The plot of this film is not complicated, the scene is simple, and the content of the story is absurd, between true and false, false and true or yin and yang, but this is not important, the important thing is that the film is based on The unique form illustrates how one should view death and how one should confront the profound themes of life.
The heroine Anna is a beautiful girl who longs for love and pursues happiness, but her mother's influence makes her "want to love, but is too afraid". Because her mother told her a lesson from her own experience that loving someone means getting hurt, so don't love anyone so you won't get hurt. Therefore, Anna can never tell her true words in front of her boyfriend Paul who truly loves her, and is full of suspicion, so that her temperament is violent and hurts the other party's emotions, although she loves Paul deeply.
After Anna suffered a car accident due to the loss of control of her emotions, the confrontation between her and the mortician about life and death began, which is the focus of the film.
At first, Anna woke up from a coma and found that she was not dead, but the mortician told her "you are already dead", Anna said, "I am breathing, I am talking to you, how could it be dead?", the mortician said He was psychic, could have conversations between the living and the dead, and emphasized that letting Anna die was helping her.
"You people, do you think that you can breathe and defecate to prove that you are still alive? It seems that your life is worth remembering!"
Anna saw herself as lifeless as a corpse in the mirror. With the affirmative answer of "because you are a corpse", she gradually accepted the fact that she was dead. At this time, she began to miss her boyfriend who loved her deeply. Miss the once ordinary life.
"I have so many regrets, and apart from regrets and regrets, I would have liked to have a different life."
"Then why didn't you try?"
"I tried it and it didn't feel like a change, waking up every morning, taking a shower, following the same route to work, coming home from get off work, going to bed, waking up again, nothing different."
At this time, Anna understands the ordinary life and has a lover who is in love with each other. This is actually the happiness she really wants. But in real life, she closed her heart, afraid of admitting and unwilling to admit what she loved, so she always kept a distance from her true love and happiness, because her mother said that if you don't love, you will not be hurt. Until when she was wearing a shroud, she realized that Paul was her only lover, but she never said it, and all this was about to be buried in the ground with the coffin forever.
At this time, the mortician pointed out the real entanglement in Anna's heart, "I thought you were different. They all said they were afraid of death, but the truth is that you are more afraid of living."
The heroine Anna couldn't face herself truthfully when she was alive, and her entanglement made others suffer. When faced with death, he is full of fear and has a strong desire to survive. It was not until the mortician identified her vital points and let her know that people like her had lost their vitality and were already living dead and should be buried. At this time, Anna, who was about to be buried, calmly accepted everything.
"I'm glad I'm dead, I'm glad it's over."
The role of the heroine Anna in the film is actually relatively weak. Looking at the profound themes expounded in the film, Anna's role is still light and thin, and it is difficult to bear the weight of the whole story.
The film ends by interpreting the theme from the perspective of the absurd character of the mortician, "I am the only one who can see dead bodies wandering aimlessly, they only defecate, and their stench suffocates us. Live to do nothing. , and let those who want to live lose hope, and I must bury them all."
The film deduces the life of a person through a story of the events behind him, and the events of his life are the most important things that people have to face in reality. Don't wait until you face irreparable life to know repentance and be buried with endless regrets.
How many people wandering aimlessly like corpses in the real society, how to face life and how to face death, is worth thinking about by everyone.
After all, in the real world, there are still occasions when one word disagrees with a knife and hurts people.
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