The seventh episode was filmed so well that some people actually sprayed it. I'm also drunk. It seems that the level of education is really the number one reason that restricts smooth communication. Your low logical understanding ability does not mean that the film is poor. It's just that you didn't learn Chinese and mathematics well when you were in school. Go back and apologize to the teacher.
Don't say anything else, just talk about the feeling of the seventh episode. After all, this episode is the best episode since the seven episodes. As far as the plot structure is concerned, it can also be viewed as an independent film. Of course, the story is not finished yet. Every sentence I say below may be overturned by the subsequent development of the story. However, the unpredictability of the development of the story is what attracts audiences to wonderful American dramas. I expect my explanation to be overturned. Understand two sentences.
The entire seventh episode can be regarded as an independent film about the grandmother. The storyline is completely linear, and the mental picture of her perspective in almost every segment in which the grandma appeared in the first six episodes is completed, so that the audience can understand the appearance of this character. Why do you do this so far? It's a complete and three-dimensional image of this character, which gives you a new understanding of her. It is also a guide for watching movies to help low-minded audiences understand the plot of the first six episodes. It can be said that the director He and the screenwriter are well-intentioned, I'm afraid some people still can't understand it, but I didn't expect it to be haha. As an Alzheimer's patient, her memory is disordered, and her mind often wanders between the past and the present, and the toy soldier is the coordinate that she uses to distinguish reality from imagination. Multiple story details, let you understand the whole story. For example, her views on her husband, her protection of her son and grandson, her love with the old policeman, she always knew the cause of her husband's death, and so on. If you can’t understand this kind of linear story, the classic movies with multi-line development flashbacks in the top 250 imdb rankings are probably scumbags in your eyes, and your poor understanding ability is your own problem. And the director did not show off his skills, but very aptly showed the world in the eyes of an Alzheimer's patient and her efforts and struggles. As for whether or not to be moved, everyone's emotional core is different, so I won't intervene. A hard-hearted person, a troll who can't read it, is moved.
In addition, I saw a friend who said that his grandson said that his grandmother was a time traveler, and thus started some discussions about the identity of the audience's grandmother, parallel worlds and time travel. I will explain my understanding.
What this child said is actually meaningful. He commented on the strong actions behind the grandmother. Of course, the grandmother is not a time traveler, but she definitely has the attributes of a time traveler in the mouth of the child, and is a strong mother who defends the child, even if It is difficult for her to distinguish between reality and imagination. She can only rely on the toy soldier as a time coordinate to distinguish whether it is the current reality or the imagination of her past memories. She is still tenaciously acting and defending her children. In flashbacks of the past, she was trying to defend her son, and back in reality she was tenaciously defending her grandson. Through the characteristics of the old grandmother's Alzheimer's disease, the director was able to keep the plot constantly interspersed with imagination and reality. Help the audience complete and understand the story of the old grandmother defending her child (grandson), and then the double-line plot progress of the past and the present is linear, and there is nothing difficult to understand, just through the past and present old grandmother's understanding of similar The different choices of events make this character more three-dimensional and sublimated. She was cowardly in the past, although she chose to ignore the dog, did not elope, and missed love, but everything was based on her love for children. Although she is sick now, she is strong, and finally made up for every point she regretted in the past. She chose to face the dog and get the bullet, face the danger to protect the child, face the love and embrace her own happiness. But the grandmother is tragic. The imaginary picture of her reunion with the old policeman at the end is the only memory flashback in the whole episode that does not appear in chronological order. Obviously, the director did it deliberately to echo the clip of her mistakenly killing the old policeman in the real timeline at the end. This policeman is the origin of her strong choice to face everything, and her destination. Her actions may not change anything, and even contribute to her own tragedy, but her love for her children, her choice, and her defense are enough Great, even if it ends at the expense of one's own happiness.
(Then there is an Easter egg in this episode, that is, the grandmother asked her grandson to leave the house and go to the town of Chester Mill to hide. Don't you think this place name is familiar?)
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