The film's curtain call indicates that this film is dedicated to and thanks to Claire Wineland. I searched the video channel of the heroine Stella in the movie on YouTube. The first thing that appeared was the documentary My Last Days directed by Justin Baldoni (director of "Five Feet of the World") and Sky Gaven, which recorded several terminally ill patients. The aspect of the level. One of the episodes that aired in 2016 was Claire (set name: "Meet Claire | Finding Beauty in the Sadness").
The production consultant of "Five Feet of the World" is Claire herself. She provided the play with information about many diseases, and some CF patients are facing treatment, life and various emotional psychology, and it is also very important for the hero and heroine. Tuition-CF patients have every behavior and emotion inside and out in daily life and facing the future. It is said that the heroine Hayley (Hayley Lu Richardson) often gets along with Claire before and after playing the role.
Therefore, in the character setting, plot and story connotation of "Five Feet of the World", there are actually many very similarities. The heroine Stella can be found in her body. First of all, Stella and Claire are also YouTube channel bloggers, often sharing some information related to CF disease-popular science, treatment, daily life, entertainment, etc. In the movie, when the protagonist Will painted Stella in the gym, Stella mentioned her "ultimate life list", most of which are directly reflected with Claire, such as "participate in a "Important political volunteer activities" and "Sharing CF disease information with others" are almost all Claire's personal careers. In the "My Last Days" series "Meet Claire", there is a clip where Claire escapes from hospital to Los Angeles and meets Bernie Sanders, and in real life, Claire is a famous CF patient blogger , Mainly to popularize the knowledge of CF disease to netizens.
Claire authored a book "Every Breath I Take" (Every Breath I Take), which wrote that she experienced rescue when she fell into a coma, and some subconscious emotions: "It took me a while to let go of my desire to control and let I was able to tell them-I gave my life to you.... I think this is one of the most difficult challenges in my coma-trying to stop struggling and get them to treat me. I finally understand that I must let go. I heard people around me say to me-relax, calm down, everything will be okay. The first thing I can think of is-no, this is not good! I must make myself better! But in the end I accepted this fact , Aware of her own powerlessness." Claire has excellent willpower in the face of illness, just like Stella. However, their perseverance has an extreme similar to obsessive-compulsive disorder-a strong desire for control. This quotation shows the faint emotions in Claire's heart. In the movie, Stella has the same paranoid "correction" to her treatment and to the daily and treatments of her friend Poe and Will. It is the true side of Claire.
Maybe it's that Claire's first aid experience is not enough to prove that Claire and Stella are similar in connotation, so there is a narrative that actually connects Claire and Stella. Claire mentioned in his book that CF patients cannot have close contact with their patients like cancer patients, and CF is a genetic disease that gets sick at birth. The pain they experience is longer than many diseases, and for the patients, the close companionship on the limbs is also a fatal comfort. That's why there is a "six-foot rule" in the CF disease community. Compared with the current Internet development, everyone can communicate with each other, but most of the actual fun is still not encouraged. But there are still some CF patients who will desperately go to get close contact with CF patients. They feel that anyway, they will die anyway, why can't they live happily and do whatever they want. Claire is totally unacceptable to this. She wrote: "This attitude is the most unacceptable for me. Because I work very hard to live, just like many other CF patients I know through the Internet. We are all working hard to get the current health status, and we Give the life you have a very high value. I don’t know that a CF patient who doesn’t think so (even those who suffer from depression or suicide) also knows how precious such a life is.” You can find Claire’s observations in the text CF patients generally have two attitudes: those who protect themselves actively and self-discipline, and those who are desperate and don't have much hope for improving their health. Claire and Stella belonged to the former, and Will belonged to the latter at first. Claire was saying that she could not tolerate such a strong tone of facing life, just as Stella had a strong desire to adjust Will's treatment.
CF is a long-lasting disease that has not yet been cured. Claire and Stella seem to be indifferent to life and death, but they have high hopes in a limited life, and people who are betting to improve their own quality of life and the value of their lives. They are all the same. They treat the oxygen concentrator as a part of their body, and their smiles are almost exactly the same during the treatment. But this does not mean that they can get used to the feeling of dying. In the movie, for the first time Stella faced an operation without her sister's company and encouragement, she was actually very uneasy. As far as I feel, obsessive-compulsive disorder has such a superstition: the last time I experienced a similar situation was smooth, what did I do before that? From which door to enter, which suit to wear, which foot to put on the shoes first, which type of socks, etc., every step is not to be mistaken. Stella has already explained that she has the obsessive-compulsive disorder of "not seeing things irregularly". The sadness and obsessive-compulsive disorder of her sister Abbie's accidental death have formed a huge cloud, which makes her sad, self-blaming and uneasy. Claire is also, when facing "may go wrong" or "may die".
In a video on Claire's personal channel, she mentioned that since she was sensible, she would read the consent form signed by her parents over and over again. It was written about the accident and death probability caused by various situations, she thought over and over again. After that, she finally let herself learn how to look at death—every time anesthesia was operated on, she regarded herself as dying. After watching that video, I thought, what kind of precipitation method is there to face death like this?
In the movie, Stella is a girl with meditation habits, and so is Claire. There is a meditation chart in their room. Claire said that her meditation chart was brought to her from Tibet by a friend. There is a fuzzy boundary between life and death, and what we are afraid of has always been the blur at the other end of that boundary. Therefore, I have no answer to the question in the previous paragraph. Although Claire has walked the brink of death time and time again, she could not explain clearly to us that we have never had an image of a dead world. Claire and Stella both tried to find such a noisy question in the space of meditation. Seeing the meditation picture in Stella's room, people can't help thinking about Claire first.
Stella and Claire have both got the opportunity of a lung transplant. Stella got the extension of her life, but said goodbye to Will, whose treatment was ineffective. Claire died of a stroke after a lung transplant before the movie was released. I think this is a kind of balance. The movie still didn't give Stella and Will a dramatic happy ending, and Claire also left. But their shortcomings are still alive with her optimistic and courageous soul.
In "Five Feet of the World", Stella said that touch is the first ability that people have to express love. We need it just as we need air. I feel very touched by this. As an original work, Wu Chi Tian Ya has such an ambiguous connection with Claire's "breathing" in the initial narrative. Claire tells us that the quality of life never depends on our health, and how we can face life. "The story of Stella and Will tells us that in every cherished or forgotten cherished relationship, touching such an easy act has so much weight.
Youth is short-lived in the long years of ordinary people, but those who have gone through that period of youth will almost treat everything in that period as a dreamy past. But we may be able to make some changes to the many contents that youth can hold. They are not only frivolous, but also frivolous. Precisely because when we were young, we all thought that what we knew could hold the whole world, and the truth at that time was the most true, which is different from the truth of the real soul chicken soup.
The novels of "Five Chi Tianya" are classified as young people's books, as well as love-type books. Trailers and various propaganda, at least what I have seen in Taiwan, are often compared with "The Fault In Our Stars" (The Fault In Our Stars) for the same theme (the theme of youth diseases). Whether it's John Green or Rachael Lippincott, I think these two stories are never just about the pure love between a teenager and a girl. What’s more is the beginning, experience and result of Romeo and Juliet’s love, they said in the most simple way, one thing is very simple, we may not be able to do those things: bravely accept that you will be forgotten, Give a hug to the one who loves and the one who loves you. And also—learn how to endure the tenth-level pain of Hazel losing her lover, and Stella let go of Will's deep love and nostalgia.
Before writing this postscript, I have never paid attention to the news of Claire's death. I was thinking, this girl who was only one year younger than I was still smiling and saying to everyone: "Let’s not think about death." Part of it is because I don’t care too much. We can’t control anything, but what we can grasp is whether we are proud of our lives.”
My best friend Yanan said that Claire has her attitude towards life, generally because she knows the limits of her life, so she can care about others with more experience. Because she doesn't have much ability to change her health and life. On the contrary, we are relatively lack of such a mind, because we have too many unknowns and dare not let it go. Yanan said a very important point, but I still recognized it weakly. I think many people are the same. But Claire still said something like: "We are all the same, and we have been hesitating how to make our life like a work of art. But I think this is the joy of life." She is also challenging the unknown. , Looking forward to a lot of unknowns.
Our lives are the same, whether sick or not. As the body gives us various changes, strengthening or decline; or experience, interpersonal or workplace, there is always a point in time, we will face many things like Claire's mentality. She, or other people who are the same as her, just moved faster and streamlined a bit, nothing more.
"Five Feet of the World" talks about the touch of love, Claire says that artistic torture, pain, and loneliness are all beautiful. I hope that in a long, long time, Stella and Claire will still have those brilliant and beautiful words.
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