Last Saturday I went to see the screening of "Unreachable" (the movie will also be released this Friday). The day before I went to the movie, I went to the hospital to register. It was around 4 o’clock on Friday afternoon and the Shanghai Sixth Hospital Old uncles and aunts line up.
When I arrived at the entrance of the waiting room, it was the world with the old man on his back. With the setting sun coming in through the window before me, I really saw the sight of the western mountains getting thinner by the sun. Just as we often sigh: as soon as you go to the hospital when you are sick, you know that you are quite comfortable the days before.
Yes, as long as the body is healthy, it seems that life is not too bad.
I have the same feeling after watching "Unreachable".
Philip is a rich man with countless money, but he has forever lost a body that can be moved by a normal person. He relies on an electric wheelchair controlled by his neck every day. For the most basic eating and drinking, he has completely lost his autonomy. Right, can only rely on the help of the caregiver to complete.
On the other hand, the black carer Dell, who was recruited, had no money and no career. His father’s mistakes taught him from his childhood prevented him from getting out of the terrible original family shadow. What’s worse is that now even his wife doesn’t want their children to live with him. It seemed that Dell had no way out but to continue stealing.
Philip and Dale lost their control over their bodies, and the other lost their confidence in the continuation of their current lives. It seems that no matter how powerful they are, whether they are rich or poor, everyone’s life is hard to swallow.
Philip's unspeakable fragility is hidden under his elegant protective color
Philip is a real rich man in the movie. Money is only a number to him. He once had a beloved wife. Everything so beautiful was destroyed by an accident—that time should have been a happy experience. The paragliding trip separated the two lives, and Philip was permanently paralyzed in a wheelchair.
Rich and powerful people are always so decent. They dress, talk, and taste. It seems that even in the face of serious illnesses, elegance should follow, but this is just appearance.
I was impressed by Philip’s yelling twice in the movie. The first time was at a birthday party organized for him by his housekeeper Yvonne. Philip did not want to see so many people comforting and encouraging him. He once said that he wanted to "Dead with dignity", he was naturally extremely embarrassed.
Just like the sentence in "The Catcher in the Rye": "When someone tells you to cheer, it means you are going to be unlucky",
Yes, compassion and sympathy are insults in the eyes of a face-saving man like Philip, so he ordered Dale to smash all the unpleasant furnishings in front of him, and finally yelled out and got a breath.
The second big roar was at the end of the movie. He once again got on the paraglider. This time with Dale, he roared out while flying in the sky. This is a free life experience. Reconciliation in the past disaster.
These two roars were naturally not Philip’s personal style in the past, but under the influence of the optimist Dale, he let go of this elegance and truly faced his desires-food on the roadside, stimulating driving, young Women also have simple and direct communication.
A rich man and a vagrant have the same preferences, and elegance is superfluous in the face of primitive needs.
Dale's bleak life was changed by the appearance of Philip
Why does Philip want Dell to stay with him? This is something I've always been curious about. It seems that the whole movie didn't give a reason. Is it the pity and sympathy of the rich who see the poor? I don't think so. After all, Philip himself is a person who hates "charity and encouragement", and he will not destroy this kind of decency.
I think it’s more out of curiosity. So many recruited nurses seem to be excellent, hardworking, and have endless promises for this job.
However, only Dell was the "worst choice": he was in prison, addicted to theft, and his family was in a mess, and he didn't even understand the basic duties of a caregiver.
Philip's choice of Dell is undoubtedly because of his speciality. He wanted to see what this complete stranger, someone who could expand his cognitive boundaries with him, could bring to his exhausted and decayed life.
Especially for Philip, life seems to have no more excitement, and a person like Dale who runs for life and jumps around every day can really attract Philip's attention.
After Dale became a carer, Philip's life has changed obviously, and Dale also has more money to take care of his family and do what he likes. With money, he can also look at the world in his own way.
At least, his strange painting was sold at a high price under Philip's "Fudge". Although all this is Philip out of his own selfish intentions, but I think that people like Dell can survive well in any corner of the world-as long as he wants to.
After all, with optimism and good health, no matter how unsatisfactory life is, there is always the possibility of a comeback.
After writing this, I remembered another interesting story about the hospital.
After I checked up in the hospital that day, the doctor prescribed me a long list. It was not symptoms and drugs, but daily taboos, and a whole menu of "taboos".
So I complained to the doctor: "This can't be eaten and the other can't be eaten, it's annoying. Why does someone stay up late and eat these and not get sick?" The doctor coldly replied, "You have no life."
The doctor always speaks like a stethoscope in the winter, cold and serious when he puts it into his clothes, but in fact, they just calmly told the truth.
In the same way, the lives of Philip and Dale are suffering, and it is also a fact.
Hard life is the norm. It deserves our emotions, sorrow, annoyance, and anger, and releases all the emotions that belong to it, but it is not worthy of us being depressed and perishing all the time. Use bitterness as a flavor to highlight the sweetness.
Obviously, "Unreachable" is a "horse killing chicken" to heal our souls in winter. Maybe you think that real life does not have so many protagonists' auras, but we can't deny that the belief in a good life can drive action, choking on the throat. The ice can melt faster.
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