In the name of the god of death named Ou Rong...

Bertram 2022-04-19 09:02:47


Watched this movie on and off for two years...just wondering what I'll be doing when I know I'm dying...

I'll spend all my money, I think. Aren't you afraid of throwing your corpse in the wilderness instead of lying in a golden coffin? It's all dead anyway, we don't care that much. And probably I will tell some secrets about my life, then if I don’t say when to tell me, I will be my true self. But then again, who knows all of this, facing the despair that can no longer be dark, as long as you are not careful, you will completely lose the ability to think...

Alas, this question is not what people think...

Facts I've been listening to Ou Rong's name all the time, but I haven't seen a few real movies, and now [Dead Time] is also counted as one...

It's only now that I really understand some of Ou Rong's style. The faint, or meaningless, small events, pictures and sounds in the protagonist's sight are so inadvertent, but to connect them, it can be said that they are all those cruel protagonists who want to do but lose the opportunity to do it again. The thing... As for the method, it's still normal, unlike some directors who deliberately make their films so that no one can understand them in order to pursue the so-called art, and then send them to the film festival, and then those who eat and sleep all day The movie reviewers who were full of sleep and food made a lot of nonsense about how profound and postmodern the movie is. In fact, when you watched it, they fell asleep and couldn't keep up...

Speaking of which... The interspersed episodes of Roman and his childhood in the movie are very good film language~ I know that there are many similar techniques in many movies, but the meaning here is different... One, Whenever Romon said something about his disgust for his sister and his sister's children because of his infinite disappointment in life, the scene of the two of them playing or resting together when they were young would generally appear. That is definitely telling us what he really thinks.. The second is that thinking about his childhood will make him feel what a good time it was, and it will help him soothe and numb those thoughts that are about to die. However, this method The side effects are especially unpredictable. The purest things in the world are lingering in the mind, but the most terrible things are entangled in the body. At the end of the film, the smile that seems to be facing the self as a child and the later crying are the best Example...so.this kind of contrast,who can handle..?!

Before watching, I read some plot introductions, very good lines and so on..Some of them are very impressive. Grandma Luo asked" Why did you tell me this?"..."Because you, like me, are both dying"... Now watching such an exchange in that scene is shockingly real~! A dying person who is stubborn and does not want to get sympathy from others because of his own misery, can only take a little comfort and care from the seemingly similar kind so humbly

. , I tried my best to make fun of my sister at my parents' house and then laughed and pretended to be relaxed. Later, I couldn't bear the hypocrisy of myself and the self-deception of "trying to live my last days well" and was forced to slam into the wall and yell. After that, when I gathered up the courage to go to the hospital to receive treatment, I talked about some irrelevant topics about dreams. Do I want to say that I have no dreams in the future? Don't know. The only thing that may be known is that the result of that trip to the hospital was that he didn't even use chemotherapy anymore and didn't need to try again... This can only be a reasonable explanation, albeit a cruel one. ..


Beginning at the beach and ending at the beach, the heroic and melancholy boy walked into the sea with his back to us in dark swimming trunks. The only change is that it starts with a boy and ends with a man, but that's just an age difference, age is just a statistic. Like said, they still don't change is the boy...

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  • [Romain's mother expresses her interest in Romain taking photographs of the family]

    Sophie: Save you breath, Mom. We're not hip enough. He prefers actresses and models.

    La mère: Don't say that. He just hasn't had time yet.

    Le père: Of course.

    Romain: No, she's right.

    La mère: Why do you say that?

    Romain: I don't want to photograph her kids.

    Le père: Romaine, stop.

    Sophie: Leave it, Dad.

    Romain: And you know why? Because they sprang from you, and your ugly mug would be in the picture. It makes me want to puke.

    La mère: Romaine, stop it!

    Romain: No wonder your man left. It's like you made the kids alone.

  • Le père: How are things with Sasha?

    Romain: Not bad, not great. We'll probably break up soon.

    Le père: Shit. Why?

    Romain: Like in all couples, routine kills desire.