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——"The Third Star"
I suddenly heard a lot of topics about life and death in the past two days, but it reminded me of this small and fresh movie with a British style. After a long time, the shock of watching the film was almost unabated, so I decided to come back and write something.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Serious spoilers, be careful~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The film starts with James' monologue. In a starry sky, his face vaguely appeared, and then slowly dissipated. In the cold wind, withered grass fluttered.
"Today I'm 29 years old, I won't live to 30, but I'm fine, really."
James, who is suffering from cancer, knows that his life is not long, he wants to escape from the pretense and forced laughter around him, keep a distance from it, So, he made an appointment with three good friends to accompany him on a final trip to his favorite place -
Ballafonte Bay. He blew out the birthday candles, threw the party and said goodbye to his family. Four good friends, with a cart, loads of luggage, and a tree to be planted at their destination, set off.
This is bound to be an unusual journey.
To get to Balafonte Bay, you need to take a car first, then change to walking, trek in the uninhabited wilderness for a few days, take a ferry, and overturn cliffs...
This place is isolated from the world, but it is picturesque.
James' cancer has left him almost unable to walk on his own, limping around in small areas and spending most of his time on a cart. And his good friends are responsible for pushing the cart, carrying luggage, camping, cooking, and taking care of his daily life.
The beginning of the trip is like a carnival. They say goodbye, speed down the highway, take selfies from every conceivable angle, drink, slapstick, dance around the bonfire, attend the village masquerade.
James asked his friend, have you tried doing anything crazy? Then, sitting in a wheelchair and holding a cane, he rushed into the scene of the gang fight.
The four of them sat on the cart and rushed down the hillside, their wanton shouts echoing in the wilderness.
They set off the fireworks that had arrived at their destination in advance, joyfully like a group of children, James sat quietly, the color of fireworks was on his face, and his eyes were as bright as flames.
Of course, in the style of the rotten country, the four men's travels are so lacking in love and dark humor. Along the way, good friends gag and fight each other in strength, which fully reflects the lethality of words under the indifferent appearance of men in corrupt countries. What's more, living in a tent at night, and a small bridge where James, who has limited mobility, goes to the toilet with the help of a friend.
On a rocky beach, they met an uncle who was only wearing shorts and showing his thighs rummaging through the trash. In order to find the out-of-print Darth Vader that he concluded had drifted here, they spent years and years here. .
The uncle in the ticket booth, with eyeshadow on, operates the ferry here day after day in this desolate place, waiting for the few people to come.
This trip is also full of all kinds of bei (cui) surprises.
Hipi's fireworks night, because a firework got into the tent, it became a tragedy in an instant, and after the rescue failed, four big men grind (xiu) grind (xiu) chirp (da) chirp (da) do not (xi) love (wen) did not (le) willingly (jian) squeezed into a tent.
For a mobile phone that they brought secretly, the two friends began to fight, and as a result, the cart fell off the cliff, the mobile phone was thrown into the sea, and the two became a ball.
James, who lost the cart, insisted on moving forward, and the little friends could only carry (cross out) the princess and carry him forward.
For most of the film, the tone is upbeat. Despite the slightly heavy night of talking about death by the campfire, the quarrels and tantrums of good friends, and James' heartfelt saying, I want to live, those bad emotions, in the sun, in On the magnificent hiking road between the mountains and the sea, in the interspersed little humor, in the relaxed soundtrack, it seems to disappear quickly.
As James said, I have never been so alive.
This is the last orgy of my life, and he did escape all the sadness as planned.
In addition to the morphine that never leaves his mouth, and the limping when he walks, sometimes, you may even ignore that he is a patient with a short life and immerse himself in this short good time.
Until the last night, he looked at his friends and said his final plan.
They looked at his real appearance when he suffered from a pain attack because he failed to take morphine in time. There was no laughing, only tortured, and the previous opposition finally ceased to be firm.
On the beach the next morning, he was lying in the arms of his friends, saying his last goodbyes to them, and walking to the icy sea alone.
And they rushed into the sea, accompany him on the last journey, and watched him indulge.
This part of the movie suddenly became quiet and long. The camera swayed with the waves. Occasionally, the birds swept across the sky, and I could see them shouting, but their voices dissipated in the waves. But all this is not so much heavy, but another kind of grandeur.
I love what James said to his friends on the last night.
I want to finally get something done. I swam to the sea and it took me. It's not the same, I can make a choice.
I wish I had been conscious when I left, and I wish I could feel something, even if it was pain, like sea water pouring into my lungs.
I want to feel, to fight something huge and scary, bravely.
Who can say that such a choice does not require courage?
In fact, from the very beginning, you will faintly feel that each of the four of them is not really that happy. Needless to say, James, who is about to die, Davy, who lost his job and came to take care of him, Miles, who is full of secrets after a long time, and Bill, who is doing a job he doesn't like and has a lukewarm girlfriend.
This trip started with James, who planned everything, but not just for himself.
He dragged them on the road with his checkmate, he led them into carnivals, and he discussed with them where to go after death, with envy and despair, he berated them for wasting their lives, trying to talk to everyone about a life they didn't want to talk about. He chose his own path and let them witness his departure.
What better way to tell a person how to live than to die?
This film was released in the same year as Sherlock. When the film was released, Benny had not yet become popular all over the world because of the image of the well-known big detective, but in such a small independent film, his genius has already been seen for the first time. clues. In the words of those who work with him, his performance has injected soul into the character.
The James he played was thin and sensitive because of his illness. He dreamed of becoming a writer when he was young, but he only started writing when the pain was so severe that he couldn't walk. The illness made him think about life and death, topics that ordinary people avoid or ignore, just like a sick person Edition Literary Youth.
He will fan the bonfire with a focused expression, with fiery eyes in his eyes; he will lie in the grass and cry quietly, and say desperately to his friends, I want to live (instantly cross Shenxia S4E2...)
He The dazedness when waking up from a nightmare, the firmness and bravery when telling friends about the final decision, and when finally indulging, those alternately mixed hope, despair, pain, and joy, slowly with the loss of vitality, it turned into a relief-like emptiness.
The third star on the right, straight ahead until dawn.
This road doesn't lead to Peter Pan's Never Island, it leads to the end of life, to the other side of the soul, to the starry sky in which James will eventually incarnate.
Confucius said, "If you don't know life, how can you know death." However, perhaps it is precisely because there is an inevitable death waiting ahead that our short life has extraordinary meaning.
James is lucky to have such a group of good friends, allowing him to leave this world the way he wants and leave the last good memories.
I hope that on that day, I can be like him and say that sentence:
In my life, there has never been a tragedy.
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