Just by looking at the poster and the title, you can roughly guess the theme of the film. I can often hear how beautiful young is in my ears, grasp youth well, and express the memory and remembrance of those years through movies. It has even become a popular "genre film", but disease and aging are the same as death. , Is regarded as taboo by many people, and will even avoid talking about it.
What can't deceive oneself is that this is a problem that everyone must face in the end. In the face of time, there is no way to fight or violate in the end, only to face and accept. This "Father Trapped in Time" is not as cruel and heavy as Haneke's "Love", but the sadness and pain it reveals can hit the heart directly.
The scenes of this movie are basically completed indoors, which is equivalent to a confined confined space or theater stage (with some ingenious thoughts and intentions hidden). What is more test is the actor's skills and plot conception, which is associated with Polanski "Killing" can be included in the ranks of excellent templates. The whole film is basically based on the subjective perspective of the father, with time staggered and roles changed.
Time after time of confirmation, time after time of confusion, time after time of overthrow, the audience’s perception follows the father, and can even be equated, which is more empathetic or a step-by-step in-depth understanding of the father suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. State, the characteristics of the disease in a physical (concrete), simple and powerful way, so that the audience can more intuitive and empathetic experience.
Anthony Hopkins' performance is perfect. Hopkins, who has strong theatrical performance ability, uses solid lines, vivid expressions, and body language to portray this role full and layered. From the humorous and mean words at the beginning, to the subsequent confusion and doubts, to the helplessness and pain of a child at the end.
The mood changes from strong to weak, with no trace of performance. The two are combined into one. With a textbook-level performance, more than eighty old men still have the same looks, and the sword is not old. There are no extra idle pens or excessive sensationalism in this film. It is short and concise. It can be said to be rational and restrained. With the embellishment of opera, the breath of loftyness comes to the face.
Compared with death, what is more daunting is that people are welcoming the diseases brought about by aging in the process of continuing to go downhill, and the torture that the natural degradation of bodily functions needs to endure is more for the general phenomenon of the current serious aging society. It is a serious problem worthy of attention and concern, and Alzheimer's disease, which has not been able to be overcome so far, occupies a large proportion and has become a vulnerable group that cannot be ignored in society.
I cried into a fool when I watched "Dream Traveling", because I deeply understand the pain and sorrow of forgetting. As long as you remember, I will be there. And the decline, confusion, and confusion of memory, and even forgotten even oneself in the end, is an unbearable burden for the family and oneself.
Many people say that ageing and death are the fairest. I remember a biologist who got Alzheimer’s disease when he was old and decided to go to Switzerland to end his life through euthanasia. Without hesitation, he couldn’t speak bluntly. Forgetting everything to live like a walking dead, to die with dignity, and do not want to be a burden and burden to children.
The family has good financial conditions and can indeed be properly taken care of, at least with a certain dignity, but when the father in the nursing home in the film panicked looking for his daughter, crying in the arms of the nurse, it is undoubtedly the same. The normality of the middle class's treatment of sick elderly people, accusations or understanding are related to the actual situation and moral ethics. Every family has hard-to-read scriptures, and there is no absolute. There are also many people who are like the real life of the heroine Yin Jingji in the movie "Poetry". Because of illness, she can't get the care of her family, or even be rejected, which is even more distressing and embarrassing.
How to cure this disease that plagues countless people is a topic that the medical field has been studying (think of the old father in "The Rise of the Apes"), and it is also a problem that many individuals and families continue to struggle and brainstorm. How to take care of it? How to survive? The dignity of life, past glory, self-care ability, past experience, and even the most basic understanding are further disintegrating, deteriorating and passing away over time. The insignificance and passivity of human beings are like the same grain. The humble dust, and can not tolerate the slightest resistance, until it is finally swallowed by time, helpless and sad.
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