When the father is young, the child is a big tree that shelters them from wind and rain. When he is old, the child is the root of the father. --Inscription
The scariest thing in the world is forgetting. And Alzheimer's disease is a collection of forgetting this torture. People with this disease tend to indulge in their own past and cannot extricate themselves. Every day of his life seems to be a thriller. In the movie "Father Trapped in Time", the director used his concrete technique to show us a day with Alzheimer's disease.
At the beginning of the film, there are a few third-view shots hidden in the corners,
This kind of lens gives us a strong sense of voyeurism. Accompanied by high-pitched arias and vocal music, we entered Anthony's world.
||The music at the beginning of the film is called: "What Power art thou?" (What is power art?), the last few words in this music that we didn't hear are like this: "Let me let me freeze again/Let me let me freeze again to death." (Let me let me freeze again to death.) This music that has not been played by the director in full may be telling us in a subtle way In his mind, the state of Alzheimer's patients may be gradually frozen in time until death. This is a great sadness. ||
As Anthony took off his headphones, the background music of this film stopped abruptly, and we were able to free ourselves from such an atmosphere of inexplicable sadness, and we can carefully observe the old man hidden in the dim light. (I want to say here that the author hadn’t noticed that this was actually "Hannibal" before.) Perhaps this is also a metaphor, telling us that this film is just the world in the old man’s mind, and this world is accompanied by old-school music and accent. , Accompanied by absurdity and inadequacy, accompanied by successive dreams.
In the first half of the film, we can often see Anthony looking for his watch.
When Anne came to the apartment, Anthony thought that the last carer had stolen his watch, and then he said that Anne’s husband had stolen his watch. Anthony’s enthusiasm for watches made us not only doubt: What is the meaning of watches? What's up? He gave the answer in his own sentence later:
In his opinion, the watch is time. In fact, the author believes that Anthony is not ignorant of his illness. From the fact that he tries to deal with all the inexplicable people and things in his life that he has never seen before, it can be seen that he has an understanding of the current state of the world. Some basic understanding, at least he knows that he is in a confused state, which can be seen when he pretends to be calm and jokes on his daughter when he goes to see the doctor. In his opinion, the most important thing for him now is time, and the watch is the axis of time. If there is no watch, all this frantic life will shatter his spirit, which is why he attaches great importance to watches. s reason.
Another thing he values very much is his apartment. This is the place where he and his daughters have lived together since they were young. There is no pen and ink describing his wife in the film. Perhaps he has long been divorced, or is no longer alive. Since his two daughters have been so close to him (the eldest daughter Anne, the younger daughter Lu Xi has already passed away), we can see how deeply he had a relationship with them when they were young. It was a very deep feeling of licking the calf that really existed. And many years later, although we can still vaguely see his humorous charm when he was young when he met with the young babysitter, he is actually just an old man who is afraid of his daughter taking his house. . When his daughter was exhausted for him, he still thought that her daughter might harm him, which made the author outside the film feel very angry, but when he saw his memory confused and felt like he was beaten by his son-in-law, tears fell like rain. , It is heartbreaking.
Who doesn't have that old day? Who can guarantee that he or his relatives will not one day become such an old man? Parents were extremely patient with their children when they were young, but when they are old, can their children have a commensurate amount of love in return?
Next, the concept of time is getting more and more blurred. We can see that from the beginning of a few long connected stories to the messy plot later, Anthony's condition should be getting more and more serious. Finally, when he woke up in the bed in the nursing home, all the past events were stacked. From the similar furnishings of the house, the curtains that were raised and closed countless times, we saw that perhaps all the stories of the entire film are in this Everything that happened in the small room was Anthony’s dream, or the dream bubble created for him by his Alzheimer’s disease. Under the ridiculous story, perhaps there was only a cold shell—he was abandoned. .
As he said: "The mouse will finally leave the ship." His child left him and went to pursue his own life. At that moment, all watches and apartments lost their meaning, because for him, he had lost time and his coordinates. From then on, life was a storm on the sea. He could only drive a small wooden boat by himself. Precarious in it.
One of the most frequent tunes in the film is the aria of "Holy Goddess" in the opera "Norma". Its lyrics are as follows:
The woman under the palm tree, wearing a veil, moved gently, singing songs. This may be the scene that Anthony faced with his wife when he was young, but now he is sinking into the bitter sea of his own broken memories. He wants to struggle but can only shake off the dead leaves on the ground. He cried bitterly and sorrowed unbearably. , Fell gently in the arms of the nurse like a baby, muttering in his mouth: My leaves are almost gone...
This scene can not help but reminiscent of the scene in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" where the male protagonist finally turns into a baby and dies in the arms of the female protagonist:
As time goes by, the memory gradually blurs. This is the most painful torture, because it is not a clean death, but constantly blowing out the candlelight of your life, lighting it again, and blowing it out again, just like the West Firth's boulders are generally to the end. Anthony's sadness in the film originated from the departure of his daughter. Although there have been quarrels and suspicions, it is undeniable that Anne is the source of all Anthony's strength. As soon as the Sri Lankan went, the tree drifted away. Anthony was like a dead tree in late autumn after Annie left, and the leaves began to wither...
Therefore, if there are such old people around us who are wandering in the pain of lack of memory, please give them more patience. Their so-called interruption to you is actually nothing more than the pear flower falling in the yard, sweeping their shoulders, they will also ask: Did you walk too lightly...
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