The Spanish film, translated by iQIYI as "Wrinkles of Joy", made me mistakenly think that it was a lighthearted and witty animated comedy, but it was actually a film with obvious melancholy under the hood of nonsense. The reality reflected in the film is actually very heavy, and there are too many joys and sorrows flowing under the tones of the sunset: "Huan" is a warm dream piled up by self-deception and white lies; "Sad" is a world who thinks through thin glass and looks gloomy. The whole film is based on the theme of aging and disease, and a specific nursing home is the background. Here, most of the elderly may be suffering from large and small diseases, and it is thought that this will be better for their families to be sent here for care. The male protagonist is no longer brilliant because of his youth, and he contracted Alzheimer's disease without knowing it after being widowed. With a professional temperament and a seemingly heartless "cheating money", the naughty old man spent the last free and easy time in the nursing home before his condition deteriorated in the name of maintaining stability. They swam in their clothes; they pretended to be normal when they realized they were ill so as not to be sent to the top floor, a special care unit where the condition had deteriorated; Unsurprisingly, due to a car accident, the hero ends his last madness before his condition worsens. Because of this, the naughty old man who was wanton and wandering alone changed his mind: he no longer deceived the old lady who wanted to contact his children and grandchildren, and took the initiative to help her make a phone call to satisfy her wish; The fallen lady on the train took the initiative to hand her a cigarette to replace the empty space between her two fingers; she took the initiative to give a puppy to an old man who was sustenance by animals but could not be raised due to illness. In the end, he began to learn how to take care of the wife of a couple he had sneered at before, to take care of the male protagonist who couldn't eat properly, and to tell him those crazy jokes. There are many movies about Alzheimer's disease, and one word that can't be read is "memory". The shallow grooves hidden between the disorderly growing wrinkles of the old people gradually blurred their original faces and gradually returned to zero and approached death, and the thinning of memory seemed as inevitable as death. If it is said that people will retrace their lives at the border closest to death before closing their eyes, what will the elderly with Alzheimer's disease retrace? When the warmth, wanton, sorrow and growth that existed in their long life become blank, the brain only has the last second and this second of aging for the past experiences that can define itself. The recorded life is like a crumpled old white paper, in the same zero point of death as a baby, but going in the opposite direction.
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