Movie-watching notes

Ezequiel 2022-10-19 16:40:29

When watching this movie, it always reminds me of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", although one is a madhouse and the other is a nursing home. But the essence is the same. I haven't watched "Flying Over the Nursing Home" yet, so I don't know what it is like. Miguel bought a convertible and took the hero and his lame friend with him. When we were driving together and chasing books for freedom, I felt a lot like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". In the end, the male protagonist was sent upstairs for treatment because he had a car accident while driving. In fact, everyone knows that if they are sent upstairs for treatment, they will never come down to some extent. Miguel was very sad, very depressed. At this time, he also began to change slowly, and I believe that his change must be inseparable from the male protagonist. Just like in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", Mike's influence on the chief and every patient in the madhouse. It seems to be the inverse of the "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" character in this short. The chief looks more like the male protagonist in this film, but in fact, as the affected party, he should be Miguel. And Mike's character is full of ruffian, thinking about taking everyone to freedom, it looks like Miguel's character, but in fact, as the party to influence others, he should be the male lead.

It's all my fault that Miguel keeps calling the male protagonist two names, I don't know what to call the male protagonist.

Miguel is actually a pretty bad guy, and I didn't even come to a conclusion when I saw the end of the movie, until I saw the old man lead the dog up the stairs.

After being influenced by the male protagonist, Miguel got the old man a dog, and at the same time gave him a dog leash, a long, elastic, red eye-catching leash.

This old man also has amnesia. He often gets on the elevator. When he presses the button, he forgets that he still has a dog.

Then it should be self-evident how the old man's first few puppies died.

At this time, I thought of the dog leash that Miguel gave to the old man. Why didn't he give it before?

Oops, forget it. I don't want to think of Miguel as bad either. He may just be petty and like to play pranks and make fun of others. He still has some childishness, as if people will have some childishness when they are old, eager to be noticed by others, but very stubborn.

Miguel is a real character.

Forget it, I don't analyze their personalities, and I can't analyze them well either.

Compared with "Flying Over the Cuckoo's Nest", this anime is more romantic to me. I like the love story of "Clouds" very much. In fact, towards the end of the film, Miguel feeds the male protagonist, a girl who likes to swear. Beside him, swearing, Miguel persuaded her not to do this, saying that the male protagonist didn't like it. The girl is very disdainful. It probably means that the male protagonist is demented. How can you know what he is thinking?

But at this time, the male protagonist laughed. It was like the "liar's secret" of the old couple. It was a "cloud secret" belonging to two people. The interesting thing is that the empty scene after the male protagonist finished laughing was a cloud.

Omg, this part is so romantic.

In addition to romance, the film is actually talking about a kind of cruelty. Why does Miguel take care of the male protagonist after he goes upstairs? What about his children?

Why didn't his child come to pick her up for the old lady who looked for the phone every day?

Why does the lame old lady have so many children and grandchildren, but only one grandson visits her occasionally, and only occasionally?

The people upstairs are all elderly people who are in critical condition. Once they go upstairs, they will never come down again. Miguel often advises the male protagonist not to go upstairs. But once the male protagonist went up by himself, he suddenly realized that he was actually thrown here like garbage.

Oops, this sentence is really heartbreaking.

But fortunately, this film does not say that those elderly people can't live without these conscientious children, they can still live well, and they have not become the children's vassals.

It's just that these children should think about it for themselves, and they should be able to read some subtext from this movie.

You watched the opening of the film, and I also thought that it was a bit like the beginning of Tim Burton's "Big Fish". It was also a conversation between a father and son, and the son was impatient. But I think the son in "Big Fish" is much more filial than the son in the film.

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  • Emilio: Don't touch me! Let me be! I'm sick of all that nonsense! I'm not dead, you know? I'm not dead *yet*. Maybe in a year I won't even know who I am, but today, right now, I'm alive, and this is a swimming pool, and I want to swim, and I swim, and that's it! End of it! And if you don't like it, then... then... then fuck you!

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