Aging is really scary. I don't know what kind of sadness will be in my mind every day when I am old now, when I am often sentimental and reminiscent and afraid of the aging of my body. I should probably have died before I was sixty.
This nursing home is very good, there is no discord, no indifferent nurses, no strict system, everything is very humane. But it seems that in the perspective of this film, when people get old -- I mean when they get old to a certain extent, there is no way to be happy. Facing the boundless death energy and the invisible door of death.
Emilio is afraid of dementia, afraid of loneliness, of missing his wife and children, afraid of being a burden to his son, and flashing back his youth from time to time. This is his daily life. If it were, I would soon feel overwhelmed by this state of mind. When I was in my twenties, I could already feel the power of this flashback, or when I was sorting out the photo album on my phone, or when my past life suddenly appeared in my brain before going to bed, I often felt a sense of trance. I have thought before, if a person is old, retired, has a small savings, no life pressure, no physical strength to play and think, is it just sitting on a rocking chair in the sun and slowly rocking, and the movie is playing in my mind every day Movies: Flashback, camera segmentation, freeze-frame, close-up, montage; annoyance, embarrassment, sigh, miss, resentment and regret. Waiting to die day by day, uncontrollably recalling every stage, every year, every day, every minute, every event detail. I will be so sad about this process.
Before the diagnosis, Emilio was a representative of the majority of the elderly who did not suffer from dementia; the dementia may be more painful, and it was roughly seen in the Alzheimer's episode of the second season of "The World". The pain is not in the moment of unconsciousness, but in the interplay of states and self-denial.
Miguel is about a minority among the elderly, not suffering from dementia, but still active and healthy. He brazenly advocates the freedom of marriage and childbirth, but he still cannot escape the natural sentimentality brought about by aging. The contrast between Miguel at the beginning and the end of the story is obviously not the result of the development of the narrative, but he is old enough, and if he continues to grow old, he will become an inescapable trapped person of "aging sentimentality".
I wonder if no one can escape this feeling of powerlessness. Are there any good people? I'm confused. I really do not know. It's not that I haven't seen good old-age stories, such as the perspective of "Quartet", and another example of the erotic life of Lu Qingyi's parents in "Four Springs". As if everything could be like that.
But how his body is withering, maybe only the members of the elderly choir, or Lu Qingyi's parents, they themselves know.
Forgot to mention, money seems useless. Every old man who is dying in "Youth and Vigorous" is probably rich enough. But every day I wake up, I just hope that I can urinate a little more smoothly today.
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