When I first started, I felt that the plot was a bit slow, and some scenes stayed too long, perhaps because recent movies are used to tight plots or something, and some are not used to it.
Gradually it got better, and it felt smoother, perhaps because the plot unfolded.
The man had cancer, so there was something close to death in August. Although I am very happy with the girl I know, and I also live a normal life in the family, there is just a little taste that is different from usual, light, helpless and sad.
I thought maybe I could tell the story so I could prepare for what I wanted to say, but that would turn into a spoiler, so I'll just say how I feel.
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Thinking about death in August in summer may be a very inappropriate thing. In the hot season, the metabolism is always faster and the anger is stronger, so there is always the illusion that death is far away, but the truth is It's finally coming.
The story also honestly expresses the fact that death is slowly approaching. Different from many other ways of expressing death, this is an eight-year-old who has sunshine, a home atmosphere, the appropriateness of relatives, the company of friends and the taste of love. Yue, and the man's own smile, although it is a bit exaggerated to say that, because when death comes, no matter who is by your side, you will not be able to understand the horror of sinking in the quagmire of death. But in the end, it was slow rather than intense, and the mad hysteria exaggerated the fear of death and the feelings one by one.
People have probably been used to keeping death out of life for a long time.
Honor culture, prisons, and the indoctrination of a life-and-death outlook have all taken away certain things in our lives that used to be mundane. The death penalty is becoming less and less common, and crime is becoming more and more just pure wrong, death, crime. , and other, perhaps more secretive things.
It seems that it doesn't matter what you do in your life. The important thing is to have lofty aspirations. Even a heart that is indifferent to the world will be blamed.
That's what's happening in some places now, and most people feel it's just the way it should be.
But we also naturally lost the opportunity to learn to face death, to face criminals, to live a quiet life and not to be impetuous and extravagant, and we lost the opportunity to think closer and face-to-face to the life that we would have been born, old, sick and dead. , and also lose the experience and perception of other things that you may not even think about.
It's just that some people still feel that there are more options. So the movie provides a perspective that we forget to think about.
Death is a part of life. In the current era when people sanctify life, there is only fear of death from such a narrow perspective. I think it is very acceptable for the movie to open up such a perspective.
Look at the life of the man in the movie after being ill, everything that happened in that August, it makes people feel that death is just death, it means nothing.
Is death a part of life? Is it the announcement that it's all over? Revenge against whom, proof to whom? Death is sometimes just death, and most people's death is just death.
Time will not stop, and space will not be distorted. When human beings give birth to a huge and redundant culture for industrial civilization, sometimes they may be a little artificial and deceive themselves.
So it's better to start this summer, seriously think about the original appearance of something in your heart, and then face it honestly. Don't follow the so-called forward trend. The inner voice must be quiet and heard more clearly.
And in the face of the camera, maybe this method also works. If you face yourself honestly, you can see the original self in the photos. I think the original self should be happy or peaceful.
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