c'est la vie

Sophia 2022-04-19 09:01:40

Tell three real stories that happened around you. Auntie's co-worker. When the first son was five years old, he went out to play on a rainy day and picked up a branch curiously in the rain. In fact, it was a broken wire. No one knows why the wire broke there, maybe it was so coincidental, maybe it was so unfortunate that the electrocuted child died. After being immersed in grief for a few years, she gradually regained her composure and gave birth to her second child, also a boy. He was raised carefully like a pearl in the palm of his hand, until he was admitted to university at the age of 18. That summer vacation, a group of excited teenagers went to swim in the reservoir, but his son didn't come back. Since then, she has never given birth again, afraid to see rain, thunder, and the sound of rushing water. Mom's colleague. The good news of pregnancy and the news of her husband's liver cancer came at the same time. Because of love, she had no hesitation to give birth to this child whose gender was unknown and was destined to have no father. The belly of the pregnant woman is bulging day by day and gradually sinking, and the husband is increasingly sallow and sluggish, described as withered. The two are almost racing against time, one is rushing towards the new student, the other is lingering. At that time, caesarean section was not popular, and I could only wait for the melon to ripen. In the days before giving birth, her husband was dying almost all the time, and everyone could see that he was holding on with his last breath. Maybe it was touched by God. At noon that day, the cry first came from the delivery room, it was a girl. Non-stop relaying the news to the father in the other ward, he was speechless and could only nod his head slightly. In just one hour, the father and daughter are separated by yin and yang. The time of birth, old age, sickness and death alternates between days. Many years have passed, and the widowed mother has dragged her hard to grow up, but she has never missed her birthday on the solar calendar, because it is a pain that the whole family can't get around. an uncle. As an intellectual, his family was fairly decent back then. The four children are all boys, the aunt is also a well-mannered family, and the population is prosperous. Unexpectedly, unforeseen circumstances may arise. During the Spring Festival when the eldest son was ten years old, the fire devoured the building where they lived because the children in the same building set off firecrackers out of control, completely burning their family of six. All furniture and electrical appliances, all the soft savings were turned into ashes. Fortunately, people are all right, but the children and adults who escaped from the fire didn't even have a complete pair of shoes. Every time the eldest son mentions this, he recalls that cold and windy early spring, when a family of young and old did not even have full clothes, their faces were black and gray, and they shivered and curled up on the temporary arrangement of the school playground. So he was extremely disgusted with people playing with fire and burning candles, and never set off firecrackers and fireworks during the Chinese New Year. For him, fire represents pain and disaster. three stories It's all so bleak and so cruel. The protagonists of the story, without exception, made a gesture of escaping the knot in their hearts. We often see a lot of chicken soup for the soul on the Internet, such as overcoming oneself, overcoming inner demons, saying goodbye to the past, and starting over with articles similar to slogans. Comforting others is easy to say, but licking and soothing one's own scars is the most difficult thing in the world. Some scars can make them fade over time. But in fact it's there forever, it's impossible to get through. The handsome male protagonist is the younger brother of the famous actor Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck. There is a clear outline of his brother, and a bit of tenderness and delicacy between the eyebrows. His brother's unsmiling acting skills are often criticized as facial paralysis, but in this film, the younger brother, who is also taciturn, keeps a corner of his mouth silent, but his heart is like a dead sea of ​​pain. The middle-aged man is vividly depicted. With his outstanding appearance, the male protagonist has never lacked admirers around him. Pan An of the Western Jin Dynasty drove out, and the women along the way, from the old woman to the girl with cardamom, all rushed to throw fruit into his car to express their love. "Tossing fruit into the car", even the car is full. The male protagonist has a face like Pan An, no matter where he goes, he is the target of dilating the pupils of the opposite sex and locking in instantly. From the guests who met on one side, the girls who met in the bar, to the single mature women, all of them were so affectionate. Sometimes I think about it, the world is not fair, and it has given you some unique talents. A humble, down-to-earth, frowning and sullen man, but frequently received eyebrows from women from all walks of life. As long as he is willing, even the two ambiguous men on the opposite side can favor him. But he didn't want to. Affleck. There is a clear outline of his brother, and a bit of tenderness and delicacy between the eyebrows. His brother's unsmiling acting skills are often criticized as facial paralysis, but in this film, the younger brother, who is also taciturn, keeps a corner of his mouth silent, but his heart is like a dead sea of ​​pain. The middle-aged man is vividly depicted. With his outstanding appearance, the male protagonist has never lacked admirers around him. Pan An of the Western Jin Dynasty drove out, and the women along the way, from the old woman to the girl with cardamom, all rushed to throw fruit into his car to express their love. "Tossing fruit into the car", even the car is full. The male protagonist has a face like Pan An, no matter where he goes, he is the target of dilating the pupils of the opposite sex and locking in instantly. From the guests who met on one side, the girls who met in the bar, to the single mature women, all of them were so affectionate. Sometimes I think about it, the world is not fair, and it has given you some unique talents. A humble, down-to-earth, frowning and sullen man, but frequently received eyebrows from women from all walks of life. As long as he is willing, even the two ambiguous men on the opposite side can favor him. But he didn't want to. Affleck. There is a clear outline of his brother, and a bit of tenderness and delicacy between the eyebrows. His brother's unsmiling acting skills are often criticized as facial paralysis, but in this film, the younger brother, who is also taciturn, keeps a corner of his mouth silent, but his heart is like a dead sea of ​​pain. The middle-aged man is vividly depicted. With his outstanding appearance, the male protagonist has never lacked admirers around him. Pan An of the Western Jin Dynasty drove out, and the women along the way, from the old woman to the girl with cardamom, all rushed to throw fruit into his car to express their love. "Tossing fruit into the car", even the car is full. The male protagonist has a face like Pan An, no matter where he goes, he is the target of dilating the pupils of the opposite sex and locking in instantly. From the guests who met on one side, the girls who met in the bar, to the single mature women, all of them were so affectionate. Sometimes I think about it, the world is not fair, and it has given you some unique talents. A humble, down-to-earth, frowning and sullen man, but frequently received eyebrows from women from all walks of life. As long as he is willing, even the two ambiguous men on the opposite side can favor him. But he didn't want to.

He made rude words to the low-cut occupants, turned a deaf ear to the girl who secretly gave her a good look, didn't understand the style of the mature woman who was scratching her head, and even got into a fight with the men in the crowd who had two eyes in the crowd. This kind of cold-hearted way of life has made the audience depressed and curious about his past. With a phone call, the sad news of his brother's sudden death forced the actor to return to the town where he was born, Manchester. From the very beginning, I mistakenly believed that this Manchester was the one of Manchester City, and I was also surprised why it only takes one and a half hours to drive from Boston, USA to the UK, even an old driver can’t do it. From the few words and details of the crowd, it can be seen that this childhood town is an unavoidable knot for the male protagonist. The movie begins to show alternate memories of the present and the past. Those past events, along with the familiar streets and the salty sea breeze, slowly emerge in the male protagonist's mind and in front of our eyes. The town used to gather the male protagonist's family, his father, his brother's family, his wife, three young infant children, and many friends. There is also the sudden heart attack of my brother, the doctor made a short-term sentence. When the pale face of his brother appeared in front of him, he knew that this day had finally come, and it was almost cold and quiet, and he kissed his brother goodbye. The dead are gone, and the pain can only be endured and tasted by the living. Contact the funeral home, find the church of the priest, and the nephew who was close to him. The young boy in his memory has become a handsome man in a blink of an eye, and the good genes of his family make him also have a large number of fans. Because his brother's will specifically stated that he should be the legal guardian of his nephew, this uninformed decision made the male protagonist feel inexplicably uneasy and irritable. He wanted to shirk, but he couldn't find a better candidate. He wanted to accept it, but he had to face the choice of moving back to the town. Then came the most tragic memory in the movie. The source of all his pain was the fire caused by his negligence, which killed his three children. The cute image of the child and the three small corpses picked up from the ashes formed huge tears. I expected that the hero's past should be full of certain cracks, but the astonishment when the blazing fire in the dark night was reflected in front of my eyes was no less than the panic on his face. The constant alternating flashbacks of this part made me fidgeting. The guardian's question and answer, accompanied by the piercing siren in the memory, switches back and forth between reality and the past. The extremely tangled scenes that are too much to talk about are caused by the destruction caused by the fire. The soundtrack of this paragraph is like a tear gas canister, reaching a climax when the male protagonist grabs a gun at the police station and prepares to commit suicide. After rewatching it several times, I can't help but burst into tears. Those who go can not be remonstrated, and those who come can still be chased. After all, the death of the elder brother is not as sudden as the death of the children, and the arrangement of the funeral and the bond between the nephew has become the theme of the second half. The whole film is full of sadness, and the appearance of the young life of the nephew more or less brings a touch of vitality and a breath of laughter. The director seems to have slowly dripped the rich sadness of the movie into a pond that is full but not overflowing, but put a few little yellow ducks on the edge of the pond. The nephew is just like him back then, handsome and charming, somewhat cynical and rebellious. The dialogue between uncles and nephews is like a teacher like a friend. The relationship is more restrained than that of father and son, and the conflict is stronger than that of father and son. It can be seen from many places that two people have the same world outlook, their calmness towards life and death, their recognition of their values, and at the same time they can feel their entanglement about the changes they have to face. The dialogue between the men was full of gunpowder, and there were inexplicable jokes between the mutual scolding and scolding. It was as if they had lost their way on the way to find the coffin, and the nephew's complaints and complaints were half-frozen. In the cold, suddenly there was a strange feeling of sadness and joy. The director wanted to say that this is life. I watched Sex and the City before, and the heroine in it was very pessimistic after she escaped marriage before the wedding, and said, can I still laugh in the future? The answer from her best friends was that she could still laugh when it was time to laugh. Life isn't all that good, but it doesn't have to be that bad either. From the point of view of the onlookers, the inability of the male protagonist to get out of his sadness is certainly due to his character, but none of us have the right to demand that the injured person must return to their original state. You need to be responsible for yourself. Some people say that the movie does not have a release point in the end, and people's feelings can be relieved and sublimated. Many characters appearing in the movie are hinting and expressing comfort to him, and the appearance of his ex-wife is also a teardrop. In this scene, the old couple who had been separated for a long time met on the street. The choking and sobbing from the heart, the hero's sentence "it's nothing there" (I have nothing in my heart) is heartbreaking. Empty, is liberation, empty, but also all thoughts are ashes. Some people choose to be born again, some choose to live alone. Say "I can' "t beat it" (I can't get rid of the past) is not a shameful thing, the high-level word "redemption" is full of all kinds of inspirational movies, but no one tells you that in reality, most people can't talk about redemption at all , to live in the midst of the disaster is already the only goal. On the day of the burial, the former family came, a group of people stood in black, silent. The deceased is dead, and the only one crying is an unrelated baby The scene is a bit embarrassing, a bit at a loss, a bit of peace of mind. Discordant voices always come in at the right time, which is probably part of life. "Is life always so painful, or is it only when I was a child. ""It's always been". C'est la vie. (This is life)

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  • Hassie 2022-01-27 08:05:23

    Obviously the bright tones are used throughout the film, but the viewing is extremely depressing. Faced with the death and departure of family members time and time again, every punch in the bar is completely released. Behind the warm Manchester is my lingering painful past. How difficult it is to play the role of Cassie is no longer It goes without saying. The director filmed the family love scene very much like Hirokazu Ee, and Cassie's performance is of the kind of "listening to thunder in a silent place". So far my awards season top3

  • Theo 2022-03-17 09:01:04

    The funeral of returning home (going home to see the corpse) is really a wide range of subjects. It can be a drama, a comedy, and a satire. The flashback cut of this film is quite interesting, just like a title symbol of the feature film, a comma, an exclamation mark, and an ellipsis. The face of Casey Affleck, like his brother Ben, is naturally depressed and unhappy.

Manchester by the Sea quotes

  • Dr. Bethany: But it's not a good disease.

    [pause]

    Joe Chandler: What is a good disease?

  • Lee Chandler: Do you actually have sex with these girls?

    Patrick: Well, we don't just play computer games.