Movies can be entertainment. Many moviegoers walk into the theater with this idea in mind, and more filmmakers make movies based on such demands. The big screen faces every pair and returns in reality with no appeal. With continuous, intense, provocative, soft frame rate, light and picture soothes people who have been sheltered in the dark corner in just two or three hours, yes, this is a relaxation, an entertainment, All the shortcomings of reality will be made up, fantasies will be satisfied, anger will be released, when people walk out of the theater, it seems that they will feel a little better, hopefully a little more, after all, we have just experienced a wonderful screen life without regrets .
But what if the theme of a movie itself is regret?
How to cope with regrets? This seems to be a central theme of Manchester. Some parts of the protagonist's past are not just regrets, but disasters. The long time span, the overlap of the past and the present, the hard decisions, the trying, giving up, deciding again, all point to a different direction for this movie and entertainment, it's not intended to overcompensate for those regrets we all share, with a A reversal or a heart-warming and complete ending, but decided to let us board the old, in desperate need of repair, swaying among the waves with the characters, to let the flow take care of those unexpected, every wear and tear , every job, every wave. In the second half of the film, while the protagonist is repairing pipes and air valves in a basement, the elderly homeowner is babbling about that his father died when he was a child: Once at sea, there was a storm, and there was no radio at that time. , without the Internet, and never came back after going to sea. Today, the child who lost his father has become an old man. He experienced a major loss as a child, but now he has grown older, has a family, has a house, and survived his untimely father. Long years that can never be experienced. In the face of loss and all kinds of demands, in addition to the superpowers of comical movies, the violent punishment of action movies, and the perfect or imperfect ending of emotional movies, "Manchester" gives us another possibility to deal with: bear them out. The dead leave forever, leaving a void in the lives of the living that can never be filled. What they leave behind is their bodies, which are sealed in the freezer of the funeral home or the cemetery of the community. Rekindle the temperature we are familiar with. However, life can only continue to be written by those who survive, and what is lost can never be filled, but slowly, in the absence of arms and legs, something new grows, perhaps We will suffer new losses again; gradually, our belly grows, the curvature of our spine grows, the degree of wrinkles and presbyopia grows, those close to us start to thin like our hair, and we start to stay in one room. The basement rambles on strangers who come to fix water pipes or electrical circuits, about our long-absent fathers or other relatives, and eventually one day, we ourselves enter the freezer of the funeral home and become the tombstone with the name of the deceased family member. In the next bit of soil, the blanks and regrets we have left will continue to be cherished and borne by the living who hold our memories. This,
I love the soundtrack of the movie, not using pop music, but instrumental music and opera. The quiet listening atmosphere corresponds not to the hilarity trying to dispel loneliness, but a room, a chair, a gramophone, and a silent Remember.
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