First of all, congratulations to Casey Affleck, who plays the actor Lee, for winning the 89th Academy Awards for Best Actor.
Starting today, people will remember you, not just because you're Ben Affleck's younger brother, but because of your unparalleled acting, which is also an award I recognize the most this year, congratulations to Manchester by the Sea .
Here are my thoughts on the movie Manchester by the Sea, spoilers, read carefully.
There is no life to start over
In the movie "Breakthrough", relying on Li Yaohui's love, He Baorong always left in anger again and again, returned again and again embarrassed, and then said to Li Yaohui - it's better for us to start over. Until the end of the movie, Li Yaohui left Buenos Aires and went to Taipei.
When He Baorong came back again to prepare to start over with Li Yaohui, he finally stayed in an empty room, holding the blanket Li Yaohui had slept on, crying like a child. Actually, this is a good ending. In the filming of the documentary "Spring Reappearance", Li Yaohui and He Baorong had a more tragic ending. Li Yaohui finally could not bear the split and cut his wrists and left, leaving only He Baorong to regret for the rest of his life.
There is no life that can be restarted from scratch. This is the most direct movie viewing experience that the movie "Manchester by the Sea" gave me. Just like a bowl of poisonous chicken soup, it tells you coldly that some pain in life will accompany you all your life, and you will never be able to get out of it.
The movie tells a story like this:
Lee is a handyman who lives in Boston and earns the minimum wage. His daily job is to go in and out of various neighborhoods, take out the garbage for the tenants, repair the canals, and plumbing. He is quiet, withdrawn, moody, and will often annoy the tenants. , and also fights in bars just because other people look at him one more time. A few minutes into the filming of the film, the image of a eccentric person is ready to appear.
Lee's brother passed away, and he had to return to his hometown of Manchester to deal with the funeral. This accident threw Lee back into all the reality that he had been escaping from. As the story progressed, the past events flashed back over and over again. , the audience learned the truth about the origin of Lee's character. It turned out that Lee also had a warm and beautiful family in the past, with a bunch of friends, brothers, a little nephew who was close to him, a wife who loved each other, and three young children. Only because of a subsequent fire, a fire caused by Lee's own negligence, took three children away. Since then, his wife has left him, and Lee has fled from his hometown and is isolated from the world.
Because of his brother's will, Lee became the guardian of his little nephew Patrick. The little nephew who used to be very close to him has now grown into a 16-year-old boy, a typical young boy who has his own thoughts and demands, but is also helpless. He is on the school ice hockey team, the lead singer of the band, and has two girlfriends. When the film tells about the relationship between Lee and Patrick's two uncles and nephews, it is full of warm colors and even has a lot of humorous and interesting passages.
When I saw the movie, I once thought it was a healing movie in which uncles and nephews helped each other out of the grief of life, but this is a downright depressing movie. The previous blows were devastating to Lee. When his family was destroyed due to his own negligence, Lee had long thought of dying. At that time, when the police decided that it was just an accident, the distraught Lee snatched the police's pistol. He was about to commit suicide, although he was rescued, but his heart had already died. Lee couldn't face the familiarity of Manchester, all the people and everything was causing Lee's constant reminiscences of the past to keep pounding. As Patrick's guardian, Lee wants to take Tong to escape this sad place, but Patrick can't abandon his familiar classmates and everything he is familiar with.
Patrick wanted to go back to his mother. His mother, who was mentally ill in his early years, had already married someone else. When Lee brought Patrick to meet his mother, what he got was only careful nervousness and endless embarrassment.
Lost can never come back, this is the heartbreaking theme of Manchester by the Sea. The film is full of death and loss, beginning with the death of his brother, interspersed with the death of three children in the fire, and Patrick losing his parents. , Lee lost his family.
In the movie, the scene in which Lee meets his ex-wife Randi is the most tear-jerking scene in the whole film. When Randi tried to break up with Lee and invited him to have lunch, Randi said that he had said too many things to Lee that she should not have said. Said that he only thought that his heart was broken, but forgot that your heart, like mine, can no longer be complete. It's just that no matter how hard the crying Randi begged, Lee couldn't face the past, couldn't forgive himself, out of control, he shook his head, unable to utter a complete sentence, so he had to flee.
In the end, lee decided to go back to Boston, but in order to stay in Manchester for his nephew Patrick, he will treat this familiar land in a compromise way, not as far away as before and will not be able to completely let go, Patrick asked lee , why can't you stay? Lee shook his head gently and said twice, I can't stand it, I can't stand it.
Yes, there's no life to start over, like the cruel words Randi said to his lover that can't be taken back; like Patrick can't get along with his mother like he used to; like the life that's gone can't come back from the dead, the lost Things may never come back, and some regrets will accompany the rest of life.
It's such a sad and cruel film that if you're fed up with chicken soup that sounds effortless, you're willing to get closer to the truth of life. Then this "Manchester by the Sea", you should not miss it.
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