"Manchester by the Sea" focuses not on the well-known British industrial city, but on a quiet and peaceful American seaside town. Although the shots of this work are sometimes bright and moving, However, the tragic display of the film has become the deep emotional precipitation of the film. Director Kenneth Lonergan brought a film technique similar to Hirokazu Koreeda into this work, which makes people taste in the bright seaside city. What is the bitterness of life.
At the beginning of the movie, it focused on Li, the male protagonist who seemed to be calm and was a messy repairman all day long. There was not much that attracted my attention. Returning to his hometown, dealing with his brother's post-natal events as a guide, while cleverly interspersed with flashbacks, the tragedy of Li's loss of three children due to his own faults is slowly described, and the emotions are rendered peaceful and restrained but full of tension, making the audience step by step. While Bu was able to enter the male protagonist's inner world, he also saw that some of the wounds in his heart were destined to be irreparable.
It's hard to describe how painful a disaster that cuts off all hope for a person, and the reason why Casey Affleck can win the Oscar for best actor with the role of Lee is that he takes this kind of originality. The indescribable emotions are vivid. In the movie, he doesn't have too much body language, but more often it is an accumulation of emotions. At that time, the dull and sometimes cold emotions are distinct from looking back at him who has never been isolated from this world. In contrast, they are all sincere and vivid in Casey Affleck's superb acting skills, and it is thanks to this that the film brings this invisible pain and despair to people with a resonance that touches the soul.
In fact, there are many excellent works that reflect healing after trauma, but "Manchester by the Sea" is particularly unique in my opinion. It pierces the illusion created by this type of film in light and shadow, and uses a more The way of touching the soul allows us to see that some injuries are destined to be incurable. Although Li in the movie re-experienced his family relationship with his nephew in this experience of returning home, he also met his ex-wife by chance, but these But it can't really let a father who has lost his beloved son really get out of the mud of self-blame and start a new life on this land.
So is this a desperate movie? Obviously not. Although Li still can't get out of his own haze in the end, he is also trying to return to the embrace of this world. He is not as cold as he was at the beginning of the movie, but faces it with a new attitude. For life, in fact, each of us will experience pain of this kind and that, some pain will be forgotten and healed over time, while some pain will not be forgotten because of the change of time, facing the life that will continue, What would you choose to fill it with? What struck me most about Manchester by the Sea was the answer to that.
We can't choose the direction of our destiny, let alone reverse the fate of life and death, but in the face of some irreparable pain, we can choose whether to sink in the pain or embrace the new life in the pain.
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