say some duplicitous words,
but in fact, the inner inferiority and sadness
are the most real feelings and
the most depressing sadness
can never
be spoken. What you can say
is the hurdle you can overcome
. There is one emotion that is so irreversible that no reconciliation is required.
The Boston repairman, lee, is decadent and irritable. He lives in the basement of a dilapidated apartment. He is in charge of the property management and maintenance of these apartments. In the face of outsourced part-time status and difficult tenants, he cooperates indifferently.
In several life and work clips in the opening film, we saw such a poor, decadent, irritable and lonely middle-aged man lee performed by Casey Affleck, who is a "loser" image in the traditional sense. Then, a phone call started the story. His brother died suddenly due to illness. Lee left the city where he lived temporarily and returned to his hometown of Manchester to arrange his brother's funeral, but was told that he had become the guardian of Patrick's underage nephew left by his brother.
Returning to the city of Manchester, where I left, memories flooded in.
With Lee's perspective, the story behind it unfolds one by one.
Years ago, lee was still a heartless and energetic man. He had a warm family of his own. On weekdays, he could sail with his brother and nephew to go fishing at sea. When he came home, he could have fun with his wife and children, and he could even hang out with friends in the middle of the night. Drink while playing table tennis. However, the fire caused by his own negligence destroyed his house, burned their children, and burned his and his wife's hearts. His life was burnt to ashes. Since then, Lee's inner guilt and self-blame also burned him every moment. This Manchester, which was full of memories since childhood, became his nightmare.
He could only escape alone . .
The death of his brother forced him to return to this sad place. In the will, his brother made him to be Patrick's guardian, which made him dare not and could not bear such a responsibility.
How to heal each other's grief of losing a loved one, how to deal with his brother's funeral, how to communicate with his rebellious nephew, and how to face the nightmare in his heart, all of which brought Lee back into the grief he had been avoiding. middle.
Lee had to curl up and walk in the cold wind again and again, willingly sinking into this icy blue seaside city, anger, guilt, discomfort, everything was like an abyss covering everything he had, he could only be numb and restrained in the face of all this.
Movies are always talking about redemption, always talking about reconciliation, telling us that there is hope in life and everything will be fine.
Yeah, that's a movie.
In the movie, I thought lee would forgive himself for taking care of himself and his nephew at the end, but lee didn't, lee went to see his brother for the last time, he didn't have the emotion of traditional acting, he was just going to the morgue On the way, I chatted with the doctor in a disorderly manner. Finally, when facing my brother's body, I paused for a while, then stepped forward and gently stroked my brother's body, hugged, kissed, and turned to leave. This is completely different from the scenes of life and death that we have been accustomed to for a long time. Casey Affleck's performance of lee is not heart-wrenching or tearful, but makes people unconsciously feel the desolation of the bone marrow.
He is always so restrained, so quiet, every time he chooses, he tells us that he can't do it, he can't do it, he can't come out of his sadness, but we are still deeply moved by him.
Lee moved back to his brother's house temporarily from his own residence, brought three photo frames and put them out by the bed, he carefully wrapped the photos layer by layer, although we didn't see the contents of the photo frames, but we can think of what they are . Then he looked out the window, the sea in Manchester could be seen in the distance, and he couldn't help but suddenly punched the window.
Hand, bleeding.
Near the end of the film, Lee almost caused a fire again, and what woke him up was the dream of his daughter waking up in the past. He dreamed that his two dead daughters asked his father, did you see us burning, at that moment, Lee was woken up, it turned out In the depths of Lee's heart, he always believed that he had killed his three children, and he could not forget all this, and at the moment, his nephew was upstairs.
The heart is knotted, the heart door is difficult to move.
The real sadness is death of the heart, and the tears you can shed are not called sadness.
All pretending to be strong is also brave.
We often say some duplicitous words, but the saddest words, the most real feelings, the most depressing grievances, will never be spoken.
Some things are hidden in my heart because those things are only related to me, and everything else is irrelevant and not worth mentioning.
Even if the whole world is moving towards hope, please leave me alone, I am willing to stay in those sad pasts and desolate present, I don't want, I can't, I can't move forward.
This is the excellence of the film. The creation of the environment and the cruel facts that are close to the truth, without strong conflicts and contradictions, are as dull and slow as everyday, which also makes the emotions that the film wants to express extremely real. Coupled with the strong acting skills of the male protagonist Casey Affleck, this film takes off the "smooth" of the well-polished film.
The encounter with ex-wife sandy became the whole motivating point, and Michelle Williams, who played ex-wife, is one of the best actors.
Li's ex-wife met lee with a child born to another man. She said to lee, "I said a lot of hurtful things to you, but my heart is broken, and I understand your heart is broken." She I hope that the relationship between the two can be repaired. Sandy's emotions among the two are uncontrollable and weeping. However, Lee just keeps shaking his head. He trembled and couldn't say a complete sentence. He fled in a hurry, leaving his ex-wife alone. sobbing.
Casey's performance made the audience feel at once that Lee's despair was overwhelmed by guilt, entanglement, and helplessness at that moment.
This performance also became a poster for the movie.
I accidentally touched the line of defense in my heart, and all the hidden sadness burst out in an instant.
Lee kept repeating.
I can't beat it "
It's all because of me, and I can't forgive myself, because of my negligence, it's all ruined! " Just a black hole.
I can't beat it
Pain doesn't always make a person, most of the time we are destroyed by it.
It's like a documentary, recording a life of lee as an ordinary person who chooses to escape guilt after making a mistake.
The real feeling, the best performance.
Our lives don't have so many thrilling ups and downs,
so much hysteria, and the
cold to brutal life itself is a day-to-day debacle.
If you can't forgive
then don't forgive if you
ca n't forgive
then don't forgive
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