No one can be isolated from the world

Laney 2022-04-23 07:01:39

First of all, the soundtrack is excellent. When emotions are ups and downs, the images without lines are matched with magnificent classical music, and the concentration of emotions is perfectly reflected.

The second is full of details.
The windows of Lee's dormitory in Boston, small and barbed wire, have no view at all. This is not a dormitory but the prison he has chosen for himself.
From the window of his brother's room, there were trees and rivers. He felt unworthy and smashed the glass with one punch.
There are several temporarily forgotten.

I don't know why most of the reviews say how tragic this movie is. I feel hopeful.

After all, people are not like machines, one can switch the attitude of life by hitting the switch on, but after all, the nephew's bits and pieces permeate into the uncle's life and even thoughts. Finally, he decided to move out of the "prison" and choose an apartment with a living room to accommodate his visiting nephew. The nephew said that he would not go to college in the future, and he also said as usual: I will see it later. Such an unhurried answer indicates the tolerant and cheerful foundation of his uncle's character. After all, before the accident, he was such a person who loved life and called friends.

The character of the nephew is also very well shaped. Much like the child brought up by a gentle and honest father who is praised by everyone. Although there is an old mother who is drunk enough to enter a psychiatric department, there is no trace of melancholy and hostility in her body. So in the humor of the bickering between the uncle and nephew, the family feeling is as strong as those jokes about sharks in the title.

I always feel that the last scene where the nephew asks his uncle for money to buy popsicles is a boy's coquetry in disguise. Corresponding to the last time I got angry and asked for money to eat, it was really a small dessert.

The most painful part of the movie is when the two daughters appear in a brief nap to wake Lee up and see the smoking kitchen again. I don't know why the screenwriter wrote such a plot? Is it just for Lee to make up his mind that he is not capable of taking care of the child and leave again? Why do people feel "tender understanding and eternal love" from children? In the long lonely nights spent alone in the future, in the aftertaste of the past, will he think of this? Maybe? The father in the acquaintance is also a person who likes to play chess and sounds like he loves life.

Besides, life is so long and full of variables. Maybe Lee will get better after returning to Boston.

The director and screenwriter have a very strong sense of humor. Seeing that the sister-in-law who quit drinking later married such a devout Christian, I can't explain why she finds it particularly funny.

Well, people who have a cold and lack of sleep temporarily code so much, maybe they will make up for it after a second brush.

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Manchester by the Sea quotes

  • Suzy Chandler: Daddy?

    Lee Chandler: Yes, honey.

    Suzy Chandler: Can't you see we're burning?

    Lee Chandler: No, honey. You're not burning.

  • [Lee and Patrick are walking on the street, having a heated argument which includes profanity. We see a pedestrian who overhears their conversation]

    Manchester Pedestrian: Great parenting.

    Lee Chandler: Fuck you! Mind your fucking business, fucking asshole!