Late at night on the 25th, I took the train to my grandfather's funeral. I watched this movie for the second time on the green train in Weihai. The mother's cry filled her ears. There is sadness in the background of the phone. I have always been a person who lacked empathy, otherwise I would not have been unable to feel the heart-piercing pain, but I was relieved by my grandfather who was relieved.
"Hyman" shows that life is not easy with quiet scenes and acting skills that seem to be calm but are actually undercurrents. I have been thinking throughout the whole article: We are all powerless little molecules in the world of explosive capital, following the flow of the air to float and randomly appear in the world, and since then we have a sense of belonging. A sense of belonging at home, a sense of collective belonging, an ability to empathize with this town, and even this country. Then, after experiencing a broken family and an attempted suicide, the male protagonist left this place and became a floating ghost. Only his ex-wife would beg him to cheer up because of the last bit of warmth, while others watched him mourning. die with him. The film appears more than once where he asks his nephew, on the island of no one, if he is able to support him and his nephew, who chooses him or his father. His nephew kept choosing his father, why? Maybe we're used to it, this is my dad. However, the real reason is because the empathy is there, and the son is finally willing to entrust himself to his father, because he has enough confidence in his father to understand him better. And this emotional expression is mutual, two-way, with an explosive difference in the relationship intimacy index.
The house burned down, his daughter and son died, his wife left, and he did not have the courage to find the next foundation. (I think the male protagonist is not as brave as his wife, maybe he is even more unable to forgive himself, and sentenced himself to life imprisonment, after all, he forgot to turn off the fireplace)
However, it was this empathy that gave his brother a stronger sense of belonging and dependence on his younger brother after experiencing an alcoholic wife. At the end of his life, he entrusted the child to his younger brother, and we lost our hopeless hero. My American geography is very poor. I can only feel it through the rendering of the film environment. Boston is very cold, and Manchester by the sea is also very cold, but the cold of Manchester by the sea is not the kind of cold that can't be breathed. Every day between the male protagonist and his nephew is smooth as ice, without the stylized and disconnected feeling in Boston at the beginning. His empathy began to bloom, but this kind of empathy was parasitic on that pain, and he couldn't fight against it, and couldn't really heal the painful empathy environment parasitized on the fire.
I'm leaving for Boston, I'll go soon; I'll go to Boston after two months; I've discussed with XXX, you stay with them after I leave, I'll go back to Boston, I'm still your guardian , before you become an adult. (My memory may be biased, please forgive me)
Then, the part with the gun pointed at his head; the part crying and curled up in the arms of a friend's wife; the part I just can't beat it; it's logical, deep and painful. He didn't die and turned into a place where I shed tears. Maybe from there, the empathy atmosphere between us and the male protagonist that the director tried so hard to create became profound for me. I even started to like this man a little bit, although he was mourning, he was wandering like a ghost in Manchester by the sea, but he acted so purposefully.
Towards the end, Casey and Michelle faced off on acting. Michelle really melted herself into it. This empathy ability just exploded. My tears were still crazy. I couldn't tell who Michelle and Randy were. It seems that he has forgiven Randy and he can't seem to forgive himself. My tears dried up and my heart started to cramp.
In this world, there is really time not only to wipe out the injustice, but to experience the pain that will gradually deepen with the passage of time.
But the director didn't seem to be dead. At the end, I was thinking, is there no reversal? Even in the second brush I was still looking forward to the reversal. And the hero still didn't forgive himself. But he seemed to have found a reason to live, he began to want his nephew to see him, he wanted a sofa he could sit on if someone came.
In the years of ordinary disasters, I hugged you and kept warm, and saw that there was still a light in the darkness.
My nephew said that I won't go, the banter has a touch of sadness. He still wanted to go to an uninhabited island with his father. The ship that he had to leave no matter what had become an uninhabited island in his heart, Lee couldn't go up to it, and the people who should be on it were already in nine springs.
So it is still a death, but the years to come are always unknown, and the days of melancholy may pass. The director doesn't want to presume an answer to force us to accept it, but wants us to ask ourselves after more than two hours of seemingly boring, when your empathy relies on the painful rose thorn to make you bleed, choose to escape When you have to go back, can you still see the flowers on the thorns, and are you willing to take the pain to pull those thorns?
Or are you going to never return again?
What if you want to go back again?
In my answer, I think the male protagonist should choose to leave. Before his empathy with his nephew exceeds the threshold, he will leave even if he comes back. There are many ways to liberate, and as a human being, the intensity is different, and escaping is not much worse than forgetting.
The critical value is not broken, there is no condition to satisfy this theorem, I am not enough for my nephew, and I am for this town; the nephew lives firmly on Daddy's island on the boat, the wife has a new family, the town's It's business as usual, so naturally cold, I'm not necessary for this town.
So sorry, there is no need between me and forgiveness.
Afterword: Casey is not a photogenic actor, but after seeing his acting skills in this movie, he is the best actor, and can no longer be convinced. I feel so bad for Lee, I really want to go to his small room and hug him, then look at him and say nice to meet you. The reason for the five stars is that the dual factors of Casey and Michelle are considered; It's not as hard to perform, and everything is so natural, just like those gloomy days we all have.
There is a chance to go to the United States and see Manchester by the sea.
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