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Can the marriage of the dying elderly be romantic?
Idle at home, teasing grandchildren all day long, mobility problems, memory mutilation, becoming a burden...
If only these words remain in life after the years are gone, it is a deep fear for Pigo.
Every time I think about this, there is a feeling of pressure from the wet cotton piled up on my face.
But there is an Italian film that gives us another answer to old age.
This is a warm road movie that Pigo wants to recommend to you today, which exploded at the Venice Film Festival last year, and the title of the film is "Love Before Memory Fades".
After reading it, Pigo's heart was tight and could not be calm.
This film combines love, family affection, and death, and composes a version of the poem of the elderly and the distant place.
An old couple who suddenly disappeared, a son who jumped like thunder, and a daughter who was calm and silent, this group of families created many puzzles and contradictions at the beginning.
The elderly couple, father John Spence (Donald Sutherland) had Alzheimer's disease, and mother Ella Spence (Helen Mirren) died of terminal cancer.
The couple, who were supposed to be cared for by their son Will (Christian McKay), suddenly ran away from home in a dusty old caravan.
The end of the pair of outlaw CPs is hemingway's hometown in the south, John has been studying worship and infatuation with Hemingway before becoming a university professor, and Ella accompanies him to fulfill his dreams.
The first half of the film appears to be a couple unwilling to spend their last days under the care of their children and medical staff.
As older people, they have willfulness that does not belong to their own age.
It is also because of this willfulness that countless jokes have occurred between the two along the way.
John will suddenly have a confused memory and "change" back to the youth who fell in love with Ella, because Ella's black first love overturned the vinegar altar.
Ella would fart quietly in the co-pilot of the motorhome, and then blush and argue with John.
John would talk to the waitress at the fast-food restaurant about Hemingway's money, and Ella would look murderous.
Ella would get into the back seat of a strong man's motorcycle and chase her husband at high speed after John forgot that she had driven away alone.
On the road, he met gangsters and heroically drew his gun.
The daily journey, frivolous, argumentative red face, endless.
Tired and happy.
In these humorous little stories, you will see two old people who are not lost to the vitality of young people, and endless love for each other.
This journey, although not smooth, they will not hide their love for each other, this kind of sprinkling sugar everywhere, so that Pigo has restored a little boyish heart.
They are companions who are about to reach the end of their lives, and they are clearly warriors in life who can fight for another five hundred years.
There are a lot of old-fashioned warm traps set in the movie, but it just has the magic to make people willingly fall down.
The most poignant scene in this film is when night falls, and John and Ella will stop the flag. They would do something incredibly important—help John retrieve his memory.
As time went on, John's illness became more and more serious, and he would suddenly forget where he was, whose last name he was, and even the names of his children.
In order to help John "make up lessons" - they parked their RVs everywhere, put up curtains on the side of the road, and screened photos of two people who are still in love and have children.
At night, with a string of lights propped up at night, two glasses full of wine, Ella took up her glasses, flipped through the photos one by one, and told John about the accident person.
(From John's chaotic face, the amnesia had caused him extreme pain.)
In Ella's story, John remembers a lot of people and things that have been there, and when the memory is briefly restored, his former relatives and friends have died one after another, and only he and Ella are trying to live, relying on each other.
Every morning, for Ella, it was a whole new world, and she had to be wary of all the reactions of John's amnesia.
Missing, urinary incontinence, memory confusion... What Ella couldn't stand the most was that John had finally forgotten himself.
At that moment, she began to roar violently and began to collapse.
John could only stand on the sidelines, panicked and sorry like a child who had done something wrong.
"I'll help you remember all the past, but you'll forget me and abandon me."
When Pigo saw this scene, he suddenly understood that for John and Ella, the true meaning of their love was to live and die.
It is the affection that others cannot touch the love that participates, and even the children cannot interfere.
Even though Ella is tormented by illness every day, she doesn't know when she will fall. John's condition worsened and he would suddenly lose it.
The love between them, at the time of the journey along the way, begins to come to an end.
I don't care about helping you get rid of your wet pants, but I care about the affair you once cheated on me.
I don't care about your temper and nagging, but I remember all the sweetness that happened to you and your first love.
I am tormented by illness, but I still stubbornly accompany you on the road to find your dreams.
I will forget what happened before me, your name is my eternal cinnabar mole.
Seeing the second half, the two men started to really go crazy.
Rescue Ella from the hospital, stay in a high-end hotel, drink the most expensive champagne, dance in the room...
Pig finally understood that this was a ritual before death, and that this pair of proud lovers, sickness and aging, could not shake them away from each other in the slightest, and if death was our end, then we would reach the end together.
One ordinary day, after writing a suicide note for the children, Ella and John hugged each other in the old caravan and committed suicide.
Seeing the ending, there will be relief and ease.
"Love Before Memory Fades" is like an old man, slowly telling the most ordinary love story of a couple, when "marriage is the graveyard of love" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the world, it changes this statement, turning John Ella's love into "marriage is the destination of love".
When there is a person around who would rather die than say goodbye to you, then what is there to hesitate about?
This movie teaches people how to love, how to age, how to face death.
"Love Before Memory Fades" sprung up at the Venice Film Festival, describing the obscure death and life in the film as a warm and sunny, warm contradiction, which is a bomb sugar coating.
Show you the tediousness of life, and then reveal the hidden sweetness to you.
The ultimate romance, there is a lingering sadness.
The film uses a bright journey scenery and the protagonist's slow journey to form a harmonious picture.
Time is like a landscape flying behind the mind, and the Zen meaning of time is solved.
A humorous, warm, and pleasant journey, but it reveals a heart-palpitating journey to the end of life.
"Love Before Memory Fades" as director Paul Velzi's English debut, the biggest success is to invite Oscar actress Helen Mirren, and the role bone Donald Sutherland as the main actors, the two actors are extremely delicate and rich interpretation, which makes people extremely moving.
Every time we look at each other, every time we fight each other, every time we moisten our eyes, every time we embrace the power...
You can't question that they are John and Ella, who make love look the best.
"Love Before Memory Fades" was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the 74th Venice Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Music and Best Actress at the 75th Golden Globe Awards, respectively.
At the end, Pigo once again recommends this film.
After watching the movie, you will involuntarily squeeze the hands of the people around you.
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