<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > preface</h1>
This is a rare film with the elderly as the main line, and won the high score of Douban 8.2, and it is also an atypical American road movie. It changes the characteristics of the previous rampage and fleshy road movies, and with a funny and humorous atmosphere, let two old couples who have passed their old age, because of the uncertainty of the journey and the memories brought into the past of life, casual and romantic, delicate and warm.
The film's English title "the leisure seeke" literally translates to "seekers", while the Chinese translation is "Love Before Memory Fades", which at first glance has no direct connection, and always seems to remind people of the trilogy of "Love Before Sunset", "Love Before Dawn Breaks Before Sunrise", "Love Before Midnight Falls". In fact, Leisure seeker is an important prop in the film - the name of the caravan, which secretly fits the genre of the film, the road movie. The movie revolves around the old couple driving this "leisure seeker" motorhome, which is like the old-age sequel of the "Love in" trilogy, which completely summarizes the core of the story. The couple relived the past all the way, nagged all the way, and completed their lives together. In the end, they pass away together after the trip, echoing the film's name. In this way, in fact, the translation of the title of the film into "Love Before Memory Fades" is also very appropriate.
An old lady with advanced pancreatic cancer, an old gentleman who is already in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease, and a caravan that seems to be about to get old, bravely and willfully drive south from Massachusetts in the northeast of the United States to Florida and key West, because it is the former home of the old man's favorite writer in his life, Hemingway.
Along the way, of course, there are many situations and jokes. And these two old people, a suit and leather dress, a comb of delicate makeup and hair, although the old age has always maintained optimism, open-minded and cheerful heart, so that the whole trip, anxious children, the police who will be suspicious, the unexpected students, the confused ex-boyfriend, and all kinds of inexplicable passers-by, etc., have let with joy, but also evoked their beauty of the year.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > story analysis: noisy and noisy along the way, stumbling, love is always not a fairy tale, although reality will make people sad, but all the way down the way down to love and hate can not be separated from you</h1>
Although this is a warm road movie, but the audience watched it is also a side of the hanging heart, after all, a combination of more than 80 years old man carrying the old lady on the road, itself makes people worried, see the old man hands to pick up the old lady's drink will be heart-wrenching, see the police check the driver's license will be nervous, see the slow response almost hit the roadbed will be afraid, at the same time, see see the little wants to rob is also a side of laughter.
The original intention of the trip was because the children of the elderly couple planned to separate them and take care of one of them in order to facilitate the care of the two elderly people. It is conceivable that for an old lady who does not want to live without fun and then slowly endure the pain and torture and die, this is an unacceptable idea. After living for a lifetime, she naturally understood the old man's ideas, so she conspired to embark on this idol that drove to the old man's life, Hemingway's former residence, choosing to take care of his wife and die without regret.
Even if it is two old couples who have walked the last journey of their lives, they are still emotional, they will eat wrong for each other, they will be sad for each other, not to see everything when they are old, and the two people will get together as a companion. Therefore, with such feelings, along the way, even if the old man is an Alzheimer's patient, he will think of the old lady's first love from time to time and can't help but be jealous. The nagging old lady is deeply annoyed, and always feels that things that have passed for so long are still clinging to it, but she will also feel a little sweet like a young girl because the other party has eaten wrongly.
The old man who did not let go of the old things, and then finally because the old lady's first love had not been seen for decades and did not remember the other party and was relieved and satisfied, wanted to come, the sweet and sour taste of love, do not care about age or not!
The two mixed their mouths all the way, and the feelings of the two were sweet in the broken mouth. But the faults of youth, like a bomb that has been buried deeply, will explode one day sooner or later. Just when the old man's illness was getting worse, he finally forgot his wife, mistakenly called the name of the old neighbor and the old lady's girlfriend, and said: We can't continue, Ella will be heartbroken.
No one would have thought that there would be such a play, which was a thunderbolt on a sunny day for the old lady. Who ever thought that the relationship that accompanied her wife who had taken care of her for 48 years and in the last part of her life, the feelings that she deeply believed to have actually existed such a scam. The sad old lady immediately decided to throw this bastard to the nearest nursing home and let him fend for himself!
She cried and scolded, remembering the past bits and pieces, because of love and trust in feelings she had never doubted, but also found clues: not only with female neighbors, but also keen to talk to young and beautiful girls about Hemingway, even if they were white-haired. Originally thought to see a beautiful love between the hand of the son and the son with the old, the result of an unexpected sentence let everything be exposed, so that the good times of decades gave the head a blow at the end, leaving the books and fantasies, the love in reality is not a fairy tale at all.
However, after calming down, the old lady still chose to take him back to the "seeker", although it was very painful, but love overscored hate, and a mistake was forgiven after 48 years.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the ending: a road movie featuring a caravan to Hemingway's house, and finally making the same decision as Hemingway - to commit suicide after suffering from illness, the same choice, hiding love that cannot be abandoned</h1>
There is one character that must be mentioned about the film - Ernest Miller Hemingway, a prominent American writer. Many people will first think of "The Old Man and the Sea", which won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in addition to a series of familiar ones: "The Snow of Mount Kilimanjaro", "Farewell, Weapons", "The Sun Also Rises", "The Flowing Feast", "For Whom the Death Knell Rings", etc., which mark his position in the world literary world. And the old gentleman in the film is a loyal supporter of Hemingway, and he has worshipped Hemingway as a guigao in his life.
Look back at the story of Hemingway's life. Living in the war years, he spent his whole life with great personal color. In the face of two heavy and magnificent world wars in history, his experience and identity are also very legendary and wonderful: he has been a writer, a journalist, a patriot, a guerrilla, a spy and so on. His feelings are also complicated, he has been married four times, and he is a representative figure in the "lost generation" of writers in the United States.
The American writer Saul Bellow points out Hemingway's character: "Hemingway had a strong desire to try to impose his own views on things in order to create an image of a tough guy... When he longs for victory in his dreams, there will be complete victory, great battles and happy endings. As he put it in his book The Old Man and the Sea"
Such a distinct personal color of course appears unsurprisingly and is full of his works, and Hemingway's works show confusion and wandering about life, the world, and society. He has always been known as a tough man in the literary world and is a spiritual monument of the American nation.
On July 2, 1961, Hemingway committed suicide with a shotgun at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, because of his unwillingness to endure the pain and devastation of his illness. This way of passing away from the world also has a deeper impact on his descendants. As President John F. Kennedy's condolence telegram said, ""
The New York Times also commented, ""
Therefore, the old man who was deeply influenced by Hemingway deeply penetrated Hemingway's American spirit into the bone marrow and never forgot it. And the lover who knows each other very well chooses the end of the last trip of this life in key WEST's Hemingway's house, and the intention is naturally self-evident. Because of love, I understand and give this understanding the best arrangement.
The 19-year-old Hemingway had a similar lament about life: "Instead of dying in old age and decay, it is better to die in this happy youth full of illusions, and let life disappear in the brilliant light." ”
So he ended his life in his own way, and the old couple chose the same. I think they all died in happiness.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > written at the end: The best companionship is when we are all old and can still rely on each other to spend the last good time together</h1>
I think many people, perhaps more or less, have tried to imagine what kind of situation and life will be when they are old. I care most about who is still with me. Holding the hand of the son and growing old with the son is the most beautiful expectation.
From birth to old age, we will experience countless challenges and trials, accompanied by laughter and tears of sadness. How do you face death in your final days?
Director Luis Buñuel said, "The more terrible death is the kind of life that depends on the bitter maintenance of modern medicine, the kind of slow survival that never ends." In the name of Hippocrates, the doctors created one of the most delicate and elegant tortures for human beings: survival"
Some choose the way to end their lives, like Hemingway and the old couple, the highest reverence and respect for life in the spiritual world. But ordinary as we are, even if we are tortured without grace, we just want to cherish the last days that can be accompanied.
Yes, one day, we need to face death and leave this world, I still hope that I can bring love and dignity, no matter how dark life is, I can still choose to see the beauty of life, just like this old couple, give life a hug or work with it to the end, so that the dawn will come faster. Aging itself is a matter of having to accept and carry pain and necessity, to face it in awe of it, and at the same time to try to make the process decent and complete. There may be a little regret, but if you can slowly grow old together and spend a good time together, it is enough.
Love should be spoken out loud, and love must also be deeply remembered.