Text: Dots
Euthanasia type movies, there are many.
Among them, "Doctor Death", "Request in the Rain", and "Spring of Death" are more classic masterpieces. The story has a single branch line, and there are not many characters who appear.
The whole process revolves around the main line of "how to euthanize", and discusses the significance of the existence of this matter with the public.
Today, Diandian also recommends a movie related to euthanasia.
The difference is that there are many characters in this story, and the images are very typical, divided into supporters, oppositionists and bystanders.
The story is based on real people and real events, aiming to commemorate the deceased and to recreate the "meaning of survival".
Title: "Deep Sea Sleep".
Ramon, a well-built sea mechanic.
So far, he has been lying in bed for more than 20 years. Eating is to be fed, and excretion needs to be taken care of. When alone, turning over and drinking water is a big problem, completely losing the ability to take care of themselves.
Ramon was desperate about this: I've really had enough of such days, and it's better to die!
This idea has been circling Ramon's mind for nearly 30 years, and it has been put into action: to reach out to people who support euthanasia as much as possible and let them give themselves a ride.
Sadly, each time, Ramon's plans were disrupted by fears of his loved ones. Relatives loved him so much that they would rather give up their job than ramon not eat well or sleep well in bed.
As soon as Ramon said something like "I want euthanasia," they would respond with a look of condemnation.
One day, Ramon meets two very different women, one is Rosa, a single mother, and the other is Juliet, a lawyer with frostbite.
Rosa meets Ramon on television, is attracted by his talent and humor, and falls deeply in love with Ramon. She said affectionately: Even for me, you have to live.
Unexpectedly, Ramon was not touched by Rosa, but angrily accused. "Regardless of my wishes, clinging to keep me, you call this love?"
On the other hand, Juliet has the opposite attitude.
As a result of frostbite, she empathizes with Ramon's helplessness: she cannot suppress the withering of her body, she cannot accept losing her self-consciousness at the end of her life, and she does not want to die without dignity.
So, she hid from Ramon's family and secretly sided with Ramon...
This film, released in 2004 with a Douban score of 8.3, is the 77th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The camera is gentle and deep, presenting a realistic theme of "everyone should have the right to die".
The master directs, the strength of the actors joins, the plot is close to reality, and the empathy is very powerful.
Take, for example, ramon and Juliet's love spur.
They have no future. It's quite possible that one second they kiss passionately and the next they lose consciousness.
But they still fell in love passionately. Don't shy away from the invisible future, bravely live in the present. This gentle love branch makes this cruel story show a little beautiful warmth.
In the film, there are more than one fantasy scene.
Ramon stayed in bed day after day, year after year, his body unable to move, but his consciousness crossed the mountains and rivers.
——Hear the sound of babbling streams, and see the bustling city of traffic. Look at the crowd rushing by and look around at everything that can't be touched.
Finally, Ramon saw the sea, endless and bottomless. He stood on the shore, his gaze as affectionate as a lover's.
Finally, he jumped again. After more than 20 years of farewell, you can swim in the sea and once again experience the feeling of freedom.
This intention makes the tone of the story even heavier. Viewers can't help but sympathize with the bound Ramon, and will also be touched by his desperate search for freedom.
What is the final ending of the story, the dots will not follow the spoilers. Here's what I can tell you: Ramon is very happy.
He persisted for nearly 30 years, putting the taboo "euthanasia" on the table again and again.
Finally, he became the most noteworthy and respectable person in the crowd.
In addition, the music of the film is also very magnificent. Always abrupt, appearing in every fantasy scene.
At that time, the audience's mood was sad: from the perspective of the bystander, they saw Ramon's persistence, and saw the pain of his lying in bed day after day.
At this moment, everyone suddenly realized that in the meaningless life of terminally ill patients, death is indeed the best choice.
It's like the confrontation between Ramon and the lawyer who disapproves of euthanasia in the story.
The lawyer said: "Freedom without life is not freedom. Ramon retorted, "Life without freedom is not life." ”
Everyone's living environment is different, and the choice will naturally be different. To be alive is a right that everyone has. At the same time, it is not an obligation that must be enforced.