The highest demand for best actor at this year's Oscars must be Anthony Hopkins.
In 1991, Anthony Hopkins created a classic image of "Hannibal" in The Silence of the Lambs, whose bewildered smile perfectly presented fear and elegance on the face of a killer.
To this day, "Hannibal" is still the representative of the "most classic murderer" in the hearts of countless movie fans.
Anthony Hopkins once said that I can't stop acting for a moment in my life.
There is a Chinese saying that "the older a person is, the more demonish he is", and as he grows older, Anthony Hopkins has become more and more skilled in his acting skills.
In 2021, a "Father Trapped in Time" created a miracle for Anthony Hopkins' later career.
Nearly 85-year-old Anthony Hopkins starred in the film, creating an elderly father who gradually lost his memory.
The entire content of the film is gathered in a small room, simple and repetitive lines, the same action and scene construction but to create a confusing story atmosphere for the audience.
The Douban score soared to a high score of 8.7 almost without bad reviews, which is another peak of Anthony Hopkins' later works.
However, the shooting angle of this work is not friendly, and many viewers read the story confusedly, although they understand the concept of the work that the director wants to express, they still can't figure out the timeline.
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"Father Trapped in Time" adopts a relatively high-end shooting method.
Director Florian Zeller first directed his classic work "Father" to the audience in a perfect visual language.
As the film's name suggests, Anthony Hopkins' father is gradually occupied by "amnesia", and his desperate struggles are always trapped in memory.
The film's intuitive shooting perspective is the father's subjective timeline, and it is precisely because the director wants to portray a "amnesiac" worldview that it leads to the fragmented characters and lines in the film.
This innovative shooting method allows the audience to deeply understand the "amnesia" patients.
After watching the film, the audience once left a message: "The fear of aging is not in appearance, but in the mind."
Anthony Hopkins once again conquered the audience with near-perfect acting skills, and those subtle expressions and the sense of reality that precipitated on his face hit people's hearts.
The real story line hidden behind the film actually requires a deep understanding of the film's characters and story background to sort it out.
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The real timeline of "Father Trapped in Time" is actually the intuitive perspective of the daughter.
Although the story changes in different rooms, there is actually only one real location, that is, the nursing home.
The caregiver once said to Anthony at the end, "You've been living in it for a few months," indicating that all spatial changes are just flashbacks of memories.
After Anthony was admitted to a nursing home, the patients with "amnesia" began to worsen, eventually leading to serious confusion in the characters and dialogue.
With grief and fear of life, Anthony himself has created such a chaotic and broken story.
The characters and dialogues that appear in "Father Trapped in Time" are actually the pain points in Anthony's memories, because only the pain points are the deepest memories.
The initial pain point is the accidental death of the younger daughter in a car accident, and Anthony's memories of his daughter are repeated in the film, and the eldest daughter has never corrected her father in order to avoid her father's grief, because such amnesia seems to be more benign.
However, for the father's other amnesia, the eldest daughter has never tolerated it and has been working hard to correct it.
Such a contrasting move, in fact, in shaping the daughter's urgent need for independent life, the end of the film has given the answer, despite the eldest daughter's efforts to fulfill filial piety but still isolate the father.
After the death of his youngest daughter, Anthony fell into loneliness and grief, which, combined with his ability to live alone, eventually led to the acceleration of "amnesia".
For this reason, the eldest daughter took Anthony to live with his ex-husband's apartment. When Anthony repeatedly asked if this was my apartment, the eldest daughter chose silence to avoid it.
From the scene of Anthony being beaten in the film, it can be seen that the ex-husband is the real owner of the apartment.
The ex-husband spoke ill of Anthony because he could not tolerate anthony's long visits, and Anthony did suffer from "slaps".
This incident was the trigger for the eldest daughter's divorce.
After the divorce, the eldest daughter took care of her father while working, and under pressure she chose a nurse to take care of her father, but the stubborn and stubborn Anthony never accepted the reality and constantly resisted her daughter's care.
When the eldest daughter finds true love again, Anthony is once again stimulated, and he will face his daughter's departure.
This point is repeated in the film, one moment the daughter says that she wants to live in France, and the other time she denies that she has said these things, which is actually the subjective will of Anthony's thoughts.
He knew the outcome, but kept fantasizing that it wouldn't happen, creating a contradictory daughter.
This is the second pain point in Anthony's recollection.
The whole film is filled with Anthony's fears, and one of the scenes is where his daughter covers the sleeping Anthony to death on the bed, and this plot is exactly a reaction to Anthony's inner fear, he is too afraid that he will drag down the child.
But from Anthony's attitude towards the nurse in the film, it can be seen that he still likes to communicate with strangers and build feelings, precisely because he is afraid that his daughter will leave because he is taken care of, so he has always chosen to resist.
All this is manifested in the father's expectations of his children and their inner fears.
The end of the story is sad, and although the eldest daughter tries to honor her father throughout the film, it does not change Anthony's final destination in the nursing home.
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"Father Trapped in Time" allows the audience to see their own aging in advance, and even intuitively see the ideological ideology when they are old.
That powerless loneliness and resistance is as unconcerned as a child's appeal to his parents.
In a nursing home, Anthony has placed the imagination of the memories on the nurses and doctors, because his long-term memories have been broken, and he can only rely on short-term memories to piece together the memories.
That's why there will be a confusing role reversal between the ex-husband and the doctor, between the daughter and the nurse.
"Father Trapped in Time" is exactly the memory of an old man's pain points in life, and what is even more tragic is that as an audience, we will inevitably have the same encounter at some point in the future.
When Anthony wept like a child and snuggled in the arms of the nurse, it was as if he had returned to the beginning of life, endless love and sorrow.