Loneliness may be the fate of people, but it has never been a human pursuit, and I believe that those who are lonely and old have also had a fresh or warm life. Occasional solitude and loneliness are not a concept, and the taste of the latter is cold and warm.
Haruki Murakami said that where there are people who like to be lonely, but they don't like disappointment.
In the bustling crowd, it is impossible to distinguish which figures are lonely, and the lonely figures are everywhere on the endless road of life.
It is undeniable that there are some people who live alone in the world. Some people enjoy loneliness, and some people are helpless and lonely.
Living alone, although life is silent, but this is also a way of life as a human being, which is understandable. But if you die alone, no one knows, no one takes care of the aftermath, it is the sadness of being born as a human being.
"Lonely Life" is a story about lonely death, and the protagonist John is a lonely person himself, and his job is to take care of the aftermath for those who die alone and are unclaimed. Those who live in a dwelling and quietly pass away do not have the remembrance of their relatives and friends, they seem to have never lived in this world. John acted as their loved one, accompanying them on their last journey.
John was a loner full of warmth, and for twenty-two years he devoted himself to finding the imprint of his life for the dead, respecting every lonely soul and sending them on their last journey in the most dignified way. He warmed the souls of many lonely dead.
"No climax, but deep in the hearts of the people" is the most appropriate evaluation of this movie. Under John's bland appearance, there is a shining soul.
First, he lived in silence, giving his enthusiasm and love to those who died alone
In the lights of thousands of homes at night, not all of them are warm and lively homes, in many chaotic houses, there are scruffy and aging elderly people living alone, these people have never been visited by relatives, like weeds, unattended, Vultures are alive, naturally, when they die, no one knows.
John's job was to take care of the affairs of the lonely and unclaimed deceased in the precinct, and to help the deceased find their loved ones.
Some of the deceased, even if they have contacted their loved ones, are hardly attending their funerals because they have long since been disassociated from their families, who have long since ceased to exist. As the saying goes, "The real departure is not death, but oblivion." ”
These people died quietly, some quickly discovered, some a few weeks later. After receiving the task of disposing of the deceased, John sorted out the relics for the deceased, patiently searched for the most memorable objects of the deceased in those dirty rooms, collected these things, wrote a eulogy for the deceased, and let these unclaimed dead people walk the last journey with dignity.
John's actor, Eddie Mason, is not handsome, it can be said that he is not good-looking, but he plays this role very well, and he makes this ordinary and special social worker exude the most beautiful light of humanity.
John takes care of the aftermath of the lonely dead, and John himself is a lonely man.
When he worked, he was alone in a small room, which was lined with iron frames for the files of the deceased, and the only thing that could make a sound was a telephone at hand. He struggled to find the deceased's relatives and left the phone number, hoping that they would come to send the deceased on the last journey, but the call was almost always a voice of refusal.
When John returned home, there was no family to greet him, no hot meals. He hung up his coat, one man prepared food, one man ate slowly, home was a warm harbor, and in John's home, there was a kind of coldness everywhere.
As night came, John carefully arranged the photographs of the deceased under the lamp and pasted them neatly in a thick photo album. Even if no one in this world claimed them, John would let them say a final goodbye to the world with dignity.
In John's mind, no life in this world mattered, and every life deserves to be remembered.
Second, even if I encounter misfortune, I will not forget my mission, and the world will repay me with pain, but I will repay it with a song
Loneliness is man's destiny, and love and friendship cannot eradicate it, but they can soothe it. ——Zhou Guoping
Those who leave this world alone in the house, love and friendship have been polished to dust by the years, and when they are alive, they have already lived to be abandoned by the world.
John takes over the aftermath of Billy, a widowed old man, whose house is directly opposite him and is clearly visible through the window.
The old man died for a long time without anyone knowing, and the police were notified when the smell in the room was emitted. In the old man's house, there were empty wine bottles as far as the eye could see, and John easily found a small photo, but the neighbor could not confirm whether it was himself.
The undead needed more time to deal with, at which point John was called by his superiors and fired. The reason is that he wasted too much time for each unidentified deceased and spent unnecessary expenses on their burials.
John arranged burials for the faithful, set aside two months for the cremated deceased to wait for the family to claim, and after the expiration of which remained unclaimed, he would choose a suitable place to solemnly scatter the ashes for each person alone.
He dutifully discharged his duties, but was ruthlessly fired when he worked for 22 years.
John, who was already middle-aged, did not have much change in his expression in the face of such a ruthless arrangement of fate, he was unwilling and more unwilling in his heart, and he knew that no amount of argument would help, he only asked his superiors to give him three days to complete the case in his hand.
At night, John looks through an old photo album he has found from Billy's house, which is plastered with pictures of Billy's daughter, and John begins to search for Billy's relatives and friends one by one.
John first found Billy's former colleague and friend, who said that Billy was a moralist who had done something drastic in order to buy his co-workers an extra five minutes of rest, and then left the factory. John wanted him to attend Billy's funeral, and his friend said they had been very good friends, but it had been so long that he wasn't sure if he could go.
John learns from Billy's friends that he once had a woman he liked, and he goes back and forth to Billy's former lover, Mary. He helps Mary while listening to her story about her past with Billy. Mary says that Billy is very gentle and kind when he doesn't lose his temper, but when he starts a tantrum, he must not leave him.
Mary's current husband tells John that Billy once fried his guest's hand in a frying pan because of a guest flirting with Mary, and he thought Billy was doing things too crazy. Mary said that after that incident, Billy began to drink heavily, often made trouble, became very bad, and then was accused of leaving the place. At Mary's shop, John saw Mary and Billy's daughter and grandson. John wants them to attend Billy's funeral, but Mary refuses, who says they were once in love, but that was only once.
John went through a lot of trouble to find Billy's family and friends, but none of them were willing to attend the funeral, and John's heart was lost. In the deserted home, John looked through the photo albums of the deceased, and these people who had been lonely and unclaimed after death had also had a warm life, and it was not known whether life abandoned them or whether they abandoned life.
John was one of many lonely people, he had no relatives, no friends, no job soon, and he had even deeper loneliness, and that was his respect and compassion for every lonely deceased that no one could understand.
Third, he is about to usher in the spring of life, but fate has made him die alone with a smile
John always had a warm light in his heart, and this light illuminated the lonely dead. Billy was his last farewell, he was not willing to give up any glimmer of hope, he began to look for the daughter in Billy's old photo album, and it was his uncomplaining insistence that made his lonely heart shine into the light of spring.
John went through several tossing and turning and finally found Billy's daughter, Kelly. A smile rose from the corner of his mouth when he saw Kelly holding the dog at the animal adoption, and he felt that it was a caring girl who might attend her father's funeral.
The girl received him kindly, and it could be heard from her account that Billy was not a responsible man, that he had left his wife and daughter behind and gone to prison, that he had not fulfilled his duty as a husband and father.
John's expectations were once again dashed, and Kelly refused to attend the funeral.
John goes to find Billy's comrades-in-arms when he was a paratrooper, a tramp with whom he drinks, and he learns that Billy has left indelible psychological trauma in the war, which has affected his life.
Even if he couldn't find a person to attend Billy's funeral, John organized billy's funeral in an orderly manner. And his spring also came unexpectedly.
John receives a call from Kelly, who agrees to attend her father's funeral. John tells Kelly about the funeral in great detail.
John's love for the lonely deceased touched Kelly, and the gentle and beautiful girl felt the beauty of the man's heart, and she offered to date alone after her father's funeral.
John's heart instantly brightened, and the world before him had a new color. He knew that he would have an intoxicating love.
The corners of his mouth bent upwards involuntarily, for his heart was filled with sweetness. He bought a cup with a dog motif and hurried across the road with a smile, only to be greeted by a car speeding up, and he collapsed in a pool of blood.
No one knew he was dead, and no one in the church sent him off except the priest.
The relatives and friends he had found for Billy had come to the funeral, and Kelly had been looking around, and the father who was underground was just a title, and she could come because of John, and it was the light on John's body that touched her, but she couldn't find him.
"A life is too long to make a person die alone, but a life is too short to make two people look at each other."
The lonely dead who were unclaimed, and John sent them off, but after John died alone, no one sent him off.
Before John closed his eyes, there was no pain in his expression, no panic in his expression, and he accepted death peacefully and serenely. He died with a good life.
There was not a single person in front of John's tomb. But in the invisible space, there must have been many people around him, all of whom were thanking him, all of whom were his friends, who were the undead who had been treated tenderly by him.
John's life was lonely, but his heart was not lonely, he tried to understand the life of every lonely deceased, and he did his best to preserve the traces of everyone's existence in this world. What he was looking for was family, friendship, and love.
Born as a human being, there will be a feeling of loneliness, some for a while, some for a lifetime. John was a lonely man, all his efforts were to get rid of loneliness and keep warmth, and his life came to an abrupt end due to accidents, but he left an indelible mark on this world.