In the middle of this month, the list of oscar nominations for this year was announced.
For a time, Zhao Ting's name made headlines on the front page.
Directed by her, "No Man's Land" received 6 Oscar nominations.
And another big hit, may be ignored by many people.
The same is 6 nominations.
Cass is even stronger, and the shadow emperor + shadow queen sits.
It was praised by netizens as a "textbook-level movie" and "the greatest performance I have seen in many years".
How bullish is it?
Sir will help you with the first time.
"Father Trapped in Time"
The Father
Looking at the poster you may find it stuffy.
But Sir assured that this is the kind of "poster cold but can't stop watching for 10 minutes".
Starring Anthony Hopkins.
All familiar, not much to say, seeing this face is a reflexive tiger body shock.
Another star is also an award-winning regular in recent years, Olivia Coleman.
With the role of the proud queen in "Darling", she won the Oscar.
The Shadow Emperor Shadow Queen qi lived.
Looking at the poster, the daughter looks at her elderly father, a warm feeling.
Sir thought it was a family comedy, but he was caught off guard by being dragged into a "spiral maze-like high-level story.".
01
Who are you?
One day.
Anne came to her father's house and said goodbye to him.
She plans to leave London and go to Paris to live with her boyfriend.
(Coincidentally, the father is also called Anthony in the film)
After the daughter left.
Anthony heard a knock at the door, and he went into the living room to see a man sitting on his couch.
The man is paul (Mark Gatiss), who claims to be "Anthony's son-in-law".
Wrong.
Just now, the daughter said that she wanted to go to Paris with her boyfriend.
How did this come up with a husband?
Paul felt something was wrong and called Anne.
In between waiting for Anne to return, the two chatted casually.
Anthony felt that her daughter was leaving, just an excuse to send herself to a nursing home.
At the mention of this, I was suddenly emotional – I wouldn't leave my apartment
When Paul heard this, his face was puzzled.
Because, the apartment is not Anthony's at all.
It was his and Anne's home, and the old man had recently moved in for a while because he had quarreled with the nanny and had no one to take care of him.
During the conversation, the daughter returned.
She hurried in the door, hung up her clothes, and as soon as she turned back and saw her face, Anthony froze.
this...... Not daughter Anne at all.
More weird is yet to come.
Father and Anne mentioned that they had just talked to her husband.
The daughter was stunned on the spot— I wasn't married, Dad
The daughter divorced five years ago, and the ex-husband's name is not Paul, but James.
Anthony had a question mark.
Just now, he saw Paul take the chicken from his daughter's hand and take it to the kitchen.
Every minute the story moves forward, what happened in the previous minute is completely overturned and restarted.
It seems like everything is changing and disappearing.
The daughter who was moving to Paris disappeared, the son-in-law named Paul disappeared, even the chicken disappeared.
What the hell is going on?
It seems that Anthony is caught in the overlap of time and space.
But this is not a science fiction film.
Seemingly through the layers of parallel worlds, the truth is actually simple, cruel and realistic.
What disappeared was nothing but Anthony's memory and his judgment of time and space.
The old man had Alzheimer's disease.
Patients have a confused memory and forget what just happened.
More difficult than forgetting is fear.
Because, he never knows who will appear in the next second.
And all of this adds up, it's not as scary as one thing—
The entire film takes Anthony as the first perspective, bringing the audience into the life of an old man with Alzheimer's disease.
Every day when he woke up, he would find out.
Everything is changing, the faces of acquaintances have changed, the furnishings of the apartment have changed.
What people said yesterday, the next day will all be a different set of words.
So, who should I believe?
02
Who is she?
25 minutes before the movie.
Sir once suspected it was a horror film.
After 25 minutes, the suspense was revealed, but there was no way to breathe a sigh of relief.
Because this immersive experience is more terrifying than horror movies.
The main plot of the film takes place in an apartment in London, and the characters can count on one hand.
Through the limited scenes and characters, one trap after another is set.
Use another perspective to see through the trap.
In Anne's eyes.
The father was an old child.
As soon as the stubbornness came up, it could not be said that it could not be scolded, but could only be coaxed.
On weekdays, she took good care of her father.
But what the father talks about all day long is his favorite little daughter (who died unexpectedly many years ago).
This delicate and tense relationship between father and daughter can be explained thoroughly by one play.
One day, Anne came to the door with a new nanny.
Because he thought she looked like his little daughter, Anthony was very enthusiastic.
Invited her to drink and danced a cha-cha dance in front of her.
No wonder.
If the old man is normal, he can be regarded as a wonderful person.
Funny and confident, with a unique personality charm.
But Alzheimer's disease can turn any wonderful person into a freak, into an untimely bomb.
The first second is still a master at adjusting the atmosphere.
The next second, you are against everyone and take pleasure in attacking others.
You say OK, just roll.
But as a daughter, you can't see it.
Back to his own life, it was that life could not take care of itself.
Wearing a sweater is such a simple thing, his movements are as silly as prehistoric animals;
Often think of yourself and nag some strange words, others can't understand what they are talking about... Who knew those were his most cherished memories;
Not to mention the sudden collapse, crying like a child;
Alzheimer's disease is just a disease, but there are actually many "symptoms".
For example, the previous emotional instability, slurred speech, behavior is not self-care...
For example, the delusion of being killed:
Worried that the watch was stolen by the caregiver, worried that his house would be occupied.
In Anthony's cognition, the apartment is his own, and it is his daughter who has become bad and wants to pit his father, so he deliberately creates the illusion that he cannot take care of himself in life.
This kind of talk, the average person listens to nothing.
But my loved ones listened to the heart.
There is no filial piety in front of the bed for a long time, and it is more than just human patience.
Rather, it is this kind of harm that will over time disintegrate the psychological defenses of those who love him.
Intellectually, the daughter is always convincing herself that, well, her father is not lightly ill.
But emotionally every day of evil words, who is a saint? Who can stand it?
Moreover, even if one ninja word is done to the extreme, it is not enough.
What upset Anne the most was that her father still regarded her as an outsider and was always on guard against her.
Here I have to mention Coleman, worthy of being a post-film actor.
She handled her daughter's contradictory feelings of love, hate, closer and more resistance to her father, too perfectly.
Sure enough, it is an acting textbook full of details:
When comforted by the nanny, she smiled politely and quickly wiped away her tears, but the corners of her mouth relaxed weakly.
This laugh is a grievance.
This rubbing is not enough for outsiders.
This relaxation is again tormented and numbdened by years and months.
When she came out of the private clinic, she saw her father sitting obediently and smiled at him with an encouraging smile.
This laugh, like to a child.
But the crying in laughter is like to father.
My daughter's life is like a cloudy day all year round.
After waiting 100 times, you may finally wait for a 5-minute "sunny day".
When that "sunny day" comes, the father will wake up for a little while and say "thank you" to his daughter.
Such a little warmth and affection, small as gray, slender as a line.
It carries the daughter down, knowing that there is no exit, because death is the father's only exit.
So Alzheimer's torture for patients and families is twofold.
It is a wall.
Invisible and untouchable, but standing cold in the daily routine.
The people outside the walls wanted to help, and there was nowhere to help.
The people inside the walls are trapped in a labyrinth, wandering in a daze.
03
Who am I?
The charm of this film (forgive Sir for saying so from an appreciation point of view) is that it tells the whole story from Anthony's point of view.
This is the zerothrod perspective.
Because other than that, we can't follow the timeline of Alzheimer's patients and deeply understand their situation.
Therefore, the whole viewing process is both magical and magical, and it is full of immersive suffocation.
After being eroded by the disease, Anthony's cognition was confused.
From the stylized tones of the entire apartment to the placement of the paintings in the living room.
For him, everything was shifting.
For example, the day before, the decoration style of the apartment was still warm and simple European.
The next day, it turned into a cool modern style.
The concept of space becomes blurred.
In terms of time, he also began to be unable to distinguish the beginning.
In one scene, before dinner, Annie and her boyfriend discuss sending her father to a nursing home.
Anthony entered the door and sat down to eat, and the daughter's boyfriend finally showed off, hoping he would move out.
Watching the couple argue.
To avoid embarrassment, Anthony left the table to serve the dish.
When he returned to the dinner table, he found that the couple's whispers were gone, and the scene from a few minutes earlier began to repeat itself.
Coming and going, the arrival of the old man forms a closed loop of the same starting point.
What's more, at the beginning of this repetitive passage, a tense violin score enters.
It heralds another tightening of family ties.
Anthony is like a child trapped in time, constantly trying to stitch together the broken time and space.
It is also because this subjective perspective distorts the authenticity of time and space, so it creates an ending for the audience to guess:
One possible timeline is that Anthony finally got angry with the babysitter, his daughter took him home to take care of him, which led to an argument with her boyfriend, and then the old man was sent to a nursing home...
One outcome that Sir thinks is more likely is:
The apartment and the daughter, the new caregiver and the French boyfriend, never existed.
Everything that happened before was pieced together by my father according to memory.
In the continuous patchwork, he gradually lost himself and went to a real loss of control.
One of the most obvious details is:
In the middle of the film, Anthony wakes up in his daughter's apartment and walks out of the room.
In the hallway, he looked in amazement at the stacked chairs.
This scene was intended to emphasize that the old man was very confused about adding new objects and changing the location of furniture in the home.
And the attentive audience will find that these two chairs are exactly the same as the chairs that the elderly sat in the clinic when they went to see a doctor.
What does hell look like?
Demons, judgments, and fire may not be needed.
The chaotic world of the old man in the film is not a kind of hell.
There have been many film and television works about Alzheimer's disease before, "Love Notebook", "Eraser in My Brain", "Still Alice"...
Before the appearance of "Father Trapped in Time".
This type of work will be more from the perspective of others, watching the patient's soul disappear little by little but unable to do anything.
And this advanced operation of "Father" created an experience of everything gradually getting out of control, and also made Sir suddenly realize that maybe it was not only Alzheimer's disease.
Perhaps every relative who is not easy to get along with has a labyrinthine inner world, very subjective, very stubborn, and has a law of operation that is difficult to change.
Anthony Hopkins is 84 years old.
Thanks to him, not only for his fiery acting skills.
Because he lived long enough to open up this believable special world for us.
A world that is difficult for loved ones to understand, but needs to be understood.
We have repeatedly created friction over generational gaps and different values.
But those disputes caused by not understanding, those who deliberately hurt each other, those who do not know their own emotional kidnapping, how can they disappear easily?
At the end of the film.
Anthony cried like a child to find his mother.
Because people who have lost their memories are always accustomed to returning to the original form of life and wondering who they are.
He was conscious, he couldn't be sure.
He could only keep talking to himself—Anthony, that's a good name
Anthony is the name of who it is.
It is the name of the father and the name of the child.
It is the name of a family member and the name of a lonely outlier.
We young people always emphasize our maturity, choice and freedom more every year.
Every year, we care more about our names and our existence.
Similarly, don't forget your elderly father and mother, who also have their names.
Aging and disease will gradually weaken their names and existence.
What deepens year by year is a kind of childlike vulnerability.
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Editorial Assistant: Brad Tepi