Father's love is deep, it is like a cup of strong tea, it is bitter at first, but it has a wisp of fragrance when savored.
Today's theme: Fathers
"Father Trapped in Time"
The Father
Year: 2020
Runtime: 97 minutes
Douban score: 8.8 points
Keywords: plot
At first glance, the whole movie begins with the father in the warm-colored apartment and ends in the nursing home room, as if narrated in a correct order. But in reality, it's just the opposite.
The film may be seen as a two-line narrative, one line is the right order - the perspective of the daughter, narrating a process in which Anna is unable to continue to take care of her father as her father's condition gradually deteriorates and her consciousness becomes more and more blurred, and finally decides to send her father to a nursing home.
The other line is the reverse order, the father's perspective, which depicts the memories and hallucinations of a father who already suffers from severe Alzheimer's disease in a nursing home. The narrative of this line is very chaotic and ethereal, and there is often a dislocation of space and characters, the most obvious of which is the magical contrast between the two apartments in warm and cool colors shown in the first 80% of the film.
Why is it so highly rated?
A good work, in addition to a strong script, there are no more actors with superb acting skills.
Because of the name of man, the shadow of the tree—
He is an actor who can master various roles;
He is the frightening and convincing Dr. Hannibal of The Silence.
Manchester by the Sea
Manchester by the Sea
Year: 2016
Runtime: 137 minutes
Douban score: 8.6 points
Keywords: plot, family
In a sense, Manchester by the Sea is an anti-chicken soup movie.
It's slightly understated, but it's not mediocre. With delicate performances and emotional resonance, the film is like a clear spring in this era of overly politicized film selection, interpreting the entanglement of human nature and the regrets of life with an unsatisfactory ending.
I think only men who have become fathers can better understand the impact of the movie, the despair that changes from deep love to dare not love... The pain of losing a baby is really a pain that the world is difficult to repair. Later, my father and brothers repeatedly pounded on this pain, numb and sad. This kind of despair that no one else can help can only slowly corrupt in all later life until everything dies. The unloaded gun keeps this sad story going.
Someone summed up the film's theme in one sentence: "We all have the right not to reconcile with our past." ”
Journey to Heaven
Everybody's Fine
Year: 2009
Runtime: 99 minutes
Reflections and introspection about life and the family. Every family has its own joys and sorrows, and we always try to report good news to distant relatives without worrying, perhaps to avoid worrying or because it is difficult to express. The film is full of warmth everywhere, and several original songs are also moving.
Watching a movie like this always makes me wonder if I should ask myself. Throughout the year, I tied my hands and feet for some trivial matters, found all kinds of excuses not to visit the elderly, and symbolically carried the New Year health products with a layer of big red paper to report for the New Year, and after a hurried meal, it was another year. It is often said that people become old children when they get old, and many elderly people wait alone in the living room all day to visit their children, just like the children of their parents who waited for their parents after work in kindergarten at the beginning of life. At the last stop of life, the last connection between the elderly and the world may be only those who have been fed hard, and their wealth is only these people, and how much happiness these people can bring to their visits—perhaps it is not something that we, the night and night drinkers, can imagine.
In the movie, a simple "I'm fine" reveals that behind the family's respective lives is actually a chicken feather