There are many things that people regret in life, but unfortunately, time cannot be reversed, and life cannot be restarted. For this reason, people always think that if there is a "regret medicine", if life can be re-chosen, how good it would be. This avoids wrong behavior, keeps the tragedy from happening, and soothes your feelings of regret. If so, then life is perfect.
Today's point to recommend is the German film "Regeneration Gate", which will tell us that even if there is a chance to start again in life, what you will be left with is still regret and pain.
The film starred the famous Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, who was an old drama bone in film and television dramas and was praised as "the sexiest man in Denmark". In 2011, he won the European Filmmaker's Outstanding Achievement Award in World Cinema, in 2012 he starred in the film "The Hunt" to win the Cannes Film Festival, and in 2013, he starred in the thriller suspense drama "Hannibal" and won the Saturn Award for Best Actor.
He still has a big explosion of acting skills in "Regeneration Gate".
The painful decadence of losing a daughter;
The joy of the lost and regained and weeping;
The grief of a friend dying because of him;
Uneasiness about a new life and so on.
Mads Mikkelson plays David, a well-known painter in this film, but he is not a competent husband and father, he has a cold relationship with his wife Maya, and he does not care enough about his daughter.
On this day, the daughter caught butterflies in the yard and asked David to play with her, and was sent away by David with a few words.
Then David went to the neighbor's house opposite and secretly had an affair with the neighbor's woman.
When he returned home, he found his daughter drowning in his pool.
The incident directly led to the breakdown of his marriage to Maya, and a grieving and self-condemning David abandoned himself for five years and tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he was saved in time by his friend Maske.
That night, David followed a mysterious and beautiful butterfly through a passageway, and unexpectedly returned to the moment of the accident 5 years ago, successfully saving his daughter's life.
David reassures his daughter and finds that "the self of five years ago" has returned.
In an argument between the two, David mistakenly killed "himself five years ago", and after disposing of the scene, David buried the body in his backyard.
After that, David began to live with his wife and daughter instead of "five years ago" himself.
David, who has experienced the pain of loss, knows how to cherish it even more.
He refused the temptation of his female neighbor to be a good husband and father.
He would chat with his daughter and play with her, although at first she did not want to see him, and through his efforts to rebuild the friendly father-daughter relationship.
He will also talk with Maya, talk about his paintings, and slowly find the sweetness of the past.
But a happy life has not improved because of this.
Killing his former self casts a shadow on David's psyche; Maya always finds his behavior strange; his friend Maske also finds the body of "David five years ago", and all kinds of troubles follow...
At this time, David discovers that he is not the only one who returns through the "Regeneration Gate" due to regret, including "Maya five years later", and he is faced with a difficult choice...
The first half of the film is a psychological torture, while the second half is a bloody fight. It turns out that the road to regret is not easy.
Maybe the movie is just to illustrate a truth, the "regeneration door" can not be opened, even if there is a door that you can make up, then it may bring more disaster than happiness. Life is not perfect, and a life with gains and regrets is called complete.
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