The day before yesterday is clear, the day to remember the deceased.
Today, let's talk about a slightly heavier topic:
death.
A person's life begins with life and ends with death.
But for some.
Sometimes, death is not a sudden end, but a progressive pattern that lasts for many years.
The difference is in how you look at living and dying.
If a person loses his dignity as an independent person, or if there are few memories left of his past.
Is he dead?
Don't rush to answer.
There was a British film recently.
Nominated for this year's Oscar for Best Picture, the domestic score straight to 8.8, ranking third in the Douban word-of-mouth list that week.
The protagonist is "Hannibal" Anthony Hopkins.
△ "The Silence of the Lambs"
This time, he contributed his god-level acting skills.
He played the old man Anthony, who was hailed as "the greatest performance I've seen in recent years."
It is the complete opposite of the "cold heart" of the killer.
"Warm" is shocking.
"Father Trapped in Time"
The Father
A normal morning.
Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) is enjoying a wonderful symphony at the apartment.
The eldest daughter, Anne (Olivia Coleman), rushes to the scene and asks:
What happened?
Anthony hesitated for half a moment.
Only then did I remember that my daughter was saying that he had driven away the caregivers in the family.
Counting the previous ones, a total of three were driven away.
This stubborn old man insisted:
I don't need her or anyone else
I can take care of myself
This saddened Anne to death.
Soon after, she will move to Paris with her boyfriend.
Anthony will remain alone in London.
The immediate priority is to find the right caregiver for my father.
Otherwise, her new life will be ruined.
After settling her father, Anne left the house.
Immediately after that, something paradoxical happened:
A strange man (Mark Gatis) appears in the living room.
He behaved like his master, reading the newspaper and drinking without anyone around.
And tell Anthony:
I live here
I am Anne's husband
This is not your apartment
W？H？A？T？
01 Who is he
Anne had a marriage ten years earlier.
But the good times were short-lived.
After five years of marriage, the relationship broke down and the two parted ways.
But the man who appeared in the living room at this time was not Anne's ex-husband.
So, who is he?
More paradoxical things are yet to come.
Shortly after receiving the man's call, Anne rushed home.
Uncle Meat narrowed his eyes and couldn't help but feel cold in his back.
This TM is not the same person.
Anthony was frightened and confused.
What's going on? Where is Annie?
The woman's expression did not seem to be fake, and Anthony thought that he had seen it.
He leaned back on the couch in a trance.
Who knows what comes out of the woman's population next, even more amazing.
Father
There is no one else here
Haunted?
Anthony was on the verge of collapse, and he said to himself:
It's been a while
There are always strange things happening around
Didn't you notice
He checked the time repeatedly, and the streetscape outside the bedroom window.
Wrong.
No ghosts, this is not a horror movie.
The problem is with people.
The film is hinting at the viewer that Anthony's brain is out of order.
Uncle Meat gives everyone a quick glance at the end of the film:
Two caregivers in a nursing home.
It was the same as the man and woman who appeared in the apartment at this time, looking like a dime.
Truth.
What happened above was Anthony's hallucination, Alzheimer's disease, commonly known as Alzheimer's disease.
Everyone should be familiar with it.
Anthony is in a period of moderate dementia.
The film shows him from the confusion of memory to the gradual entry into a state of dementia.
However, it is different from the similar themes that are common in normal times.
It does not employ a linear narrative that is coherent and unified in time, and that is related before and after causality.
Rather, it is done by disrupting time, space, and causal structures.
to reproduce the patient's true perception of the real world.
In the apartment, Anthony was wearing nursing home clothes
This gives the film a layer of horror suspense.
However, it is more in line with the patient's own perspective:
Due to the loss of the sense of time and space, it is difficult to distinguish the difference between similar things.
The world that patients see and perceive is distorted and disorderly.
At the same time, the memory in the brain is rapidly being lost.
Every day of the patient is a struggle against the unknown.
Anthony was the first to be lost.
It is a memory related to people and things that are less important.
For example, the caregiver who was driven away, such as the ex-husband of the daughter.
02 Who are you
A set of data.
As of 2019, there are more than 10 million People with Alzheimer's disease in China.
The disease is not a "patent for the elderly", but the prevalence of the elderly is higher.
According to statistics.
One of the four elderly people over the age of 80 supported by a couple may be a patient.
Explain what? It's common.
But it's also special:
It doesn't just cause physical pain to the patient.
Little by little, it will erase his evidence of existence, pieced together from memory.
Terrible thing.
The occurrence of change, for patients, is the turbulence of the heart.
But in the eyes of the outside world, most of the time it is quiet and difficult to identify.
Patients like Anthony in the moderate dementia phase.
Signs of difficulty managing emotions may occur.
Even people who are usually kind will begin to lose trust in people and become anxious and suspicious.
If you don't know this premise.
In the eyes of others, Anthony must be a nasty old man.
Whether before or after.
He often compares Anne to her youngest daughter, Lucy (Ivy Vivi).
A sober, uninteresting one.
A brave, dazzling.
Not even shy away from saying that I prefer Lucy.
Anne who took good care of him every day.
But he became a greedy "vampire".
The purpose of finding a nurse is to convince him that he really can't live on his own.
Then, he was sent to a nursing home by pushing a boat down the water.
The ultimate goal of all this is to seize his property.
Anthony spoke passionately that he wanted the white-haired man to send the brunette.
Let Anne be self-conscious in front of outsiders:
I'm going to inherit her legacy, not her inheriting mine
On the day of her funeral, I'll have a short speech
Let everyone know how ruthless she is and how good at manipulating people
The night he said this.
Anne quietly appeared in Anthony's bedroom.
As shown in the picture, a murder is underway.
Was Anthony really killed by Annie?
Of course not.
In another scenario that follows.
Anthony, who had been sword-wielding the day before, became docile:
Anne, thank you for everything you do
In fact, it was Anthony's condition that worsened.
He began to lose memories of those who were closest to him.
The person in front of him, he didn't know if it was his daughter or someone else.
He looked at Anne, but sometimes wondered:
Who are you?
Imagine what it's like?
Dearest people.
In their own world, they gradually become strangers and enemies.
This transformation is real for Anthony.
But for others, including daughters.
Nothing happened.
He was just sick.
No one knows that Anthony is in fear of persecution.
03 Who am I
There are two scenes in the film that are repeated twice.
The first scene takes place at the dinner table.
Anne and her boyfriend Paul (Lufus Sevier) argue over how to place Anthony.
- We had to make other arrangements to send him to an institution
-Why are you saying this now, tomorrow the girl (the new caregiver) is coming to work
No matter how well she did, that moment would come, and he was sick, Annie
Anthony happened to overhear this conversation.
When he left and came back, the same conversation was repeated.
Another scenario.
It was Anthony and the two men's separate confrontation.
Can I ask you a question
How long are you going to be annoying here
Paul politely nodded until the end.
But the man who looked exactly like the caregiver.
Completely destroyed Anthony's dignity.
He slapped Anthony three times.
There are two different interpretations of these two scenes.
You can think that they are things that really happened.
Paul really didn't want to see Anthony.
Even, male caregivers may have abused him in nursing homes.
But.
Reality, mixed with other memories in Anthony's brain, became a new illusion.
The director also made a hint in the film.
In that scene at the dinner table, Paul didn't exist.
You could also argue that they have no realistic contrast.
Just Anthony's hallucination.
Compare the three scenes of a nursing home and an apartment.
bedchamber.
corridor.
Living room.
Did you find it?
They have similarities – similar structures, similar lines, similar furnishings.
Combined with this conversation between Anthony and the caregiver:
- What are you doing here
- I'm taking care of you
- When did it start
- It's been weeks
-Where is Annie
- She lives in Paris, where she has been for months
If anything, most of the film is Anthony's hallucination.
Only after "that moment"—that is, after Anthony was sent to a nursing home—is true.
Nor is it unfounded.
But Uncle Meat believes that true or false is not the point.
The point is that these images are made up of distorted, disordered fragments.
Mapping Anthony's inner lonely struggle:
The fear of the unknown, the fear of persecution, and, most painfully, the fear of abandonment.
At this time, Anthony had entered a state of dementia.
The old man degenerated into a helpless and doubtful child who was full of doubts about life.
He asked the nurse in a daze:
Who the hell am I?
He vaguely remembered that he had had a full life.
As a young man, Anthony was an engineer.
Married and has two daughters.
Just don't know why.
Suddenly.
I felt as if my leaves had all fallen out
I don't have a place to live anymore
Edit: Egg Girl