The four tastes of the world: birth, old age, sickness, and death.
What does it look like to be old?
It's not a bunch of hair that falls on your pillow when you wake up in the morning, or it's a late night that can no longer support it.
Old, is the gradual stiffening of the limbs, the increasingly blurred eyes, is the body emitting more and more muddy and greasy dusty smell without knowing it.
It is the soul and the mind that have more depth than any other moment, but are often confined to a wheelchair or even a bed.
Aging is an inescapable fate for all human beings who are still in the world.
So, in the face of aging, how can we gracefully, decently and even maintain joy towards the end of life?
"The Kominsky Theory" gives a perfect answer with the length of three seasons.
The Third Season of The Theory of Kominsky
The Kominsky Method
Also known as The Godfather of Hollywood, | A total of 6 episodes | Each episode is 37 minutes long
"The Kominsky Theory", a high-scoring comedy produced by Netflix in 2018.
God-level actors, powerful screenwriters, laid an excellent foundation for this drama.
The two lead actors are veteran actors, Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin.
Michael Douglas has crossed the paleo, 77 years old.
Alan Akin is 10 years older than Douglas, 87 years old, and has entered his old age.
Douglas's face is certainly familiar to everyone, since the launch of his first film in 1969, he has become famous and established his hegemony in Hollywood, and the most well-known works in recent years are "Ant-Man" and "Ant-Man 2: Wasp Woman Appears", of which Douglas plays Dr. Hank Pym, the first ant-man.
Douglas has won countless awards along the way, Oscars, Autumn Awards, Emmys, as if there are no awards he has not won.
Grandpa Akin is also super powerful.
When he was young, he starred in various different types of interesting roles, has been active on the big screen, and when he was old, he did not accept defeat, played a cute grandfather full of dirty words in "Little Miss Sunshine", and also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
In addition to the starring role, the screenwriter of "The Kominsky Theory" is also amazing.
Chuck Lowry, whose works "The Big Bang Theory" and "Little Shea's Ear" are already well known, the veteran producer is also 67 years old.
Under this strong lineup, "Kominsky Theory" is of excellent quality, scoring 9.1 points on Douban in the first season.
It also won the 76th Golden Globe Award for Best Comedy Series in Television, and its lead actor Michael Douglas was nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards.
The second season was as good as ever, scoring 9.3 points on Douban.
The way the two old drama bones play each other's acting skills in the play makes people directly addicted.
Douglas played a former star, Sandy Kominsky, who now lives off by teaching acting classes.
Mr. Akin plays Norman, an agent who has retired.
A former star + a retired agent, get together, mutual pity is the daily routine.
At the beginning of the first episode of the first season, sandy gradually faded out of the audience's vision because of his old age, and now there is no role to play, and even the role of the cameo in "The Big Bang Theory" has not been obtained.
Norman reassured him, "That's the garbage that children see."
I like to see this kind of fierce official self-deprecation or something.
Two old and lovely, walking at the end of their lives, are experiencing the taste of old age over and over again.
In the face of love, more and more cautious, and more and more bad body followed.
Sandy's prostate is having a problem, and everyone is silently counting the number of times Sandy goes to the bathroom.
Going to the hospital to check the prostate, proud Sandy, also deliberately lied and bragged in front of the nurses.
Later, prostate cancer was detected.
Cancer, Sandy is anxious.
But how does the doctor say, "Don't worry, at your age, other problems in your body will end you before prostate cancer." ”
Aging is certainly not just the prostate.
The two old cutes confide in each other secrets from time to time, and Sandy reveals that if he laughs too hard, he will fart quietly.
Norman said that when I sneezed, my hips clicked, and it felt like something had loosened.
In the first two seasons of "Kominsky Theory", the best part to watch and most want to see is that these two old cute people are chatting and gaging together.
However, the third season that has just returned is infinitely sad.
Norman's actor, Alan Arkin, who is 87 years old, quit the show.
The arrangement of the character in the play, of course, is the death.
Death has always been an insurmountable topic of the show.
In the third season, the audience accompanied Sandy through two deaths of loved ones.
Once was his best friend in this life, Norman.
One is the lover of his life, his ex-wife.
It's heart-wrenching.
Norman's death is a blow to Sandy, needless to say, after all, he is an old friend who has accompanied him for decades.
Between Sandy and his ex-wife, there has been hatred and love, but they are relieved, they can joke lightly or heavily at will, laugh at each other madly, ridicule each other madly, and do not need guilt, all that remains is firm companionship and support, and this love that has endured for years.
Our life is a life of continuous loss, in old age, the loss of people is more important, the number of losses of important people is more frequent, how to overcome these losses, how to face the emptiness and dazedness after loss, how to fill the inner black hole, in the play to learn one or two.
However, it is touching that the third season is also the final season, and the writers give the audience a fairytale ending with sadness and glory.
About Sandy's dream, he can be regarded as lucky, at the end of his life, finally realized his life dream, unexpectedly overwhelmed, looking at his poster, he sighed continuously, old tears.
At the end of the road, dreams come true.
It is a precious consummation.
When we were still young, it was very fortunate to see such a profound and rich drama, but it was not exaggerated to understand the true meaning of life, but it was indeed possible to get a glimpse of the preciousness of life, awaken the love of life, and establish a recognition of death.
If you're patient enough, then The Kominsky Theory is worth the pit.