A certain month of a certain year, London, England.
A grandfather named Anthony, lately, always encountered some strange things.
On this day, he came back from shopping and was preparing to cook...
When I walked out of the living room, I found that there was a strange man sitting in the living room!
Who's this? How could he be in his own home? Anthony was dumbfounded...
This happens more than once.
In his home, there are always some strange and strange people with different looks...
What's even more bizarre is that these people claim to be their daughter's husband.
absurd! This is playing yourself as a monkey! Daughters who have any husbands, these people themselves do not know at all...
Not only that, but lately the family has always, inexplicably, appeared and disappeared something.
His watch, one second is still hanging on his hand, the next second is gone, how to find it can not be found...
Suddenly a bunch of chairs appeared in the living room, and I obviously hadn't bought them at all...
The painting of the second daughter on the wall, which was still hanging here yesterday, disappeared in the morning...
What's even more terrifying is that it is obviously your apartment, but the daughter and son-in-law are wondering: are you mistaken, this is not your apartment at all...
What a sight to behold!
This strange apartment seems to have something weird, and it seems that he has been hit by evil, hitting the wall day after day...
What was once a peaceful life of solitude has also become a mess...
But in fact, this is not a ghost hitting the wall at all, seemingly strange apartment, nothing happened...
It turned out that Anthony had Alzheimer's disease and had been for several years...
And these are just part of the countless paradoxes of his daily life after his illness...
The above clip comes from the movie "Father Trapped in Time" released in January last year, with a Douban score of 8.8.
Received 6 blockbuster nominations at the Oscars:
Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Art Direction...
Netizen comments: The perspective is amazing, the look and feel is strange! When watching it, Hopkins' amazing performance makes people goosebumps, IMHO, the Oscar should be sent directly to the door!
More netizens released harsh words: if this year's Oscar is not him, it is the black curtain in the black curtain!
And indeed, the two highlights of this film: the unique perspective, Hopkins' divine acting skills.
Let's start with perspective.
Almost all works about Alzheimer's disease stay in sympathy and pity, but in fact, this is the perspective of others.
And this film, with Anthony as the first point of view, makes you soul through the Alzheimer's patient, the scene you see, and the scene he sees, there is no difference:
In watching the movie, you will also see all kinds of characters that suddenly appear, such as various men, such as the nurse who looks like his second daughter for a while, and who is just a strange woman at the same time...
All kinds of sudden changes in the scene, one time is the home, the other is the nursing home...
You never know what character will appear in the next moment, or what scene Anthony will go to when he pushes open the next door...
This makes you feel no longer the sympathy and pity from others, but from your own deep uneasiness and fear.
There are even netizens who are suspicious of ghosts in the process of watching the movie, doubting whether there are human factors in the movie that exacerbate their father's illness...
More netizens once suspected in the movie that either Hopkins was crazy, or the screenwriter was crazy, or he was crazy...
This is a testament to the success of the film, and the restlessness and fear are the norm for Alzheimer's.
Let's talk about acting.
Films with unconventional perspectives, if they do not have enough acting skills, will lose their credibility.
But anthony is played by another Anthony: Anthony Hopkins!
Please allow the crow to introduce this 84-year-old, hall-level god-level shadow emperor.
He is the highly intelligent, quick-thinking and psychopathic Hannibal in "The Silence of the Lambs", who won the 64th Oscar in one fell swoop with a wonderful appearance of only 16 minutes.
Stills from The Silence of the Lambs
He is Benedict XVI in "The Succession of the Pope", in the face of scandal exposure, internal and external troubles, and painfully thinking about change.
Stills from The Succession of the Pope
He is the rich father of "sacrificing" himself in "The Sixth Sense of Life and Death Love" to complete his daughter's love with the god of death.
Throughout his life, he has dedicated countless wonderful performances...
Stills from "The Sixth Sense of Life and Death"
In this difficult movie, he still dedicates his superb acting skills:
When he found himself recognizing the wrong person again, he said: I'm fine, his hand covers most of his face...
But even so, even the "face" is gone, his green tendons burst out, his forehead turned from white to red, still through the screen, let the audience feel a deep helplessness, despair...
When questioned by the son-in-law, the slightly shaking body, the more and more rickety back, the more and more hoarse voice...
Just a picture, just a difference in lines, let you feel that his moment of dryness and withering from prosperity to decline...
As netizens said: Hopkins alone led the audience into the lonely world of the wind and candles...
And this year, he's 84 years old. After nearly 30 years, the crow dares to say that he deserves a second movie emperor.
The unique perspective, coupled with the hall-level acting skills, has made this, "a real immersive film"...
And this is also the unique place of the film, it can enter the deep field that reality cannot reach, so that we have briefly become "Alzheimer's patients" in these 90 minutes or so...
And it is precisely by entering this perspective of putting oneself in the shoes of many subtle things that can be forced out.
Let us put ourselves in their shoes and understand that the world in their eyes is like this:
It is hard to remember that the man in front of me is the husband who has been married to his daughter for ten years.
When she returned to the room, her daughter wondered where there was a husband in her divorce five years ago...
He returned to the living room in a hurry, only to find that the man who was still there 1 minute ago had completely disappeared...
This kind of scene, which is staged every moment, may just open a door, just take a sip of water, and the scene in front of you becomes different in an instant...
You can't predict what will remain in your mind and what will be ruthlessly taken away...
What's even more frightening is that you can't falsify.
Losing a memory is never as simple as losing a memory.
It also means losing the ability and qualification to make independent judgments.
Strangers in front of you, saying that it is your son-in-law, your daughter, saying that this is your apartment, or not your apartment, and even saying that the apartment was sold because of your consent...
You can never prove whether this is the other person's one-sided statement or the real situation...
Some people are well aware of this, and violence breeds.
When the impatient son-in-law blurted out: How long do you want to be like this, how long do you want to annoy people? And after slapping him hard...
He exasperated: Stop! I don't allow you to do that...
But the next second, I forgot why I was crying...
When his daughter arrived, he opened his mouth helplessly, but he couldn't say why...
All he knew was that his face was hot, and his heart was filled with shock, fear and grievance...
And the daughter still thinks that her father is crying because he can't find the watch, but he doesn't know what just happened...
The son-in-law just looked innocent, as if this was another unreasonable teasing of the old man, and he was also helpless...
"Fight and fight, anyway, he doesn't remember", how many people hurt them reasons.
And this is already the case at home, who knows what will happen to them when they are sent to a nursing home...
In the daily devastation, you will see that the man who is extremely confident, elegant, even humorous and poisonous, disappears:
He is no longer full of anger, but like a child who is afraid of making mistakes, every time he says a word, he must summon up the courage to say the next sentence.
He was afraid to hear the reality that he had misremembered, and he could not accept that he had reached such an embarrassing point...
He was no longer calm, but obsessed with finding a watch, and was constantly afraid: What about my watch?
In the stormy and messy time and space of the outside world, only the time and minute in this small dial can be held in the hand...
He became incredibly sensitive:
When he learned that his daughter might be leaving for Paris, he objected on a lame argument: they didn't even speak English!
Or to say something against my heart: You're leaving me, you're going to abandon me!
And finally, when he didn't even recognize his daughter, her daughter was shocked and injured, and he didn't feel pain and blame himself:
He couldn't accept that he had even forgotten his daughter, and even more unable to accept that he had hurt his beloved daughter...
It's a kind of big dazedness about the future:
He only remembers his daughter, and he doesn't know how to locate everything that happens after he forgets his daughter?
What he will face will be a fragmented time and space, and he will forever, wandering in the middle of nowhere...
And the so-called "endless hell" is not exactly such a state? Suffering is endless, body is endless, time is endless, form is endless...
The Endless Hell, the head of the Eight Hells, there is nothing more painful than depriving one of its time and space...
Although he is in the human world, he is like hell, suffering from the whipping of time and space and cannot escape...
There is no deeper punishment than that.
It's not just the father who is trapped in hell.
The daughter had to find a job again and again and give up her job...
Having to explain over and over again, reminiscing, those unwilling to recall the past, the fact that I divorced my husband...
Even by the father suspected, is not to take a poisonous pill for themselves, to make themselves upside down, to bring back all kinds of wild men, is not to rob their own apartment...
And all this, can not be worth the father one day, forgot her, has always been strong, can not help shed tears: so difficult ...
The strangeness in her father's eyes stung her deeply...
It wasn't that she hadn't thought about killing her father. She fantasized about strangling her sleeping father in the middle of the night and killing herself again...
But this is ultimately just a fantasy.
One night, after settling her father to sleep, through the window, she saw the life of the neighbors: living in a world of two, eating candlelit dinners, dancing...
And she only has an elderly father, a room of wretchedness...
Since my father fell ill, all the places in my life where there should be wrinkles have become choppy...
This disease, for all people, is nothing more than a vicious torture, and what is worse, this torture, there is no initiator, all people are innocent...
This is only 97 minutes of torture for the audience, but it is the rest of many people's lives...
There are not a few people who are deeply tormented by this.
As of 2015, the number of people with dementia worldwide has reached 46.8 million, with an average of 1 new person every 3 seconds.
China, the country with the largest number of dementia in the world, is expected to exceed 40 million by 2050.
After the family has experienced great physical and mental torture, being locked up in a nursing home is often their final destination...
But according to statistics, the average nursing home is 1 nurse, and 5-6 elderly people are taken care of at the same time.
Caregivers are usually elderly rural women.
It is also called: the elderly take care of the elderly.
Insufficient manpower and insufficient energy have led to tethering gloves and even sleeping pills, which have become the unspoken rules in many nursing homes.
Such news is not uncommon:
In 2014, a nursing home in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, was exploded to feed the elderly "sleeping pill bibimbap", and the old man fell and his life was in danger...
It is conceivable that these dementia elderly people who are already in hell spend their old age in what kind of environment...
The image originates from the internet
We are shocked and angry, but we seem to be unable to be harsh, these low-paid, the same "old people", can not take care of the nursing staff, even more can not be harsh, these physically and mentally exhausted, known as "invisible patients" of the family...
This is the responsibility of the whole society, not to pay for the sacrifice of individuals, the infighting of family members, the dismissal of caregivers, or even the rectification of one or two nursing homes...