Today I watched one of the most terrifying movies in my life, more terrible than "Battle Royale", "Curse", "Midnight Bell", "120 Days of Sodom", "Sewer Mermaid", and saw that at the end, I slumped in my chair and could not stand up for a long time...
The movie is called "The Father", which translates to "Father Trapped in Time".
Look at the poster, it's not scary at all, it's a warm family film, right?
Those horror movies that look scary at first glance are just the pursuit of sensory stimulation, I know fake, people are scary.
But this movie, at first glance, is nagging and boring in a house, but that's the real life I might face in the future!
I've never been so scared in my life!
In the recently written article "I figured it out, I will do it later", saying that after I achieved financial freedom, I had a good mentality and made financial preparations for the pension life, so I was not afraid of being old and helpless.
Now the domestic security is very good, and I am not afraid to drive and wait for the red light, and suddenly a black brother will point a gun at me...
I am not so afraid of physical illness, because spending money can always be optimistic, spending more money can not see well, then go to see Jesus, sooner or later, I have been mentally prepared.
But I never imagined that the worst situation in my later years was not that I had no money to eat, that I was seriously ill, that my children were not filial or that I had no heirs, but that I had Alzheimer's disease!!!
In recent years, there have been several special diseases that have attracted more and more people's attention.
One is autism (autism), which is also a mental illness, and I have always had a hard time understanding what the inner world of autistic people is.
The second is frostbite, that is, the bones gradually shrink, and finally become paralyzed, Hawking is frostbite, but also very miserable, but after all, the brain is not bad, Hawking also wrote a lot of works.
Then there's Alzheimer's disease (Alzheimer's).
In the past, all the films that focused on these vulnerable groups were made from the perspective of ordinary people, touching but not scary.
I have said many times that the essence of literary and artistic works is to tell stories, and the story itself is very important, but it is also particularly important to adapt it from a novel to a film, song and other forms of expression, on the basis of "things", how to "tell".
"Father Trapped in Time", "things" are very simple, but the "narrative" method is taken from the first-person perspective of Alzheimer's patients themselves, which is unprecedented and scared me half to death!
Of course, the success of this film is largely due to the actor's divine acting skills.
Early last year, I wrote an article: "This year, the best movie to watch!" 》
Amway's "The Succession of the Pope", played by Antonio Hopkins as Benedict XVI, is too fascinating.
This old drama bone, acting like nothing, without a trace, like a natural.
By the time of this film, Hopkins was almost alone with himself!
In the end, the film won 6 Oscar nominations, won two awards for best actor and best adapted screenplay, and won awards at major film festivals around the world, and it is also the only Oscar-winning film to introduce mainland theaters this year.
At the beginning of the film, it exudes a strange atmosphere, with a lot of obvious factual conflicts and time jumps, which are very confusing to watch.
For example, there is a passage that the front foot just said, and after a few days, it was taken again from another perspective, and even the image of the person who said this passage has changed, making people look confused.
In the first half of the film, I even suspected that watching a suspense film, Hopkins acted wise, funny, and aggressive, and played British sarcasm, not like an old man with dementia, as he himself said, his daughter pretended to be filial to outsiders and actually wanted to embezzle his property...
There are two kinds of movies, a conventional linear narrative, "things" are more important than "narratives", a jumping narrative, "narratives" are more important than "things", and if you don't see the end, the truth will not come out.
Some smart viewers may guess the ending at the beginning of the film.
For example, "Detective Chinatown 3" such a New Year masterpiece, suspenseful bad film, many people have long guessed that the murderer is Masami Nagasawa.
But some bull directors, do not play cards according to the routine, see the audience is particularly brain-burning, incomparably heart-wrenching, and finally the peak turns, the truth is revealed, everyone is surprised, and feel reasonable, careful thinking is extremely frightening.
This is God's work.
For example, Nolan's "Memory Fragments" and David Finch's "Fight Club" are all the audiences who see the end and have to shout from the bottom of their hearts, rub, direct your cow!
But I'm sorry, at the end of this god work, you can't see this kind of "so it is" exclamation.
The chaotic plot is not a test of the audience's intelligence.
Until the end, what the truth is, the director himself did not say clearly.
This is the real cognitive world of Alzheimer's patients, time, place, people, events, will be mixed together, can not understand the truth and fantasy, not to mention the point in time they live in the end, completely nonsense!
Just like when we dream, the things that happen in the dream are often based on our real experiences and memories, and the irregular associations are arranged in a disorderly manner.
For example, I sometimes dream that my dad comes to my company to talk about financial management, and then picks up my son from school.
But my dad died more than 10 years ago.
Unable to break free in the dream, I woke up immediately after waking up.
But the Alzheimer's patient, falling asleep at night is a dream, waking up the next day is another dream where reality and fantasy are intertwined, falling asleep the next day is a dream, waking up on the third day is another dream where reality and fantasy are intertwined...
Just like "Inception", once you enter the deep dream, you may lose yourself and never wake up.
I roughly put down the timeline, and the true story might look like this:
The old man was an engineer with two daughters, and the younger daughter died in a car accident many years ago, which was a big blow to the old man.
As the old man's health became worse and worse, the eldest daughter hired him a babysitter, but the old man gradually suffered from Alzheimer's disease, memory decline, always felt that the nanny stole things, and his temper became more and more strange.
The nannies invited by the daughter were taken away by him one by one, and finally once, he had a big fight with a nanny, and the daughter had no choice but to take him to her own care.
As the symptoms became more and more serious, I felt that there were always people who wanted to harm me, and the old man became more and more mean to his daughter and son-in-law, and the daughter was very painful, and even the couple booked a vacation trip to Italy, but the old man was messed up.
The son-in-law has been persuading her daughter to send her father to a nursing home, and the daughter has been unwilling because she loves her father too much, and finally the son-in-law can't bear it and chooses to divorce.
Later, the daughter found a boyfriend, wanted to move with her boyfriend to Paris, start a new life, and had to send the elderly to a nursing home with care.
The whole play ends.
This is only a general plot, a specific timeline and plot, no one can say for sure.
For example, there is a scene where someone slaps the old man, and the old man has a headache and cries.
This person's image is both the boyfriend that the daughter later found, and the doctor in the last nursing home, and when he turns around, the image of this person becomes the former son-in-law.
But the daughter's later boyfriend, the old man should not have seen, it is impossible to go home to beat him.
Who the hell hit him?
Is it a long time ago that the son-in-law took advantage of his daughter's absence to beat the old man to vent? (Anyway, the son-in-law knows that the old man's memory is confused, and after two days he can't figure out who beat him)
Or did the nursing home caregiver beat himself up? (Alluding to elder abuse in nursing homes)
Or did no one beat him at all, but he hated the man who took his daughter away, so he attached the image of a nursing home doctor to his daughter's boyfriend?
I don't know, it's a mess.
But in any case, when the old man was beaten in real or imaginary way, the painful experience of his spiritual world was real!
The most poignant thing is that the old man had a successful career when he was young, his eloquence was excellent, his interests were wide (he liked to listen to opera and tap dance), his daughter was very filial, the family was very rich, he lived in London Ingington (a rich area), the house was beautiful and beautiful, the decoration was luxurious, the quality of the nanny invited was also very high, and the nursing home he finally went to, whether it was software or hardware, did not say.
But none of this can change the incomparably real pain in the hearts of Alzheimer's patients!
I used to think that Senile dementia is just not knowing anything, eating and drinking all day, having silly music, and then God will take it away.
But I don't know, I don't know anything, it's just the result of the patient's struggle with the disease to the end that it will inevitably fail, and what is more painful is the process of fighting the disease!
The patient is not suddenly amnesiac, but in a few years, or even a dozen years, a little bit of forgetting.
First he forgot where he put his watch, then he forgot his former profession, then he didn't even know his daughter, and finally, he didn't even know who he was...
He knew he couldn't remember who he was, but he still had the desire to remember, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't do anything about it.
Finally, the nursing home nurse told him that you are Anthony, and he would continue to say, Oh, it turns out that I am Anthony, I am Anthony, I am Anthony... But did he really believe in his heart that he was Anthony?
I don't know......
At the end of the film, another morning, the old man woke up from the nursing home, and thought he was still living at home, the nurse pushed the door in to give him medicine, he said where my daughter went, the nurse said to go to Paris, he said no, the daughter promised not to go to Paris (once promised, but at the moment the memory is confused)
At the end of the conversation, the old man said, go to my mother and let my mother pick me up...
The nurse said, that's your daughter. The old man said no, it's my mother, I think my mother, let my mother come to pick me up...
Finally, the old man snuggled on the nurse's shoulder and cried helplessly like a lost child.
It's popular to "live in the moment", but for them, it is impossible to determine which "moment" they are living in...
It's better to live than to die!
There are more than 10 million Alzheimer's patients in China, the country with the largest number of patients, and it is expected that in the next 30 years, as the aging continues to increase, There will be 30 million patients in China.
At present, the disease cannot be cured, and can only be delayed by taking medicine and accompanying relatives, but in the end, the patient will still go to the incomparably dark, chaotic spiritual world that can never escape.
The more proud people are of their brains when they are young, the more afraid they are of losing this control as they get older.
It is said that life is like a dream, even if life is really a dream, it is also a dream with a timeline, a logical line, and a dream that can make sense.
But the dream of the Alzheimer's patient is a nonsensical dream, and he can't convince himself, and finally falls into endless self-doubt, and the pain is extreme...
Usually write about pension problems, either to persuade everyone to have more children, or to persuade everyone to manage their finances well, fund investment, buy some house annuity insurance, but today's article, too mournful.
What's the use of the money? What's the use of having more children? I really have this disease, and even the children who love me the most will be ruthlessly hurt by me.
In the past, there were always young people who said, "Euthanize me when I am old, and I also advise young people not to be impulsive, and when you are old, you will know that it is instinct to spare your life."
Today I want to correct it, if I have Alzheimer's disease, and finally become good hands and feet, but I don't know who I am, I will definitely cut myself off when I still have cognitive ability.