Wen Wang Zhongzhong
In the first week of the september school season, let's talk about "learning".
Although it has only just started school, my eagerness to learn has lasted for most of the summer vacation, because I bought Mr. Dai Jinhua's film online class. Obsessed with learning and losing weight, of course, there is no such good thing.
Through women, looking at more others, discovering more weak groups, redefining our values. / Screenshot of "Dai Jinhua's Master Film Lesson: Gender and Gaze"
However, the consequences of this addiction to learning are a bit serious, I have "broken" myself - I have to admit that the epidemic has indeed hit the global film industry hard, think about it, how long have you not seen a good movie that "never forgets to have an echo"?
Because I wanted to take online lessons, I "pulled" "The Silence of the Lambs" again. (Pulling: An essential skill for film professionals, refers to watching movies one by one, recording the content of movies for in-depth interpretation.) ）
Then I found out that I "broke the defense" too early, after all, this year there is still a good movie with endless aftertaste - also by Anthony Hopkins starred in "Father Trapped in Time."
I also particularly like its Hong Kong translation of the title "Daddy Can Not Be Old", because this translation is used from the first lyrics of a Cantonese song, "Youth Resident": Dingdang can not be old. "All the idols are not falling, my parents will be fine in the future, and it is best that any face I care about will not grow old", this is my favorite lyric.
While a quarter of this year is still past the end, I can already be sure that this movie is definitely my best movie of 2021.
Hopkins won the Oscar for Best Actor for his 21-minute performance in "The Silence of the Lambs", and this year's "Father Trapped in Time" has 97 minutes, which is enough to prove how great he is as the oldest movie emperor in history.
If you've seen the movie, you've probably noticed that the protagonist, the father, is called "Anthony" and is 84 years old like Hopkins himself.
It's no coincidence, of course, that the author of the original play "Le PÈRE" (The Father/Father) and the French playwright Florian Zeller, the director of the film, is his script tailored for Hopkins.
When the director decided to personally handle the adaptation, he already belonged to Hopkins, and in order to invite him out of the mountain, he not only changed the name of the character to Anthony, but also changed the birthday to the same as him.
An immersive experience like this "fake is true when it's true and fake" is not only for Hopkins, but also for off-screen audiences.
Olivia · The daughter played by Coleman represents the "reality" in the film. Heartbreaking and unwilling to be true.
There are many movies depicting Alzheimer's disease, and even many of them are already god-level. For example, "Still Alice", "Love Notebook", "Benjamin · The Curious Affair of Patton, The Eraser in My Head... You can count as many as you like.
Immersing yourself in the daily life of Alzheimer's patients from a "first perspective" is the most admirable point of "Father Trapped in Time".
Many people use "suspense film" to describe their own movie-going feelings, because most of the time in the movie is from the perspective of the father, similar spaces, disordered time, chaotic and strange people continue to appear around, like being trapped in the "Inception Space" that can never escape, you can only reluctantly and desperately meet the established ending - towards the demise.
All the time, the whole world is against you.
Why is Alzheimer's disease commonly known as Alzheimer's disease? In the eyes of others, "daze" is a common state of patients.
However, in the thrilling daily life brought about by this "suspense film" atmosphere, in the face of the sense of loss of control and strong uneasiness brought about by chaotic memories, they can not be sensitive and anxious, suspicious and suspicious, and the seemingly stupid "daze" is just a rare peace that they can enjoy.
Dutch scientist Dick Swaber once described what he saw as Alzheimer's disease— like a film that plays back in the direction of the beginning: its process is reversed to the direction of human development, and the patient gradually loses his personality and talents, ending in complete dependence on others.
"The patient will even curl up on the bed in a fetal position, and in the last minute, if you put a nipple in the old man's mouth, he will make a sucking motion."
At the end of "Father Trapped in Time," Father Anthony cries like a child and shouts out his last line: "I want my mommy." ”
The trees outside the window are lush, and the leaves that belong to Anthony have withered away.
We were trapped together in this long goodbye.