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Author: Xiaoye Xian
Photo: The movie "Love Before Memory Fades"
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In the park, I saw an old couple, wearing red plaid tops, blue denim suspender pants, wearing a round-brimmed hat on their heads, and the old man was walking slowly in the park with crutches in his right hand and grandma in his left hand. Someone was dancing a classical dance on the side, and the grandmother stopped and followed the music mind to the beat. The old man gently looked sideways at his white-haired wife, smiling like a child.
The vows made when getting married, the promise of holding hands to the old, the preciousness of feelings, in addition to the simplicity of "one room, two people, three meals, four seasons", there is also the company of each other.
In 2017, a European film about love and reconciliation was released.
It's The Leisure Seeker/Before Memory Fades.
The male protagonist in the film, John, is an English teacher who loves literature and is passionate and even obsessed with Hemingway's works. Even with Alzheimer's disease, he was still able to memorize Hemingway's classic sentences skillfully. But as his illness worsened, John's deteriorating memory caused him to forget his wife and children, and even to live without being able to take care of himself.
The heroine, Ella, is terminally ill, and cancer cells have invaded various organs of the body.
While their children plan to send their father to a nursing home and their mother to the hospital, Ella and John quietly build a motorhome that has not been started for a long time. They decided to fulfill John's long-standing wish in the final moments of their lives: to go to Hemingway's house.
During the road trip, John and Ella made many ridiculous stories because John often forgot a lot of things, but here the story also saw the fusion of love and life between them.
During the journey, John woke up and forgot what he had done, and he didn't know where he had gone. An anxious Ella kept asking along the street if she had seen her husband. When Ella describes her husband, she is enough to let everyone know her love: "He is very tall, a gentleman with good looks. ”
No matter how old John was, he was always the English teacher in Ella's heart that tugged at her heartstrings. As the old Chinese saying goes: The lover's eyes are out of the west. Sometimes love makes us unable to see him clearly, only to feel that he is unique in the world.
Ella finally finds John on the beach with the help of strangers. Aggrieved and thankful, Ella hugged John from behind and said, "We must not be apart." ”
This sentence is so touching. We must not be apart because I cannot live without you, not for a minute.
Just like Zhang Guorong said to Duan Xiaolou in "Farewell to the Overlord": "Say well, a lifetime, one minute less, one second, one hour, does not count." ”
Another sneaky episode, obviously just together, love and love, the next second John left Ella alone in the caravan and galloped away, causing the long-haired boy at the door to burst into laughter.
According to the film's setting of Ella's character, the long-haired guy is definitely the next kind stranger. The guy let Ella, who was over 80 years old, sit on a windy motorcycle and sneaked up to John, who had no idea that he had left his wife on the road alone.
Ella was on the motorcycle with a wig that was afraid of being blown off by the wind, while shouting at John who was driving the motorhome, but John shouted to Ella, asked her why she was sitting on the motorcycle, and told her that the motorcycle guy was dangerous.
Seeing such a grandfather is really cute and cute. The angry thing is that if your old man leaves himself on the road in life, he is absolutely going to be angry, and the cute old man who forgets you but cares about you really makes you hate it.
After Ella got into the car, the old man said with an arrogant face, "Where do I go without you?" You must be crazy. The subtext of this sentence is the existence that overflows the screen: as long as you are still there, as long as I am still, I will be wherever I go.
Only the old man John forgot about Ella, and Ella has been tirelessly telling John about their past time after time, and such a plot direction is obviously not what the director or the audience wants.
So, in the second half of the film, as Ella's illness worsens, the roles of John and Ella are reversed.
The first is that Ella sits alone in a bench and tells John who comes over that she wants her John to come back. By this time, Ella's illness had affected her thinking and memory. In the film, Ella has always been looking for John, and now the identity of the two people has been converted to John taking care of Ella, and the mutual support between the two can stimulate the audience's tear glands.
Secondly, Ella and John are attending a party, but Ella faints from a sudden aggravation of her condition. While the crowd rushed Ella to the hospital, perhaps telepathically, John found the spot where Ella had fainted.
Perhaps the wonder and emotion of love is that you may forget the whole world, but you still can't forget the smell of your body.
John turned to a young girl, but he couldn't remember what he was looking for. At the moment he turned, he saw and picked up Ella's small bag in the corner, opened the bag with a trembling face, opened the lipstick, and put it under his nose and sniffed hard. Suddenly, like an excited child, he turned to the young girl and said, "Yes, I am looking for my wife." ”
On this journey, Ella found John all the way. At the last minute, Ella is recovered by John.
Love is like this, either I run to you or you come to me.
Ella and John's dog food was shoved into my mouth, but it was also a little difficult for me to swallow, why?
Because in the final stages of her life, Ella learned what John had been hiding for years: John had cheated on him.
However, when her life came to an end, Ella finally chose to reconcile with herself.
Marriage or love! Most of the life that has been walked hand in hand is not virtual, and the sleeping and hugging in life are all hot bodies.
Ella could feel his steaming heat, and John could feel Ella's unique taste.
Sometimes in marriage, you also need to turn a blind eye.
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Today's Topic:
For lovers who have been together for decades, at the end of their lives, will you choose to forgive when you learn that your lover has cheated?
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