Tragedy Heals the Soul – Manchester by the Sea Film Review Manchester by the Sea – Manchester by the Sea Self-Exile and Reconcile With The Past I Can't Beat It

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > Manchester by the sea</h1>

First of all, the "Manchester" here is not the British Manchester, but refers to the sea town north of Boston in the United States called "Manchester by the sea", so the translation of "Manchester by the Sea" actually refers to the place name, not the seaside "Manchester".

This is a very linear film in the plot, there is no unexpected conflict, no character personality change, the ending is not sublimated, it is a bland movie, maybe everyone will encounter similar things, people who have experienced it will not handle it better than the characters in the film, art comes from life.

The story adopts a two-line narrative, the intersection of reality and the past two lines montage, using the past to endorse the man's deeds, but until the end, the man has not changed, and what happened in the past is just a linear telling the audience what happened before. This technique makes reality even more cruel

Reality is always more absurd than drama, because his suddenness is nowhere to be found.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't

The film breaks a man who has lost hope in life and shows it to the audience, so the whole film is full of mourning and decadence, so why can this film win the Oscar?

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > self-exile</h1>

The male protagonist is called Lee, who works as a building maintenance worker and is responsible for all the dirty and messy business. At the beginning, the director let him deal with several households, a long-winded old man, a grandmother who complained about her children with his girlfriend, a female black woman who sexually hinted at him, a woman who was bitter and mean, and even faced with the boss's rebuke, he had lost his passion for life, he was just working mechanically, he was just mourning.

But Lee is very sensitive, and he politely faces the women who want to approach him, but because others look at him a few more times, he fights. After that, he went back to his basement and continued drinking. He rejected anyone, resisted the world.

When his brother died, he was able to handle things quickly and properly. The director throws him back to the town where he used to live, so that the audience can understand his past, why is this man so decadent?

From the way back to pick up his nephew home, there are three interludes.

The first paragraph explains the cause of my brother's illness, and it is worth noting that at that time, the family would tell a lot of bad jokes;

The second paragraph is the story of him and his nephew on the boat, giving the audience the impression that they have a good relationship;

The third paragraph recalls his wife, his family. He once had a happy family.

His nephew, Patrick, started out in conflict with his classmate coach, much like his uncle.

While listening to the will, Li's brother asked the man to act as a guardian to raise his children. But the male protagonist refused, and his face began to fluctuate a little, but he became more struggling and uncomfortable. At this time, the experience of the male protagonist is revealed through the line of "past".

He once had a bunch of fox friends, his personality was the complete opposite of what he is now, and he had a happy family. But because of his carelessness, there was a fire in the family, the child was buried in the fire, and his wife was almost killed. This section of the film has no voice, only relying on the ups and downs of the musical melody to express the emotions of the characters, interspersed between the two lines, and fully displaying the emotions that the male protagonist is difficult to let go. Even when the police department described the cause of the fire, he snatched the police gun and tried to atone for his suicide, but was stopped by the police.

Until now, the male protagonist can't leave the past, he feels that he is incompetent and unqualified to take care of his nephew, and he is afraid of accidental recurrence.

And after that, he almost caused a fire and caused a fire, but fortunately in his sleep, he dreamed of his daughter, and her daughter said to him, "Can't you see that we are on fire?" It woke him up and made him realize that he really couldn't be his nephew's guardian.

So he desperately wants to escape the city, which is why the male protagonist lives alone in the basement and works as a handyman at the beginning of the film.

There is a key that runs through the whole film - the boat. The boat is more like a totem representing happiness in this film, and the footage of him and his nephew frolicking on the boat appears many times as a child, and each time Lee is happy, so when Lee wants to sell the boat, Patrick clashes with his uncle for the first time, he wants to keep the boat, which is his fondest memory with his father and Lee. So when they had repaired the ship and sailed the sea again, Lee smiled for the first time in the line of reality.

At the end of the film, Lee's brother is buried, and the cries of new life and the silence of people give the audience a solemn atmosphere in the background music. After the burial, Lee and his nephew walked on the road, playing with the ball, everything seemed to be very relaxed, and Lee and his nephew's relationship changed back to the way it used to be. But at the end of the story, the man is not redeemed and not liberated

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > reconcile with the past</h1>

The climax of the whole film is when Li meets his ex-wife on the street, and the male protagonist is immediately lost and decadent, and he does not want to communicate with his ex-wife. He said, you don't understand that I don't have anything in my heart.

Men keep saying I don't know I don't know

Women keep saying it's over that's OK

Women really cross this hurdle, while men are still immersed in the grief of self-blame. There is no expected conflict, only the collapse of ordinary people.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="32" > us ordinary people</h1>

I find Patrick's behavior in it amazing, reasonable, like the work of ordinary people.

Seeing his father's body, he immediately turned around and left

I wanted to talk to my friends about my feelings, but the topic quickly turned to Star Trek

There's even sex

Not a single tear was shed at the farewell ceremony or the funeral

But he saw the frozen chicken in the refrigerator suddenly collapse

Because he remembered that his father's body was going to be frozen in the funeral home for a winter, he didn't want to.

Ask yourself, can I do better than him? No. When I see Patrick, I remember what I've done, sometimes regretting.

At first, when I watched it, I thought that my brother was just a lead in this story, and after watching it many times, I found that my brother was really good to him, and the brother in the basement of the ship's police station was silently supporting the male protagonist.

This movie is really too ordinary, the first time I watched it, I felt that I didn't see anything, but after thinking about it carefully, it was creepy, this is too much like us ordinary people, this is completely to describe the story that will happen between an ordinary person, after all, life is not a movie, there are not so many climaxes and flips, some are just a long stream of life. The film portrays a desperate man in an almost white-cut manner.

Hospital corridors are a common conversation

With a lawyer on the procedure

A certain girlfriend of Lee and his nephew

The nephew eats with her birth mother and her fiancé

Two girlfriends of the nephew

Lee suddenly erupted in emotion after drinking

It doesn't make sense, like the sparse and ordinary routine that everyone goes through, but in the movie it seems so bland that it seems desperate.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="50">I can`t beat it</h1>

This is a film that has been lost to the end, full of bland and anti-routine bridges, the film uses white depictions to suppress the pain of the characters, but does not let the characters' emotions erupt, all the characters are very restrained, but this restraint makes people feel more depressed than letting the characters cry, and it may be a good thing for Lee to cry. Time may not cure everything, life is where life comes from so much chicken soup, can not forget can not put down is better to bear the burden of moving forward.

When I'm depressed, I always want to see a funeral movie, not an encouragement, not a common encouragement, and this film is probably the movie I've seen the most.

Shakespeare said: Tragedy heals the soul.

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