Naran Dreams/Text
A husband desperately trying to keep his memories unattainable, a wife who knows that she has little time, before she is about to face the end of the road and have to separate, drives an old motorhome with the same sense of age as them, "leisure seekers", and embarks on an incredible journey away from the nursing home - crazy and full of pulse affection.
Obviously, the old handsome man who will even forget the names of his wife and children but not hemingway's works all the way south is not an impulse to seek excitement. As a wife, Ella Spencer planned this big operation, not only to fulfill her husband's wishes, to go to Hemingway's former home, but also to help her husband fight the invasion of Alzheimer's disease by reliving the scenery along the way and the memories of decades of getting along.
There is no doubt that "Love Before the Memory Fades" is such a road movie, it does not rely on elements such as hunting and hunting to attract attention, but it will make you finally cry when the story comes to an end, it will make you not watch it a second time, because they are too sad. Unlike many road movies full of comedic elements, the humorous elements in "Love Before memory fades" are more derived from the details of the lives of two elderly people who are about to reach the end of their lives: the life that has been going on for decades, the ex-boyfriend of the wife who is worried about the husband's heart, the wife who is dissatisfied with the type of underwear that the husband loves, and so on. These intolerable details are precisely the excellent testimony of the old couple after decades of mutual encounters, and also show the sweetness and vitality of this twilight love.
The journey of the old couple all the way to the south is not like a microcosm of their life course? Embarking on the journey with a beautiful yearning and longing for the road ahead, stumbling and bumping on the road, why not look like the bittersweet and bittersweet in married life? ——There are both the luxurious romance of staying in a luxury hotel for a honeymoon, and the innocent touch of the open-air screening by the sea, both the danger of encountering the roadblocks and robberies of the night,and the crisis of getting along with emotional cracks. Such a wonderful trip is definitely not something that can be seen lying in a hospital bed or nursing home wearing diapers.
However, the cruelty of this world lies in the fact that there is no distant place that cannot be reached, only the past that cannot be returned. When the Spencer couple finally reached their destination, The Hemingway House, what was supposed to be a quiet and idyllic literary place, has become a tourist attraction, and has even been developed by profit-seeking businessmen as a new choice for wedding parties. "Can't get there" and "can't go back" have become the last end of the old couple's life course.
Because of love, the Spencer couple chose not to separate, and because of love, the Spencer couple chose to say goodbye together. Although this way of leaving the scene is not easy for most Chinese people, even for foreign audiences, it is not easy to accept. But it must be said that this is the most dignified option. The farewell of life is a feast, and it is the right of every individual to choose to leave in the most elegant way. Therefore, please cherish every encounter and companionship, so that each other can warm the long return of life with love.