"The Long Farewell" is the most unwatchable such a movie, too sad

What is more terrifying than death?

Some people say it's loneliness.

Just like the loneliest whale in the world, Alice.

No one hears it when it's sung, and it doesn't pay attention when it's sad, because it emits 52 hertz, while normal whales only have a frequency of 15 to 25 hertz.

Some people say it is forgetting,

Just like in the Pixar movie "Dream Quest", pig pigo's ultimate death.

Because the people who had memories of him before he died were gone, no one remembered him, no one worshipped him, he was forgotten, and he could not continue to survive in the world of the dead.

But I think,

Even more terrifying than death is forgetting — Alzheimer's disease.

What is Alzheimer's disease?

The most common form of Alzheimer's disease, which may account for 60-70% of cases of dementia.

What about specifically?

It is an insidious, progressive, incurable, degenerative disease of the nervous system.

Clinically, it is characterized by generalized manifestations of dementia such as memory impairment, aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, impaired visual spatial skills, executive dysfunction, and personality and behavioral changes.

They are like going through a marathon that will lead nowhere as soon as it starts.

There were no flowers and applause at the end

You can only use the last time of your life to experience a long goodbye.

If I had to recommend a movie about Alzheimer's, it would be it...

Although it is not as realistic as Su Daqiang in "All Is Good", it also gives us a different kind of warmth.

It's the movie I want to introduce today.

The Long Farewell

The story is based on Kyoko Nakajima's novel of the same name

Tell the story of how the family took care of the elderLy, Shengping, after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and how each family member overcame their own life problems.

Director, Mitsa Nakano.

His most well-known work, probably Douban's 8.0 score of "Piping Hot Love", was the contestant who represented Japan in the 2017 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

In 2020, he made a family-themed masterpiece "Asada Family", which has not yet been released in the mainland.

And this "Long Farewell" focuses on the topic of "Alzheimer's Disease".

In fact, I don't like the name "Alzheimer's disease" very much, and I feel that it is suspected of discriminating against patients.

In the play, "Alzheimer's Disease" has another romantic name - a long goodbye.

"The patient's memory will disappear little by little, getting farther and farther away from us, until... death. ”

I think this should also be the origin of the title.

The film not only achieved a good score of 7.7 on Douban, but also won the Best Film Award at the 11th TAMA Film Festival in Japan.

The two main actors, Yuki Yamazaki and Yu Aoi, also won awards for Best Actor and Best Actress for this film.

Speaking of Yamazaki Nu, the most impressive thing is his cheeks full of drama.

There is no doubt that he is an old drama bone, and he is good at creating a mature and stable "father-like" image in the film. The audience is most familiar with the president he played in "The Mortician".

Speaking of Aoi You, some netizens said that she was the originator of the Mori female line. Seaweed-like hair, childlike innocent smile, one look at the heartbeat, two eyes fall.

Aoi's debut dates back to the 1999 musical Annie, where she was selected to play the role of Polly.

Later, he was selected as the spokesperson for Mitsui Real Estate, and his beautiful image became a household name for a while, and then opportunities large and small flocked to him.

With the blessing of two powerful actors, this is destined to be an extraordinary masterpiece.

01

Goldfish use the pituitary gland to adapt to brackish water, and humans use love to adapt to the lack of clouds and clouds.

Basically, every film and television work will have a plot about love, and it is often the plot that can most poke at people's hearts, and this one is no exception.

The father always said that he wanted to go back, but the mother did not know where he was going to go, and Mari suspected that his father wanted to return to the old home where he was born and raised him, so he took his parents and son with him to his father's hometown.

The hometown failed to evoke the memory of the father, but it recalled the mother's past, looking at one old photo after another, the mother can always clearly recall, when, where to take the photo.

Looking at her mother, who was radiant when she talked about her father, Mari asked her mother if she had ever hated her father, after all, her father was stubborn and stubborn, full of work, and the family affairs had never been managed, but her mother said happily that she did not know, and it would take a few more years to be a husband and wife.

I don't think she at least ever regretted it.

Looking at his mother, Mari thought to himself, can he put his marriage to the test of time in this way? Until the end, can you be as happy as your mother?

The mother and daughter's brief afternoon was interrupted by their father, who clamored to go home.

This is not the place he wants to go back to, where is it, the mother and daughter are confused, Xiao Chong also coaxed to go back, the whole family had to return early.

On the train, the mother was tired and dozed off, and the father stared at the mother motionlessly until the mother woke up, and the father said that it was time to introduce Yaozi to the family.

The mother's eyes instantly turned red, and she shook her father's hand, and all the words were choked in her throat, and the mother was proposed by the father again on this train.

This scene is really too good to cry, the father because of the illness forgot a lot of things, forgot his children, forgot his former friends, but did not forget his wife.

What kind of unforgettable love should this be? Even if you forget the whole world, you will never forget the people you love the most.

02

Affection is invisible, no one can say what it is, maybe it will be three umbrellas.

What are the family members of Alzheimer's most afraid of?

The most feared thing is that the old man goes out privately and then can't find his way home.

After my father fell ill, he lost two times, both times to deliver umbrellas to the amusement park.

The first time I went missing was on a summer afternoon.

The mother and Mari go out, leaving their son Chong with his father, Chong accidentally falls asleep and wakes up to find his father missing.

On that day, Fumi's mobile bento, which she had just started, was also yellow, and her mother called to tell Fumi that her father was gone.

Fumi drives to find her father, and the last person to find him is her middle school classmate Xiaodao, who is holding three umbrellas in his hand.

Father while eating bread while staring at the "qingkong canteen" on the car out of the mind, Fumi is very embarrassed, her father has always hoped that she will become a teacher after graduation, but her dream is a cooking shop, in front of her father, she really can't get anything out of it, but her father said that Fumi's bento car is amazing, which is how she could not imagine, Xiaomei suddenly had a touch in her heart, touched and aggrieved.

She hurried into the car to prepare a bento for her father, but outside the car, her father led the customers who came to buy the bento in a long line like elementary school students. There are more and more people, and the queues are getting longer and longer.

His father was completely different from when he was a child, whether It was Alzheimer's disease that changed him, or whether he was the same person he was, and the illness just made him take off his disguise.

It was also from this time that Fumi finally did not have to be so strong in front of her father.

The second time I went missing, it was on a rainy day.

Father has been arguing to go back, the mother comforted him, the kung fu father on the toilet is gone, fortunately, the last time the father lost Mari to the father's mobile phone pressed the positioning system, the mother and daughter trio followed the location in the mobile phone to an amusement park.

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Just arrived at the amusement park and saw my father riding a carousel with a strange little girl.

The mother looked at the father on the wooden horse, and suddenly remembered that when the sisters were young, they took them to the amusement park to play, that afternoon the sky suddenly darkened, like today it felt like it would rain, the father of the workaholic actually went to the amusement park to give them an umbrella, the reason was that that xiaomei had signs of cold since the morning, and had been sucking her nose.

Mari and Xiaomei suddenly had a sour nose, and they held back tears and shouted to their father, while their father, who was sitting on the carousel, looked at them and smiled.

The music also sounded, rendering the atmosphere just right, creating a warm and happy atmosphere.

He finally got what he wanted to go back, back to the happiest moment of his life, and went to the amusement park with three umbrellas to pick up his wife and daughter.

At first, I also wondered why he always said he wanted to go back, why he always went missing with three umbrellas, until then I understood that the usually serious and terrible father had always loved his daughters in his own way.

There are many such plots in the play, which we need to seriously taste.

03

The bondage of family, the long goodbye.

My father was born with this illness for seven years, in fact, the most difficult family members in these seven years.

Two daughters, each with its own difficulties.

The eldest daughter, Mari, because of her husband's transfer, the family lives in the United States, and the heavy housework, the indifference of her husband, and the rebellion of her son are all overwhelming, so she does not often return to China.

Although the youngest daughter, Fumi, lives in Tokyo, her dream of a restaurant or her relationship with her lover is not very smooth, and her life can be described as a mess. She didn't know how to face her father, who wanted to be a teacher, and simply didn't go home if she didn't have anything important to do.

But her mother was optimistic, she seemed to accept this reality, and she could take care of her father.

But as the father's illness worsens, the mother will also have times when she can't cope, and the two daughters can always appear in front of the mother at the first time.

In the process of taking care of the father, the family has experienced many things together, and the father knows more and more how to pamper, and this pampering is enough for his wife and daughter to support this long farewell, and in his future life, he has the courage to see the sunshine in a chicken feather.

In fact, the film itself does not have too many highlights, basically it is flat and stable, but this kind of film is too cunning, once it is substituted for yourself or your family, it is basically the rhythm of crying.

We are all old, everyone will be old, when our parents are old, what kind of collapse will we experience? When we get old, what kind of torture do we experience?

Support, good death, is the ultimate problem that all families face.

There is such a news on the People's Network

This time there is a kind master to help harvest for free, but what about the next time? Who will help?

There are currently about 130,000 similar widows and widows in China, and some of their children can visit them at most once a month because of the pressure of life, and some have limited mobility and suffer from various chronic diseases.

Behind these lonely and widowed elderly people is the aging dilemma of China's old age before it gets rich and is old before it is prepared.

With the advent of the aging population, how should the old-age care of the elderly be guaranteed?

This is a question worth thinking about.