"Amélie" has been released worldwide. Although it has a very good reputation, the box office cannot compare with those commercial blockbusters.
This movie has always had mixed reviews, mainly because of its bizarre style, which not everyone can accept.
Of course, for Li Yi, these are not important. What is important is that this movie was very enjoyable to shoot and very interesting.
Time came to September 21st in a blink of an eye.
This is an ordinary day, but this ordinary day is endowed with some special meaning.
This day is International Dementia Day!
This is certainly not a grand holiday, nor can it be compared with the familiar festivals such as Valentine's Day and April Fool's Day.
This is also not a holiday to celebrate.
However, on this day, the discussion about Alzheimer's disease quickly made the headlines on the Internet.
In fact, this is not unfamiliar to Li Yi, because he has also shot related short videos before.
For example, the father in "Dumplings" suffers from Alzheimer's disease.
Many people couldn't help but be moved to tears after watching those short videos.
There is also a lot of related news on the Internet.
"An old man was walking back and forth in front of a row of dining tables.
After wandering around for a few times, he couldn't help but call the waiter.
He wanted the waiter to ask him if the old lady next to him was willing to accept his pursuit.
The waiter walked over and asked the grandfather a question, but got an unexpected answer——
"I promised him decades ago."
"He has Alzheimer's disease, his memory is not very good, and he forgets things easily."
Alzheimer's disease, commonly known as dementia, one of the symptoms of the disease is "forgetfulness".
People also call it the condition of being trapped in time!
Her sister talked about this disease with her colleagues, and one of them said this:
"I think Alzheimer's means 'keep resetting', a bit like that 50 first dates."
This story also mentioned the short film "Dumplings" that Li Yi shot in his early years. A video, a sentence interpretation, the same meaning - I forgot the whole world, but I still remember loving you.
It's so beautiful that it's touching.
But does the story end here?
On one side is forgetfulness, on the other side is companionship, day after day...
What kind of life do patients with Alzheimer's disease and their family members live?
What is the true state of this disease? Is it really only related to aging?
Today, her sister wants to be cruel, burst this touching bubble, and talk about Alzheimer's disease and forgetfulness.
At the beginning of the story, the granddaughter Xiaotou suddenly discovered that her grandfather had disappeared.
In a room of Xiao Tou's house, there lived an old man.
He can't do anything, not even chatting normally with everyone.
Every day, he only eats and sleeps.
Occasionally, when others ask him, he will reply "No," to express his refusal.
The expression on his face didn't change much.
The family told Xiaotou that he was her grandfather.
But Xiao Tou felt it was strange, because in her memory, grandpa was not like this at all.
In Xiao Tou's memory, grandpa loves to laugh, and his smile is very honest, just like SpongeBob SquarePants.
Grandpa is very handy. She likes to play with Barbie dolls, so grandpa uses wire to make small clothes hangers and small wooden beds for her dolls.
Grandpa would use different methods to coax her to sleep, singing familiar nursery rhymes to her, singing "The moon is traveling through the clouds like white lotus"...
Grandpa also paid a lot for this family.
He would use a tricycle to haul goods, sometimes several hundred kilograms, just to exchange for some money to support his family.
What surprised Xiaotou was that she couldn't even match these memories with her family.
The young cousin has no special memories of her grandfather. Her father told her that her grandfather was a very ordinary person with nothing special about him. Her grandmother, who had been with her grandfather for the longest time, did not say anything good about him.
". What makes Xiao Tou feel even more angry is that grandpa seems to be useless to grandma.
Grandpa is selfish. He doesn't care about others and doesn't speak nice words. Grandma takes care of everything at home, and Grandpa doesn't help much. Grandpa doesn't like to smile. He has always been expressionless like now.
Some of Grandpa's behaviors seemed to support Grandma's words. At night, he would cry inexplicably, saying that he was not feeling well, and asked to be sent to the hospital. But when he went to the hospital for examination, no other problems were found;
There are useful alarm clocks, but he still buys alarm clocks one after another; when he can’t finish the meal served to him, he hides his leftovers in the dishes; instead of going to the bathroom at home, he runs to the balcony,
Peeing in grandma’s flowerpot and watering the flowers to death...
All of Grandpa's actions seem unreasonable.
But Xiaotou still didn't give up, she still felt that grandpa just "disappeared"——
"Grandpa disappeared for a long time, and no one looked for him."
"I want to get him back."
At first, Xiao Tou thought that finding his grandfather might not be that difficult.
For example, if you want to prove that grandpa loves to laugh, just find a photo of grandpa smiling. As long as they see the photo, the family can remember what grandpa really looks like and there is no way to deny it. But when she goes back to look for it,
But I found that the battery of the old computer was broken and the old mobile phone could no longer be used.
She took countless photos during her college years, but none of them were with her grandfather. The path of "using photos as evidence" does not work.
Since there were no photos, Xiao Tou thought, maybe she could just try to make her grandpa laugh. She bought a lot of small toys and prepared a lot of funny cartoons.
As a result, Grandpa was either scared to tears by the little toy, or he had no special reaction at all.
Grandma advised her not to waste her efforts, it would be useless. Xiao Tou was also a little frustrated, as it seemed that her grandfather really could not be found.
When she was about to give up, a family member reminded her that she could talk to her aunt.
Her aunt's mind is relatively delicate and may be able to help her find new clues.
After talking to her aunt, Xiao Tou finally found out what her grandfather really looked like.
It was grandma who "remembered" it wrong.
He will work hard for the family and his mind is very flexible.
When the family was at its poorest, my grandfather once walked hundreds of kilometers on mountain roads on a pole, and even sold his blood several times in exchange for a little food.
Later, the family opened a grocery store, and my grandfather was in charge of everything from purchasing goods to calculating money, and even making homemade mustard.
The grocery store was closed, and he suggested building a public toilet. There would be no charge for the public toilet and he would make money by selling feces.
He is also a very considerate person.
All the money he earned was given to his grandma. When the family property was divided, both grandma and the children had a share, but he didn't keep any money for himself.
When grandma was sick and undergoing surgery, he would always stay at the door of the operating room.
Gradually, Xiao Tou discovered that grandpa's unreasonable behavior also had an explanation.
In the past, he and his grandma had two vegetable plots, and they competed in growing vegetables. Every time his grandpa and grandma got angry, he would deliberately go to his grandma's vegetable plot and water the vegetables with his urine.
Peeing in grandma's flowerpot now may be expressing a little bit of dissatisfaction.
He cried at night and asked to go to the hospital. In fact, it was because Alzheimer's disease not only brings "forgetfulness", but also psychological problems such as anxiety and restlessness, and the mood swings will be relatively large. Staying in the hospital and the doctor's side
, maybe it will make him feel safe.
He hid the leftovers in the dishes because the disease was eating away at his brain and his ability to understand was constantly losing.
He couldn't understand what grandma said, and could only vaguely feel that grandma was angry.
He thought his grandma was angry because he had leftover rice, so he kept hiding the rice.
In his opinion, the angrier Grandma is, the less well he hides the food, and the more he wants to hide it.
Buying an alarm clock is for a similar reason.
In terms of detecting Alzheimer's disease, there is a suitable test method-the clock drawing test.
People who are not sick can draw the corresponding dial shape and time according to requirements.
But for people with Alzheimer's disease, because they lose their understanding and cognitive abilities, the more severe the disease, the more distorted the clock becomes.
Grandpa bought the alarm clock not because the alarm clock itself was broken.
Instead, he couldn't understand it anymore, and he thought the alarm clock was broken.
In fact, it was his concept of time that was broken!
After understanding her grandfather's behavior, Xiao Tou started another attempt to "recover her grandfather". This time, she started with her grandfather's "memory".
She dug out her grandfather's old CD package and searched online for songs that her grandfather had sung to her.
The song sings "The moon travels through the white lotus-like clouds"...
Sing "Knock gently to wake up the sleeping heart, slowly open your eyes"...
Grandpa still didn't laugh.
He cried.
In the disc package, Xiaotou also found a few photos.
The grandpa in the photo was just like she remembered, he loved to laugh, and his smile was silly, like SpongeBob SquarePants.
She seemed to have found her real grandpa back.
At the end of the story, the miracle did not happen, Xiao Tou's grandfather was only briefly found, and life returned to the way it was at the beginning.
On one side is forgetfulness, on the other side is companionship, day after day...
But it seems that something is different. Grandpa will take the initiative to leave the bedroom, come to eat, and even put dirty clothes in the washing machine. The last time grandpa put clothes in the washing machine was a year ago.
This video was later posted to the family group. Xiaotou's father was silent for a long time after watching the video.
"I didn't expect him to be so seriously ill. It would have been better if I had gone back to my hometown to spend more time with him."
Xiaotou suddenly realized that the doctor's reminder to "stay with the patient more" may not be a simple consolation.
Just listening to music and talking with grandpa can have a slight effect, even if the effect is short-lived.
However, when trying again and again but failing to receive a response from grandpa, everyone will prefer to chat with family members who have responded.
Grandpa, who had become restless and anxious, was unconsciously left behind by everyone. When grandpa forgot about his family, his family also "forgotten" him.
However, her sister could not utter a single word of criticism about this kind of forgetfulness. For the patient, Alzheimer's disease is torture, and for the patient's family, it is also an inescapable torture. Physically, Alzheimer's disease is a torture.
, family members not only have to support their families, but also take care of the patients.
At the same time, you must ensure that your body does not collapse first.
Mentally, they must try to accept being "forgotten". They may never hear the familiar voice of "wife/son/daughter" again...
Maybe you heard him calling your name one second, and the next second he looked at you like a stranger.
He forgot the whole world, and also the people they loved deeply and who loved them.
Some netizens said that in fact, the more you think about it, the more you can understand Xiaotou's behavior.
"Perhaps what made grandma angry was not that grandpa left the food, but that the person who accompanied her day and night no longer paid attention to her. The two of them went through ups and downs together, but in the end, grandpa still forgot about her."
Or, "Maybe grandma knows about it, but just deliberately forgets about grandpa's kindness, because the one who stays in the end is the most miserable."
Stories like this are not uncommon on the Internet.
Although many people were moved by the short film, they still could not feel the suffering of the elderly people around them who had this disease.
It's painful to be forgotten, and it's painful to be trapped in time, but the most painful thing is the one who stays in the end.
Because we promised to grow old together, but we both grew old together, but I remember you, but you forgot me!
After Li Yi read a lot of news of this type, a scene from a movie came to mind.
"Father Trapped in Time"!
In fact, it’s strange to say it, although there are quite a few short films, public service announcements, etc. related to Alzheimer’s disease.
But there are very few people who really want to talk about a movie with this theme.
In fact, there are many movies about father's love, and Li Yi himself has made several movies. However, movies of this type are not uncommon, but there are not many that can really be remembered for a long time.
Of course, the movie itself is a commodity, and it is difficult to make it without a good script.
The film "Father Trapped in Time" is, to be honest, a bit special.
Because the style of the movie is very fragmented, this type of movie is actually quite difficult for some viewers to understand.
But it does not hinder the achievements created by this movie.
In my memory, this film won many awards and became a hot topic.
It's been discussed a lot.
However, there are many movies that tell the stories of elderly people with Alzheimer's disease, usually from the perspective of relatives. However, the narrative technique of this film is very unique. Because this film uses the father who suffers from Alzheimer's disease as the main perspective,
Therefore, it will give people a feeling of circulation, fragmentation, and brain-burning.
But in fact, this is a display of the chaotic thoughts of a person trapped in time.
Because their concept of time is really difficult for ordinary people to understand.
But the more so, the more amazing it is!
Memory loss, cognitive confusion, what is the world like in the minds of Alzheimer's patients?
Very few people tell it from such a perspective!
"Father Trapped in Time" gives the audience an "immersive" experience from an almost first-person perspective.
Li Yi has a very complicated perception of this movie. From the perspective of the movie itself, this movie is indeed a unique one.
But to be honest, this kind of movie really tests the audience’s patience!
There will be a certain threshold for moviegoers!
Of course, this is not to make things mysterious, but since a movie like this is told from such a perspective, such problems are bound to arise.
