Chapter 1,604 Please try your best to experience it with your sincerity.
The movie screening ended, but strangely, there was silence in the internal screening hall.
Li Yi was a little disappointed because this movie was really "chaotic"!
No way, this is the essence of this movie.
This movie won 26 awards and 133 nominations!
It can be said that the most praised part is "chaos"!
If an ordinary movie fan suddenly watches this movie, he will definitely be confused, because it is really too confusing.
But those present are not ordinary movie fans, they are all industry insiders or veteran film critics, such as Beers, who has been recording and analyzing the movie while watching it.
Then after a long time, Beers suddenly stood up and clapped vigorously.
Because he found that this movie suited his taste too well and the angle of this movie was too unique.
From the main perspective of Anthony with Alzheimer's disease, this can be said to be unprecedented.
Then, applause resounded throughout the screening hall. Perhaps as a commercial film, this film is undoubtedly unqualified, but as an artistic film, this film is undoubtedly amazing!
The key point is that for film critics, it is actually difficult for them to truly comment and interpret the movie before it is officially released on a large scale, or even in the middle of the release.
Because this will greatly spoil the plot.
But this movie is very different. This movie needs to be interpreted by film critics because it is "too confusing"!
Ordinary people are completely confused at first glance, knowing what is happening but not knowing why!
So this can be said to completely free them up to play.
Soon, various interpretations of "Father Trapped in Time" emerged.
Beals provided an in-depth analysis of the film in his personal column.
""Father Trapped in Time", I like this movie so much because it is so different!
The story tells the story of Anthony, who is elderly and suffering from Alzheimer's disease and faces a difficult life choice - whether to move to a nursing home or accept the new caregiver his daughter is looking for. While talking with his daughter, Anthony found that he seemed to have entered a nursing home.
A strange journey through time and space, with confusing memories and timelines intertwined into incredible stories.
We have many movies about this disease, but most of the time, they are told from the perspective of bystanders or relatives.
But this film, by a miracle director from China, takes a different approach and tells it from the patient's perspective.
And we know that this is really difficult, because the perspective of Alzheimer's patients is absolutely chaotic, which will cause a problem of time and space confusion.
"Father Trapped in Time" handles this point very well.
The movie closely revolves around the character of his father, Anthony, who is an Alzheimer's patient with "classic symptoms."
Due to illness, his memory deteriorated.
Anthony often forgets what he has done, forgets time, and even forgets his own identity.
The most heartbreaking thing is that he also forgot the fact that his youngest daughter had died unexpectedly, and often talked about her happily.
In order to reflect the protagonist's chaotic memory, the director used non-linear, repeated scenes and other techniques to construct the narrative structure of the film, constantly disrupting and reorganizing the protagonist's experience to reflect the chaos of his memory. A typical expression technique is to use the same indoor space
The nature of the shooting uses different details in the same space to show the protagonist's memory disorder.
For example: when the protagonist and his daughter went to the hospital for medical treatment, the door to the clinic and the door to the protagonist's home were actually the same door, so the director used editing to highlight the different styles of handles on the door, allowing the audience to discover that although they are in the same space, they are
It is in different scenes, and then we can understand that the sudden turns or similar scenes in the film are caused by the confusion of the protagonist's memory.
In addition, he has a changeable personality and even has persecution fantasies.
Anthony became irritable and often rude to caregivers.
Not only that, he also believed that his daughter had been led astray by his son-in-law and was trying to occupy his apartment.
These can be said to be very obvious characteristics of patients with this symptom.
In this state of "dementia" after illness, the director adopts the first-person perspective of the patient, leading the audience to follow his eyes and body to "immersively" understand and experience the helplessness in the illness.
In addition, the conflicts in the movie are very life-like, and he is good at expressing emotional conflicts with very delicate emotional changes.
For example, Anthony always wants to pretend that he already knows when facing people he doesn't recognize. When the caregiver talks to him in a coaxing tone, it will make him furious. He has a strong self-esteem and tries his best to show it in the face of his gradually losing memory.
He was unable to control himself, but was ultimately defeated. At the end of the film, he completely degenerated into a child, curled up, forgetting his identity, and murmuring for his mother, which was extremely heartbreaking.
Secondly, patients with Alzheimer's disease may also develop spatial functional impairment.
Anthony often couldn't tell whether he was at home, his daughter's home, or a nursing home.
As the title of the film suggests, he is like a person trapped in time, often looking at the scenery outside the window in a daze.
In order to allow the audience to immerse themselves in this sense of obstacle, the director set up the three main scenes and interior layouts of the father's house, daughter's house, and nursing home to be very similar.
On the set, the film's production designer constructed a 50-foot-long hallway that led from the apartment's entrance to the living room.
As the plot develops, you will find that although the decoration style in the space is very consistent, the colors, tones, and small decorations are changing. This is a clue deliberately left by the director to the audience, implying that the space has not changed and everything is just in Anthony's mind
time and space confusion.
The director and the art team matched the color scheme according to the story and chose warm colors as the main color of Anthony's apartment, symbolizing age and a sense of belonging.
In contrast, the daughter's apartment appears a grayish blue, and in the final section of the film, it transitions directly to the cold, harsh blue of the nursing home.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Chaos is the key to this movie, the chaos of space, the chaos of timeline, the chaos of editing... Because of the chaos, I believe that the movie will be released
Later, some people would even use it as a suspense film to evaluate this film. However, it is this chaos that nakedly shows the two deaths of Alzheimer's disease - spiritual death and physical death.
The last thing worth mentioning is the unique soundtrack in the film. Anthony in the film is a music lover and often wears headphones to wander in the ocean of music.
At the very beginning of the movie, a aria from the opera The Legend of King Arthur is used as the soundtrack to illustrate the character of the protagonist Anthony - a character with the stubborn temper of "King Arthur".
In the film, classical music, symphony, opera, etc. also appear in turn. These soundtracks are very consistent with Anthony's identity - a successful Alzheimer's patient, an old man who demands respectability and has a strong sense of self-esteem.
At the same time, the use of these classical and deep soundtracks also enhances the sense of tragedy in the entire film and deepens the theme of Alzheimer's disease and life.
Of course, this also makes this film easy for people to feel confused when watching it.
However, the actor's superb acting skills can undoubtedly make people empathize with his confusion, fear, helplessness, suspicion and capriciousness.
My father also passed away in the last few years. I was not at home and could not feel his daily changes, but the general trend was that he became a little stranger. He knew that I was his son from the beginning, but in the end he did not know that I was his son.
Who can only lie in bed and cannot move, and cannot control his physiological needs. He sees people coming and going in his family, but none of them are people he knows. There is a little fear in his eyes. I am a little scared. If there is
One day, one of my closest relatives also got Alzheimer's disease. I never thought that I would be afraid of hard work, but I would definitely collapse under all kinds of sarcastic comments and capriciousness. I hope that with the advancement of medicine, we can develop a drug for this disease as soon as possible.
Well. Let’s talk about the analysis of the content of this film.
Maybe after watching it, it will be easier for everyone to understand when watching the movie. Of course, this is just a family opinion!
At the beginning of the film, father Anthony and his daughter Anne have a conversation in an apartment.
The daughter wanted to hire a caregiver for her father to take care of him, but the father not only refused but also got angry and drove away several caregivers.
The father was suspicious, stubborn, and plausible. He believed that the nurse had stolen his watch, and he was even worried that his daughter would know his secret base where he hid valuables.
The helpless daughter finally told her father that she would leave London and move to Paris, France.
At this time, my father suddenly realized: you are leaving me.
This is the starting point of the story: a stubborn old father and a daughter who is about to leave her father.
Immediately afterwards, the story of the film seemed to suddenly enter another time and space.
The father suddenly met a stranger in his apartment who claimed to be his daughter's husband.
Not only did the father not recognize the daughter after she returned home, but her appearance was also completely different from the daughter who appeared a few minutes ago.
Not to mention that my father was confused, even I had trouble telling the truth from the lie.
At this point, the film almost brings the audience into a suspenseful atmosphere. Is it traveling through time and space? Or is the daughter plotting to deceive her father and find someone to pretend to be herself and her husband?
Gradually, you will suddenly realize that just like the previous experience repeated again and again, it turns out that this is originally a chaotic time and space, and a chaotic relationship between characters.
If you try to use conventional logic to clarify the temporal and spatial logic and context of this film, it will undoubtedly be stupid and redundant.
Because all the confusion of time and space and the confusion of characters have no reason at all. They are all chaotic images in the mind of the father who suffers from Alzheimer's disease.
All the confusion makes no sense and has no logic. It is just a confused memory in the mind of an old man with dementia.
Understanding this, we will find that the film unfolds the narrative from the father's perspective.
Therefore, the audience is on the same channel as the father, and the audience is shocked by the sudden and complicated strange environment along with the father, just like living in a suspenseful horror movie every day.
When we share the same frequency with the father in the film and accept this chaotic time and space without logic and reason, we will gradually become immersed in an indescribable one-person movie-watching experience.
It's like in the movie, no one can really understand why his father's temperament suddenly changed.
Because no one can understand what a father suffering from Alzheimer's disease is going through.
In the film, the most frequently asked question to the father with Alzheimer's disease is: "How long do you plan to spend to piss everyone off?"
This is a question that is both hurtful and cruel.
There is a huge gap between the problems. On one end are the children who are tortured by their fathers, and on the other side are the fathers who are tortured by Alzheimer's disease.
And there seems to be another meaning behind this question: "When do you plan to die?"
When this question was asked, we could see the shock, shame, and even remorse on the father's face. He seemed to have seen what he had done at a certain moment, and lowered his head in shame like a child admitting his mistake.
The story of the movie does not seem to occur in chronological order, which is evidence of the messy memory of the father Anthony. He cannot get along well with all the caregivers, sometimes forgets his daughter, always does not know where he is, and is always looking for his watch.
The apartment he was familiar with seemed to have turned into a maze, with strangers appearing from time to time, things often missing, and the layout and decoration always changing.
In fact, everything happened in chronological order, but in Anthony's perception, the memory became fragments and turned into leaves swaying in the wind. No two leaves are exactly the same, but they look different.
So similar.
His father, Anthony, suffered from Alzheimer's disease. He insisted that he could take care of himself, so he lived alone in his apartment and was angry at the countless caregivers hired by his daughter Anne.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In the movie, we can tell from the details that these are three different places - our own home, our daughter's home, and a nursing home. But in the case of the sick and elderly
In Anthony's eyes, they were so similar that he kept emphasizing that "something strange happened".
The movie allows us to see the world in his life from the perspective of his father Anthony. The people who once appeared in his life are confused in his every day life. He does not know what night it is, although he is constantly looking for it.
My watch seems to be a way to bring myself back to consciousness.
The director hopes to create a claustrophobic feeling so that the audience can stand from the perspective of a patient and experience how terrifying the world is - it feels as if they are experiencing a suspense thriller movie.
The movie also focuses on the loved ones who care for such patients.
Taking care of such a patient is so hopeless. He often forgets his closest family members, always asks questions over and over again, sometimes loses his temper and cries, and sometimes unintentionally utters evil words to hurt others.
But being such a patient only makes you more desperate. You wake up every day and don't know where you are; why you are surrounded by strangers, but it seems that you should know them; and finally you don't even know who you are.
Anthony said, I feel like all my leaves have fallen off, the wind and rain have taken them away, and the branches can no longer catch them.
How should we face aging gracefully and calmly? How should we face the aging of our loved ones calmly and calmly?
Alzheimer's disease is like the hourglass of time, and every grain of sand is like a reminder—time is what remains unchanged, but we are what disappears.
When winter comes, all the leaves will leave the branches; as time goes by, every grain of sand will fall silent at the bottom of the bottle.
This is an unsolvable question. Just like Anthony can't keep his leaves, we can't catch the time that slips away!
This is not a movie to solve puzzles, because after all, there is no answer in life. Life is just like this "Father Trapped in Time", please try your best to experience it with your sincerity."
