Chapter 1608: When I still have the chance to hold you, tell you don’t be afraid, I’m here
What is the most mentioned topic about "Father Trapped in Time" on the Internet?
That is undoubtedly chaos.
Chaos makes this movie more suspenseful and thrilling.
At the same time, chaos is also the essence of this movie.
But chaos has been interpreted differently by many people.
Some movie fans interpret this movie based on the severity of the disease.
"In the description of Alzheimer's disease mentioned at the beginning, we found that the director followed the development of the disease. Throughout the film, the father's condition showed a step-like change of mild-moderate-severe:
Mild dementia: memory loss of recent events, often forgetting daily things (the father often cannot find his watch), and as the disease progresses, long-term memory loss occurs (the father forgets the appearance of his daughter, son-in-law, and caregiver, and forgets the death of Lucy)
Moderate dementia: obvious visual-spatial impairment (the father recognized the hospital as an apartment), obvious behavioral and mental abnormalities, the introverted patient became irritable, excited and euphoric, and increased his speech (the father tap danced, criticized his daughter harshly,
Conflict with son-in-law)
Severe dementia: Apathy, erratic crying and laughing, loss of speech ability, and inability to complete simple daily tasks such as dressing and eating (the daughter helped her father get dressed, asked her mother to pick him up, and her father cried for the second time)
It can be seen that the reason why the director shows various chaotic scenes that have been broken and reorganized by characters, time and space, and logic is just for one purpose - to fully show the world in the mind of an Alzheimer's patient: it is different from the normal world.
Elements can be assembled at will, time can be reversed, characters have no definite faces, and things that have happened will reappear... Everything is just to make the audience empathize!
There is no doubt that the director's goal has been achieved. Many people's first impression after watching this drama is that they are confused and half-understood. When they watch it again, they shout that it is brain-burning and exclaim that it is enjoyable. At this time, other good movies
In the face of brain-burning, they all seem worth mentioning!
Through ingenious story editing, rich hidden plot arrangements, well-timed transitions, and a deep understanding of real-life illnesses, the director allows people to experience the absurd scenes as if they were on the scene. Perhaps it is because it is adapted from the stage play of the same name that it becomes so popular.
Showing dramatic alternativeness and depth!”
Some people also focused on their daughter Anne!
"When the spotlight is focused on the director and the protagonist, and when people are talking about Anthony, we cannot ignore another important role in the film - daughter Anne, whose actor also showed her outstanding performance through excellent acting skills.
Faced with the common human experience in reality - the personal struggle to choose between individual life and kinship, facing her father whose illness relapsed, she devoted all her energy, even sacrificing her personal family. As a family member of a serious illness, she gradually fell into
The desperate situation is so vividly reflected in her that people can't help but feel sad and moved.
In fact, what I want to say is that Annie is the real character that many of us fans can easily assume.
Why?
Because when you become Anthony, you have already been trapped in time. This kind of pain cannot be shaken off, or even escaped.
But Annie is different. Her identity is the daughter, and she is the only relative who can take care of her father. There are many fans on the Internet who have relatives who take care of Alzheimer's disease, and the one who is discussed the most is undoubtedly Annie.
It is through the description of daughter Anne that the movie reflects the harm and impact of Alzheimer's disease on the patient's family members. They also endure torture and bear the hardships and hardships of life. When we empathize with the image of our father,
, we must also have deep respect for the family members who are also strong and silently endure the pain."
"I was completely moved to tears by the last scene. My father said at the end, "I feel as if all my leaves have fallen off... I can no longer figure out what happened, and I no longer have a place to live."
The helpless father leaned on the nurse's shoulder and sobbed like an ignorant child.
If the previous part is the director's capture and description of the memories in the brains of dementia patients, the last paragraph of the father's self-narration reveals the final path of dementia: the disease will destroy a person mercilessly, from his body to his body.
Will, reason, self-esteem, family affection... no one can be alone.
As an ordinary viewer, what I can understand from this is probably to maintain a healthy body and mind, take good care of yourself, and cherish your favorite relatives and friends around you in your limited life. If you still have the energy to spare, please express your gratitude to those families and individuals who are suffering.
, being more considerate and supportive would be a great kindness!”
Of course, the movie also has some controversial points.
For example, in the movie, his father Anthony was beaten.
Because the movie doesn't fully explain it clearly, is it originating from Anthony's chaotic memories, or is it a nightmare?
Was he beaten?
If yes, then who was beaten?
Movie fans generally gave three speculative results.
"Based on the position of the two people standing in the camera, we can reasonably deduce that they were beaten by the son-in-law, right?"
"But which of the two sons-in-law beat him?"
"It feels like the doctor at the nursing home abused my father, because the image of the son-in-law who beats his father in the front is Bill, the doctor at the nursing home, which is different from the one in the back. Moreover, after the camera switch, the son-in-law showed an obvious gesture of spreading his hands in confusion. In the afternoon, he comforted and hugged the lost Anne.
, during the subsequent dinner, the son-in-law calmly chatted with his father. The son-in-law here was not as cold-blooded and disrespectful as when he beat his father. Based on the previous experience of frequent misplacement of characters, it was deduced that the doctor may have abused his father, and the father was in memory.
There is a misalignment of characters."
"I agree with the person above. I feel like I was beaten by Bill, the doctor at the nursing home. Otherwise, why would the two of them look the same?"
"It's hard to say, right? Why did Anne divorce her husband? There must be a critical point, right? For example, because her husband hit her father, it touched Anne's bottom line, so she got divorced!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "I don't think anyone has ever beaten his father. This is all the fantasy of a father with dementia. Because Alzheimer's patients will have certain mental abnormalities and thinking disorders.
, for the father with high self-esteem, whoever takes away his apartment is a bad person, and it was the son-in-law who told his father that the apartment did not belong to him, so the son-in-law has always been a threat in the father's mind.
That's why he had such a nightmare, just like the scene where the daughter wanted to strangle her father to death. Did she really do that?
It’s all just a nightmare in fantasy!”
At the same time, watches in the movie have also been discussed many times.
Because this is a more obvious "thing"!
It's mentioned many times in the movie.
"The watch represents time, it's not difficult to understand! The loss of the watch shows that my father has lost "time"!"
"The image of a watch has been mentioned constantly from the beginning of the movie.
The watch represents time, and Anthony is always asking what time it is and always looking for his watch. What it represents is that Anthony can never figure out the time or his own memory. He looks for the watch and reads
The process of time is also his own process of searching for and sorting out memories. When he finally woke up in the nursing home, he had no watch in his hand, which meant that he could never find his memories again.
In addition, another important audio-visual language in the movie is the various "frames" in the room. Whenever Anthony realizes that there is a problem with his memory, Anthony will always be trapped in a certain frame. Anthony's
The helplessness and pity are vividly displayed."
"It's not just time, right? It also represents his cognition and the bottom line of being touched! For example, when Annie said that his watch was in the closet, Anthony's face suddenly changed. It was obvious that he didn't want others to touch him.
His privacy, or secret!"
A good movie is undoubtedly a movie that can make people empathize.
At least, it's one of them!
"Father Trapped in Time" moved many people, but some of those who were moved could not explain why they were moved.
Someone said: "I don't know why I was moved. I didn't really understand it, but I couldn't help but cry inexplicably!"
"The leaves have fallen off, and suddenly I have an inexplicable urge to cry!"
"It's time to call mom, hey!"
"I heard that a person's last memory will be his or her name and mother.
Anthony woke up from the nursing home, like a helpless baby, trapped in the wilderness of time and space. He cried like a child, I want my mother. The nurse asked him what was wrong? Anthony, he said, I feel like I
All the leaves fell off, and I understood what had happened.
The story is told from the first perspective of an Alzheimer's patient, and in its fragmentation, it restores the chaotic superposition of time and space in the world of Alzheimer's patients.
Just like there was a time when I suspected that I had multiple personalities or mental problems such as memory loss. One day the police came to me and said that I had killed someone or done some other heinous thing, and I was confused.
A personality was complacent in a dark corner. It was me who shouldered the blame for her, but I was innocently involved in this disaster.
The human mind is the scariest thing. If you continue to struggle like this, the final picture you can think of is an empty and endless universe."
"Originally, I rarely watch this kind of movie a second time because it really doesn't bring tears to my eyes.
But it was really, really, really sad, and I couldn’t help but watch it over and over again, just to figure out what the movie was about.
The first time I burst into tears was when Anthony went to see a doctor and sat on a stool in the hospital. When soothing background music played, the image of him bowing his head in silence was the sadness of aging.
The first time he cried loudly was when Anthony's memory was confused and he saw the provocation of his ex-son-in-law. He hunched his back, pretending to be confident in the confrontation, and was slapped; he was so angry that he was trembling but unable to fight back. He was slapped again, and he was helpless.
The desperate posture is heartbreaking.
The second time I cried was in the nursing home at the end. Anthony cried and said, "I feel as if all my leaves have fallen off. There are wind and rain on the branches. I can't understand everything that happened. You
Any idea what's going on? Everything in this apartment."
"I no longer have a place to live!"
Time is the most important thing, and you need to make sure your watch is still there over and over again. Your control over your surroundings is also important. You need to make sure the apartment is yours, and you need to make sure your daughter is still with you.
And growing old is a process of loss. He lost control, lost his youngest daughter, moved out of his apartment, and then his eldest daughter moved to Paris. At the end of the loss, Anthony cried in the nursing home, crying to find his mother and take him with him
When he got home, he asked the nurse absentmindedly who he was. He even forgot his own name.
What trapped him the most was time. It cycled back and forth, returning to the person he cared about most time and time again. He talked to himself countless times, except for Lucy, who was still Lucy.
The memory will be confused, and the person in front of you will be mistaken for someone else. Alzheimer's patients are confused, frightened, doubtful, and searching every day of their lives. This kind of pain must be so despairing. I confirm again and again,
Overturned again and again.
At first, he didn't want anyone to take care of him, and he was a stubborn old man. In the end, the caregiver comforted him and he cried, like a child trapped in time and abandoned.
There was no sunlight in the room where I put down the headphones, and I didn’t have time to change my ironed shirt. I forgot the postcard I sent the next day.
There was only green left outside the window, but he said, all my leaves have fallen off."
Of course, this does not mean that everyone can empathize.
A well-known online film critic wrote this: "Many people say that "Father Trapped in Time" makes people empathize, but to be honest, after watching it several times, I really don't have much empathy. This is true.
After thinking about it, the only emotions I can express towards Anthony are pity and sympathy. For me now, such emotions have somewhat lost their value.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Instinctively, I don’t think anyone would “crave” sympathy from others. This is more or less what Anthony intends to express strongly in the film.
Generally speaking, I want to respect and understand the character's own wishes as much as possible.
The reality is that for my father Anthony, I can’t seem to turn my sympathy into empathy - cry with him, cry with him, or scold him from God’s perspective and act as his mouth. If this tragedy needs to find a responsible party
, first of all, it cannot be Anne and Catherine, or Laura, who are gentle and considerate to the extreme; and my ex-husband, please, please put yourself in his shoes, how many people in reality can handle all this better than him?
Just stop pretending to be a saint. As for Bill, if you have to say it, maybe he should be scolded, but looking at such a chaotic spiritual world, how can we be 100% sure that it is Bill's "crime"?"
At that time, I was thinking about what to do, Anthony? How should I vent my anger for you? Curse the disease, curse the accident, curse the vagaries of the world?
I can only curse God for being unfair, but I can't curse the disease or Alzheimer's disease. Because in reality, I have no way of getting into this disease - I can neither listen to the descriptions of the patients, nor can I unfortunately suffer from it.
Then I touched my heart and felt it.
In what way can we understand this disease? Scholars’ research, or our own observations. But for mental illnesses, I think the most convincing description is the expression of the patient himself in a waking state. Alzheimer’s disease
Do patients have the opportunity to express themselves in this way? Will they be aware of their chaotic thinking? I don’t know, so I put a question mark on whether the chaotic mind shown in the film can really correspond to the feelings of real patients.
But in terms of audiovisual aspects, the film is still beautiful. I prefer to regard it as imagination. This is a sad poem written by the director for patients with Alzheimer's disease. The key point is not to sigh, but to reflect.
and action. The objects of reflection and action are not just these patients, nor only the elderly."
