Uncle Depp's new work is out.
I have to say that the character-building ability of foreign actors is indeed admirable. This time the performance is different from any role that Depp has portrayed in your impression.
Let me start by saying that this is a very, very, very personal film: the death of a cancer patient.
In other words, the protagonist is not a person, but death itself.
The film is not inspirational, nor is it warm, and it is also suspected of "violating laws and disciplines" because of the three views. It's not the kind of tearjerker that fights cancer success, or reconciles with someone on the deathbed.
That said, there's a good chance you don't think it's good-looking at all.
But that feeling of oppression is real.
Many people may not agree with the cancer patient's life choices at the end of his life, but so what?
If you only have 6 months left to live, do you still care what other people think of your scrappy life? !
I don't care anyway. Even though I may have 60 years left, I don't care what other people think of my life.
Richard , an English literature professor who learned that he was seriously ill , said countless F**Ks after he walked out of the clinic .
He never smoked, but he still got lung cancer.
Although he looked extremely calm in the consultation room, after recalling it, he rushed into the pool and greeted Tiandi fiercely with this four-letter swear word commonly used in English-speaking countries.
However, when he returned home and prepared to announce the news at the dinner table, the teenage daughter first announced that she had come out of the closet, and the midlife crisis wife announced that she had cheated.
The pain of others was real and intense, so Richard could only choose to be speechless.
The news of the dying was not spoken at all.
The process may be different from what was expected, but the outcome is destined to be the same: the professor will die of cancer in the near future.
So time was short and Richard had to face the truth.
He chose to let go of himself.
The self that he was ashamed to admit before was finally placed under the sun by him.
Anyway, it is destined to say goodbye, so let the real self say goodbye to this world.
Richard and his wife reached a "peace agreement", the two sides do not interfere with each other, open marriage.
Then he hooked up with a waitress in a bar in less than a minute, and then decidedly "indescribable" in the toilet.
There is also a student of his own, male.
In the classroom, he drove away those students who were messing around, who wanted to rise to the top and get rich, and who did not meet his liking, and finally cut down the size of a large class to only the number of people in a workshop.
Then he took this group of "die-hard fans" to change the address of the class at will, the bar, the campus outdoors, the office lounge... Anyway, he couldn't teach in the classroom properly.
He even modified the teaching method so that students become the protagonists of the classroom and "educate" themselves.
He only told his best friends the news of his imminent death, and it was not until the night he left the place where he had been living that he gave a curtain call to his life at the banquet of his boss, who was also the object of his wife's cheating.
In his last class, he told his students to be the hope of this society.
In his speech at the banquet, he said that he should seize the opportunity to be himself.
This is a dying person's deepest fear when he hears the sand of an hourglass. We have never walked the road after death, how can we not be afraid?
A friend took Richard to a cancer support group and also to church.
But these consolations did not change the outcome, and Richard did not get "redemption".
However, one-night stand, drinking and taking drugs forever and being half-awake, is it even cherishing time?
Richard just released the beast that he had been keeping in his dark heart, and bravely looked into its eyes.
So those "don't waste your time" are not high-sounding words. Richard is not whitewashing his bohemian life with big truths.
He was trying to persuade the world not to wait until the last time was short, and then start to think that he had wasted most of his life.
Death is actually the "protagonist" in each of our lives. That "countdown" on your head has been there since birth. Whether it's an accident that took your life, or you're dying in peace.
Tick, tick, tick, tick...
We always think that we have a lot of time anyway, so every tick is silent, never falling into our hearts.
But if that day is clearly in front of your eyes, every tick will be so heavy that it can smash a hole in your heart, and eventually you will be devastated.
Richard finally said goodbye to his best friend, his wife he had loved for half his life, and his daughter who was always proud of him. With his dog, he burst into tears and embarked on the road to face the rest of his life alone.
The car came to a T-junction.
He didn't know where he was going, left or right.
He didn't know where he should choose to wait for death.
Even in the face of death, there is still choice and hesitation.
Then he smiled and drove straight to the field with no road in front of him, to the distant mountains, to the moonlight, as if he was heading straight to heaven.
The movie is also known as "Richard Says Goodbye" , Richard said goodbye to the world in his own way.
Whether the process is moral decline or Zhijie Xingfang, no matter how the world sees it, no matter whether the body accepts it or not, the end is like this, and this is death.
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Original: Yi Xiaomeng
First published on the public account: Huidian Culture
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