A Home at the End of the World-A Home at the End of the World

Arjun 2022-01-17 08:02:51




The name of HOME movie can actually reflect the feeling of the whole movie, "home" is the first key. Bobby is actually the person who is most afraid of loneliness. After witnessing his brother's death, he is eagerly looking for a sense of belonging, from Jonathan, from his parents, and even from Clare. When building his ideal family, the three of them tried to establish a balance. They fell in love with each other. Some of this love was combined with sex, and some did not require sex. It was a way of breaking the convention.

The story actually digs into the state of "emotional survival" deep in people's hearts, not how you live your life, but how you view your feelings. Gay Jonathan, heterosexual Clare, and Bobby of unknown sexual orientation, and even they have a child. The family that tried in this way gave people a brand new and alternative life. In fact, it is still difficult for most Chinese to accept, but when you really torture your own soul, can you really clearly determine your own sexual orientation or the state of feelings towards other people? Feelings are one of the most elusive things that humans have. Whether it is love, friendship or family affection, it is always getting more and more muddled in this quagmire. Someone will doubt the relationship of this triangle, but I think, according to Bobby's words, "this is perfect." This is not just the separation of sex and love on the surface or the sexual liberation of a flower girl. In fact, sometimes you want to have sex with one person, but you want to sleep peacefully beside another person. This is not a kind of separation of love. But it is a way for feelings to survive intact.

END OF WORLD is

then "the end of the world". At the end of the movie, Claire took their three children and never returned, the triangle was ruined, and the home was still there, but the end of the world was slowly coming. In fact, they belonged to a passing era, pursuing a strange sense of belonging, witnessing death in the singing of Jefferson Airplane, talking about love in the singing of Leonard Cohen, ecstatic for Bob Dylan's record, and Bobby traveled far and wide. Came to New York with only a backpack on the record, the film was filled with the music of that era from beginning to end. The flower girl, the years gone by, and the collapse of the triangle world are the last sacrifices they left for this era.

In fact, they all know that this day will come sooner or later. The three of them want to do their best to maintain it, but between the truthfulness and the cautiousness, the cracks are getting bigger and bigger. When Bobby and Jonathan dance together under the moon again and again , Clare suddenly realized that the relationship between Bobby and Jonathan had been entangled to survive many years ago. So this is a utopia of emotional survival, a utopia, just a beautiful dream at the end of the world. When Clare leaves, when Jonathan faces death, it is when Bobby wakes up from the dream. At the last moment, Bobby stared at their doomsday home for a long time, a utopia at the end of the world. In the dim, the lights at home were on, he extinguished the cigarette and walked slowly.

BOBBY

Bobby is the soul of the whole story. His frankness, his sensitivity, and his uneasiness is what touched me the most in the whole story. Colin Farrell once again created a character that made my heart beat, this time relying on introverted and heartbreaking fragility. . Bobby has some things that do not belong to the present, but there are also some things that belong to each of us. He makes some desperate things that are gray, but makes you feel warm bit by bit, like a thin and tough thread. , Affecting the most vulnerable and sensitive part of emotions.

He has always been looking for a kind of belonging that can be called home, and he has never been able to reach the other side of happiness. When he starts to feel perfect, the end will come inadvertently. After enjoying the pleasure of marijuana with his favorite brother in childhood, his brother died inexplicably. After dancing with Jonathan's mother Alice, it was Jonathan's departure. When living with their daughters in their homes and daughters. When we were together, I think he wanted to come to the end of life like this, but Clare finally chose to leave and choose to convert to normal, but it also pushed Bobby to the final abyss. But in the end I saw Bobby holding Jonathan's eyes still full of hope. Although it was the home of the last days, it was also the paradise where his feelings had been complete.


This is a film adapted from a novel. The original author is Michael Cunningham. He wrote this novel in 1989. In 1998, he wrote "The Hours" and won Pulitzer. The film of the same name was also a great success. . Compared with the director of "The Hours" Stephen Daldry, the director of this film, Michael Mayer, seems to be lagging behind, with more than delicate feelings, but the depth and atmosphere creation are always not as touching and intriguing as "The Hours", but The performance of several actors is still commendable. The original novel was translated into "House of the End of the World", and there is a Chinese version, but I have never had the opportunity to read it, which is a pity.

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  • Aric 2022-04-22 07:01:48

    quiet nice. Just didn't understand.

  • Bobby 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    Some things you have to experience to know

A Home at the End of the World quotes

  • Clare: Jonathan, blue is your friend. See, blue is the color of sky and water.

    Jonathan Glover: White goes with everything.

    Clare: Yes, well, honey, it's a house, not an outfit.

  • Jonathan Glover: Hey. I'm sorry about... well, all this. I knew I'd see you both again. I just imagined... well, different circumstances.

    Clare: It's OK.

    Bobby Morrow: It's OK.

    [to Clare]

    Bobby Morrow: Ned, man. He was a trip. He was like my father, too. You would've loved him.

    Jonathan Glover: Bobby, if you want my family so badly, I hereby bequeath them to you. No, better yet, I hereby bequeath you my whole, entire life. I hereby dub you Jonathan Glover. Tomorrow, when they cremate my father's body, you can be the son and I'll be the best friend. You can come back from the service, and you can console my mother!

    Clare: Jonathan, stop it.

    Jonathan Glover: You're better at it than I am! You're better qualified, so go! Go at it. Be their son, with my blessing!

    Clare: Listen to me, you little shit! All he's ever done is worship you. And all you've ever done is walk out on him. Don't you dare speak to him like that, you hear me?

    Jonathan Glover: You don't know what you're talking about. You don't know the first thing about worship.

    Clare: Do you know - do you have any idea how much - how much I wanted you? How much I loved YOU, you asshole. And then - what an idiot I am. How pathetic is that? Me in love with you. And then Bobby comes along, and I fell in love with this one, and I think that we... that the three of us, maybe we could... Fuck it. Just leave me alone and go back in the house and have a drink.

    [Walks away]

    Jonathan Glover: [Following, along with Bobby] Clare! Clare.

    Clare: How could you just leave without saying anything!

    Jonathan Glover: I couldn't be the uncle anymore! Give me a break, OK?

    Bobby Morrow: Clare, hey.

    Clare: Don't call me that!

    Bobby Morrow: Don't call you what? Your name?

    Clare: [Crying] What'd you think I would do without you, Jonathan? What were you thinking?

    Bobby Morrow: Clare, come on.

    Clare: [stops walking] I'm pregnant, you fuckers!

    Clare: What? Are you sure?

    Clare: I'm completely sure.

    Jonathan Glover: [Smiling] You wanted this. Didn't you?

    Bobby Morrow: [Happy] Clare. Oh, man.

    Clare: You think?

    Bobby Morrow: Yes!

    Jonathan Glover: Yes!

    [They all laugh, cry, and hug]