A tribute to Hemingway

For the most successful people, the war against death is also a battle that is doomed to failure.

A professor who can memorize Hemingway's writings in large chunks, but can't remember his wife's name; has a great passion for life and can't resist the spread of cancer cells throughout the body. Like Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" in "The old sail, patched up with many bags of flour, looks like a flag that will fail forever".

How to face death? Director Luis Buñuel said, "A more terrible death is the kind of life that depends on modern medicine to sustain life, the kind of slow lingering that never ends. In the name of Hippocrates, doctors created One of the most refined and elegant tortures for human beings: survival."

The two old men in this film apparently reject that refined ordeal, opting instead to get into an antique RV and go head-to-head with death.

Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland grace this road trip. The seamless connection between the elegant gentleman and the demented old man, a jealous and talkative wife jumped on the screen. Although it is a pity that the connection between paragraphs is relatively loose, it does not do much to promote the plot (although we can see that they are getting more and more sick), but the jokes of those intellectuals, the love for their daughters, after the discovery of cheating Forgive me, these bits and pieces brought a lot of laughter and touching to the audience. The best vision for love is all included here.

But I prefer the theme of "Going to Hemingway's House" rather than the old couple's love. In my opinion, what the old man does in the movie is what Hemingway has always admired, and the movie is like a tribute to him. Even though life is an unwinnable war, just like Santiago, they have never stopped taking action, never compromising with death, that kind of tenacity and optimism, and the complete protection of dignity, just like from Hemingway's novels. came out. Maybe what he dragged back in his whole life was just a huge useless skeleton, and the destination he wanted to reach in the end was not what it used to be, and it was full of regrets. However, he tried his best to reach the goal, and on the way he showed "to live with one's own will", and the powerful vitality reflected from the inside out is still moving.

The 19-year-old Hemingway had a similar sigh about life: "It is better to die in this happy youth, full of fantasy, than to die in old age, and let life fade away in brilliant light."

I think they all passed away in happiness. May they meet the lion in their dreams.