Who allowed you to live in silence?

Guy 2022-09-17 15:49:32

May repeats the same thing every day, the wardrobe is always the same clothes, the time is not different by a second, everything must be placed in place, even waiting for the car to cross the road is the same action.

Alone outside of the crowd, his job is to find connections for everyone in the neighborhood who have no "relatives" and see them off. He works very seriously, but family members always have various reasons to refuse to see people who have long been separated from their lives.

He has a heavy notebook of his "clients" or people they used to care about.

At first I thought that John had no new ideas every day, wandering on the edge of the dead and the living, numb to life and messing around.

But it was later discovered that he is the one who understands life the most among all people. The real love is just that he doesn't know how to express it, or maybe it is his understanding of his work: relatives have no sorrow, others have no songs, what is the way to die, Toti Mountain.

Unable to change the mortal fate, unable to find comfort for the lonely.

Almost everyone he sent off in the past is like this, like Stark in the last case, who has always loved his daughter, collected photos of her growing up, and made small calls at the age of 18 without saying any blessings.

John likes his job, but his boss fires him for taking too much time with the dead, and he'll try the same thing because Stark was hanging by his teeth and leash for three minutes while he was alive to raise money for others; because A man and a woman in a bar are calm without a word while a man pretends to be the same with three glasses in a bar, trying to understand others.

Every time he treats something unexpected, like a different coffee, he sniffs it a few times before trying it.

His real change, I think, is when the person opposite him died. The previous people were strangers, but this one, so close, died alone and was even discovered because of the ugly corpse. He probably suffered a deeper shock, and he couldn't help pulling the curtains to look at the silent room across from him.

The anxiety of death loomed over his heart at this moment. Sure enough, when he decided to try to change, his life came to an abrupt end. The only time he received a thank you from the relatives in the case was on the way to the appointment, just because he forgot to be left and right as usual. watch cars.

It's ironic that something so quiet wanted to change it, but it ended.

There was only a priest at his funeral, and no one sprinkled a loess on him for a hasty burial. Even the relatives of the last case he had just completed passed by the grave where he was being buried and didn't stop.

The living do not see the dead, but the dead are buried for themselves. The last scene was a little more fantastical, but this one made me cry, and the people he was buried in came out of the tomb to mourn for him.

Like a silent film, 22 years of deceased endorsement, the background music is very good, even if I don't know the name.

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Still Life quotes

  • Kelly Stoke: I was thinking next Friday after the service, maybe we could go somewhere for a cup of tea or chocolate... Just to, you know, just to, just to chat... If you have time, of course. If you...

    John May: Yes... Yes, I would like that very much... Just a cup of something.

  • Morgue Attendant: [on a dodo] Never heard of it