People who are about to die are easy to see the limitations and helplessness of life, and easy to go crazy. I have watched many "terminally ill road movies" over the years. The saddest one is "One-way Ticket to Mombasa", and this one is the most uncomfortable because it is about men at an embarrassing age. James suffers from cancer and lives on morphine every day, so the brains of literary and artistic youths are more active-there are often some dreamy and heavy James' perspective shots-allowing him to bluntly expose the lies of his friends' survival. He believes that men should have the urge to do a real adventure, but one day, you find that all your daydreams have become illusions, and there is no longer any possibility of realization. At this point in time, it may be that Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize, crushing all Xiao Wenqing’s fantasies of becoming the No. 1 person in China. It may be a terminal illness, or it may be "Thirty Years Old", as in the song "Thirty Years Old" Sing, "All hopes have become regrets."
These four partners are the four representatives at this embarrassing age. On the night when they were lying on their backs by the bonfire and talking about their hearts, they discussed the afterlife, and at the same time revealed their own values, paving the way for the plight of each person that the plot will reveal: James imagined that after his death, he was still a constant energy tap dancing in the universe—— Embracing poetic dreams, longing for immortality, but inevitable disaster; David said that he needs faith, such as believing in God-not daring to express his inner thoughts, lacking personality, and gaining existential value in the "sense of being needed" of caring for his friends; Meyer Si said that after death is decay, what I think about after my father's death is-nothingness, boredom, sarcasm, loss of dreams for writers, and dare not even face the illness of a friend; Bill believes in Buddhism reincarnation, or value Realize in the children-the dream of a field photographer has gone into vain. The seven-year-old girlfriend who has no love for a long time is pregnant, and life will be wrong. No matter what kind of value is, it is a projection of inner weakness, and James can only face the regretful life of his friends in tears.
Yes, James is a man of great control. He can't see his friends wasting their lives, but this trip also made him understand how David will continue to live, and whether Miles should take on the responsibility of his passion and destroy James’s sister’s family and then married her. He couldn’t see or control whether Bill would leave his girlfriend or not. He was afraid of it, but now he feels comforted. Self is actually not that important. A good death became his only obsession. He chose to swim to the center of Balafonde Bay and drowned himself. The cowardly and vain Miles witnessed his death and also grew up.
"The third star" means the way to Peter Pan's never-before island (a wrong allusion also seems to symbolize the absurdity of "escaping from growth"). In fact, they have to face the fact that they are "adults", and they dare not go out without a mobile phone. This modern communication method symbolizes the social relationship they want to escape but can't give up.
The slowly advancing plot conflicts and dialogues let us slowly glimpse the hearts and friendship of the four men, which moved along with it. Benedict performed a dying man suffering from cancer in a very real way. Whether it is a shaking lens or underwater photography, it is wonderful.
This article was published in the February issue of "Universal Screen" "Little Theater".
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