Live again in the name of the eighth day

Maude 2022-01-19 08:01:51

When I first saw "The Eighth Day", I thought it was a very interesting film. The image style of a typical French movie is brilliant and witty, with a bit of French romance and humor. Let's not talk about the director's natural ability to control the language of the camera, just talk about the name of this film, and it is very good to say.
The simple three-character "eighth day" began with the "seven days" of Genesis in the Bible quoted in the beginning of the movie, and the eighth day became a suspense. What exactly is the eighth day? What did God create on the eighth day?

On the eighth day, why is there an eighth day? God created the entire world in seven days. Everything is complete. Why is there an eighth day? I think it is precisely because everything that seems to be complete is not perfect. First of all, as the protagonists, the protagonists of this film are George and Charlie. I think they must be the two of them. They cannot be separated. This is the meaning of the eighth day. Without any one, it is not complete. Therefore, for Charlie, on the eighth day, God created George, created George, and injected fresh life force into his boring and desperate life, so that he learned to feel life and feel the various things God created in the first seven days. Kind of beautiful things. For George, Charlie was undoubtedly created for him by God on the eighth day. He created Charlie and gave the lonely George a companion, a true "friends", a sensible one who would take him back The road to home, the old friend who brought him comfort. Without any one, the other party will not be happy.

Like at the beginning of the film, Charlie's life is unhappy. He leads a formulaic life every day. He wakes up at 7:30 in the morning and smirks his white teeth in the mirror. Even the breakfast every day seems to be the same. He repeats the same "success creed" and "success secret" every day at work. But my family life was messed up by myself. In the darkness, he looked at the empty closet, raised his toy gun and pointed it at his head, life was not a trace of vitality, desperate and lonely.
Similarly, George's life is not perfect. Although the beginning of the article took a long time and a special way to introduce the unique life of this Mongolian patient, which makes people feel fresh and bright, but don't think that such a life George is happy, from his dreams from time to time , "Seeing" our dead mother and receiving comfort and warmth from her, we can understand how lonely George was in his heart. His mother is his imagination, and the words of encouragement may have been said by his mother before his death, or he may have thought of himself. But through the mouth of the mother in the dream, I convey it to myself, warm myself and encourage myself. On Sunday, no one came to see George. George didn’t like the nursing home. The lonely George watched others being picked up by his family. He packed up and stood in the seemingly bright sunshine waiting for someone to pick him up. He waited for a long time. But no. He also desires to have friends and to be loved.

Life without the other party has shortcomings. God sees it, so God said that there should be an eighth day. On the eighth day, I will create each other for them, and then let them live again in the name of the eighth day.
George has Charlie, so in the night, he has an embrace he can rely on, he has a car that can take him back to Sakura Road, he has someone to clean up the mess for him, and he has someone to take him to see the sea. Hai’s friend, he can happily say to "Mom", I have a friend, and his name is Charlie. He is no longer alone.

And with the feelings and changes that George's Charlie got even greater, he knew another way of living.
In the film, the scene where Charlie and George lie together under a tree and quietly feel for a minute is the most unforgettable. In this minute, both of them changed and their lives changed. A rational, rule-abiding life is injected with perceptual naturalization elements, and life will be fresh and lively. Isn't this the advice of "God" to every one of us trapped in the boring life of the city?

The name of the film is "The Eighth Day." The whole film shows us how two people met and knew each other and how they changed each other’s lives. This process is not exactly what God gave us as the "Eighth Day." "What?

The eighth day is not a day. It is either a minute, a year, or a decade. It starts when you start to change, start to live again, and start to feel the real happiness from your heart. It starts when you feel satisfied, that you no longer have any requirements for life, and that the world is perfect. Finish.

God gave us the eighth day, so starting from this day, we should live a good life, the world is very good. really good.

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The Eighth Day quotes

  • [lying on the grass in the sun]

    Harry: We should get going.

    Georges: Just one more minute.

    Harry: Okay.

    [they lie down for a minute more]

    Harry: [looks at his watch] Okay, it's over.

    Georges: A nice minute, for us.

  • [last lines]

    Harry: On the eighth day, God created Georges. And he saw that it was good.