On the screen, two elderly women with English accents. One of them, wearing a costume that did not resemble his age, had a warm picture, so he replayed it. Look at the sad face, numb and lamenting Janet, begging for sleeping pills. Doctors say: Besides regular sleep, what can make you happier. She said: A different life. The doctor replied, change is scary. This is the beginning of Another Year. The bright picture just now was not the beginning, it was just a happy day in a certain spring season.
Mary appeared in the spring, just like the villain Janet, and the listeners were the same as Gerri. This time, it was not a diagnosis, but a chat with ordinary friends in ordinary life. Listening to Mary talk about the need to take care of the flowers and plants, when to buy a car, the most important thing is to find someone who has the same mind, hurriedly showing affection to the handsome guy next to him, and resisting loneliness all the time. Mary also said that being single is good, which of course meant freedom. This kind of free life can't stand the loneliness. An individual's financial resources, material resources and time are all costs that cannot be discounted. With so much idle time, the Gerri/Tom couple can be magically varied, planting flowers and vegetables, picking up gardens, cooking, reading and communicating. We can carry the pain and risks of memories together, and share the joys and sorrows of the years to come.
Mary's life should also be colorful. She takes it for granted that having a car may be more valuable than having a pet, which can help her travel alone and save time and effort. The expectation of life, being single, is more like a prelude to a spring dream, and it is necessary to usher in a hot and noisy summer. Mary, who has not lived a full life, is always looking for a little balance. Fortunately, she still has a beautiful face, independent work, shortage and one-off feelings have always been a pain in her heart. At the end of the scale, the best one next to him, Joe, Gerri's only son, is mature, sensible, and single. And wishful thinking, can not become a prescription for healing, it is a deadly poison. The age and generation gap can be ignored. Friendship and love have become incompatible spears and shields. It really ended in a farce.
This is Mike Lee's model. The characters do not have a single progression, nor do they rely on cumbersome story lines to guide them. The four seasons are the propositions, as if the meridians follow the meridians, and then the characters point acupoints to exert force, which is natural and smooth. So the heartbreak is not limited to Mary, who is heartbroken. Who said that a man can't cry when he has tears. Ken appeared, wearing a T-shirt with less thingking and more drink. He was huge, rambunctious, and was single and lonely all the year round. Let him turn the last bit of masculinity into a The whole body is fat and muddy. The joy in his memories could not take away the gloom of reality. He wept in front of Tom, a powerless struggle after the sadness. Lonely Ken, different from Mary's bold pursuit of a new life, he has lost the wings to fly back into life, they have been unable to meet one step earlier, one step later, and so filthy, tears wet his clothes, except for the mutual pity of the same disease. , Ken's bold pursuit of Mary is destined to be short-lived.
Gerri/Tom's old-age romance is a comedy. Unfortunately, a good show always needs to summon sadness before the audience can tolerate it. This is the weakness of human nature. It always needs some unhappiness, and the separation of the heart is born, so that we can deceive ourselves and others, and make a reconciliation with the self who lives in the void. The drama is like life. In the cruel winter, Tom's brother Ronnie, his wife passed away, his son's dialogue, and the cold room, all revealed that life is impermanent. Carols and prayers in the church, through the power of religion, the answer to all impermanence becomes a chanting of mercy. Immediately after the variation, it seems like a light tap, dust returns to dust, earth returns to earth, life has a thousand turns and a thousand reincarnations, which is an indisputable fact. Janet and Ronnie, head and tail, the complete family is on the verge of breaking down, and only Tom/Gerri is left to implement the perfect family model. Ordinary world, aria variations are staged at any time, living on the edge of life, how can everything be satisfactory.
Ronnie came to the lively Tom's house to spend the winter, and Mary could only use alcohol to relieve the bitterness of the deep winter. After all, absurd mortals only hope to return to the world of human voices and find a panacea of happiness. Mixed sorrow and joy, joy and sorrow. The last supper, while the Swallows are full of ear, while suffering from widowhood. In the trance, everyone was silent, leaving Ronnie, who was nothing but a smile, and Mary, who was not smiling. The audience is stunned, the screen is stunned, like souls stabbed by the noise, silent feelings, they escaped the endless hope and obtained a moment of relief.
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