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Laila 2022-03-21 09:02:42

A friend recommended it as a film about midlife crisis.

It turned out to be another story of a broken family. Two brothers and sisters who grew up in a BF, when they reached middle age, sent their stubborn and tyrannical father, who used to be cruel to them, but now he is old and frail, to a nursing center until his death. Family love is sometimes so fragile, sometimes so warm and moving.

Sometimes we need to use images to remind ourselves that time is merciless. It takes away our bright eyes and white teeth, and paints the traces of the years between our eyebrows and eyes.
As Ecclesiastes Chapter 12 says: "...the keepers of the house tremble, and the mighty bow down, the grinders are few and cease, and those who look out from the windows are dark; When the birds chirped, people rose up, and the women who sang became weak... The silver chain was broken, the golden pot was broken, the bottle was broken by the spring, the water wheel was broken at the well...", but "the dust returns to the ground, and the spirit returns to the God of Spirits,” the preacher concluded: “Vanity of vanity, all is vanity.”

The Bible Psalm 90 also says, "The years of our life are seventy years old, and if we are strong we may be eighty years old; but the glory of them is but toil and sorrow, and in an instant we fly away. ".
The flesh of all people decays, but we are living beings with spirits. Only by fearing the Lord can we find the true meaning and direction of life, and it is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge.

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Extended Reading
  • Ona 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    Life can only move forward.

  • Einar 2022-03-19 09:01:06

    When the son driving the car and the daughter sitting in the back seat yelled at each other, the father sitting aside quietly turned off the hearing aid, looked out the car window in despair, saw a cemetery, and then closed his eyes. So sad.

The Savages quotes

  • Jon Savage: Dad's not the one that has a problem with the Valley View. There's nothing wrong with Dad's situation. Dad's situation is fine. He's never gonna adjust to it if we keep yanking him outta there. And, actually, this upward mobility fixation of yours, it's counterproductive and, frankly, pretty selfish. Because it's not about Dad, it's about you and your guilt. That's what these places prey upon.

    Wendy Savage: I happen to think it's nicer here.

    Jon Savage: Of course you do, because you are the consumer they want to target. You are the guilty demographic. The landscaping, the neighborhoods of care; they're not for the residents, they're for the relatives. People like you and me who don't want to admit to what's really going on here.

    Wendy Savage: Which is what, Jon?

    Jon Savage: People are dying, Wendy! Right inside that beautiful building right now, it's a fucking horror show! And all this wellness propaganda and the landscaping, it's just there to obscure the miserable fact that people die! And death is gaseous and gruesome and it's filled with shit and piss and rotten stink!

  • Jon Savage: [about his girlfriend] She's moving back to Poland.

    Wendy Savage: What, you and Kasia broke up?

    Jon Savage: No,her visa expired.

    Wendy Savage: So that's it? Her visa expires, and it's over.

    Jon Savage: It's either that or we get married and no one's ready for that.