Although the film is a comedy, it is not intended to be funny. Chaplin said that life is a comedy from a distance and a tragedy from a close up. The film is interspersed with people's life, old age, sickness and death, and people's fear of the fact of old age in a cheerful atmosphere. These old people were all young, beautiful and dashing. They had a glorious time, and now they can only miss the moment when they could sing high notes and play trumpets in this world. Over time, the audience began to accuse them of not being as good as they used to be, but they forgot that time can take everything, including the audience themselves. Tom Courtenay said in the film: Art works have a kind of endless loneliness, and criticism is the most inaccessible to this connotation. Pauline Collins has repeatedly said: cowards do not have a good old age. So when we see these old artists on the screen dedicating their life to art, we should be inspired, admire them, and have confidence in life and life.
In the process of watching the film, we can hear the cheerful or moving opera excerpts from the beginning to the end. At the end of the film, all the old artists perform on stage. After decades of precipitation, we have not seen When they retreated, they felt that their expressions became more active, and their singing became more infectious. When they maintained their enthusiasm for life and their dreams, actively organized the party, when they swayed the afterglow of their lives on the stage, when Maggie and Courtenay decided to spend the rest of their lives together, only that echoed in my mind. A classic lyric: The most beautiful is the red sunset.
PS: When the photos of these old people comparing past and present appeared at last, I couldn't help but shed tears. Getting old is a very sad thing. . .
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