Just like watching "The Favourite" yesterday and thinking it was a historical drama, it turned out to be an unsubstantiated historical gap understood from Ji's perspective; today I planned to happily drink the face of "Pretty Boy" tea, but it turned out to be a story intertwined with capriciousness. A film adaptation of the true story of despair and hope.
Yesterday's most impressive comment on "The Favourite" was "Everyone kills the one they love". The love of "You're such a child! I don't lie, this is love!" will most likely be rejected. The sensitive child (the queen in the film) misunderstood and then abandoned the final insight and then refused to admit regret. So can I call this film today "everyone kills themselves"? Maybe it's also "parents kill their children"?
After reading some comments, I criticized the editing of the film, and I thought that it would be self-defeating to use flashbacks and multiple timelines to express simple drug rehabilitation stories. In fact, I was also confused at the beginning of watching the movie. But as the film unfolds, I gradually understand that this may be closer to "detoxification", a process that is not a one-line development but a capricious process that makes people feel that they have just taken control and collapsed in an instant. There is even a gradual fear of the sunny narrative of a better life, because there is always a fear that the nightmare of relapse in the next second will recur and the situation will get worse every time. I personally think it's really a pity that the film's description of the subjective world of "beautiful boy" in my father's eyes is too little or unclear, which makes it difficult for me to understand his inner struggle for the first time without consciously standing on the father's point of view, and even agreeing with it. The mother in the mutual aid meeting at the end of the film said that it might be better if the child died, because she was already mourning for her while the child was alive. How sad. How terrible.
(in quotes are some impressive movie lines)
"If you could take all the words in the language, it still wouldn't describe how much I love you. And if you could gather all those words together, it still wouldn't describe what I feel for you. What I feel for you is everything. I love you more than everything."
"Someone asked me, what's your problem? And I said, I'm an alcoholic and an addict. And he said, no, that's how you've been treating your problem. I know now I need to find a way to fill this big black hole in me."
Reminds me of dragon lady: "you're only lost if you allowed yourself to be."
"The 3C's: I didn't cause. I can't control. I can't cure."
"I, um...I lost my Frances this week. She died of an overdose on Sunday. So...I guess I'm in mourning, but II...I realized something else. I've actually been in mourning for years. 'Cause even when she was alive, she...she wasn't there. When you mourn the living, that's a hard way to live. And so, in...in a way, it's-it's. ..it's better, I guess. She was a dear, dear young woman. I always felt...I needed to...to stay strong, that there'd be some future event, and I'd...I 'd need all my strength for it. But there are no events after this one. I hope she's not in pain now."
Btw, I am envious of these mutual aid associations. Although they may not help the problem itself, at least there is a chance to feel "group companionship" when participating, no matter whether the atmosphere of this companionship is despair or hope.
Couldn't drink tea happily. But tea makes the pain of watching the movie less direct, just like the "Edge Diary" with Xiao Lizi.
The sun is so good today.
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