Often, we watch movies about our lives for the simple purpose of finding an answer to our own problems. Perhaps the story in the film does not intersect with our own lives too much, yet we still hope that it will give us a sense of direction.
This sense of direction, in a sense, can help more people gain a comfort that is not really effective, but is effective in the sense that they think it is. In fact, it is just a comfort.
Not all movies about life give us comfort, however, and there are many that do not fully answer the question, or even want to answer it.
Like the film I present to you today, there are no answers and a lot of questions, but unfortunately, that is the nature of life.
After I’m Gone explores how traumatized families recover, or rather, how they come out of it. A father who has experienced the loss of his wife lives with his daughter, who is under the age of 18 and feels depressed because she has lost her mother and her father doesn’t care about her very much.
As a result, there is a silent confrontation between her and her father. As a father, however, he had always felt that he had given a lot and received very little. His daughter’s failure to understand him made him feel like a failure.
One day, after his daughter’s suicide came to the attention of the police, the father thought of taking his daughter home to ease the tension. He did so, but could the daughter really understand her father on this trip home? This is the central question the film wants to explore.
However, the answers to these questions may be disappointing to some people. It may also make others feel drowsy. But that’s the nature of life. In reality, we probably don’t meet the big stories, and everyone we see and everything we encounter is so uneventful that when we look at what we have experienced, we will fall asleep. That’s life.
The fact that some people find this film drowsy is due in large part to the situation it creates and the way it resolves that situation. It is tempting to think that some movie will make a substantial difference in our lives, even if it is just to give us a direction.
The truth is, however, that such a change will not always work. Giving a revelatory meaning through movies is serendipitous. However, many films help people get into the habit of doing so by having a happy ending to the story. Therefore, it is natural for some people to think that everything looks boring when they do not see such a happy ending.
According to the logical sequence of the feature film, the father would have had a deep conversation with his daughter after her suicide attempt, and the conversation would have resulted in a reconciliation between the daughter and the father.
When the daughter’s self-confidence is destroyed in public, a normal movie would have created a more prominent conflict and contradiction, but in this film, the expected conflict does not appear, and even after the first signs of such a conflict, it is completely extinguished.
The father and the daughter do not reconcile, they just get used to the lifestyle of not reconciling. This is in fact a kind of “reconciliation. However, it is still far from the reconciliation we are really looking for, so this film will not interest many people.
However, when you have lost interest in life forever, you will come back to this film and realize that this is the real life, this is the essence of life. There are no magnificent years, just a lot of hair on the ground and a life that has to go on.
We don’t live because we can resolve any problem in our lives satisfactorily, we just find a compromise state or state of mind.
Many of the movies that we are used to are always telling us that we need to resist, and that only by resisting can we have a different life and a more glorious life, but the truth is that when people in reality live the way they do in movies and TV shows, they find it very difficult to get their ideals off the ground.
This is because the movies and TV shows naturally ignore this difficulty, but that’s not to say it doesn’t exist. When you really want to live your life, life will start to go to hell. However, this mode is the essence of life, and often this is when you realize that you don’t have strong armor to brave the journey. And so deeper disappointments are born.
This is the message of the film, and those who want to find the answers may be disappointed, or they may not. It all comes down to your subjective approach to life. Do you want to see an ideal situation where you can ignore some of the pain you have to go through in reality, or do you want to see life as it is, so that you can have more courage to face it? It’s a matter of choice.
Everyone wants a happy ending, but happy endings exist only in our fantasies. It’s cruel to break the illusion, but that’s the nature of life. If we can’t solve the problem, we will still live.
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