The old wife thought, I can take care of myself.I think I should take care of her.The old couple in “Meno” (also translated into “Silent Freedom”), just after they had expected to retire for the rest of their lives, encountered a real problem that ran through their eyes – the wife’s physical condition, which turned sharply and kept falling. The husband is also short of breath and is in a helpless situation.”In the future, it won’t be the same.”They all thought of this problem.
Such an unexpected turning point completely diluted their joy of being grandparents.
It should be said that after Hanek’s “Love”, there are a series of dying care themes in Japanese films. Chinese audiences are not unfamiliar with the theme of old age presented in Wendra Nole’s “Meno”, whether cruel or warm, in terms of psychological presupposition.
The beautiful imagination and psychological expectation of retirement life also take place on the retirement plan of Chinese people. It seems that after decades of work, more money and less money, good or bad, retirement life is about equal to a good life. But some movies will tell you that there is no happy option to retire with one click in life.
In the 21st century, human life expectancy and medical level have been further improved, especially in developed countries. As friends of the same age around us often express their feelings, how can it seem that more and more people have cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. There is, of course, information selection bias. After all, people who have no pain will not emphasize it to you, and you will always remember the difficult bad things, but the situation is roughly the same when they become common modern diseases.
On the other hand, we have to admit the fact that the extra life span of human beings is actually added to the old age. This is also what the protagonist of Meno didn’t expect (such is the character setting). The pleasure of enjoying flowers and grass and watching birds freely is not available anytime and anywhere.
When a person loses the ability to control his body and no longer has freedom of movement, the heroine of Meno will be unwilling to admit that she is old, just as some people are unwilling to face pain directly. The young audience can’t help hesitating, between the fear of death and the rest, which end of her behavior mode is more slippery.
Meno creates a family atmosphere of Chen Yu by means of washing. The wife, who is afraid to go out and is unwilling to seek help from more professional forces to deal with the situation, also drags her husband into inexplicable pain. The film often presents body close-ups, while the actress Dagma Manzel repeatedly presents the state of two bodies in a tangled struggle. One tried desperately to regain autonomy, while the other was cold and helpless.
As the film goes on, the shadow shrouds, and it projects a larger area inside the family. The dishes, cabinets, chairs, wheelchairs, stairs, gardens… all of them are the same. They start in turn and can’t get along with the woman. In the end, the whole family could not survive.
The hero played by Rove Rasgard showed great patience and good temper. Compared with what ordinary people would do, he couldn’t understand his wife, and he couldn’t understand himself. He thought he could cope with it, but he didn’t expect that he could not cope with it soon.
After leaving home, a series of open, all-inclusive, and natural empty lenses were finally released briefly but peacefully.
The film story of the retired old man and the sick old wife will not be too far away from us. Just as under the epidemic, people’s stress resistance and medical information have not been really relieved. In other words, when a person really meets the real problem of “Meno”, he will panic and fear. Perhaps the most difficult thing to put down is self-esteem and the loneliness caused by this rise and fall of self-esteem. This sense of daily construction and higher self-esteem will also make it difficult for you to put yourself down and be willing to be an old man, a patient, and a person who has accepted the happiness but now needs to make a choice.
Aging and death, in the end, are all things that one must face alone. Life and death, the limit of human beings, must be lonely and irresistible.
“Honey, I am looking for our sailboat. I can go as far as I can, but I can’t find it. Because you are not beside me.”
Maybe they shouldn’t be locked together. They should and have loved each other.
