On Halloween this year, many people in the West did not have the heart to trick or treat, because the rapid rebound of the overseas epidemic was frightening.
"The epidemic in the United States is severe, and American experts warn that the epidemic may break out in autumn and winter"
"Many European countries face the threat of a rebound"
"France re-imposes lockdown measures from 30 October"
"Peru extends the state of emergency, which has been in place for more than 7 months"
On October 29, more than 560,000 new people were added overseas in a single day, which is the highest peak in the history of the overseas epidemic. The United States, Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, etc. are among the top 10 newly diagnosed countries.
In this case, sugar is like poison, and trick-or-treating is dangerous!
Domestic epidemic prevention has done a lot better, and people's daily lives are not too restricted at present, but they are not safe and worry-free.
On October 30, there were 33 new confirmed cases, of which 27 were imported from abroad and 6 were in Xinjiang.
Although Halloween in China is not as hot as The foreign festivals such as Valentine's Day and Christmas, it has gradually become popular under the impetus of business marketing, and the night before Halloween goes to Happy Valley to join the crowds.
Isn't there really a little bit of a hidden danger? Cautious as I am, I still dare not take this risk.
Or watch a movie, safe and save money. But you may not worry about oh, when you encounter a terminal illness film, you still cry.
However, winter is approaching, students are going to take midterm exams, social animals are going to rush KPIs, it doesn't hurt to cry, it should be decompressed.
This film is Disney+'s new October film Clouds.
The Douban score is as high as 8.1, and the Rotten Tomatoes website popcorn index is 91%.
Based on a true story, this film is a teenage terminal illness film.
Zach, a recent high school graduate in Minnesota, usa, who has been suffering from osteosarcoma (a cancer) for four years, is now walking on crutches, and his lung infection is so serious that doctors declare that he has only 6 months left to live.
He loves music, but future plans like college, albums, tours, and so on seem to have nothing to do with him.
But he was also lucky to have a young female friend Sammy who wrote and sang with him, a double-arrow love object Amy as a spiritual force, a black teacher who supported him in enlightening him and introducing him to his musical fame, and parents and siblings who loved him but knew how to let go moderately, and finally Zach said goodbye to the world with a self-created and self-sung liushi golden song "Clouds": We'll go up in the clouds because the view is a little nicer。
It can be said that the screenwriter is very kind, so that Zach's cancer life has a top configuration.
Surrounded by so much love, how to create dramatic conflict?
It is still the same old routine, digging into the inner swing of the protagonist. Zach is sometimes optimistic, sometimes pessimistic, he is empowered by love, but at the same time he is only a teenager after all, in the face of a predictable death, it is impossible not to panic or escape.
Sammy actually likes Zach, but does not develop into a dog-blood love triangle, Sammy does not hate Amy out of jealousy, but respects and fulfills the choice of friends; Zach pretends to be indifferent and breaks up in order not to drag Amy, but in the end the two are reunited because of strong love; the mother is unwilling to accept the fact that her son is going to die, ignoring her husband is also painful, but she still slowly figures it out, and it is not easy to talk to her son about her last wishes.
In fact, Zach's story has a reality for us: people are dying, no matter how we spend our last days, it will hurt the people we love the most, including family, friends, and lovers.
The film is directed by Justin Berduni, who last year also directed a teenage terminal illness film "Five Feet Apart", which was introduced in theaters and introduced by Hong Kong and Taiwan, winning more than $91 million at the global box office with a budget of $7 million.
It seems that I have a lot of experience with this kind of subject matter, and I am addicted to shooting.
The male protagonist is a small fresh meat in 98 years, tall and handsome. The heroine is a bit like "Mother Dragon" Emilia Clark.
Coincidentally, this still is also very similar to the "Dragon Mother" starring in the love film "Me Before You".
"Love Songs on the Clouds" has many loving passages, such as the whole family accompanying Zach on a trip to France (in fact, to try religious therapy), Sammy playing zach in the hospital room, Zach's mother running all the way to the annunciation when she hears Zach's song on the radio, Zach and Amy talking to each other on the farm, and so on.
The final climactic tear-jerking scene is zach's terminal illness, but family, friends, classmates and neighbors hold a concert for him in advance, so that his birthday party, graduation ceremony, and graduation ball are all gathered together.
At the concert, Zach sang the song "Clouds", but due to his lack of physical support, the people in the audience sang together.
In reality, Clouds was released on December 14, 2012, and Zach died on May 20, 2013.
One of the most touching scenes in the film, I think, is when Zach and his mother fill out a will questionnaire issued by the hospital.
- How do you want to die and where?
- Skydive in Florida.
- If that doesn't work out, do you have a Plan B?
-I wish I could be sober enough so that I could say goodbye. I don't want to be in the hospital, where I'm lonely, maybe on the couch at home, so I can play Xbox.
- Organ donation?
- Well, take it all that can be used.
-Have you thought about your own funeral?
- Bagpipes, I want to have bagpipes on funerals, not the chants of the Bible, it's too exaggerated, I want to hear the gospel of talent, that's in line with my temperament. I don't wear a suit, that's too restrictive, I'll wear a tie and a vest, maybe a pair of funny glasses, it seems that my eyes are very large.
"Talking about death" has always been a lesson that Chinese have lacked in learning. Maybe we don't reject learning, we just don't want to put it on ourselves.
In recent years, there is a popular saying on social networks that "tomorrow and accidents do not know which one comes first", but there are some things that only when you come you know what you will do.
Some time ago, there was a domestic movie "Goodbye! Teenager", which is also based on real people and true events, is also a story about a 14-year-old teenager who suddenly suffers from leukemia.
Even if the word of mouth is good, it only has a box office of 3.5 million.
It seems that the Chinese people can accept the bloody sacrifices in the war shown in the movie, and contribute a huge box office while moving to tears, but the reality of the death story makes people afraid, and the stress response to fear is to avoid and not to see.
"Goodbye! The parent-child relationship in "Teenagers" is familiar to us, the mother adopts an ostrich mentality for her son's terminal illness, forces herself to believe that her son's illness must be cured, and forces her son to do everything that is conducive to curing the disease, "I would rather be sick is myself, don't say hair, my life I can give you", the son's voice is "My mother once said very seriously, if I am not there, she will not live, for this sentence, I really work hard to live."
Similarly, the sick teenagers in both films chose music as a gift, "Goodbye! The protagonist likes Chen Chusheng in "Teenagers", and the protagonist in "Love Songs on the Clouds" likes Jason Mayez, which may be "life kisses me with pain, but I repay it with songs"; the difference is that in China, 18 years old in China, falling in love is regarded as too early, let alone junior high school students, but in the United States, high school students are not broken everywhere is a regret in life.
Oriental-style native family, Western-style adolescence, when you envy me, maybe I am also envious of you, in short, living elsewhere.
Life is short, but whether it's sweet or not depends on you.