Guide to the movie ＂Supporting the Aged＂： This is how they spent their old age.
Special feature of 1905 film network How to face old-age care?
Have you considered this question?
Nurturing, feeding back, nurturing and feeding back again … … The traditional concept of "raising children to guard against old age" is deeply rooted in the eyes of orientals, but Indian films break away from convention and overthrow this concept of providing for the elderly to us.
102-year-old father Dately and 75-year-old son Babu are a pair of father and son who are quite different in character and are in contrast with each other.
Dartley is a happy old urchin. He can kick shuttlecock flexibly, play saxophone casually, make friends everywhere and wander around. Even if he knew that he was going to die soon, he would threaten to live to be 118 years old in front of his son, surpassing China’s longevity and entering the Guinness Book of World Records.
Compared with his optimistic father, Babu is really lifeless. Step-by-step, lifeless lifestyle day after day, the degree of frustration can be described by what Dutley said to Babu: staying by your side is more harmful to your health than smoking.
The reason for Babu’s depression is that he has an unfilial son. Dudley managed to get his grandson who only wanted to get property back to China, and finally succeeded in persuading Babu and his son to completely sever the father-son relationship, which allowed Babu to live a carefree old age.
Here, "raising children to prevent old age" has been completely subverted and broken.
Writer Long Yingtai explains the relationship between parents and children in Watching:
"You stand at this end of the path and watch him gradually disappear at the corner of the path. Moreover, he silently tells you with his back: there is no need to chase."
We can never decide whether our children can be filial all their lives, nor can we control where they will be and where their hearts will go.
Look, Hirayama Zhou Ji’s children are far away in other places, leaving him a sigh after his wife died. Just like most films directed by Yasujirō Ozu, he always tirelessly tells the sad story that his daughter will eventually marry someone else and his old father will eventually be alone.
Therefore, the problem of providing for the aged can only be solved by oneself.
Starting from "Dad is 102 years old", there are actually many movies and filmmakers who also show us their concepts and lifestyles different from "raising children to prevent old age".
A yellow love affair
In order to get Babu back on his feet, Dutley asked Babu to complete different tasks assigned by him, or he would be sent to a nursing home.
The first task is to ask Babu to write a love letter to his wife who is far away in heaven and regain her romantic feelings.
Love can relieve loneliness and rejuvenate.
In the movie Elsa and Fred, Elsa, who was alone, and her new neighbor Fred, who had just lost his wife, gradually approached. Elsa’s enthusiasm and vitality dissolved Fred’s boredom and depression and wrote a romantic and touching evening love song.
Lang Xiong in the movie broke through the age taboo, and talked with Zhang Aijia, "Vivian Dawson", who is several decades younger than him, about an unforgettable love between the old and the young. At the end, when pregnant Vivian Dawson says "love you" to him and gives him a kiss, you will eventually believe this love.
When you are alone and meet the right partner because of fate, "supporting the elderly with partners" is a choice for providing for the elderly in your later years.
A couple in the park, even though they were seriously ill, drove an RV regardless, traveling all the way and taking an adventure in their twilight years. And the old couple in the movie, plowing and sowing together in the fields, alternate seasons, year after year, sharing endless happiness with common interests.
No matter whether your wife is here or not, you can still cling to love and grasp the perception of love when you are old.
The second task that Dudley of "Dad is 102 years old" released to Babu is to stay away from doctors and drugs, and the third task is to cut all the blankets that have accompanied him for decades.
His general intention is: don’t be afraid of getting old, don’t live in a safe zone of self-comfort, let go of your body and mind and find more different life experiences.
Never too old to learn
Finding new things and the pleasure of self is also an important ability to provide for the aged, and it is also a good prescription to prolong life.
This is the case with the film about the life of Japanese painter Kumatani Shouyi in his later years.
This old man, known as an "artistic hermit", spent the rest of his life almost never leaving home, observing flowers, plants, insects and beasts in his garden every day.
He can spend 30 years digging a small pond, or he can spend most of the day lying on the ground watching ants and studying whether they take their left leg or right leg first when crawling.
These observations fall on his paintings every night.
Although this "old otaku" is aloof from ordinary people, his madness about self-preference and his focus on new gadgets may be one of the secrets of his 97-year-old birthday.
Returning to the unforgettable workplace or learning a brand-new skill is another way to spend your old age.
For example, even though Robert De Niro retired in his seventies, his enthusiasm for his work and feelings that he couldn’t give up prompted him to put aside the shackles of his age, find another job, become an intern under Anne Hathaway, and gain a hard-won friendship at the same time.
Four old women in the shop set foot on the road of starting a business for the first time with the help of tailoring skills. They jointly founded a small handmade underwear shop, and they also managed the last part of their lives in the ups and downs of business operations.
Just say go, no regrets.
With the gradual change of the concept of "supporting the aged at home", the migratory bird-like "traveling for the aged" has also become the choice of many elderly people.
The film also provides us with a picture. Blethen and his childhood friends went hiking with their bags on their backs. While traveling through the mountains and forests, the old friends talked about the past and thought about the future. Sometimes they gagged and sometimes muttered, and the significance of travel happened here.
It is often said that "the world is so big, I want to see it". Swedish comedy movies introduce us to a cool old man who ran away from the window on his centenary birthday and took a long trip.
Similarly, the seven British old people in Foreign Hotels organized a group tour to India, and even though they had their own worries and even bad feelings, they completed the journey of cleansing their hearts in repeated hilarity and quarrels.
In Taiwan Province’s documentary "Young Knight", we also saw 17 elderly people with an average age of 81, riding motorcycles to complete the feat of circling the island for 13 days.
Some people wear hearing AIDS, some suffer from high blood pressure and heart disease, and some even suffer from cancer, but they are not afraid of illness and go forward bravely, in order to feel the land and fulfill a dream hidden in their hearts.
Gathered dozens of old artists such as Xu Haishan, Wu Tianming, Tian Hua and Niu Ben. They face up to aging and loneliness, and are not afraid. They escape from the nursing home together, drive a bus, gallop on the vast Yuan Ye highway and sing the song of the sunset.
These movies give us a glimpse of the happiness of traveling and supporting the elderly, and the secluded "health care and old age prevention" model is also full of appeal.
When you have an ample pension, maybe you can learn from michael caine and harvey keitel in school, live in a holiday sanatorium together, soak in hot springs, drink red wine, enjoy the beautiful scenery, put aside all troubles, immerse yourself in poetic philosophy, and show your wit in old age.
Love, study and travel … It is not limited to close lovers and old friends and confidants who accompany you in your later years.
They can be the puppies who are loyal to the elderly in the park; It can be a lovely child who is accompanied by the middle school; It can be a group of unrelated living partners … …
And all the movies mentioned above, no matter what kind of way of providing for the elderly is revealed to us, also convey the common life concept of the old people, that is, a mentality of never accepting the old age and always obeying the self.
Similarly, this mentality can be seen in a large number of old filmmakers.
For example, Deshun Wang, an 82-year-old actor, still insists on fitness, walks the runway fashion show and lives himself with a young mind.
Agnès Varda, a 90-year-old director of French New Wave, still holds a camera every day, from potatoes and beaches to faces and villages … and always records the auspicious feathers of life.
KiKi KiRin, a Japanese actress, was still active in the big and small screens … ..
So, how to face old-age care?
With the help of KiKi KiRin’s advertisement for Seibu Department Store in 2017, it may be a better answer:
“This year, you are one year older. This time, no matter the corresponding age or the best age, these words are boring and will bind you.
You don’t have to listen to others.
I don’t know when things in this world will change. Wear clothes that I haven’t worn, feel happy for myself that I can’t see, and enjoy myself that is nobody.
This 2017 is exactly what you want: take off your age and put on adventure. I am who I am."