Let's translate the title into "Savage's family" first. The grown-up siblings live their own busy lives separately, and a mother who has dementia and a father who is still correct (as is the case with other American families) appear. The family relationship is not very good from the start , due to memories of these two siblings, their father, who was very violent when they were young . There seems to be a gap between these two siblings.
In the meantime, his father also developed dementia, and as a result, the brothers and sisters died first of all , their mother, who suffered from dementia. The brothers and sisters are worried about how to take care of their father, who is left alone. Although they are heartbroken, they decide to put their father in a nursing home, and carefully inform their father about this. However, it becomes really difficult to find a suitable place, and many things happen in the process of finding a place to entrust the father.
In the midst of what happens while moving from one nursing home to another, the hatred and affection, anger, resentment, and regret accumulated in the hearts of siblings... In the end, no matter how much you hate it, it is a masterpiece that shows the storyline that leads to the end that the family is the object of love. Even though the people who do not want him to remember who recalls a similar experience when looking back once more, and good works provide an opportunity to reconcile with painful memories of the past, I will. This kind of story... Ms. If it weren't for the great actress Laura Linney , Mr. It would have been very difficult for even Hoffman to draw alone.
In addition to the workmanship, I especially like this movie - it stars Michael Keaton and Oliver Platt as well as my favorite male actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman . As with other actors, especially if this actor didn't like his performance, he voluntarily asked the director to re-shoot the scene. In many other cases, even if the director was satisfied with him, he was an actor who earnestly requested that if he was not satisfied with the film, please do it again. Therefore, in each of the films he appeared in, even if the work itself did not receive good reviews, at least his acting skills through the characters he acted were excellent without exception.
In this film, several props appear with special meanings. In particular, it is interesting because it is a film that deals with lava lamp meaningfully, and it is an interior accessory that many people like in the US (I have one). In the middle of the movie, there is a scene where the daughter puts the lava lamp she had for the father who has to be alone in a remote nursing institution after being judged ineligible for hospitalization at various nursing institutions. This lamp is a symbol of the daughter's small but heartfelt effort to make the hospital room feel like home... The daughter shows the lamp to her father and tells her to turn it on and sleep at night. There is a scene where the father, who was insensitive and blunt to his daughter's sincerity, also stared at the lamp while trying to sleep saying, "Just leave it on" when the employee tried to turn off the light after the daughter left. . A family messed up from the beginning, a daughter who works hard to make her last days not sad You can see the cross-sectional reality of the world through this prop called Lava Lamp.
In the case of Hoffman, he was such a great actor, it is very sad that he is not in this world. Here's one of the film critics' comments on him after his death:
"No modern actor was better at making you feel sympathy for fucking idiots, failures, degenerates, sad sacks and hangdogs dealt a bum hand by life, even as – no, especially when – he played them with all of their worst qualities front and center But Philip Seymour Hoffman had a range that seemed all-encompassing, and he could breathe life into any role he took on: a famous author, a globetrotting party-boy aristocrat, a German counterintelligence agent, a charismatic cult leader, a genius who planned games of death in dystopic futures. He added heft to low-budget art films, and nuance and unpredictability to blockbuster franchises. He was a transformative performer who worked from the inside out, blessed with an emotional transparency that could be overwhelming, invigorating, compelling, devastating." – David Fear of Rolling Stone on Hoffman
Finally, here is the final scene from this movie below. These two siblings, things they've never tried before - as if the knots in their lives that had been tied to something in the past were suddenly unraveled - now they're probably thinking, "Can we be faithful to our own lives?" The images of people trying carefully with a heart to do so are reflected. Also, in their conversation that appears in this scene, as well as the exchanged glances and smiles, these two brothers and sisters realize that they will live close to each other, cherishing and cherishing each other like never before.
It seems that the performance shown by these two actors could not have been digested no matter who did it. It will show the life of a brother and sister who suddenly face the illness and death of their parents without anyone's help, a sad after-treatment that they want to avoid but must deal with, and hope that there will be better days after that. Are there any talents?
It is a human and beautiful story. Plus, no matter what Hoffman's acting is, why does he feel so utterly lonely in the warmth? In the mid-2000s and after that, it is very difficult to see a decent actor, so his departure is very unfortunate.
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