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Narrating under a diseased perspective of a father in his old age, the film comes to be the visualization of this old man's distorted inner world. As a result, the normal life and memory originally believed in turns into suspense films in which he is scared of the whole world and suspects everything he has gone through. Time is a cruel malefactor, bullying the weak and sensitive old man. Every time when he chatters without stop or expresses emotionally is actually his inner heart's yelling and questioning. The vast flat, the ornate furniture and the particularly passionate classical music showed In the scenery shots are not able to drive away the old man's loneliness. He is engulfed by time and his family and love that he used to defend tenaciously all become shattered and indiscernible memories, which alarm him day an d night. He is successful to find back his watch that represents his sense of control of time and memory. But in fact, he fails. And what's more sad is he finally loses himself out of control. So, time, memory and self are all broken. Not only Anthony Hopkins highly overlaps with the character, but also he perfectly performs the one at death's door, makes the film seem like a true record. Every plot and every frame comes to be foil.

It was like a glass of wine that I was not hurry to drink but just watching it slowly filled up. At first, I just felt a little bitter in my throat but then it had a powerful aftereffect which made my rims of eyes red with unstoppable grievances, sadness and tears. Everyone had different memory about the past and as time past by, only the true emotion and feeling were left. At the same time, these emotion and feeling were so individual that they crashed into each other. The heroine was an aggrieved woman and she was also a strong mother. She decided to vanish all those love and hatred deep inside her heart at her husband's funeral without attendance. But her grievances have landed in my mind. Although this story ended in harmonious had some ridiculous plots, it was exactly the blandness and doughtiness that the heroine showed during her life, the contradiction and harmony in this little family, the perfect performance of the leading actress, and all the just-right and full emotion, made this sincere film so addicted.