A movie. I like to talk about movies. But I like to live the movie, even more, to feel it every inch of my body, to feel my soul teleporting to other lives.
Cinema is a great invention, and films with a soul are always a source of strength. Movies allow you to be a fantasist and an actor without looking back at your own conscience.
In my collection of films about family and motherhood replenishment. The film "Ghostly Beauty" suddenly burst into my life, turned upside down all the emotions, exposed all the feelings and ripped my reality out of the usual flow of "everything is good because it is good".
The film begins with a bright, charged energy of speech, which speaks at the corporate party of the New York advertising agency, it is head Howard Inlet.
Three years later in the life of the hero, there is a misfortune - he loses his daughter and, feeling that he is no longer able to be with her mother, leaves his wife. The death of his little daughter has caused Howard a serious mental injury, he is no longer capable of creative work. Instead of working, Howard builds complex dominoes all day long and then destroys them. Because of Howard's complete detachment from the company's activities, the advertising agency begins to lose customers who are used to working only with him. Howard's partner, Whit Yardsham, tells the firm's employees that he has received a favorable offer to sell the company. Whit tries to discuss the situation with Howard, but he doesn't make contact.
Whit hires a private investigator, Sally Pryce, who once revealed his betrayal, resulting in Whit's wife getting a divorce. Whit and two employees, Simon and Claire, hope that the detective will find something in Howard's behavior that proves his incapacity, and this will remove him from formal management and successfully sell the company. While observing, Price does not find anything unusual in Howard's behavior but notices Howard throwing three letters into his mailbox and, in violation of the law, seizing those letters. As it turned out, Howard wrote letters not to real people, but to some general concepts: Love, Time and Death.
I was sad, scared, hurt, sorry. The helplessness and pain seemed to capture my consciousness right in the movie theater. But love never left me for a second.
When you're a grown-up and sick, you may even be dying right now, your feelings are dulled. The thirst to turn off pitiful looks, avoid the tears of loved ones and leave behind as much good as possible.
But when your child is sick... agony drives you crazy.
Accepting your child's death is an inhuman effort over your whole nature. I don't even want to imagine what it's like.
After living in this film, any parent who survived the tragedy automatically joins the ranks of superheroes, heroes of time, great people.
I cried. I cried a lot, sharp, indecently loudly. Frankly speaking, from the first sound of the piano to the last look of three whales and the main character, I cried.
Everything is interconnected: love, time, death. These three things unite absolutely all people on earth. We want love, we want to have more time. And we fear death.
Before this film, I have never betrayed the meaning of death. Honestly.
Love is the reason for everything in my life for a long time. Love is in everything. It makes sense. It is life.
Time - when the first year of our baby passed like one day, I began to feel the value of this irreplaceable resource. I realized that the only thing you can't change, fool and agree with is time. Its transience concerns me so much.
And death? I always thought it was inevitable but strange. I did not see its purpose, the secret meaning. I didn't understand its essence.
But yesterday, while watching the movie, my eyes opened wide.
Death is the main motivator, the stimulant of everything. The desire to have time before, leave after, and be here and now, living your moment - that's all there is to it, death.
About the magnificent scattering of actors and no less triumphant game will be obscene: Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Pena, Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley. Each actor has lived through the heat of the plot, each forced to connect to himself and the audience. Will Smith and Helen Mirren, as well as the culminating dialogue of Kira Knightley - deserve the words "Bravo!
The musical accompaniment of the film is also deep, sensual and lively. Many of the songs have been written on my playlist for years to come.
Yes, I am delighted with the film "Ghostly Beauty" and recommend it to everyone a thousand times.
Sometimes it is very important to hear the same questions, to feel the cocktail of love and pain, to realize and reconsider the concept of your whole life.