The Father - Interlaced Time and Space

So far, we don't know what the life of dementia patients is like, and no one will know, so there is room for imagination; and most of the previous similar movies are thinking about care from the perspective and experience of carer; The film is a fictionalized experience of a somewhat persuasive dementia patient.

The movie tells the story of Father who thought he could be self-care at the beginning and finally forgot who he was. As an audience, I watched Father lose clear understanding and memory of his daughter's marital status, his daughter's partner, his daughter's appearance, his youngest daughter's accident, etc. That is, Father has no idea what "we" think reality is. Therefore, even though he and his daughter were born in the same time and space, they did not know each other's current state and experience, and could not form a dialogue.

This film gave me the greatest feeling is the distance and interlacing of time and space.

No matter where Father stayed (his own home, his daughter's home, or nursing home), he would subconsciously search for his watch.

While the watch records objective and single-line coherent time, what the Father actually experiences is the overlapping and confusing time of multiple segments. This conflict raises the question of "what is time".

Time is not an independent existence as we always think it is, the most typical thing is that I always feel that time passes too slowly when I do vigorous exercise. And what the film asks is: Does time take for granted to go in one direction? If Father's perception of time is "distorted," what does it mean for Father to keep looking for a watch?

The story covers three main residences, namely Father's house, daughter's house and nursing home; but no matter which space, the interior decoration and design are unusually similar (maybe my own observation is not detailed enough) - the two sides of the corridor The paintings and the windows on one side of the room make it impossible for me to know exactly where Father is now. At first, Father insisted on living in his own home, but he mistook his daughter's home as his own, and was finally sent to a nursing home. His own subjective experience could no longer tell the difference between these spaces; only the three of them (Father, the eldest daughter, and the youngest daughter) were still standing beside his bed.

No matter in the dimension of time or space, what I feel is the huge contrast between Father "wanting to master" and actually "unable to master".

Another small clip: the dialogue between Father and Carer in the movie - Father humorously but sternly accusing Carer of not using the tone of his children to talk to him - is a bit similar to what I thought a while ago. When patients lose their superficial cognitive abilities, caregivers regard them as "old children". Is it appropriate to tolerate and treat ignorant children?

Finally, Father used leaves as a metaphor for his life. There is no leaves. The director even details the last shot from the father leaning on the shoulders of the care person and crying helplessly to the lush leaves outside the window, and even the curtains with leaf patterns. In addition to the leaves, I think there are several clips in the movie that are metaphors for the state of the Father: 1. The water droplets from the faucet change from frequent to sparse and 2. The light changes from bright to dark. And whether it is leaves, water, or light, they are all products of nature.