As part of his morning routine, Harold runs along the road with an apple in his mouth. This much parodied surrealist work shows a business man with an apple hiding his face.
By the end of the film, this has changed. Most of us tend to live like Harold, in denial of our mortality. We prefer not to think about it, but the truth is you could die at any moment. Life is just something that happens to you. He wakes up to how empty his life is and starts to reconnect with the things he finds meaningful.
Instead of living passively, he starts to participate and go after what he wants. Awareness of death opens his heart to others and encourages him to come alive. He gets in touch with his inner integrity and starts to live his life.
Ana Pascal has integrity, which is why she withheld part of her taxes. She knows who she is and what she believes in. She dropped out of law school when she realised she enjoyed baking more than studying. She wanted to make the world a better place with her cookies and was willing to take a risk. All the way through the film, his watch keeps trying to wake him up to the meaninglessness of his life.
It appears to be sentient and enjoys the feel of the wind against its face as Harold runs for the bus. The watch seems more alive than Harold and represents his hopes and dreams, the things he longs for. So in the end, Harold is saved by his wristwatch — his dreams. Every detail in your life counts, no matter how small. You have no time to waste. Every choice, every action, every word, could be your last — so make it count.
Images: film stills ; Son of Man. I too finally woke up. Every day is a passionate love affair with life, for me. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Thank you Jessica. I love your writing. Impactful, beautiful, and deep! Like Liked by 1 person. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.
You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Blog About My Reading List. Some major themes seemed to be: Seizing life: Crick realizes his life is literally not worth a stack of pancakes and decides to change that. When we first see Kay, she appears god-like, yet she immediately acts sick.
Kay actually appears worse for having resolved how to kill Crick. Redemption: Crick chooses his death willingly. This prompts Kay to say that someone who chooses to give his life for others is someone whom we want to be alive. Her description of Crick reminded me of Jesus. Jesus, of course, died for our eternal redemption.
Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Amusing Ourselves to Death ». In the final, exhilarating reel, everything comes together to borrow the title of Forster's first feature and Harold and Kay find themselves in unexplored territory, in which each must weigh the value of a single human existence, against what might be just an immortal work of art.
What makes the movie works on a number of levels is that, in the midst of Harold's unusual predicament at one point, his house is demolished while he's inside there's is a hilarious and poignant comedic inquiry into how as human we try to shape our reality. The movie touches on a universal fantasy, the notion that we have a narrator in our lives, inner voices in our heads that tell us what to do and how to be.
What Harlod discovers in the midst of these incredible events is how to escape all that and really begin to enjoy his existence. There's something poetic in the understanding of one's place in the universe and the meaning of one's life, made all the more dramatic, when such understanding occurs only days before that life ends. All of the characters, including Harold's wristwatch, end up doing little but significant things to help save one another, underlying the theme that the people and things we take most for granted are often the ones that make life worth living and actually keep us alive.
A devotee of riddles and puzzles, Zach Helm has lined the script with subtle cues and twists. The street names, business names, and the characters' last names—Crick, Pascal, Eiffel, Escher, Baneker, Kronecker, Cayly—are all mathematicians who have focused on the innate order of things. There is even a playful salute to mathematician David Hilbert and the 23 questions he put forth at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
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