First of all, I have some questions I would like you to answer:
- Do you like to listen to music?
- What kind of music?
- Did you use to hear something that your parents disapproved?
- If yes, what was your/their reaction related to it?
As in "Into the Wild", to understand better what happens in this movie, you have to put yourself in Gabriel's shoes. I mean, Gabriel was a typical teenager form the 60's. He wanted to play his ideas for people in U.S. who used to have a different idea of respect, love and war. He was being a rebel, which is not bad for me, but for his dad it was terrible.
After running away from home (after an argument with his dad, who is very ignorant), he starts doing drugs and living as he wanted to. About twenty years later he is sick from tumors in his brain and, as a consequence, he partially loses his memories. I say partially, because he starts remembering things when he listens to songs he used to enjoy.
You may think that music brought their parents back to him, but not only music. Actually, the disease was a crucial point for them to recover, and his dad to change his way of thinking (or maybe trying). Music helped him to remember important moments in his life.
I really enjoyed this movie and the story. I could see myself there, when I was a rebel teenager and when I got sick. Hard situations can change everything and everybody.
I also enjoyed this film a lot. First because it deals with family and second because music does shakes our inner feelings.
ReplyDeleteThe movie is a little bit sad because human beings in general tend to regret things when death is coming or like Thais said when we are facing difficult times. However, in the end what stands still is always love.
Answering your questions above. I usually listen to all kind of music from country to rock.
I agree with you Thais... especially when you said "Hard situations can change everything and everybody." For me this is a fact.
ReplyDeleteGabriel’s disease made his father and him to finally understand each other and to know each other. Back in Gabriel’s adolescence, his father did not allow this connection. So, what hardly would happen to another family, “cancer” improved relations in this family, wife and husband as well.
As Michelle said, the difficulties like death and disease tend to create this desperation of trying to mend things, to repair errors. I think that it's sad too, how only extreme situations have the effect of changing people, make them realize how opportunities and time are finite. Because if Gabriel didn't have the disease he would not see his father or they would not become closer as they did in the movie.
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