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(Here)(B+) The narrative technique is very fresh and interesting, I have never seen it before. The whole movie is presented from a fixed camera position (the camera does not move). From this perspective, we only see the living room of a house and the scenery outside shown by the window of the living room, telling the stories of multiple families living in this house.

From the beginning, multiple windows are opened on the screen, like our computer monitors, and each window takes the audience into a different era. Most of the time, a picture is still at a point in time, and then a window opens, and then it enters another time point. This way of switching is really fresh, and it has been used from beginning to end. The audience will constantly shuttle between different time and space. This many times of going back and forth may make people feel a little repetitive. But because this living room and the scenery outside have changed with the times, the picture is still very pleasing to the eye. The characteristics of the living room in each picture actually show the taste of the hostess of the house, which has its own merits in different eras. Every living room has welcomed new life and sent off old people, with joy and sadness, witnessing the stories of different families from generation to generation.

The family of Tom Hanks' character Richard is the main core storyline of the film, starting with his father, and three generations living together. Interestingly, I initially thought that Paul Bettany was playing Tom Hanks' son, but unexpectedly, Hanks was playing Paul Bettany's son, and there were multiple images of different ages, from 18 to almost 80 years old. The special effects of the film's de-aging technology are well processed, as if seeing Hanks in his youth again. Robin Wright, who plays Richard's wife, also used the de-aging technology and started playing from the age of 18. These two reunited on the screen 30 years after "Forrest Gump".

The lives of this couple are also very resonant. When the wife was 18 years old, she had great ideals and aspired to be a lawyer, but she didn't expect to get pregnant at the age of 18. She gave up her ideals and became a housewife. At the age of 50, she still lived in the same house. Her husband's promise to her was never fulfilled, and her desire to travel and have a job was always stranded. In the end, she finally couldn't stand it anymore and left. This made her find herself and cherish the past. Fortunately, her daughter is a representative of the new era and fulfilled her dream of becoming a lawyer. The mother played by Robin Wright represents many women in the old times (even now), that is, early marriage and pregnancy have delayed their future and have been imprisoned by marriage. The husband played by Hanks is actually a good person. He has fulfilled his responsibilities as a father and husband, but he is unwilling to leave home and sticks to the rules, as if he is a person who refuses to change once he has determined a place. He actually gave up his ideals because he had children too early, and could only do jobs he didn't like to support his family. So it can be said that this couple is a good example, allowing people to see the price of life caused by early marriage and early childbearing, which is very realistic.

(This is actually what I have always been most afraid of seeing my son's future. Because my husband and I are the type of people who marry and have children late, we have no regrets. When we had children, we could say that we had no ideals that had not been realized. But the couple in the film were the opposite. They both gave up their dreams for their children at the age of 18. From then on, one was a worker and the other was a housewife. They only remembered their ideals when they were 50 years old. This is the biggest nightmare in my opinion. So I have been instilling in my son since he was a child that he must not get married and have children early. This is why I have been telling everyone here earnestly: "Don't get married early" and "Don't have children before you buy a house." Because when you are still a person between 18 and 28 years old, your life ideals have not been realized, and you lack understanding of yourself. If you are tied down by children and family at this time, you will waste your best time, and you will have many regrets in middle age. So in order to prevent yourself from wasting your life on supporting your family like the couple in the film, please avoid having children too early.)

In fact, at the end of the film, we saw the exterior of this house. It is really a big mansion, and it is estimated to be worth more than 3 million US dollars today. But in the old days of the film, when it was bought by the father of the male protagonist Richard (played by Paul Bettany), it was only 3,400 US dollars! Inflation is really terrible!

I guess some people will think at the end, if you can live in such a nice house, what is there to worry about or be dissatisfied with? However, the film shows through the lives of many housewives that no matter how beautiful the house is, it is a "cage" for them, and they all have the urge to escape. Only one housewife looks very happy because she has no children and her husband is very rich... She didn't live here all her life. So in fact, the selected stories are quite typical. Many women spend their whole lives just to live in a big house, but the price they pay is very high. They either have to give birth to many children, be filial to their parents-in-law, or give up their careers. In the end, the mansion becomes a cage.

On the surface, the film is about a house, but it is actually about marriage and the women trapped in it. I personally think it is quite touching, and the soundtrack is also very nice. It is especially suitable for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It will be released on November 1st.

Every time I watch a Tom Hanks movie, I can't help but sigh that his voice is so beautiful. I can basically listen to him talk like this all the time... I will never get tired of listening to him for the rest of my life :)

Here reminds me of a question: If the entire history of mankind is compressed into the breath of a room, what is left? The film has almost no moving camera from beginning to end, but it is more shocking than most grand narratives. Because it does not tell a story, it tells time. Time that is older and calmer than each of us. In this movie, people are just short-lived bubbles in the flow of time. Whether it is love, hate, family, illness, wedding, or war, they all return to silence in the end. Human beings are like a group of ghosts that always repeat themselves, leaving repeated footsteps in space. Different faces say similar words and have similar dreams. But even if they are copied, we still think we are unique. The director did not choose whose story to focus on, because on the scale of time, no one is worth remembering. The cruelest thing is that the camera is always calm, and it does not stop for a second for anyone's life or death. A child was born? The camera did not move. Someone died here? The camera still did not move. The only thing that changed was the light, the wall of the room, and the new illusion that the times cast on this land. As I watched, I felt that human civilization is actually like a carefully constructed bubble theater. We try to leave our names, build houses, and establish relationships, thinking that this will defeat meaninglessness. But the movie quietly tells us: meaning never belongs to us, it belongs to time. Some people say that "Here" is poetic and gentle, but I don't think so. It is cold and it is almost unwilling to comfort you. But in this thorough calmness, I feel a kind of peace beyond human scale - when you know that you are nothing, you are no longer afraid of losing anything. Interestingly, this movie uses AI to restore the young appearance of the actors. Technology has become a tool for humans to fight aging and forgetting. But even so, we can only stay briefly in the "face of returning to the past". Time continues, no matter what means we use. In the end, the movie leaves an empty room. I think that's everything it wants to express: we will leave eventually, and the room will still exist. But it won't remember us.

Environment_Emu_30•5 months ago【This movie was a bit of a letdown! I was intrigued by the concept, but there were so many characters and so little depth that I felt for no one. The dialogue from several characters was weird and the acting was poor. I had hoped that the story would capture all that had happened in this living room—but when everyone who lived in the house seemed to hate it and want to move out, it somewhat ruined the magic of creating memories in a beloved house. The line at the end where Margaret says she loves the house seems like a small thing to say, since she seems to have spent the entire movie resenting it.】 2 Marusia. 5 months ago【Yeah. It's completely nonsense that Margaret says she loves the house. I agree with your other comments.】 StayP..•5 months ago•Edited【I know I'm late in answering this, but that's exactly the point. She does resent the house and the fact that she's lived there her whole life. She resents the life she doesn't have, and the life Hanks didn't give her. She leaves him and the house to pursue it. I don’t think it was supposed to be that sweet feeling of “oh, it seems I did love this place after all.” It was supposed to show that once everything was put aside, there was still something to love in her life, and highlight the tragedy of not feeling that way in her life. It’s a cautionary tale about cherishing the things that matter. Wright allowed herself to resent things she wouldn’t remember or care about. She kept dreaming about the house her husband designed, longing for “that would be a beautiful house (life)” even though it was ultimately just a dream, and she missed the chance to love the house (life) she eventually had. At the end, when her memory is almost completely gone, she suddenly wakes up and remembers her family there, the little bits of joy and triumph. She loved her daughter and raised her in that house. She experienced crucial moments in her life in that room. The tragedy is that she spent her entire life resenting the past and longing for the future, and missed everything. Only at the end of her life did she have the moment when her memory was completely gone, free of all the baggage of unfulfilled expectations and broken dreams, to appreciate the love she shared in that house. The significance of this stark contrast to me was how much damage she had done to herself by never appreciating the life she had, by never appreciating everything to be happy and grateful for. I've seen a movie about the brevity of life, and its central argument is that life is more about the little moments spent sitting around in the living room with the people you love than it is about striving to achieve what you think you should have achieved or deserved. Sometimes you get what you want, and sometimes you don't. But if you're nostalgic or resentful of the past, and worried or yearning about the future, you'll never appreciate the present and live in the present. This happy couple was not happy because they had achieved their dreams, but because they truly lived in the love they had for each other. In an era when women were restricted to being housewives, this 20-something wife found a way to enjoy family life and found herself attending that meeting to sell chairs as a partner. They could have resented the shift in the market from RelaxiBoy to LazyBoy, but they chose to enjoy the success they had. They were happy and in love while the chairs were still in tatters and success followed. Robin Wright hated living with her in-laws, felt they didn’t have enough space, couldn’t achieve her career, and didn’t get to see Paris. It all destroyed her marriage and left her living in contempt and longing for the future. She missed out on all the beautiful little miracles in life, like that blue ribbon. She didn’t realize until it was too late that whatever regrets she had in life, the things that really mattered and stayed with her had already happened. She loved that house because she loved her family and they were there together. It breaks my heart that it took her until she was dying to realize that she had a life worth loving and enjoying. I’m glad that she seems to be carrying that love with her now, just like she carried everything else, but it’s sad that she never really lived in that peace and love for all those years. 】 ————————————————————— White Pine Burns • 5 months ago 【My mother died of dementia, and her final demeanor was exactly like Margaret's. We didn't leave the theater until the end credits—it took me that long to calm down. I live in an old house. There's nothing special about it. It was built in the 1920s on a dairy farm outside of town. The 1840s farmhouse still stands at the end of my street. My house was obviously not built by experienced craftsmen. It's made of scrap lumber and has crude plaster. It originally had a hand pump in the back yard for water. But it still stands as solid as a rock. My city has the Randall Directory, and I was able to piece together who had lived here: A sewing machine salesman A furniture factory worker A baker A carpenter (vacant from 1934 to 1936) An auto factory worker A salesman for a metal fabrication company who later became a sales manager) A YWCA restaurant worker A retired couple I have real estate photo cards in my library showing homes sold in 1959 (with a new Buick Invicta parked in the driveway), 1963, and 1968 (when there were large trees near the house). I found some broken plates, glassware, and a bottle of locally made Celery Coke circa 1930 in the backyard. I found a blue glass perfume bottle on the air conditioner return. I found a 1937 copy of True Romance in the basement. I found a small spiral notebook above the garage door left by the 1970 homeowner, documenting his relationship with his son and their fishing trips. If you live in a place like mine, you wonder about the people who came here before you and the traces they left behind. This film drew me into the story and asked me what I would leave behind.

In 2020, I read the adult picture book "Here" produced by Hou Romantic. The hand-painted collage form of the same scene in different time and space gives people a magical experience of traveling through time and space. You see the fleeting and changing world scenes on a piece of land, from ancient times to modern times, from wilderness ruins to the wind and rain of a house. The past and present lives in a corner and a scene, the joys and sorrows of a frame and a piece, are roughly depicted and delicately engraved in the different brushstrokes of the author Richard McGuire.

I never thought that such an abstract and magical expression could be made into a movie. During the 2023 Xiamen Golden Rooster Film Festival, I didn't have the opportunity to watch the special show after the screening by director Robert Zemeckis, but I am very much looking forward to the movie "Heartfelt Peace" adapted from the picture book. I don't know how this collage of space-time sketches will be presented, but I believe it will not disappoint me.

The film carries the fate of three generations of a family. You can foresee the future and the present in the collage. You know the stories that happened on this land, and you see the people coming and going in this house. We just sit there and watch quietly, the delicate changes of men and women under love, family and the environment of the times. It makes people feel mixed emotions and makes me cry.

Starting from here and returning here, the changes here over thousands of years are restored in the form of flashbacks to create a wonderful picture book. People come and go, love is happy and separated, a family takes root and multiplies here, leaves and comes back. This is the origin of everything, and it is also the starting point and end point of landing and departure. Here you can see the changes of mountains and rivers and the warmth and coldness of human feelings. In this unique new media-like form of expression, I can see through the beginning and end of my past and present lives at a glance. The struggle of men and the perseverance of women, the desire to leave and the desire to come back, are all emotions carried by "here". Every era has a reason to leave and come back. Some people come for peace of mind, and some people leave for their inner heart. They come to "here" and say goodbye to "here".

This is really touching. I have imagined countless times what the situation would be like ten years ago, twenty years ago, or even earlier than where I am now. "Here is the Peaceful Place" gave me a concrete imagination, which is also a wonderful link between birth and death in the world. The earth keeps turning, and life comes and goes in a cycle. The rooted and scattered life is like grass, which grows vigorously at first and then withers and dies. We can't recall the past life or predict the future, and we can only grasp the present.

The film "Home" is a rare work that explores the concept of "home" from three dimensions: "physical space", "emotional significance" and "life bearing". Director Robert Zemeckis continues the heavy vicissitudes of history and the ruthless turn of time in "Forrest Gump". In the film, Richard's family is the main line, and the fixed geographical location and physical space are the main scenes. The curtain presentation is very "stage play"-like, so that the home of physical space, the home of emotional significance, and the home that carries life can achieve a trinity. The fixation of physical space (geographical coordinates) allows time to naturally extend from the extinction of dinosaurs to the present, which is the most ingenious or the most avant-garde part of the film. During the entire viewing process, a transcendent feeling of both physical fixation and gurgling flow was formed, which is rare and novel in my entire viewing career. When the men and women in animal skins overlap with modern families in both the picture and the geography, the film adds a sense of "evolution", but the preset fixation keeps pulling me back to find the unchanging in the flow of time, the eternal in the process of "evolution", which is - home, - love, and - life. Al and Rose, Richard and Margaret, these two generations of families carry the main narrative function of the film. Their stories are well offset by the grandeur of the long river of time due to the fitting and delicate situations, allowing us to put ourselves into it. When we watch Al and Rose buy a house, decorate it, add furniture one by one, to the birth of Richard, the arrival of his younger brothers and sisters, the physical space changes from empty to crowded, noisy but full of fireworks. Although crises have been trying to pour into this family from all directions, Al and Rose, as parents, can always do their best to block everything outside the door. When it comes to Richard and Margaret, the dilemmas of survival and dreams they face seem to be greater than those of his parents, and the emotions that hold the entire family together seem to have changed a little, especially after Richard and Margaret decide to separate. The eternal narrative of home and home seems to have cracks, but when the elderly Richard supports Margaret back to their original home, Margaret, whose memories have faded, revives everything about life, love, and family in Richard's narration. In this specific physical space, she says, "I like it here." This is the sound of life flowing through the throat to the tip of the tongue, this is a rune engraved on the soul, everything that happened here, those memories of home and love blend into the air and spread, what is eternal will eventually be eternal, what is endless will surely never end. The camera moves from the empty room to outside the house. There are many similar houses surrounding Richard and Margaret's house. The stories that happened in this house in the vast sea of ​​time have also happened in other houses and to the people who live in them. Those loves and lives have become nodes, connected together to form the most dazzling and reassuring totem in human history - home.