The 65 -year -old daughter is lost. What can a 85 -year -old mother do for her?

Alzheimer's disease is far more than forgetting

The 65 -year -old daughter was lying in the bathtub. The 85 -year -old mother sat on a short small wooden chair and patiently scrubbed her. The daughter hugged the bubble machine with a bubble machine, and the color bubbles fell and ruptured. After a while, she smiled at her mother.

This is the movie "Mom! A shot in ". The story takes place in an intellectual family composed of the mother and daughter.

Not long ago, her daughter Feng Jizhen (Xi Meijuan) took care of her mother Jiang Yuzhi (Wu Yanyi) in the meticulous care, accompanied her to the hospital to get an injection, check for examination, take care of her three meals a day, and read poetry for her before going to bed. The change occurred due to a sudden disease.

"Mother! 》 Show that after the single 65 -year -old daughter Feng Jizhen diagnosed Alzheimer's illness, the 85 -year -old mother and daughter faced their losses at the end of their lives and cured each other.

"Mother! 》 Film Stills Picture/Interviewee Pictures

A complex character

After the illness, Feng Jizhen first faced the mother and daughter relationship of the tone, and the mother changed from the identity of the caregiver to the caregiver. But the disease made the mother and daughter return to their own positions. Moms became mothers and daughters became daughters.

But their lives were restarted.

Mom needs to re -teach her daughter to write her name, watch her medicine, and worry about her loss. The condition of Alzheimer's disease is far from forgetting.

She carefully observed her daughter's various illnesses after illness, and stood at the perspective of her daughter to accommodate her out of control and forgotten. His daughter gradually appeared changes in hallucinations, incontinence, forgotten mother, out of control, anxiety and anger.

The disease has become a carrier, and the mother and daughter look back at the past, sort out emotions and even face death through this proposal.

There is a detail in the movie. Feng Jizhen answered physics questions to the students in the university campus that had worked for decades.

When Mi Meijuan handled the show, she had a very delicate expression. She performed the embarrassment that she was realized that she was powerless, but also unwilling to rely on others.

What is touched is that Alzheimer's disease makes a person's mental state unstable, and the university professor Feng Jizhen cannot be spared. Occasionally recovery in forgotten, repeatedly pulled and alternate, over time, eventually completely lost self -awareness.

This is not an easy role. Although the film name is "Mom!" "But the daughter is the promoter of the plot and the conflict manufacturing point. Yuan Dengyu, the main writer of "Film World" magazine, told China News Weekly: "The difficulty of interpreting the role of Feng Jizhen is to show her different levels of emotional levels. She is calm and rational in the early stage. It is difficult to act as a patient who is crazy. It is difficult to act as a patient with Alzheimer's disease.

Two years ago, when receiving the director Yang Lina's invitation, Xi Meijuan hesitated whether to play such a difficult role at the age of 67, which means to restart himself again.

When China News Weekly proposed the question "Why is it worried about the play that has been performing for so many years and has a masterpiece", Xun Meijuan replied: "If I play in a way and past experience, It is simply duplication. A role like this is absolutely impossible to complete. This is also the most complicated role I have received. I need to restart myself. "

Feng Jizhen is not just a patient with Alzheimer's disease. Her father's death and absence are her long -term heart knot and trauma. The physiological disease and heart disease superimposed, making her destined to be a complicated person.

The film shows the death of his father in a special era. From the face of Feng Jizhen's remorse, the audience learned that her father had been criticized and did not get the understanding of her daughter. Feng Jizhen regretted her lifetime for this.

Feng Jizhen is thinking quietly on the shore of the lake

Because of his father's relationship, Feng Jizhen has always lived a restraint and even a bitter life. He is a volunteer, bail to frame her girl, and has a more indifferent relationship with her mother. Deep in her heart, this is a long self -trial and self -salvation.

But after being sick, the image of his father was constantly emerging when he was a child.

She woke up at night, looking at the real father in the living room, and then she spoke at her father, and took out a raw egg from the kitchen. At the door of the mother's bedroom.

There are not many movies focusing on the theme of Alzheimer's theme of middle -aged and elderly women. Get along with the world. Then "Mom! 》 Based on intimate relationships as the bond, the inner world of patients with Alzheimer's patients is taken again and again, but in the end, the ending of no solution is pointed.

Disease changes are not only intimate relationships

"Mother! 》 Is a movie that Yang Lina is the screenwriter and directed. It is the third in the "Women's Trilogy". The first two are "Spring Dream" and "Spring Tide", and "Mom! "The movie was originally called" Spring Song ". The three films focus on the pain and happiness of young people, middle -aged, and elderly.

In the interview, Yang Lina talked about the opportunity to make this movie: "I have determined the theme of the elderly, and I focus on a pair of mothers and daughters such as 85 and 65 years old. Ziheimo's disease, regardless of the future, according to our various medical surveys and statistics, it is a very severe test for our country, society and families. At the same time, it has a terrible characteristic, that is, the disappearance of memory. Memory. What does this thing mean? If you don't remember anything, can we count it? "September 21, the 29th world, is the 29th World Alzheimer's Day. According to the data released by the National Health and Health Commission There are 10 million Alzheimer patients with a population 60 and above.

Alzheimer's disease is more than 70 years old. When the condition worsens, patients often disconnect from family or society, and gradually lose their physical function, which eventually leads to death.

Zhang Wei, a doctor at the Cognitive Disease Department of Beijing Tiantan Hospital's Neurology Center, is "Mom!" "The medical consultant, she said:" This disease is related to aging, the brain will change, and anxiety and depression will increase. out of control."

Xi Meijuan is no stranger to Alzheimer's disease. Before making this movie, she read related books at home and abroad to understand the cases of the disease. Among them, what is the most concerned about what changes does it bring to the family in the face of high -demanded nursing work?

After the diagnosis, Feng Jizhen also looked at the relevant books of Alzheimer's illness/interviewee.

She remembers that a friend of her often talked to her about her mother's illness. The mother's memory decreased year by year, and her physical function also changed irreversible changes. Sometimes family members are not considerate to their mother and even quarrels. Even between the closest family members, there will be gaps due to the pressure of the disease.

What's more cruel is that the physical loss of control will cause patients to experience a dignity collapse, thereby losing self. At a screening, Xi Meijuan heard the audience shared a story. Before retirement, the father of the bank president cried during the first urinary incontinence.

There is also such a play in the movie. Director Yang Lina originally wanted to express urinary incontinence in a more obscure way, that is, the urine stains and footprints on the mandate on the spot, and her daughter ran into the bathroom and no longer came out. Xi Meijuan suggested taking another one to show her daughter's response directly after urine incontinence.

As a result, there is a picture presented in the final version of the movie. The mother took a paper towel to wipe her daughter's footprint, and as a result, she saw urine stains mixed with rain. She looked up and saw that her daughter came out of the bathroom, and her pants were wet. Xi Meijuan was delicate and accurate when performing the play. She stood on the corner, lowered her head, wiped her tears with her sleeves, crying "Woohoo", like a child who made a mistake. Mom walked over and hugged her, she cried even more.

"Feng Ji is really a university professor, and he is usually a self -esteem. At this time, her body and spirit are struggling. Until the first urination incontinence, she is completely helpless and helpless. It's like a helpless girl. "Xi Meijuan told China News Weekly.

Although "Mom! 》 Focus on Alzheimer's patient, but the movie also reflects how singles without offspring face the problem of pension. Facing the trend of social aging, how to place the elderly also means how we put ourselves in the future. And love is still the core force of this issue.

Indispensable empathy

Xi Meijuan has a contradictory temperament. Her sense of age is weak, but she has the indifference and elegance of reading thousands of sails.

Director Yang Lina once said in an interview: "Teacher Mei Meijuan is an actor who is not like an actor. Because she is too simple, not glorious, and very beautiful at the same time. They (Xi Meijuan and actor Wu Yanxuan who plays mother Wu Yanxuan) have one. The scroll is the image of a pair of old intellectuals that I want to shape in the film. "

Before making this movie, Mei Meijuan began to pay attention to the group of Alzheimer's disease. But she did not observe and interview patients with Alzheimer's disease. Because she thinks this is a very sensitive topic, she doesn't want to talk to patients with utilitarian purpose. She naturally shows unbearableness and empathy for such people.

The empathy of empathy only appeared in the experience of Xi Meijuan's character.

In 1992, she starred in the movie "Jiang Zhuying", who contributed to Changchun Optical Machinery, the deputy researcher of Changchun Optical Machinery, the wife of Jiang Zhuoying, the wife of Changchin Changqin. Xi Meijuan remembered that the crew invited Lu Changqin, Lu Changqin talked about her husband's experience, but said, she said such a word: "I don't want to say at all, I am to cooperate with your work. "

Xi Meijuan also remembered that at the house of Lu Changqin, there was no photo of Jiang Zhuying. The photos were put in the box because they would be sad when they saw it. These details changed the stereotypes of Xi Meijuan about heroes and their families. She realized that such a repeat was cruel to the parties.

During the rest, she sat next to Lu Changqin and asked: "After the death of the old Jiang, how did you face the life after the death? How did you raise the child in the past ten years?" She remembered Lu Changqin After saying this, "Over the past ten years, all reporters came to me as asking Lao Jiang. No one has never asked me."

This made Xi Meijuan realize that the essence of life is not a conceptual imagination. She has to put the role of Lu Changqin back to the original position of people and experience her true joy and sorrow. There are thousands of ways to approach a character, but it is the most sincere path to approaching the character by thinking. We cannot stop the disease, but we can give patients sufficient attention and care, and understand and pay attention to the disease.

Recently released the "Investigation Report on the Status of Awareness and Demand in Chinese Alzheimer's Diseases" shows that the people of Alzheimer's disease in my country always have more than 90 %, but the active consultation rate is only 10 %.

And "Mom! 》 What I want to do is to be seen by more people. In the topic of Weibo with 18.58 million reads#在 在 在 在 在 在 在 在 在#, most of the discussions related to topics are that people are prone to misunderstanding of the illness. Alzheimer's illness is far more than forgetting. Simple.

In the movie "Mom! "In the end, her daughter and mother walked towards the sea of ​​tide and danced and embraced each other by the sea. Water is the image that appears repeatedly in the movie. The surface of the water is calm, but there is a constant vitality. It can cover it or carry the present.

Everything goes to the end, as if returning to the starting point of life. The gait when her daughter walked towards her mother was like a childhood toddler. The phrase "Mom is a sea, I am a drop of water, my father is a whale that can't swim", the metaphor of the mother and daughter seemed to be a drop of water, The embrace of the mother of the sea, which also contains a hope of rebirth.

A patient with Alzheimer's patients in the family said that this was one of the details that touched him. When Alzheimer's disease degenerates the wisdom and words and deeds of an old man to the level close to a child, is we still going to ask her with the behavioral criterion of the adult world. This lens is precisely from the perspective of the patient to present her action logic, and her mother is cooperating with her, full of feelings and strength.

Author: Yin Wanni ([email protected])

Edit: Hu Yun

Operation editor: Wang Lin

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