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Louis Malle’s film The Fading Light, which received
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Watch out, spoilers! ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------- Louis Malle’s film The Fading Light, which received the highest ratings of both critics and audiences, unfortunately caused conflicting feelings in me. Perhaps for the reason that I do not like people like the main character in my life, so I did not feel sympathy for him, although I understand that there are such people. And I understand that the situation in which they voluntarily found themselves, can lead to what she led the main character. Alain Leroy (Maurice Ronet), who has been treated for four months from alcoholism in the Versailles clinic, is considered recovered, the doctor even believes that he should leave the clinic, but Alain himself is afraid to leave it, because he is sure that after leaving the clinic, he will start everything again - drinking and drinking. He doesn’t want to grow old, he doesn’t want to be the mediocrity he eventually thinks he is, he hasn’t found anything to do with his life, he’s obsessed with suicidal thoughts, he’s in melancholy. He is that fading light. Somewhere in New York lives his wife, whose pictures are hung all the walls in his room, who pays for his treatment, because he has no money of his own, but the connection with which he has almost lost. One day he leaves the clinic, finds old friends, but only to say goodbye to them, and gets really drunk. Considering himself incapable of loving or feeling, he eventually settles scores with life, but at the same time in his suicide note he blames not only himself but also others for this, since in his life he wanted nothing but to captivate them and be loved by them, but, as it turned out, they found themselves much more prosaic occupations, called simply life.
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