Sharing the disease The disease... Devouring from the inside and teasing the hope of salvation. Conrad Jackson in the movie “Evening Eve” shows an unusual struggle of a person with his illness.
Eliot is a young programmer who devotes himself to the work. This can be seen on the paper-filled table, on the general "business" situation in the apartment. An eventful life, an intense, active life was left behind. It's been a brutal disease. Now Eliot spends all day building models of dinosaurs from staniol.
Life slows down: a lot of free time is freed up for which you can decide and think about a lot. For example, how to deal with the disease.
Youth, desires do not allow you to concentrate on the disease completely. The evening before the operation Eliot spends not in thought, not in prayer, not in experience. Thinking about the bad, poisoning your soul really is not worth it. It just makes things worse.
All fears help to dispel the newly met girl Chloe, her friends, parties, the birthday of her friend – events that fill one evening before the operation. An evening that gives hope, as if prolonging life: to wake up after this evening with the belief that life goes on. Real relief comes not after surgery, but when grief is shared between recent acquaintances who have become close friends. Now the hope of salvation is growing, on her side and love and faith.
In the picture, everyday trifles are tinkered with philosophical themes, making it sharper, piercing. The plot is not fleeting, as it happens with many American films, but it makes you turn to yourself, to your assessment of everything that is happening, to your worldview.
Parker Croft perfectly coped with his role: his hero is a sick man who does not lose, however, a sense of composure, an elegant sense of humor, a philosophical view of things. The actor enters the image, so it is almost impossible to distinguish the game from the actions of a young, full of spiritual aspirations of a person in real life.
Emilia Zoryan is an attractive girl who becomes an active participant in the life of a new friend. The actress behaves simply, without mannerism, openly expresses all feelings. Who are experiencing.
Conrad Jackson does not give a clear answer to the question: does the hero survive, does he get rid of his illness? The director lets the audience think, come up with the final. And for some reason, it's made up of light.