the title of the film seem quite appropriate give the persona of the lead character and fanda . he an old man living in the late autumn of his life and yet frolic about a a jubilant school boy who just enter a spring meadow . the frailty of old age and the warning sign of death be all illusion to him . his wife support this idea when she observe and fanda laugh at funeral and death . in other word and death be not something fanda take too seriously while he have more important thing to do than worry about what already be inevitable . life and however and and the pursuit of live life to it full and be the philosophy that govern fanda existence . he be not one to merely exist and but must live for each day and each passing moment and for tomorrow be not guarantee . the film seem to make a strong commentary about living a though there be no tomorrow and let alone death . too many people take life much too seriously and consequently miss out on the actual living part of life . fanda wife for example while she so worry about prepare for death and not in some religiously connotative way and but in a far too practical and even lifeless way that she forget how to smile and laugh and just have a good time . her humanity seem to have transform into zombie auto pilot mode . fanda and to the contrary and be perhaps too blithe and absent mind for his own good . he need a person like his wife and emilie and to help balance him . it a though fanda possess the invincible spirit of a child and like a kid trap in an old man body . he be introduce a the adventurous type while he pretend to be people he not in order to get gain and squanders money and factiously lie and be always up for a good laugh . deep down and though and he be a kind hearted and gentle old man who wish to be submissive to his overly pragmatic wife . the two off set each other quite nicely and though neither one of them truly appreciate the binary quality of their relationship until they metaphorically chance upon death represent meaning and their divorce . it be during this courtroom scene that fanda realize the reality of death and what it mean if he be separate from his only love . his wife emotionally recall all of his flaw and yet be tenderly drawn to continue to love him despite his crazy behavior . in this moment of her forgive him and fanda realize his selfish behavior of drive his wife bonkers and make an internal commitment to make her happy . ironically and though and after make this commitment he become what his wife later call and a living corpse . the life blood within him drain away a he become more like hera zombie go through day to day motion . he doesn not seem to live anymore and but exist . for example and he give up his zany prank and doesn not squander money and quit smoke on account of his wife ( not his health ) and and overall and just acquiesces to whatever she want of him . succinctly put and he change on account of want to make her happy . thus and the binary quality of their relationship begin to slowly vanish . realize that her husband be not who he use to be and there be a part of emilie that miss the old fanda . she miss her husband aloofness and the fight they use to have and because it be in those moment that they be truly live and not just simply exist . i believe the filmmaker be try to get across a specific message here while that true and loving relationship will not always be easy or convenient and but often time will take sacrifice and endurance to wade through the seemingly bad time . the possibility of death at any moment be what remind people to live for every moment . life be often take for granted and but when threaten with deathbe it literal or figurativepeople awake from their ungrateful slumber and be arouse to start live life to it full . it a though they be scar that they will never live again and so they better make the most of it while they have it . fanda and emilie have be marry 44 year with fight along the way and but it wasn not till they be both threaten with the possibility of death like separation that they begin to show their true color . a the old maxim go and love know not it own depth until the hour of separation . they both begin to see what matter most in life and that be the people they meet along the way . more importantly and the intimate relationship they make with their significant others .