After watching it again, I was moved to tears by the ending, but I calmed down and found that the movie is actually far less gentle than it looks on the surface. Although it is a crime drama, it is even more so that Dongmu borrowed this true story in his later years to reconcile with himself. , Looking closely, I feel more and more cold-blooded and heartless. Liberals spend their whole lives chasing ideals. On the surface, they say they are making money for their family, but in fact they are just their own love and desire for the money, fame, and status brought by their work, at the cost of isolating their emotions, of course. Also includes affection.
At her granddaughter's wedding, Mary asked him:
A very sharp and sad paragraph, the old man didn't say anything in the end, leaving a meaningful expression...
It seems helpless, it seems guilt, and it seems to be saying, I'm sorry that you didn't spend it, but I really can't help it.
For Earl, the allure and desire brought about by the release of the vitality itself was far greater than the sense of security brought about by the stable structure of the family, because this is a person who is not insecure at all, the only thing they lack. is the freed space.
I would wonder why he still got married if that was the case? Freedom and morality, independence and dependence are contradictions that can never be resolved, and the state of a person's life is often dynamic and changing, and there is no absolute right or wrong.
When they are old, the family suddenly becomes important, except for the guilt of the family, but the greater possibility is that after the energy of life is burned, he himself becomes a body of flesh. When all his desires collapsed, he had no strength to bear it any longer, and even his own body was crumbling, the warmth represented by family and family suddenly took on a unique meaning.
But the process was not warm at all, but rather bleak. And this return is not romantic at all, it is more of an animal return, a selfish pursuit of advantages and avoidance of disadvantages.
The real tragedy is that they cannot defy their instincts. Their desires and passions drive them forward, while their morals keep them tossing and turning in the dark.
Earl, who was finally trying his best to reconcile with himself and his family, said, "I can buy anything with money, but I can't buy time."
The state presented by the old man in the film did not refute freedom too much, and he finally took on the price and consequences of freedom. Planting flowers in prison is more like a reflection. He enjoys the freedom of raising flowers all his life, and ultimately bears the consequences of freedom. Punishment seems to be telling the audience that I love flowers and freedom, and I seem to be lucky enough to be able to raise flowers in the end, but it can only be in prison.
Flowers are a symbol of freedom, and the person who spends his life picking flowers is not himself?
May we pursue what we love all our lives and be willing to bear all the consequences of our choices.
Tribute to the flower grower Dongmu
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