Beginning with understanding from the end

Paige 2022-04-21 09:02:46

I knew the online reviews were good, but I didn't pay attention

to the name. Actually, I didn't quite understand the true meaning of "entering the coffin". I

finally watched it on the recommendation of a friend. I

didn't watch the movie and cried for a long time



. There are not many survivors anymore.

We still watch TV news every day and night. The

neighbor auntie came over and said that I was shocked when I saw the rescue scene of the Japanese rescue team-every time they dug up a body, everyone They all stop and bow, say goodbye to

the deceased, and say the dignity of the deceased. I

don’t know if it’s the relationship between the national culture



I thought it was just that kind of expensive funeral service. To put it bluntly, it really makes money for the dead, especially those who put makeup on the dead are really meaningless.

I am used to the news reports of luxurious funerals. In the Opportunity

film, Kobayashi saw his colleague wiping the coffin on the first day at work. She was very curious. The colleague told her that the three coffins were made of different materials, but they burned the same.

Then she said this sentence: The last thing you buy in a person's life is determined by others.

It's ironic

, so I never thought that such a profession can be a bit sacred -

after the president dressed the deceased woman named Shang Mei, everyone gently carried the deceased into the coffin and watched his wife lying there as peacefully as before her death. The family members who also scolded the mortuary finally burst into tears and chased after him to apologize to the mortuary. At

that moment, I believe that everyone will feel that whatever they do, no matter how trivial or even unbearable, will always mean something to some people.



That year when my grandmother died It was my dad and I who changed her clothes , so

that's part of the burial

It's just that we don't have Xiaolin's professionalism and divine ability to restore the deceased to the glorious appearance of life.

At that time, I was too unfamiliar with death. I

never thought that when a person died, it was so different from normal.

Every time you move it, you will feel it. That weight is so unbelievably light, that thinness

is not enough to describe it as skinny.

I feel that it is just a bunch of bones loosely surrounded by a layer of wrinkled skin

and her sunken eye sockets. Her cheekbones are relatively high but At that time, it was a little too high, and the eyes were like two deep holes

. She was very old in memory,

but she was never so old and so thin

, so our memories of her appearance should be traced back to before her death.

Until now, every time I see an old man of about the same age on the street, I always think of her when she was still healthy when she was alive, but it seems that the dead are long gone

in

a blink of an eye . The way most ordinary people treat others. We are treated roughly, and then we are treated roughly, and it seems to be a cycle, and most people are numb and unaware." How many people will enter the funeral like a professional The teacher treats a corpse gently - touches, wipes, changes clothes... How about treating every living person around you so gently? The thought of "a daughter-in-law becomes a mother-in-law" invades most people's hearts. Ask yourself if you have no patience for someone at a certain moment. Or, is this already your norm? The person who suffered the tyranny could be your subordinate, your new colleague, the clerk who served you at the restaurant... Then, one day, these people treat more others with the same attitude. Thus, we gradually "live in a world where everyone treats each other rough". I remember in Meet Tuesday, Professor Murray said, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live













Sometimes we need to understand the beginning from the end
... In short, "The Undertaker" is not

just



a film about dealing with death and dealing with the deceased,

there are some clips

that will make you cry...

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Departures quotes

  • Daigo Kobayashi: There are many kinds of coffins.

    Yuriko Kamimura: 50000, 100000, 300000 yen.

    Daigo Kobayashi: They differ by that much?

    Yuriko Kamimura: The left one is plywood, the next one has metal fittings and carvings on both sides. And the most expensive one is solid cypress wood.

    Daigo Kobayashi: Oh, the difference is in material and decoration.

    Yuriko Kamimura: Yes, they all burn the same way.

    Daigo Kobayashi: Same ashes.

    Yuriko Kamimura: The last shopping of your life is done by others.

    Daigo Kobayashi: Kind of ironic.

  • Shokichi Hirata: Salmon?

    Daigo Kobayashi: [Watching the river] Ah, yes. They're right by the rocks... over there.

    Shokichi Hirata: [to the salmons swimming against the stream] Oh! Go for it!

    Daigo Kobayashi: It's kind of sad... to climb only to die. Why work so hard if you're going to die.

    Shokichi Hirata: I'm sure they want to go back... to their birthplace.