I have only watched very few Japanese dramas and movies, "Love in the Sky", "Tokyo Love Story", "Love Letter", "Last Friend"... The number is only a few of the single digits. Mu Yahong, because I had seen the stylist with a story in "Night Shanghai" early, I felt that Zhang Yibai had not finished his story, and the Oscar's golden man made me intuitively believe that his story is here, there is a continuation .
I've always disliked people who write movie reviews that are extremely academic, because watching movies is their own business, and I see morticians as well. I was only able to show a surprised expression along with that Xiao Lin, who had not prepared a way for him, and then sold his cello, which he regarded as a treasure, in loneliness, in exchange for the affirmation of survival in a very mundane and humble way. Then go back home and look for a job.
"The work of helping travel" This is the beginning of Kobayashi's career. The faint female staff member always smiled kindly to him. Xiaolin's indifference came from his compromise on life. He saw that the first "client" was an old woman who had passed away for two weeks without being found. Knowing nothing, he kept vomiting, but at that time, apart from being inexplicably reprimanded by the president, he was just a compromise. Later, when the family left, the same thing was the last journey of sending people off. The difference was that at such a moment, it also condensed the joys and sorrows of a person for almost a lifetime. The dead left quietly, but the living could not comprehend. To be entangled in the branches can not extricate themselves. Kobayashi was always the same, from the formal prudence to the tenderness in his heart, he gradually understood the requirements of the president, and gradually awakened his love for himself with the ritual of burial.
He needs to learn to love himself. When he was very young, he was asked by his father to learn the cello. When he grew up, this naturally became the ideal of his career. However, when reality finally revealed the truth in a very uncreative way, he was really injured, and the wound was opened slowly. And it's hard to heal, just like when he was just sitting at the stairway every evening when he was just working, and he was trying to wipe his body with soap, as if he was going to break with the past, even a second ago. And doubts about himself and uncertainty about the future are like salt sprinkled on wounds, making a man who already has a family and a wife endure to the limit. It was the work of the mortuary that brought him to the bottom, and it was also because of his persistence that the change in his mood gave life to the symbol of this profession and the meaning of regrowth. It was the first time that he made such a fearless choice, even if his wife left inexplicably; it was also the first time that he felt a different life and willingly belonged to a profession and a belief. When the bathhouse mother-in-law died, he gently decorated the old man's final face, easily shaking off his wife's doubts and displeasure. Until the death of the father, the wife said to the rough staff in an irrefutable voice: "My husband is an undertaker." If time has not stopped, it must be some kind of idea that has won its own coordinates, making the guidance process suddenly brighter.
Sasaki is a very hilarious character, I like to see him say "it's embarrassingly delicious" every time he indulges. This old man whose heart is full of stories is so strong on the surface, his intuition must be embarrassing, and when Xiao Lin is chosen, he can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Kobayashi's Christmas performance is the best because I've always been stubbornly insisting that only emotional things are the best, no matter how many flaws. In the same way, no matter how perfect something is without emotion, it is just a man made object, not a works of art. Many of the scenes in this movie are not the most beautiful, but they are the most emotional in my opinion. Even the basket with fried chicken is about to get carried away by the joy of Christmas.
In fact, we all have to learn to love ourselves. Only when we have determined our love for ourselves can we have the strength to love others. At the beginning of the concert, Xiao Lin was so arrogant. No matter how hard he pulled, he just hoped to dilute the clumsy gesture of his doubts. However, Xiao Lin was so gentle when he was in the corpse, and every move made people melt. You can temporarily forget that this is a goodbye between life and death, but just treat it as a trip. Beautiful look. A lot of times people forget how to love themselves, and then rudely resist the love of others for themselves, misunderstanding the opportunities that come from somewhere, until a long time later, when you are young, you can really no longer let it go. When I was feeling sad, I suddenly realized the good intentions of all this. It's just too long, so empty sigh.
So I am very fortunate to have such a film, regardless of other people's comments, just for me, it made me suddenly understand how to love myself and how to find a way to love others.
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