"We're exhausted and pretending to be promising, I have great ideas in the morning, and I'm doing nothing all day."
When he heard this sentence, on the surface, it was the male protagonist's counterattack against the single teacher, but in fact, a further step could reflect his views on his divorced sister and his wife who helped a poor primary school, or self-deprecating.
Retired Aydin and his young wife and Aydin's younger sister who just divorced, the point of contention between the three of them is always "kindness" and "remorse".
At the beginning, the tenants used refrigerators and TVs to repay the rent because they could not pay the rent because of their debts. Naturally, the children of the tenants saw it, and there was a later story. Whether it was the boy who threw rocks and smashed the window glass of the car, the boy's father's brother led the boy on a long journey to the landlord's hero's house, or the heroine Nihal went to the tenant's house to see the boy who fainted with fever due to the long journey in the snow. Although the boy's uncle attitude is good, he is grateful for Nihal's help, and in the boy's father's eyes, the so-called help is pity or contempt for them, six months in prison has made him sensitive and yet Grumpy and cold. The heroine saw the banknotes burning in the stove, and at the same time, perhaps her newly ignited heart full of hope for the future of work and life was also burning. The reality is cruel. Helping others will not necessarily be recognized by others, but will be a head-on blow.
The male protagonist Aiden's concern for the explorers contrasts with his wife and sister. His wife once mentioned fundraising gatherings, but he was always obsessed with writing and neglected his wife. His wife has disapproved of his habit and self for many years. It was the private fund-raising gatherings in the future that sparked years of conflict between the old couple and young wives, and also for Aiden to go to Istanbul in the snow and change his mind to go to a friend's house in the future, and accidentally meet a single male teacher who has an opinion. The two's argument, and later hunting in the snow, changed Aiden himself. He saw the hare that was bleeding and panting after being shot. He also thought of the horse that yearned for freedom but did not want to be restrained. In the end, he released the horse and gave up going to Istanbul, not because he missed his wife, but perhaps because the distant environment made him unfamiliar , He misses the warm hotel and the familiar environment more.
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