It's unclear if it's a real retired teacher, at least Dora said it twice in the movie, but the authenticity is hard to confirm. Because this is not a good character. But that's not how bad it is. Just a few steps away from being kind. People shuttled through the complicated station. People with hope and longing lined up waiting to deliver their sincerity to her, and confided their secret thoughts to people in the distance. What a sacred and worthwhile work. But how? It was dusk and it was getting dark. She quietly packed her bags, crossed the corridor that had been occupied by the noise, and boarded the train home, but she just happily called her friend Irene to start the old game that the two of them knew nothing about. ——Open and read the letters written during the day, after talking and laughing, tear them up. If you are lucky, you will just be left in the hands of someone who will never get there in a drawer. What a wife wrote to her husband, asking him to come back to see her son euphemistically, or a letter of thanks to someone who had deceived her, in her eyes, they were all useless struggles and self-deception.
Because when she was young, she also treated her father who gave up her mother with ruthlessness and indifference, so she thought she understood the truth of the world and had the right to tear up the insignificant hope of others that could not be called hope.
Dora lives alone, unmarried, without any family, save for a close friend with the unmarried young, flamboyant Irene. Irene is allowed to exist in her small world, as for other people and other things, it is difficult to say.
Until the wife who foolishly loved and hated her husband came to her stall for the second time and asked her to write a second letter expressing her heart and wishing for a harmonious family, she lived a dull and hopeless life as always. , was quietly reversed.
Because the wife, whose son had just finished get off work begging her to finish writing the letter, had just left the station in front of her stall when she was in a car accident. The sound of the crash was so loud that people rushed up, and the movement was so loud that she couldn't ignore it. And her first reaction was that the lady's son, Joshua, who looked like eight or nine years old - she knew the name of the child through what the woman dictated to her - where was it.
Just like watching a play, she was a little excited, but only a little, she went home indifferently. For the next few days, she would deliberately or unintentionally glance at the boy who lost his mother in the corner of the station, either sitting with his legs tucked or sleeping. Finally, she stepped forward and asked the child if he wanted a sandwich or not. Go home with her.
Everything seemed to be fine, Joshua followed her home, and with Irene, the three chatted happily. Until Joshua inadvertently found the last letter from Mom Todora to Dad with a photo of herself from the top of the half-opened drawer full of letters. As expected, this indifferent woman did not send her mother's letter! Dora hurried to get the letter back, and made a firm promise to send it the next day.
The next day, she took the child on a train and mysteriously wanted to take Joshua to a fun place. As a result, she took Joshua to a so-called adoption center introduced by her station acquaintance, a place that promised to send the child to a wealthy family for adoption. And she took a large commission and walked away beautifully.
As soon as Irene got home, she gleefully pointed to the new TV for Irene to watch. Only after Irene cross-examined again and again did she tell the truth. Whether it really believed that the place would give the children to wealthy families or for commissions is unknown. In short, she sold the child. After Elaine revealed how terrifying the place was, she fell silent. Lying in bed at night, it seems that many kinds of sounds are ringing in my ears, ringing and ringing, I don't know if it is the real noise or the disturbing torment of the soul. Finally, the next day, she went back to the place, taking the risk of bringing Joshua out again, and causing a lot of trouble for herself at the same time.
Joshua always disliked her when she was a liar. After being rescued, the two quarreled, and finally set foot on the train to find the father that mother was waiting for.
Go to Daddy, nothing else but to go to Daddy.
Countless twists and turns. But in any case, although the two of you are not in harmony with each other, their understanding and care are always more and more, and it is not enough to rely on each other.
The truck driver he met when he was penniless seemed to be the late light in Dora's life. With the accumulation of many details, Dora's heart gradually melted, and she expressed her feelings nervously in the restaurant. However, he calmed down from the bathroom, and even borrowed lipstick from a stranger and wiped it out, only to see the empty seats and the truck that had just started galloping out. Only Joshua's "You look good with lipstick" can comfort her. The simple and kind-hearted driver who believed in Christ did not dislike Dora at first, but Dora was not a purely kind person. She even lied to herself when she stole food at the grocery store, and even encouraged herself to drink alcohol even though she knew she believed in Christ. And Joshua is not a pure good boy, he is willful and disobedient. As a good person in the pure sense, he couldn't accept Dora and Joshua who were not kind enough, so he had to choose to escape.
Yes, Dora and Joshua, who are not kind enough, are not pleasing enough in the eyes of the audience. We all want to be saints, but in fact we are just mortals. Dora and Joshua are also ordinary mortals, two microcosms of the millions of us. Who can say that we ourselves are not so abhorrent and abhorrent. Human nature is like this, contradictions coexist. Great people are not perfect, but imperfect, even ugly, but still have their own perseverance and oasis. The same goes for Dora and Joshua, whose oasis is to find Jesus, Joshua's father who shares the saint's name.
After a lot of hard work, I came to the address on the letter, but no one was found. The two, who were still penniless, wandered the streets. Finally, under the inspiration of Joshua, Dora started to write letters on behalf of others, and only made a little money.
It is worth mentioning that the letters asked by the people who appeared in front of Dora at this time were full of joy and longing. Compared with the sad and pessimistic letters that people asked to write at the beginning of the film, it was reflected. Yes, it was actually Dora's brighter mood and closer spirituality with Joshua.
Joshua bought Dora a bright dress, and the two took pictures of the icon together. After the search was fruitless, the two decided to live together.
Turn again. In the midst of fate, the two met Joshua's brother again. And this time, Dora just said lightly that she was an old friend of Jesus and stopped by. However, after learning more about the situation of the Jesus family, and seeing how happy Joshua was with her two brothers, she chose to put on the purple dress Joshua bought for her in the middle of the night when they were asleep. Wipe off the leftover lipstick that the girl gave her that day, look at Joshua's sleeping face again, force a smile, and leave.
At the end of the film, Joshua, who woke up in the middle of the night and found that Dora had left, was running wildly on the street, while Dora was sitting in the car, writing a letter to Joshua with tears in her eyes. In the end, the two of them stared at the group photo of the two at the same time and smiled peacefully.
In the story, the two have been on the road, going here and there by car, just to find their father. Dora slowly found the warmth and beauty of the world from an old woman with an indifferent and cold heart. She sent all the letters written on behalf of her in a foreign land this time, and finally admitted that she missed her deceased father who had passed away for a long time. It doesn't matter where the last train you boarded will take her, because the heart has been redeemed. In this story, she did not become a saint because of this, because she made many mistakes in the past and will still make many mistakes in the future. But that doesn't prevent her from getting sunlight. Because the car had already taken her there.
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