Yesterday we were young, today we are old

Lavonne 2022-04-19 09:02:39

"Guling Street Teenage Murder Case" is a warm color, but it can feel the pressing cold. Anger, love, fists, blood, cruel youth, deep pain. When the dagger in Xiao Si's hand slowly and firmly inserted into Xiao Ming's belly, my heart was filled with despair of helplessness, sadness, beauty and shattering just like Xiao Si. What we believed in when we were young was suddenly without sustenance, and our young hearts were experiencing the unavoidable pain and suffering of breaking out of the cocoon. Watching such a movie, I always have to muster up a lot of courage and can't bear to face those young faces.
"Yi Yi" is really warm. Although there is also the cruelty of youth - Tingting's love, Fatty's anger, Yangyang's first love, but we finally have the opportunity to see the back of ourselves. Eight-year-old Yangyang took pictures of so many people's backs and wanted others to see his back. He was another Jian Nanjun, the voice in his father's heart. At the end, Yangyang said to her deceased mother-in-law, "I'm getting old too", I believe.
The background music stretches from beginning to end, flowing naturally like a small stream, as natural as life itself. Tingting said: If movies and life are no different, then we just need to live our lives, why go to movies?
However, we still want to see our own lives in movies.
Maybe the director is also old enough to let go of those worrying people and things, and be wise and peaceful.



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  • Fernando 2022-01-12 08:01:56

    This is a slow movie, and it is this slowness that can bring the confusion and sadness of all members of an ordinary family to the audience. Yang Yang said that he was old, but the world has been getting old. To borrow Tagore's words: "Children are gathering on the seashore of the boundless world. Storms are drifting in the roadless sky, ships are broken on the trackless sea, death is rampant, and the children are At the game. On the seashore of the boundless world, the children are gathering together."

  • Danielle 2022-03-25 09:01:16

    Shocked by this most simple, ordinary but stormy life! One Family One World【2018.01.21 Review】

Yi Yi: A One and a Two... quotes

  • Yang-Yang: I'm sorry, Grandma. It wasn't that I didn't want to talk to you. I think all the stuff I could tell you... You must already know. Otherwise, you wouldn't always tell me to 'Listen!' They all say you've gone away. But you didn't tell me where you went. I guess it's someplace you think I should know. But, Grandma, I know so little. Do you know what I want to do when I grow up? I want to tell people things they don't know. Show them stuff they haven't seen. It'll be so much fun. Perhaps one day... I'll find out where you've gone. If I do, can I tell everyone, and bring them to visit you? Grandma, I miss you. Especially when I see my newborn cousin who still doesn't have a name. He reminds me that you always said you felt old. I want to tell him that I feel I am old, too.

  • Yang-Yang: Daddy, you can't see what I see and I can't see what you see. So how can I know what you see?

    N.J.: Good question. I never thought of that. That's why we need a camera. Do you want one to play with?

    Yang-Yang: Daddy, can we only know half of the truth?

    N.J.: What? I don't get it

    Yang-Yang: I can only see what's in front, not what's behind. So I can only know half of the truth, right?