Seeing Raymond, who had just announced his intention to marry, saying this to himself, Zhu Jiaqian's mind went blank, and it took a long time to squeeze out a sentence "I should be going". She hurriedly escaped from the teahouse, she only felt dizzy and nauseous.
Zhu Jiaqian is contradictory. She is the one who seems to want to move out the most among the three sisters. The relationship with her father has reached a point that she cannot tolerate. But on the night she learned that she was going to be transferred to Amsterdam, she ran to Raymond's house without warning, carrying a basket of vegetables, and cooked a sumptuous table of kung fu dishes. That table of dishes reminded her of the warmth of the old home, and she gushed about her father when she was a child, and the pure happiness in the big kitchen. Raymond on the side listened casually, picked up an onion ring and put it on his finger, trying to flirt with her.
All along, Zhu Jiaqian has been deliberately not paying attention to Raymond's absent-mindedness. She just needs to talk, she needs a kitchen where she can cook, and what does Ramon think of her? Can't bear to think about it. After she was deceived in buying a house, Raymond joked with her and said, "If you want to find a place to stay," and then changed the words: "I can help you find a house." When the chaos went to find Raymond, because there was another woman in the room, Raymond closed the door and left her outside after dealing with her. She pretended not to mind these things, still pretending to smile and saying, "You have your life too", until Lei Meng said that shamelessly, Zhu Jiaqian woke up like a dream, looking at the man sitting opposite her who had been being tortured by her What a disgusting man to talk to.
From Wen Bo's mouth, we learned that Zhu Jiaqian, who kept talking about moving out of the house, actually wanted to be a chef at the beginning. Cook a table full of food and feed a table of people, just like her father did. Where does the satisfaction of being a cook come from? Is it the sense of accomplishment when you see the finished product after carefully preparing the ingredients? Or the warmth of seeing everyone around the table eating? Maybe there are, but maybe, maybe it's just pure nostalgia. After all, the connection to the kitchen is all about happy childhood memories: "My father at that time was unbelievably friendly and playful" and "The ring made of dough was covered with syrup and diamonds made of star anise". The past in the kitchen of the big restaurant seems to be far and near vague, but as long as a table full of dishes is cooked, all those memories will come back.
When Wen Bo died, we did not see Zhu Jiaqian's tears, but what we could see was that after Wen Bo was hospitalized, she was the only one of the three sisters who hurried over in the rain and visited every day. After Wimber passed away without warning, she was the only one who accompanied her father to lay Wimber's ashes. The nurse asked Wimber who she was, and she responded and said it was her father's colleague. When she mentioned this to Li Kai, she said, "A member of the family passed away." Maybe she didn't realize it herself, but the memories of learning to cook with Wenbo in her childhood were enough to make her consider Wenbo her family. .
Life moves on its own trajectory, no matter what your desires are. Zhu Jiaqian did not become a chef, but she made her career in the airline company. For her who wanted to escape from that home, the long-distance transfer to Amsterdam should have been her dream opportunity, but she hesitated - such a long distance, as if everything could be left behind. The beauty of freedom in the world is built on the peace of mind of having a home to return to. Because of peace of mind, you can walk with confidence. Buying an apartment that is not far from home but belongs to oneself is freedom, and being transferred to a foreign country while doing a job that you don’t like is drifting.
Li Kai said: "Sometimes I wonder why I am doing this meaningless work, but thinking about it again, I am probably tired." He was talking about himself and Zhu Jiaqian. Zhu Jiaqian, who has been working hard, wanted to find a place to rest—perhaps not the case, perhaps, she just wanted to make sure that she had a place to rest. The savings that had been saved from the beginning of work were gone. Wen Bo, who had just been discharged from the hospital, left as soon as he said it. In the face of these impermanent changes in the world, it seemed that the home that was once regarded as a burden was the safest support in his heart.
Why did she go to Raymond's house to cook on the night she learned that she might be transferred? Maybe Zhu Jiaqian didn't realize that she projected her desire for home onto Raymond. Until Raymond formed her own family, and with her own shamelessness, cut off her self-deception. Without Raymond? What about Li Kai? The man who could always read her mind always said everything she wanted to say before she could say it. It's just that Li Kai also has a family of his own. Although he is far away in the United States, and his wife is "not divorced just because he is busy", it is still a home with a son waiting for him to return. Li Kai said frankly to her that although he will miss her in the future, he is very happy that the two of them did not cross the line, because at least in this way, they can still be friends. Different from the "friendship" in Raymond's mouth, this is a true friend who cannot cross the line. It is natural to be happy to know that the other party likes you, but the distance that is destined to be kept makes Zhu Jiaqian sad. To her, Raymond symbolizes the tenderness from the past, while to him, Li Kai represents a new fate and expectation. But in the end, such a distinction is meaningless, and it is nothing more than a future that cannot have results.
Then go back to the home where you have always had a place of your own. Accompanying your elderly father is also a kind of home. After all, the elder sister and the younger sister also got married one after another. Yeah, at least there's that home, with a big kitchen and a warm room full of memories of my parents. It's just that Zhu Jiaqian forgot one thing. Like everyone else under that roof, she never really got to know her family. When Xiaomei said that she had something to announce, she just thought it was a failed class, but who thought she was going to marry her son. The eldest sister seems to be trapped in the past, but she doesn't think that it's just a lie she made up, who is used to avoiding love. She and the eldest sister would bicker over who knew their parents better, and she also thought that she knew the situation at home better than anyone else who bumped into her father for an examination at the hospital—because she understood, she wanted to protect it. But he didn't want to. At the reunion dinner, his father told everyone that he wanted to sell the family and live with the young woman they had always regarded as their sister. Each one is unexpected.
Zhu Jiaqian forgot that in this world, there are not only the simplicity and warmth of chai, rice, oil and salt, but also other restless desires. She took it for granted that everyone was like her, yearning for the former in her heart, but she did not know that those who lived in that simplicity every day also had their own desires.
Except for the pictures of Zhu Jiaqian and two men in the movie, there are no exposed scenes, but it always makes people smell the smell of hormones. The little sister held up her hand in the dark red darkroom where the film was cleaned, the elder sister sat on the motorcycle with her long legs exposed under her skirt, the neighbor next door sang endless love songs, and the wild cat in heat on the roof neighed there. In the voice, the old father was copying the prescription for nourishing the kidney. We shouldn't be surprised by the ending, because the whole film is full of foreshadowing from the beginning. The most direct reminder is that at the beginning of the movie, the old father was on the phone with a woman and instructed her on how to cook fish. That night, Shanshan, who came to the house as a guest, smiled and told everyone that her mother Jinrong fried fish during the day. mushy. However, with the help of the camera and the soundtrack, we unconsciously stood in Zhu Jiaqian's perspective, thinking that the old father was about to die, and all that was left was to look after the flowers and wait for the deadline to come.
When the father announced that he was going to sell the house, the younger sister couldn't help looking at Jiaqian. Zhu Jiaqian chose to stay here in order to take care of her father, but her father chose to sell it and go to a new place to start a new family. After Aunt Liang fell to the ground in the chaos, only Zhu Jiaqian was stunned and did not help. She stood by the door frame, watching her father protect Xiao Shanshan like he was protecting his own daughter. Father looked back at her, and finally took Xiao Shanshan out of the house. And Zhu Jiaqian stood there like that, looking at the house in confusion, with tears in her eyes. This is the only time we see her cry in the whole film. This proud woman, when all her savings have been wiped away, she just said something free and easy: "I feel relieved."
What is home? The old compound will change hands and become the property of others, and the people under the roof will also leave. Zhu Jiaqian wanted to stay for home, but "home" left her. It's a pity for people to go to the empty building, but just as Dad Zhu said: "It's a pity if you have 'the past' in your heart." When no one else wants to stay, it is meaningless to stand alone. Zhu Jiaqian finally understood that the concept that the family itself symbolized was just something she couldn't give up. Everyone else was moving in different directions and would not cooperate with her wishful thinking. After all, even the elderly father exercises and massages his muscles and bones every day, making plans for a new future.
Continue on the road, no matter where the direction is, continuing to walk towards the unpredictable future is the only way back. Even if that's not the future he wants, there is no way out, isn't it? As for that which cannot be given up, it is enough to cherish it by yourself.
In the end, Zhu Jiaqian bought the old house and put on a new lock. People can't keep it, and they can keep the house - as long as there is a big kitchen in the house, with a cabinet of seasonings, you can cook a table full of dishes, and you can greet everyone to get together again for a meal. An unbearably large reunion dinner.
"The desires of the world are nothing more than eating men and women." The matter of men and women can gradually separate an inherent family, and it can also give birth to a new family, and diet, the various dishes from the north and south of the river, can make those who have gathered and scattered People, call back to the same dining table again.
Zhu Jiaqian, who lives alone in an old house, still insists on the tradition of having dinner on Sundays, but she no longer insists on it. Unlike the father who strictly asked everyone to go home for dinner on Sunday, the elder sister's family couldn't come to dinner, she smiled and didn't mind. She finally understood that although everyone used to be a family under one roof, after embarking on different life trajectories, who can rush back to eat that meal, to put it bluntly, it is just an unattainable fate. After eating this meal herself, she will go to a foreign country. All she can do is to persevere alone while she is still here. But even for a dinner party where only the old father came back alone, it's not without a doubt, isn't it? "Jiaqian, I have tasted the soup you made." This sentence is the best reward for the persistence in the crucian carp soup.
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