An ordinary old woman suddenly awakened her inner poetry and began to try to write poetry
Beneath the calm of reality lies the undercurrent of destiny
The death of a teenage girl opens up the old woman's life experience
Familiar plot suspense, character suspension
We don't know why teenage girls died or how girls were bullied
But we can see a common female oppression in older women
The grandson who is only addicted to video games, the old man who stares at her with sexual desire, the reporter who picks up the soft persimmon, the cowardly patriarch pushes her away...
This silent violence forced her to turn her attention to poetry
She is like a dynamic girl in the world of poetry, actively asking questions, wearing a floral dress, thinking, and picking up a pen.
Poetry can resolve the self, but it also means the sensitivity of the soul. In her, we can also see the "discombination of sorrow and joy" among the crowd, the loneliness of the individual
The jokes in the bathroom are compared to her sadness in taking care of a wretched old man; the ordinary on the phone is compared to the abnormality in reality; even the floral dress in front of people is also compared to the rot in the heart and the fading of hope...
Li Cangdong realized that poetry is fragile, that poetry cannot save our lives, that poetry is lonely, even among a group of people who write poetry, we still feel extremely lonely
This is very much like life, life is fragile, and it also withers alone in the crowd
Ironically, in the end it was a righteous policeman who snuffed out her last fire
The film is so restrained and calmly describes the struggle of an individual's destiny, like a river flowing slowly at the end or at the beginning
In the end, all the inner turmoil turned into a poem, praising life
This poetic connection between life and death unfolds a subject that does not belong to the first (the old woman) nor the third (the young girl).
It is a quiet flow of death, movies are silent as a mystery, life is silent as a mystery
I have seen many people turn literature into movies, but I have only seen Li Cangdong who made movies into literature.
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