Memories are like peeling onions, there is always a layer that makes you cry.
This kind of dim tone reminiscent of dusk, and the texture of the gray oil painting, is very nostalgic.
In the film, it is obvious that there is a tone that caters to the main theme of environmental protection, but more people are more willing to ignore this tone, and instead feel the memories of the old man in the building block-like house for many years.
The houses are piled up layer by layer, and there is less and less space for activities. But the more crowded the room, the emptier the mind. When the entire city is submerged by the sea, when the top floor of the building block hut floats on the vast sea like a leaf boat, no one can read the word "loneliness".
Fortunately, even if we have nothing, memories will not turn our backs on us.
Fortunately, the old man did not abandon his memories.
The photos on one wall are always hung on the most eye-catching wall like a memo, and a movable wooden board must be left on each floor. One day, I will go down and have a look.
Rather than saying "the pipe is the key to open the door of memory", it is better to say that using the pipe as an excuse gave him a reason to look down.
Every hut has a story recorded.
My wife picked up a pipe for herself at this place. I fed my wife some medicine on this bed. In this room, the daughter brought her boyfriend home. My daughter was still a toddler when she lived in this room. Had a toast with my new wife in this position.
At the bottom, the big tree not far from the hut, from childhood sweethearts to An Xu's life, records the love of the old man.
The second floor of the building block house is the largest and most sturdy, it is a love nest built with the beloved girl.
Memories rewind, but things are different.
When the hut in old age is as crowded as it was when he was young, the old man can only put two wine glasses and pretend that his lover is still with him.
This short film, a simplified description of the various periods of life, is like a cookie-cutter composition. But it is this repetition that makes it real.
The plot of building a house on top of being submerged by water reminds me of the Seven Waters in "One Piece". But water 7 has the future that the sea train can bring, and here it doesn't, so people are moving out and moving to places with a future. The old man is old, so old that only memories are left. So he stayed in this place where his life and love were recorded, even if he could only be alone and hold on to his past happiness. Even if it's plain, even if it's lonely.
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