Before the title of the film came out, the white and romantic cherry blossoms and the small shop under the tree that made dorayaki, I guess the story must be more romantic. When the title of the film came out, I guessed that it had something to do with making food. Watching movies on TV, I like the feeling of being attracted by the sudden title of the movie, and no one is talking about it slowly. It's like sitting alone in front of the window of a cafe on the street. It's raining outside, or it's a cloudy day, and you can't hear the noise of people and cars, leisurely watching the passing crowd, and slowly tasting the aroma of coffee. .
But after more than 100 minutes, when I saw the subtitles, apart from the tears hanging in the corners of my eyes, I felt reluctant. I don't know when I would encounter such a film, such a state of mind... It seems that it is about making bean paste. , but let people completely calm down and think, there is no tricky part in people's wonderful life, only the more real, the more wonderful it can be. Be real with food, be real with things, be real with life.
The film begins with a small shop recruiting helpers for dorayaki. The three characters are very funny, one is a middle school student who is wandering on the road of his first life, the other is a middle-aged shop owner who is going through the vicissitudes of life, and the other is an elderly man who is approaching his twilight years but understands every detail of life with his heart.
When the white cherry blossoms bloom in March in the spring, the old man came to apply for the job. A seventy-six-year-old man with inflexible fingers, how to work as a helper in a small shop, the shop owner refuses is also a reasonable thing. The next day the old man sent a bean paste stuffing made by himself, but the shop owner still refused and politely sent a dorayaki made by himself. The story should have happened between the old and the middle-aged...
A seventy-six-year-old old man came to apply for the job, and the shop owner didn't need it. How does a person who runs his own shop let a stranger point fingers at his products? But within a few seconds of throwing it away, he still took out the bean paste stuffing that the old man had wrapped in his lunch box from the trash can, and randomly picked some with his fingers and tasted it on his fingertips. The bean paste hadn't completely melted in his mouth. He dipped his fingers into the bean paste filling again, and a sense of satisfaction and admiration he had never felt crossed his face.
When people are middle-aged, they are willing to admit their own inadequacies and their fragility. Only then will you let go of your face and get closer and closer to real life. When I was young, I thought that I could change the world, and that it was a good life to dress well and go to high-end places every day. I don't know that this kind of climbing life brings physical and mental exhaustion, and I even think that impulse is the label of youth, but I don't know that the serious mistakes made by impulse should permeate my entire middle-aged life. After reaching middle age, I realized that it is not easy to be yourself and do something that people recognize.
On the day when the cherry blossoms were reset, the old man came to the shop again. This time, the shop owner took the initiative to strike up a conversation, and invited the old man to come over to help make the bean paste stuffing. The old man received the invitation, thank you very much! It can be seen that the old man also has a kind of gratitude and an incredible in it. At this time, it is easy to see that the old man must have a story.
Making bean paste stuffing is the prettiest scene and my favorite. There are no lighting touches on the screen because the shop is not open and the curtains are closed. In the dark, small shop, the two people were busy and seemed a little crowded. The old man was patiently explaining the steps of making bean paste filling, and enjoying himself as if talking to himself, completely immersing his thoughts in the wonderful process of making bean paste, while the boss was doing manual work and learning clumsily. The owner of the shop has been quite patient when making dorayaki, but in the face of the cumbersome and tedious process of making bean paste filling, it can be seen from the exchange between the two that the owner is reluctantly enduring this kind of obedience. But when the boss took the first bite, his eyes glowed with humility and excitement.
For life, what kind of attitude we use to face it, what kind of result it will give back to us, all the so-called life gains and losses are actually self-inflicted.
This very meticulous foreshadowing was for the later shop owner to dismiss the old man in good faith because he could not overcome the misunderstanding of others' misunderstanding that the old man was a special patient. Later, the old man not only did not get angry with his dismissal, but also wrote a letter to tell him how to be a man and do things. Later, he personally and middle school students went to the nursing home to visit the elderly, which is a good narrative method. It makes people clearly experience that life experience does not depend on what you have experienced, but on whether you have experienced it with your heart.
From the cherry blossoms to the leaves in autumn, and winter comes, the old man spent the spring and summer happily in the shop, and imagined that her life is precisely the absence of spring and summer.
At the age of sixteen, she was personally sent to the quarantine area by her brother and lived a life that only a sixty-year-old can have. Although there was a husband who was ill and sympathetic to each other, the two of them stayed together like a birdcage, just a kind of companionship and support for comfort. The life of the old man is hardship that we ordinary people can't imagine and endure, but she turned this hard life into the pursuit of food quality. Although she has been cooking food with heart all her life, the delicious food she cooks will never be elegant. For more than half a century, the diners are just patients who share the same affliction with her. This kind of persistence and pursuit, the courage not to bow to fate, no matter how life treats her, she is always grateful and devoted to life. This simplicity, this unwillingness to be ordinary, is touching.
The happiness of the old man is short-lived. She has to admit that she is in the twilight of her life, and when giving back to her life, she still chooses to pass on her love. The letter to the shop owner is very touching.
——“When I make bean paste, I always listen to the stories told by the beans, imagine the sunny and rainy days that the beans have seen, the breeze blows the content of the beans’ conversations, and listen to their journey stories.
I think everything in this world has a story to tell, even the sun and the wind can hear their stories, maybe for this reason, last night, the breeze came in and over the holly fence, it seemed Tell me I should get in touch with you. Mr. Store Manager, we want to stay away from right and wrong and live our own lives, but sometimes we are hurt by the ignorance of this society. Sometimes we have to use our own wisdom. "
When the shop owner and high school students went to visit the old man, the old man's best friend explained the old man's physical condition to them, but the old man hurriedly interrupted the conversation and smiled at the shop manager like a mother and said, "Eat delicious food. Thing, you should smile!" I couldn't stop the tears again when I saw this. When listening to the recording left by the old man, the store manager burst into tears. Wasn't the mother talking on the tape recorder? Before the end of his sentence, his mother died. From then on, he faced the world as a passerby, but he didn't know that God would love every child, and he specially sent old man Dejiang to save his desolate soul in a blooming cherry blossom season.
Seeing this, recalling the slow rhythm of the plot, I really admire the director's delicate handling of people's emotions. Even if you earn the audience's tears, it is to let your tears slowly flow down and soak into your eyes, and it will not make you feel uncomfortable.
Regarding the handling of high school students, I don't know what happened in her experience, but it reminded me of Xin Qiji's famous poem. "Young people don't know the taste of sadness...For the sake of writing new words, I want to talk about sadness. Now I know all the tastes of sadness, and I can't talk about it..." Why the girl in the flower season doesn't want to go to school is no longer important. After the incident with the old man Dejiang, in the cherry tree street in the early morning, she carried her schoolbag again and put on her school uniform.
And in the same season of blooming cherry blossoms, in the wild, the owner was making dorayaki with a smile, and smiled and said loudly: dorayaki, try it!
The music reminded me of the words of the old man Dejiang from the voice-over: We were born into this world to see and listen. Because of this, we don't have to become someone, we have our own meaning of existence.
After watching this film, I have to sigh that there is still a long way to go for Chinese films. We are still not good at telling stories with the lens. The film is still as trivial as life and has no beauty, although young Chinese directors also learn to use beautiful scenery to go Set off, but put the cart before the horse. The language of film is on every street and alley, on every passerby. The key is the ability to tell a story with the lens. Filmmakers should be more quiet. Just like the boiled bean paste conveyed in the movie, simple bean paste, everyone has their own taste, but as long as they make it carefully, different people will taste the same deliciousness. What a wonderful thing to make a person who doesn't like sweets fall in love with sweets, and it only takes 90 minutes, but these 90 minutes require years, even ten years, and decades of accumulation of filmmakers. .
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