The protagonist is a very cute old man, a poor Jewish milkman, has five daughters, and lives in a small Jewish village with his wife. He often talks with God, asks questions of God, is humorous, kind, and regards tradition as a natural thing, taking it from his ancestors and passing it on to the next generation: immutable, simple, boring, but enjoyable.
However, there are no things that never change, especially human thoughts. I think that the film has transformed the image of "tradition" in Tavy’s heart into a violinist standing on the roof. I think Tavy has always been willing to accept and love such a tradition; until his daughters’ love Marriage made him a huge change, even he himself would be surprised.
The eldest daughter was originally promised to a rich but widowed butcher who is as old as Taivi, but she has someone she likes. Even though the other party is a poor tailor, she can’t stop the two cherished hearts from leaving. Together. Together they pleaded for Taiwei’s fulfillment, so Taiwei and the tradition in his heart debated for the first time: a traditional marriage should be the order of the parents and the matchmaker, and cannot be decided by himself; but Taiwei knows the daughter and the little tailor They are happy in love, and believe that the little tailor can take good care of his daughter, so he has the first anti-tradition, using the ghost in the fabricated dream to persuade his wife to bring two people who truly love each other together.
The second daughter fell in love with a young man from a foreign country, a radical revolutionary. This was dangerous in the general environment at the time. Not only did the second daughter fall in love freely, but also did not have to request like the eldest daughter, but directly announced the result. Privately set for life. Tai Wei received another fierce ideological impact, which should be said to be even more fierce, but he argued with tradition again: he accepted the second daughter's fiancé on the grounds of popularity and God as a matchmaker.
But he did not expect the greater shock to come from his third daughter. She fell in love with a Russian, a farmer with different beliefs and races. This was unacceptable in his heart. As the movie said: Jews were forcibly expelled many times. It is because of religious beliefs and ethnicity—the inability of Jews to marry whites has also become Tavie’s deep-rooted belief—the most unshakable tradition. But the third daughter broke his tradition, not even just getting engaged like the second sister, but directly married to the Russians. For Taivi, a Jewish believer, it can only be said that the sky has collapsed, but in the end, when they were expelled from the village, the third daughter took her husband to say goodbye to them, and the mother instructed the eldest daughter to tell the third daughter that they were the family. When he was about to move to New York, even though Tavy yelled, he didn't have the previous decisiveness.
Taivi loves his own nation and his compatriots, so he also loves tradition and the violinist on the roof, but maybe he didn’t realize that he loves beautiful, positive and warm things more. His daughter is in him. His eyes are the most beautiful life. He can see their love for little tailors and foreigners in their eyes, "she loves him", so he accepts his sons-in-law; he celebrates the eldest daughter and When the butcher was engaged, a group of Russian dancers wanted to dance with Tai Wei and them, and shook hands with Tai Wei. At first Tai Wei was a little bit resistant, but he felt friendly and equal, and finally reveled with the Russian dancers; the eldest daughter At the wedding banquet, the outsider had to bravely break the old rules and invited the second daughter to dance (the male and female guests were separated by a rope at the banquet), and Taiwei saw the lively and healthy breath of the two dancers. She was infected once, and she personally broke the rope and pulled her wife to dance. The second daughter was arrested and exiled to Siberia because her fiance was paraded in Germany, so when she had to go to find her fiance alone, Tai Wei sent her to the station and asked her how to bear the heart. After leaving home, Tai Wei was deeply moved by the second daughter’s confession that she wanted to find a lover with her love for her family. He personally sent her daughter on the train. Although he didn’t want to give up, he felt his love for his daughter and his love. Love let him finally let go...
All these actions show that Tavy is a person who has love in his heart and knows what love is. In the end, his silence towards his third daughter and the Russians also expresses that love has overwhelmed resentment; compared with this, those who are expelled with weapons People of different races do not understand what true love is, and they will be so cruel and narrow-minded. Taivi, he loves his daughter, loves peace, friendly, active and healthy people and thoughts. When these great loves flooded him like a tide, the traditional long bank began to burst (but it won’t be overwhelmed, everyone There are some traditions in his heart that cannot be given up, just as until the end, the violinist followed Taiwei on a journey of migration), in fact, no tradition can be compared with a "tradition"-love; they You can only live in peace with love, it is impossible to replace or surpass its position. If you deviate from love, you can only surrender, otherwise it will cause tragedy; love is a strong and invisible tradition in Taivi’s heart, and he reconciles everything." The actions of "dominant tradition" all illustrate this point, so love is the true eternal tradition, and Taiwei just conforms to this tradition. Just as Wang Yangming explained that "the law of heaven is human desire", what is the law of heaven? It is human desire; what is tradition? That is great love!
Another: All feelings should be recorded in time, because the feelings at this time can never be fully restored at that time!
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