At first I thought this was an inspirational story of a family business starting from scratch in the Great Depression; by the third episode, I thought it was a tragic story of the middle class who blindly pursued the upper class and the fallen aristocracy in the mezzanine; For four episodes, I thought this was a family ethics film about precepts and deeds and subtle family ethics; in the end, I found that any act of speculating on the logic and ending of noir novels would be doomed to failure.
But there is a very important sentence in the play, Veda is a snake. In the story of the farmer and the snake, no one would worry about why the snake would bite the farmer because it is a snake. People should be entangled with why the farmer wants to save the snake. Yes, why did Mildred bred Veda, a viper? So that in the last scene in the guest room, I didn’t feel angry. A black flower bloomed wildly, spreading, covering the entire screen, dripping black poison... At that moment, I was even caught by this enchanting The aura was shocked, I felt terrible.
I don't know who translated the name Huanshifusheng, the translation is really good. At the beginning of the film, Bert drove away, and Mildred hugged his two daughters and said, I really don't know how I can live without you. At the end of the film, when Bert comforted Mildred, to the hell with her, did Mildred think this was a fantasy world? The people around us go around, we still have nothing, and we are getting old until we die. But what is the result of death? Wake up or sleep forever? Because we are not sure if this is a dream.
If time can return to the grand occasion that Xuanzai taught the Fa more than a thousand years ago, I must be a devout listener below.
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