Since it is a typical Mike Lee-style picture of a family at the bottom of the society. The estrangement, alienation, quarrel, indifference and love between family members, love and hate intertwined, warmth and indifference coexist in the same room. The story of the film is based on three related families living in the same building, depicting the depressed living conditions and alienated family relationships within the three families. The three lines interact with each other and have intersections.
One is a family of four, and his father is an obese, lazy, silent, and boring taxi driver. My mother is a supermarket cashier who lives a mechanical life every day. The obese daughter is doing cleaning work in the nursing home, facing a group of dying people all day long, listening to the dying people say some words of nostalgia for time, decadence and frustration. The obese son only knows that he is lying on the sofa and watching TV. After eating, he lay down on the sofa and watch TV cursingly. Facing the mother's instruction, the son often swears and has no education at all. But his father didn't say anything about it. His indifferent observation also reflected his long-dead love, his love for his family, and his love for his wife. The wife also has a lot of opinions on the lazy husband. When the husband drove to work, he talked with the female passenger in the back row about family, partner, and children. These two people of different classes share the same car, but they have the same life troubles. However, due to the sudden onset of congenital heart disease in his son, the family relationship and the estranged husband and wife relationship that had been disintegrated were brought closer. Only when you smell the breath of death can you find the meaning of life. The husband asked his wife if he still loved him, and why he felt less and less love over the years, replaced by blame, indifference, boredom, and disgust. The husband used to be complacent because his beautiful wife fell in love with an obese and ugly self, but now the alienation seems to be a more real state. This is the husband's confession, a confession that has been suppressed for many years. This kind of unreservedly exchanged the kiss on the back of the hand and the reconciling hug from the wife. And the son who is sick in bed is no longer dirty, but cherishes the time his parents spend with the bedside. This kind of ending is similar to "Secrets and Lies", opening up, revealing the secrets, and reconciling with each other.
The other is a family where a mother and a daughter live. Daughters and mothers are chatting like cross talks all day long, arguing non-stop, with a sense of rhythm and joy... (also reminds people of "Secrets" Mother and Daughter in "and Lies"). The daughter has a grumpy, irresponsible boyfriend who is a dirty ruffian. After her daughter became pregnant by accident, her boyfriend asked her to kill the child, but the daughter insisted on keeping the child, so her boyfriend cursed the street and abandoned her. When her boyfriend came to the door, she quarreled with herself on weekdays, and the mother who didn't want to see each other came forward to confront her boyfriend and drove him away. In the most critical and vulnerable times, the mother is the last and most trustworthy support. And the mother also supported her to give birth to the child, and the relationship between the mother and daughter has gradually been repaired and improved. At the same time, the mother was also the one who sent the first son who fell to the ground due to a heart attack in the family to the hospital.
The last is a family of three, the father is a taxi driver, and the father of the first family is a colleague. The mother is a crazy, lonely woman (there is always such a character in Mike Lee's movies) and their daughter is coquettish, wearing sexy clothes all day long, holding her hair, standing outside, scratching her head at the man, and secretly giving off. . For example, using words and facial expressions to tease the boyfriend of the daughter in the second family, and finally got a shot in the car. Kisses the thin man who always stands downstairs, crushes and stalks him, but refuses the man's courtship. But coquettishly, when she saw her son in the first family suddenly fell ill with a heart attack, she rushed to call the hospital. The love and sense of responsibility were dazzling at this time, and she was more reliable than her unused mother. The spectrum is much more. The multi-faceted nature of people is fully manifested in these three families. They all exiled themselves in the broken family relationship, and in the process of exile, they will also find an outlet to release goodwill.
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