The story unfolds on two levels, between mother and daughter, between mother and death. It tells how these two groups of relationships fight against the estrangement, how to shake hands and make peace, so that the daughter (the audience) can understand the incomparably simple thing-to go hard. Love, while we are alive with the one we love.
Due to a friend's recommendation, I watched a movie late at night during the isolation period and cried many times during the period. Lu Xun said that tragedy is to smash beautiful things for others to see. In the film, there are many times in which the plates are knocked down and scattered all over the place. In fact, for those broken things, you can let them fall on the ground and discard them, or you can pick them up and splice them to form a complex and colorful mosaic in the end. Can life also go beyond simple joys and sorrows, and have meanings that cannot be taken away?
In the end, just like her mother, her daughter, Ellie, learned to assemble mosaics and heard voices that were so nuanced that they were negligible.
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