To Love What You Have

This is a family movie, the plot is not too new. A warm home in a small town, a father who is the dean of the literature department at a university, a mother who is dedicated to housework, and children who study and work outside. The daughter has always admired her father since she was a child, and has not been close to her mother due to differences in concepts. After her mother had cancer, she put aside her work and reluctantly returned to the town to take care of the housework her mother originally did, join the club of her mother and neighbors and wives, and witnessed her father's inaction in family responsibilities and his infidelity to her mother. , She finally realized that her parents weren't the kind of people she thought she had since childhood, and that her mother was much stronger and smarter than she thought. Her father has always been her role model, and when his perfect image collapsed, she seemed a little lost. One scene that struck me deep was that she interviewed a politician who caused a drug scandal. The politician told her how she felt: I don’t know when or where, and suddenly found that life has been messed up, she wanted to go forward and find that she was lost. Now I just want to make up for my family. She was very touching and said, because the family is the one who loves herself the most. Then she recalled sitting in the back of the car when she was a child, watching her mother sitting in the front row knitting a sweater dexterously, looking at her daughter with a smile, her blond hair swaying lightly. So she called the editor-in-chief to leave a message, panicking that she hadn't waited for the politician. In doing so, not only did the preparation work for several months have been exhausted, but it also directly lost the job of a reporter. But I think she will not regret it. It was the words of the politician that made her feel the same, and finally realized the deep maternal love of her mother for her children, and realized her emotional alienation from her mother. This new perception of family, affection, and self is completely different, so that she understands that compared to being a successful reporter, everything she has in front of her is more worth cherishing. The whole film has no very sensational passages, plain but not plain, and the ending is not conventional. It is a family movie worth remembering.

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