Plum chicken appears once in the middle of the whole film. It is the wife of the male protagonist violinist, an old-fashioned math teacher, who is good at cooking. The violinist and his wife have a bad relationship, but whenever the wife makes this dish, the husband Rare compliments will be given. On the third day of the violinist's hunger strike, the wife carefully prepared this dish, hoping to restore her husband's resolute desire to die by restoring his stomach, but the husband did not touch the dish.
Perhaps, the taste of plum chicken refers to the taste of the existing life he has chosen. When the violinist was young, he fell in love with Yilan, the daughter of a watch shop owner, but the marriage was ruined because of the opposition of Yilan's father. The violinist died because of this, and a sigh of the destruction of love made him an epiphany of musical art, and he became a world-famous violinist. The taste of ylang ylang, on the other hand, is the taste of true love that he has missed and can never have.
The stories are not new either, red roses and white roses, cinnabar moles and mosquito blood, white moonlight and rice grains, forgetting each other in the rivers and lakes and getting tired of each other until they grow old, how many writers have changed their styles to describe such similar stories.
The most fascinating thing about this film is the tone of its storytelling. It has a quirky tone that combines French romance and dark humor. Some people say it is like the tone of "Amelie". Dramatic scenes, exaggeration, humor, magic, all stirred in the witch's furnace. When he was a child, the principal told all the schoolmates to "shush" the male protagonist. Darkness enveloped the principal's entire face. Only an ugly big mouth and a fat chin opened and closed under the pale bright light, which was a straightforward and cunning irony. The violinist was about to die, but the god of death didn't come to visit. It was because the little figure of the wicked boy was kneeling in front of the window and praying for his father. This scene made people's hearts soften. The movie's transition between playing tricks and revealing true feelings is like the taste of plum chicken. The taste of sweet and sour changes will not make the taste of meat too monotonous and greasy. Look.
Also, the order in which the movie tells the story is particularly interesting. At the beginning, the old violinist went to buy a new violin, met the old woman on the street corner, and when he asked, he forgot about it and didn't know each other. The violinist later discovered that every violin he buys today, even the so-called Mozart violin that he has traveled all the way to the old grocery store, is not satisfactory. He took out the broken old violin under the bed and burst into tears. The piano is broken, and people die. He decided to seek death. He ruled out all kinds of unseemly ways of dying and decided to go on a hunger strike. From the first day to the eighth day of the hunger strike, he lay in bed, thinking about all kinds of things.
Such a cut is very similar to the gameplay of greedy snakes. At the beginning, what was presented to us was only a short section, and then expanded, expanded and extended. At the same time, his thoughts are not only memories, but divergent towards the past and the future. The future life of a pair of children, the death of Socrates, the childhood of himself and his younger brother, the union with his wife, the journey of learning, the encounter with the first love, the death of the mother, the meeting with the god of death, the love and separation of the first love . Legend has it that when a person is about to die, he will replay all the important moments in his life in his mind like a revolving lantern. The more the movie gets to the end, the faster the screen changes. God's perspective depicts all their life experiences, and the moment returns to the beginning. A scene - an old violinist meets his first love on a street corner, asks, forgets each other, and does not know each other. Turning around and leaving, the first love couldn't cry herself. Time has returned to this moment, but his life has been replayed.
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