"Don't you remember me?" The film begins with this old-fashioned chat, violinist Nasser Ali taking off his hat to his first love on the street. His hairline is a bit backward, and he is in the middle of the year, but his eyes are still habitually widened like a child. He is fragile, naive, and irresponsible. He has been married for more than ten years and has two children, but he never loves his wife and only thinks about his first love. The plot of the film is very simple. It tells the story of Ali's cherished violin being smashed by his wife. He wanted to buy a new violin but was repeatedly deceived and decided to commit suicide by hunger strike. It seems funny, but in fact it has nothing to do with the violin. Family tragedy can gradually erode a person's interior, and then extend beyond the family, slowly destroying everything about him.
After deciding to commit suicide, Ali lies in bed and shuttles between memory and reality, and the film is constructed from this, revealing the whole picture of Nasser Ali's life. He has a hysterical wife, and their marriage was concluded under the persecution of the parents. His wife, Farigis, loves him deeply, but he has no feelings for her. "This is the best plum chicken I have ever eaten." It was the sweetest thing he could say to her. Is there anything more tragic than wanting to be loved by a husband? You seem to have this person, but in fact you will never get him. He is in front of you every day, sharing the same bed, but they seem to live in different countries. This is tantamount to the suffering of Tantalus. His wife, Farrigis, became irritable, restless, and controlling during this ordeal. Hey, gentlemen, if you don't love a woman, please don't marry her. Wasn't she a fair-skinned, shy girl? Full of possibilities for happiness.... Please have compassion for others. To be honest, I went to see this film entirely because of Maria de Medello. I like these kinds of actresses who are just as good looking as they are acting, and not the average, standard beauty. She is as beautiful as a porcelain doll, innocent, cute, charming, with a fragile feeling like porcelain, and her skin is clean and warm like jade. But how quickly the actress's life is fading, and people's aesthetics are becoming more and more consistent, in this film, she is already a poor woman in her forties who is hated by her husband. But in the film, when Farigiis wants to make her own plum chicken and reconcile with her husband, she smiles and thinks while grinding the plums, and when she looks at herself in the mirror, takes off her glasses and loosens her hair At that time, Mei broke free from the shackles of time, and poured out from the corners of her mournful mouth with her charming eyes. She was also a beauty, a true beauty.
Ali's children are the absolute highlights of this film. They look so innocent when they eat the snowflakes from the sky with their mouths up, reminiscent of a good childhood. On top of this sense of innocence, the film also enriches the images of sons and daughters. For example, the son sings in the car, the daughter and Ali go to the puppet circus together, and the scenes of swinging are all very beautiful. Especially when it comes to swinging, everything happens under the bleak blue light. While her mother was picking up her younger brother, the daughter secretly came to ask her father, "Can I go on a swing for a while?" Ali agreed. The daughter ran out happily, the swing was high, accompanied by the girl's smile, very sweet. Ali watched this scene from the window, smiled slowly, and his heart softened, as if thinking: It's not bad to live in this world. However, when his wife came back, she opened the door and glanced at her daughter. She stopped for a moment, then walked over and slapped her daughter aggressively. Ali immediately drew the curtains, and the room and his heart plunged into darkness again. This is an exceptionally wonderful piece, whether it's the tone or the impetuous pace of the wife walking in, the natural meal is handled very delicately. This kind of conflict is better than countless shouts and tears and snot. I really understand that Ali also started here. How can I live with such a woman? Right? This is total hell. However, marriage is like a chameleon looking in the mirror. It shapes itself and others at the same time. They are both reflections and projections of each other. It is impossible to judge who is right and who is wrong. It can only be said that this is a relationship that should not exist at all.
My favorite scene in the movie is Ali's desire to be remembered after he dies, to leave some quotes for the world, just like Socrates. So he called the children. The daughter looked impatient and looked at her father like a fool with an expression of insight, while the son was dumbfounded and confused. This passage captures the delusions of dying people and the boasting of grown-ups wonderfully. I went back and watched my daughter's expression many times, and it was wonderful.
At this point in the film, it is a pretty good film, although it seems to be too hard in many places, the liar businessman played by Jaber Dubuz is nagging and annoying, and if it gets a little bit on it, it will be entangled. It's neither fun nor interesting, but it wastes so much time that it's off-putting. To be honest, the god of death is pretty boring. The director tried his best to appear humorous, but it made people feel a little stiff and awkward. The grown-up son going to America was fun, but it was too redundant.
These are all minor flaws, and it wasn't until after the ex-girlfriend came out that the film really fell to the pass line. When Ali held his seat table and approached the beauty at first sight, the beauty's eight teeth seemed hollow. After that, there are old-fashioned plots, falling in love, playing the violin, and parents playing with each other. No matter how beautiful it is, it can't make up for the boring plot and the failure of casting. The first love is indeed young and beautiful, with no flaws in her appearance, but she has no charm and soul, and only smiles like a cardboard, which really makes people doubt the taste of the male protagonist Ali. And the degree of failure in the ending is as if the director personally smashed the content that was filmed well and stepped on it a few times. At the beginning, the first love forgot Ali how interesting the plot, as a woman, I swear to God, women are indeed so fickle, seven or eight years ago I liked him, cried for him, and stayed up all night for him I don't remember the face of the boy for a long time, and I rarely remember it. The woman is indeed a forgetful animal, we breathe in the real worldly life and the firewood, rice, oil and salt. Of course some people don't, but wouldn't it be better to handle it this way? Wouldn't it be better for the unforgettable first love to forget about Ali when the director racked his brains throughout the film to show his dark humor? Why do you have to cry and say, "Nasser Ali, I love you so much," as if being punched in the stomach, this vulgar line? At this point, this plate of plum chicken has been completely rancid, I am afraid that the trash can is the best place to go. If you want to watch this movie, I believe that skipping the ending is the best option.
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