For the first time, I went to see a movie with almost no special expectations, but in the end I was full of emotion and moved.
Throughout the movie, tears were just wiped away, and new tears poured out.
When I saw Yuan Ni and Fang Deng's mother and daughter recognize each other on their knees, I could hardly help crying in the dark theater.
In life, in the face of such a disaster, we can only bear it silently; in
life, in the face of such pain, we can only heal it with affection and love.
Yuan Ni, played by Xu Fan, believes that it will shock and impact the hearts of every audience:
she interprets a mother's love for family and children to the extreme; she
also shows that a mother who has experienced the great sorrow and pain of life is still strong, Still tolerant, still accepting the child who has hated him for 32 years, acting to the extreme.
When this mother had to choose between the life and death of her two children, I knew that such a choice was more painful than accepting death;
when she had her son with a broken arm on her back and looked at her daughter lying in the corpse, her face was full of thoughts. Fen looks like, I don't know what a mother's love can support her to bear;
when she thought her "dead" daughter was coming back for 32 years, her hands were shaking several times and she couldn't even hold the dumpling wrappers. When she knew that this daughter settled in Canada, she murmured: She wants to hide from me so far;
when her daughter opened the gate of the yard, she stood in front of the kitchen window, watching the man who was told by her back then, "Save my brother." "And the daughter who "gives up";
when she saw her daughter take out the tomatoes still soaked in the water basin, she said to her daughter: The tomatoes have been washed for you, and mother did not lie to you. . . Thirty-two years later, my mother still remembers that the night of the earthquake, because the only tomato was eaten by my brother, my sister fell asleep with grievances, and left with deeper grievances; this grievance is 32 years;
when she plopped He knelt down in front of his daughter and said, "Forgive mom; where did you come from? For so many years, mom has been thinking about dad and you, but you don't come back to see me." . .
23 seconds, 32 years.
The slogan of the movie is really "advertising", incisive, concise and profound. This is the theme of the whole story.
In 23 seconds, how many families' lives have been changed, and how many people's lives have since gone to another completely unfamiliar track.
A mother and daughter, the wounds deposited in each other's hearts were resolved after 32 years, and their life is almost over;
however, only love can travel through time and overcome all disasters. Pain and death and death bring people of despair.
Maybe the meaning of life is like this, no matter what we experience, "love" is the only one and the real meaning.
It was this movie that made me appreciate the feelings of relatives in the Wenchuan earthquake and understand them. In the face of the impermanence of life, sometimes it is not about being "strong" at all, but submitting to the reality and choosing to live day by day for loved ones and new hope.
Just as the daughter Fang Deng in the movie, in the fourth year of college, because of pregnancy, she would rather choose to drop out of school and give up her great future because of her pregnancy. Her boyfriend does not understand why she has to make such a big sacrifice. "You don't understand sacrifice at all, and you don't understand me," she said.
32 years ago, I sacrificed my father to have my mother's life; in the same way, I "sacrificed" my sister, sacrificing the same strong desire to survive that my sister was beating stones for a long time under the ruins, and sacrificing my sister's important position in my mother's mind. , have the "birth" of the younger brother.
Therefore, there is an unreasonable choice for my sister today, choosing to be a mother and sacrifice herself.
The performances of Xiao Fang Deng, adoptive parents and supporting roles in the movie are also remarkable.
All in all, a movie that hasn't made me cry like this in years.
Friends who hope to see, prepare enough tissues, don’t be like I only have a small half pack of tissues in my bag, and the result is snot and tears. Later, I can squeeze out the water after using it, and I have two big peach eyes. cinema.
If the Fengs and his wife did not have an insightful and considerate heart of life, and did not have a passion for the film business, there would not be such a good film.
"Tangshan Earthquake" can at least let us understand that the reason why those people after the disaster can be "strong" is not because they are not in pain, but when they focus on the suffering of others and the needs of others, they even forget their own "pain".
It turns out that the highest state of love is really to forget oneself and not have oneself.
A movie, if it can tell us this, is enough to be a good movie.
Postscript:
1. I saw some comments that because the film's focus is actually only on Yuan Ni's family life after the earthquake, it lacks the power to express such a public disaster as the earthquake. And I just think that's the success of the film. If the film is full of documentary-like disasters or large-scale rescue scenes, it is more like CCTV's documentary news than movies. 240,000 people were drowned in such a natural disaster, and almost every family faced the pain of losing a loved one. When our vision is miniaturized in such an ordinary family as Yuan Ni, when our emotions are affected by the tiny ones among the thousands, we should know that the end of the film cannot be seen. What do the names densely packed on the "Wall of Mourning" mean. This is not a simple life drama. When you can see their helplessness, helplessness and hopelessness in the face of disasters in this small family, you should be able to experience the shock that a big earthquake will bring to the entire city, not just 23 seconds. , For many people in this city, it may be a lifetime. Therefore, whether the title of the film of the Tangshan Earthquake, or aftershock, the most important thing is the inspiration of the film itself.
2. As an art, film serves the spiritual realm of human beings and the development of spiritual civilization. From this point of view, it doesn't matter whether it meets the needs of politics, whether there are dazzling stunt scenes, whether it makes people cry or laugh, but what matters is whether the film reaches people's hearts directly, whether it calls for deep human nature. The most beautiful emotional "love", whether after reading it makes people think deeply and cherish the relatives around them more.
From both perspectives, this is why the film is worth watching.
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