This holiday, spring outing is excellent. If you must watch a movie, there is nothing more suitable for the occasion than the well-known "Unearthed Master". If there is, it must be the 2013 British movie "Silent Life". Mei, male, 44 years old, has attended countless funerals of strangers for 22 years, earnestly appeasing every lonely soul he has taken over. He's not a priest, just a community servicer in London, and he's the only one in this institution. May has no family, friends or even colleagues. His job is to bury the unidentified dead. They may be the homeless, the elderly who live alone, the drunkard, the scum, the ants, the mustard and the dust. They have no relatives, or their relatives have long since lost contact, or the relatives that Mei managed to contact but did not want to attend the funeral. But in any case, May must accompany the whole process and give the last respect according to the belief of the deceased. I saw May kept collecting all kinds of relics, making phone calls, sorting files, running between funeral homes, churches and cemeteries, until one day the institution was reorganized and he was fired. But there is one last case at hand, will his quiet life change? The ending came to an abrupt, unexpected end. I remember Liang Wendao once interpreting the opening three sentences of the Analects in the show. It would be a great joy to be able to apply what you have learned to governing the country. What if you don’t have this opportunity in your life? Then there are friends who come from afar to talk about the past and the present. Also very happy, what if you don’t even have friends? No one knows your strengths or even misunderstands you and ridicules you, but you still don’t complain and don’t get angry, aren’t you also a gentleman? In fact, for most people The last sentence is the most difficult. Without a sense of existence, it is inevitable to blame others. The world has never treated you kindly, so why do you treat the world with kindness? Mei did not tell us the answer. No one knows his kindness, but he still insisted on doing it. The last scene surpassed Reality touches heartstrings. The whole film is dark in tone, repeated scenes, monotonous shots, and stereotyped pictures, all of which are disadvantages for other films, but in this film they are all turned into advantages. Five stars. Look alone.
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