The adaptation of the live-action short film "The Curfew" is a feature-length film, thinking about death, about the pain of losing a loved one, and about how to live well before death. Maybe it was too much empathy, maybe I had thought about suicide, but after all I encountered a meaning point in life, the power of life suddenly sprouted.
Rich lives at the bottom of society, doing cleaning in a bar and working as a waiter in a bowling alley, often relying on borrowing to survive. One day when he was cleaning the last toilet in the bar, he found a woman inside who had died of drug overdose. The boss promised to forgive him all debts on the condition that he keeps a secret.
At the bottom of his life, he has no nostalgia for life. He chose to commit suicide. After cutting his wrist in the bathroom, he suddenly received a call from his estranged sister Maggie asking him to pick up his nine-year-old niece Sophia home.
Rich reluctantly agreed, washed off the blood stains on his body, bandaged the wound, and came to Sofia's school. Sophia is participating in a poetry recitation performance. When Rich arrived, she was reading a poem about death.
When I met Xueba's niece, she didn't pay much attention to her uncle, and she didn't bother to say anything to her uncle after she told her about the next itinerary. I asked her why she still had classes during the holidays, saying that she had skipped the sixth grade. Uncle said, I just like to go to sixth grade, and I went to it twice.
After the niece was sent home, the niece asked him to leave.
Still feeling that there is no nostalgia for life, Rich swallowed more than 20 sleeping pills after returning home. As a result, the phone once again remembered that the niece said that his mother had not come back and let him go. Downstairs with his niece, he called the doctor to ask the doctor why the sleeping pills did not work. The doctor said that he was taking medicine for menopause, and he broke the phone in the hall angrily.
At the door of my sister's residence, I met a woman who claimed to be my sister's friend, but she didn't say anything in the beginning, and then left in a hurry. The niece said that her mother would never be like this, she would not drink, come home late, and would not leave her at home alone. He began to tell his niece about the flipbooks he drew when he was a child, and the happy time with their siblings. The niece said that his mother had never mentioned this. But at the time the name of the protagonist of the flipbook was Sophie.
Later, I received a call from my sister. My sister didn't know why she was behind bars. When he talked about the woman at the door, her sister was shocked and asked him to take Sophie out of here and hide in his residence for a while. (I feel that this paragraph is a bit confusing)
He took his niece to the bowling alley where he worked. The arena owner asked him if he had seen a woman go to the bar where he worked the night before. That woman was the lover of the arena owner, and he chose to lie. After the arena owner learned about his sister's affairs, he asked someone to help him deal with it. In fact, his sister was involved with a married man without her knowledge and was sued by the other's wife.
He took his niece to one of his previous residences to fetch a flipbook. Although the niece didn't like the environment in which he lived and felt scared at the same time, she liked his flipbook very much.
The niece found the wound on his hand and helped him stitch and deal with it. The niece said that her biological father often said she was superfluous. He was filled with outrage. Her sister gave birth to Sofia with that man at the age of 17. It was also because Rich beat Sofia's biological father 5 years ago, and the two had a conflict with her sister. No connection.
This time he came to Sofia’s biological father’s place to beat him again, and said to Sofia’s father, "Perhaps the reason I live in this world is that when you bully my sister and Sofia, you are not as good as dead."
He took Sophia to the working bar and learned that the boss here was selling drugs. The woman who got the drugs here died of overdose the night before.
He took Sophia back to his sister's home to take care of him. At this time, the security guard downstairs found that he was the person who broke the phone and drove him out of the apartment. Helpless, he wandered the streets and decided to tell the bowling alley owner the truth. The owner of the bowling alley is even more painful when he knows the truth.
The sister's case was resolved after mediation. After he took her sister home, her sister asked him to leave again.
The living environment of their younger siblings was very bad when they were young. After growing up, the older sister created a high-quality living environment for herself and her daughter through her own efforts.
After Rich talked about their childhood memories, he left and returned home, frustrated, he committed suicide by cutting his wrist in the bathroom again. The phone also remembered again that my sister finally invited him to join their family life.
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