When one day, my life is inevitably messed up, how I wish for a wise helmsman to walk in front of me and guide me. The one in the film is fortunate, although the immigrant's child basically lost everything before Sahi's grandfather arrived. All he has is complaints and complaints.
Sahi's identity is indeed a bit embarrassing in the free West Germany. Like all people seeking political asylum, they are equal to a new country and a new ethnic group. Should they blend in or choose to close themselves? Chinese people have immigrated to the United States since the last century. As a result, many Chinatowns have appeared. For many Chinese Americans, life in Chinatown is life in the United States. In West Germany, Sahi lived in the same way. He was self-enclosed, lacking self-confidence, and working as a translator in two languages with no prospects.
More than ten years ago, Sassi’s parents fled to West Germany from Bulgaria, a Soviet follower who had no freedom. When their dreams came true, the two had separated for fifteen years in a quarrel. Sassi followed his beautiful and gentle mother. He lost his father's love. The shame of family disharmony afflicted his mother deeply, and Sahi's life was destined to be inseparable from lack of confidence and gloom. A few months ago, his father suddenly came back, the family was as good as ever, and life seemed to be improving. Just as they were planning to return to Bulgaria, in a car accident, Sahi lost his parents and himself.
A family full of self-confidence, hesitating and eagerly rushing to freedom, but freedom makes their future difficult. Why is the reality of life always so contradictory?
Sahi's parents are gone. One day, when Sahi was retrieving his memories, he found that his parents were not going peacefully. Sad clouds occupied their faces and stubbornly refused to retreat.
Sashi, who has lost everything, including his own memory, is waiting for him only with a hospital bed and medicine?
No, in this world, maybe many people can just abandon you, ignore you, or even themselves, but remember, as long as they love your relatives, even if they give up the world, they will not give up on you.
Sahi's grandfather, the father of Baidan and his backgammon, are the soul of this movie. Baidan came back, this corner of Sashi's life, even though he desperately rejected it.
There are two parallel lines in the movie. One is Sahi’s parents running to West Germany for freedom; the other is Father Baidan and his nephew riding a co-drive back to New Bulgaria from Free West Germany. One road is a historical road. Defection is not easy. There are gunpoints on the border, and they escape with the pity of soldiers; there are difficulties caused by the Italian move, and the backgammon skills of the old man Baidan helped them to smuggle successfully; this road is gloomy. And heavy, depressed and helpless. The other road is the road of hope. The old and the young ride on the co-op. The road is smooth and cheerful, and there are small roads to choose from, from West Germany to Italy to Bulgaria, all the way is smooth. The sky is blue, the ground is a green and white mountain with no end in sight, a happy town. Master Baidan encouraged his nephew to associate and open his heart knot; burn medicine to smash Sahi's dependence on foreign objects; teach him to pick up girls and find a night of tenderness in an open-air concert.
This is the true path of liberation, freedom, and hope. Seeing a young man's heart knot slowly open in nature, you will understand why Baidan decided to ride a co-drive instead of taking a train. This wise old man knew very well in his heart that he had to untie his heart knot. He has always warned his son-in-law and nephew not to complain about luck, the dice is in his hands, and the number of points he throws is up to him.
Sahi's memory was revived in a refugee settlement in Italy for more than 10 years, where he saw his childhood, a gloomy childhood with friends and sunshine. The selves of the two eras began to blend together. Sahi needed to choose, but Baidan wisely took the train and left. He understood that Sahi's dice would eventually be thrown by himself.
"New Bulgaria", Sasi rode on the car, and rang the bell in front of Grandma Dessert's house.
The story seems to be over, but the kind director is not satisfied with the return of Sassi, indeed, this will make people feel like a Bulgarian political propaganda film.
Sashi returned home to his childhood tavern, the tavern where Baidan taught him backgammon, a group of familiar people, only traces of years, the same happiness, but there is no surveillance nearby. Father Baidan once again accepted the challenge of the chess king, only this time, the opponent was his nephew. Sahi won miraculously. Baidan's happiness was like a handful of fluorescent powder sprinkled on him. Sahi finally bid farewell to the past, the new Bulgaria, the new Sahi. Later, Sahi returned to West Germany again, and he met the woman who gave him gentleness all night, and the story finally ended.
History always makes jokes. On the way to freedom, a family ran a circle, but returned to the original point. Freedom is an appearance. If a person loses himself, no matter how free the country is, he can only live in humble and painful lives, with no future and no hope. It is not easy to cleanse oneself in a repressive environment. Baidan was also a radical youth when he was young. He paid a price for this. In his later years, he concealed his daughter's family defect and paid the price again. Suppressing passion, focusing on backgammon, controlling dice is like controlling destiny. Instead of losing himself, he uses backgammon to insist on conveying his love for younger generations.
Love is like a beacon, at the corner of the world of children and grandchildren, he lights up hope again and again.
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