The little girl Paloma, who lives in a luxury house in Paris, is a gifted child, to be precise, a gifted philosopher. With her 11-year-old eyes, she has insight into the true meaning of life that people who are several times her age cannot understand in their entire life. I can live in my own world like a child with autism, until I meet people who are very different from her in age, identity, and status, but have the same pure and rich heart...
"Even if I am so lucky and so Money, but I have known for a long time, it is destined that I will be trapped in a goldfish bowl for the rest of my life. Like the flies that always hit the same glass window, adults spend all their time in the goldfish bowl."
One night, Paloma was right. The camera showed that she should not jump into this goldfish bowl like the people around her, so she decided to leave forever on her 12th birthday by secretly collecting enough anti-depressant pills from her mother, with 165 days left.
"I will not let myself rot like a rotten vegetable because I decided to commit suicide. The important thing is not death or how old you are, but what you are doing at the moment of death."
"In Taniguchi's comics, The protagonist died of climbing Mount Everest. My Mount Everest is a movie, a movie about why life is so absurd.”
Baroma picked up the camera her father had given her, and pointed the camera at the people around her. , Her family, her neighbors, and passersby.
"Even if everything is meaningless, I have to overcome it mentally."
In order to countdown every day, Baromar drew a very special timetable on the wall of the bedroom. Paris is really a romantic fashion capital. A girl is also a person who loves life very much. Otherwise, how could even the inverse of life be designed so unique, without much description, you will understand when you learn how to design it.
"Once you make a decision that few people can understand, don't let it go, lest your most precious plan will soon be destroyed by others."
His father, a member of Congress, a busy man, worried about the country and the people, smart and brilliant. Although it is still called the Gu family, career is more important than family.
Her mother, who looks elegant and pampered, is actually a mentally depressed patient. For the past ten years, she has used drugs and planting plants to alleviate her symptoms. "She vaguely knows the decorative effect of green plants, but she treats plants as people talking."
Her sister, in the eyes of Paloma, is "a typical figure in the theory of goldfish in the tank, thinking not to be as neurotic as her mother." She wants to be better than her father. Life is an eternal war for her, defeating opponents and winning victory."
"Chasing the stars, it's like a goldfish in a tank."
"The adults talk about death. Obstacles, as everyone knows that death is the most ordinary thing in the world.”
Hani, the concierge in this mansion, middle-aged, obese, overworked, uncut, doing the dirtiest and most tiring work, serving the wealthy people living here. , Her specific job is to manage mailbox keys, collect garbage and clean up. This seemingly insignificant person, who has almost never been looked at by the person she serves, has an unknown side. Perhaps, she is the person with the most spiritual wealth and the most knowledgeable in this building. This was vaguely discovered by Baroma.
As a Westerner, Honey's favorite drink is tea.
Mr. Ozu Grand, a gentleman's old Japanese man, through inadvertently said, "Happy people are very similar to each other, but unfortunately the suffering of others is different." And Hani's cat named Lev, sensitively perceives She is not a simple concierge, because the sentence he is also familiar with comes from Lev. Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina", he kept two cats, called Levin and Katie. His appearance is like a bond, so that people who are also living here, who are not familiar with each other, and have the same loneliness, find each other.
Baromar thinks that Hani is like a hedgehog. "She is covered with thorns, a fortress like a fake replacement. She deliberately pretends to be very lazy. In fact, her heart is as meticulous as a hedgehog, her sexuality is lonely, and she is too elegant."
Ozu Yoko, Granddaughter of Mr. Grand, in her, Baromar seems to have seen her own life trajectory. "Duo Jin, the sole heir of a large Japanese family. In the future, he will interrupt his studies and marry the son of a wealthy banker. After three days of drug treatment, he will raise four children in a spotless home and eventually end up in divorce. A depressed, alcoholic, billionaire woman."
She couldn't help asking: "What about me? Is my destiny written on the forehead? I just believe in fate, so I want to die. But what if I can make myself what I have not yet become? I can make my own Isn't life what it is meant to be?"
Hani and Mr. Grange dated. The first time was in his Japanese-style home, eating his own dishes, dumplings and noodles, two kinds of food from China. There are many Chinese elements in the movie, including Go and tea. There is low-key luxury here, and Mozart's music will sound when the toilet is seated.
"Can't get rid of pain, so why die?"
"As far as the continuous pleasure of pain is concerned, only psychoanalysis can be comparable to religion." The
only goldfish in the small fish tank of Baroma's family, "Born in goldfish nine and a half years ago The farm will live in the goldfish bowl for life, even if it can stay in the kitchen a few times a week, because the cleaner has to change the water to prevent it from being poisoned by his own excrement."
Paloma took out one. The pill, using a goldfish as a guinea pig, ended its life in the fish tank and flushed it away in the toilet.
Hani came to deliver the letter and spoke to Baroma's mother at the door. Paloma recorded this detail with a camera again, "No cats are allowed to go out, and the porter is not allowed to come in." This may not be an intentional discrimination, but it is a mindset, using a door to distinguish status and identity. .
The second date was also at Mr. Gran's home. In his real home theater, the two relived a touching old Japanese movie. Talking about the death of each other's spouses many years ago, talking about "Mr. Alden's death is a major event, and the death of a concierge is just a trivial matter." At that moment, she seemed to realize the gap between status and status, and her inferiority complex. I came back to my heart again, and when I got home, I became restless and irritable. I felt that I had done something stupid and was an old and crazy woman.
Hani cried, and Baloma hugged her tightly. On this day, she drew a lot of raindrops on her countdown grid.
The little goldfish did not die, and swam down the sewer to the toilet of Hani's house. It was picked up by Hani and kept in a glass bottle. The countdown is coming to an end, and Baromar begins to implement the last step in her plan.
Horney finally accepted Gelang's third date invitation. At a Japanese restaurant, Gelang showed her her thoughts, and Horney happily accepted.
Misfortune always comes so quickly, the aftertaste of happiness has not even had time to dissipate, and Hani died in a car accident.
"Death is a mess."
"Gran, my heart is like a little cat curled up in a ball. If I can, I want to have one last cup of sake with you."
"How to define the value of life? Baroma, but May your future match your expectations."
Baroma was sad and shocked. "It turned out to be like this, everything stopped abruptly, is this death? I will never see the person you love again, and the person who loves you will never be seen again. If this is death, it is really the same as everyone said. It’s a tragedy.”
Hani, who had never been to school and had been poor all her life, had a secret room. There was a whole private library with a single sofa and a coffee table, just as Baroma gave her. As drawn on the card. This is the place where Hani enjoys her spiritual journey. No one knows, and she has never told anyone, until after her death, Baloma and Gelang helped her clean up. There are more than twenty boxes of books, and she is hiding here. Inside is her soul.
Gran gave the set of "Anna Karenina" to Baromar, and Baromar slowly closed the door of Hani's room. When the time is up, she shouldn't want to commit suicide anymore. What people fear most is loneliness, but no matter how lonely people can find their own hiding place. Death was so monotonous, she found a reason to live as she approached death. In fact, she always has.
Just like she knows how to taste chocolate when she eats chocolate, "Where is chocolate delicious? Is the chocolate delicious, or is it the skill of the teeth when chewing chocolate? I like to let it melt slowly on the tongue." Some people like to eat it. Chocolate, because it is sweet, some people like to eat chocolate, because it is bitter, what is the good thing about life, you can only know it by tasting it carefully.
"The important thing is not death, but what we were doing at the moment of death. Honey, what were you doing at the moment you died, you are ready to love."
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