Americans think he lives in a downtown area, oh, what a great place!
It wasn't until the American wandered along the Seine
that he knew the truth-it turned out that his residence was a wooden boat moored by the river.
On the deck, pots of lush plants bloom sporadically. He set up a parasol and put on a few wooden chairs. The sun was not enough, but it was more than warm. If you sip a glass of red wine in this small "courtyard", it is much more pleasant than the downhearted person who can't sell a double-storey villa and worry about it.
It was the same investment in a "old care home", but the two people ended up differently. What was the reason?
Grow old slowly under the broken sunlight, calmly accept and pass the harm caused by the years, I am afraid this is the best way to live in this world!
The film focuses on a social phenomenon in Paris-investment in "elderly care homes". The buyer can buy the property rights of the next house with money cheaper than the market price, but the premise is to pay the seller's living expenses for the rest of his life. This is a win-win transaction, but it also brings a little bit of gambling.
The Frenchman who lived in the cabin waited only six days before the seller died. But the protagonist Matthews' father paid the woman in the old house for more than forty years of living expenses. What's more, the old lady's physical condition is still very healthy. Matthews is a downfall. He has had many failed marriages and achieved nothing in his career. The rich father donated most of his inheritance to charity, and the last thing left to his son turned out to be an old house with too many contracts and feelings. When Matthews moved into the villa, he had a lot of conflicts with the original residents, and made a lot of laughter. But with the development of the plot, this story takes us to a deeper level-Matthews inherits not only this house, but also the deeply buried past by his father.
The film discusses the contradiction between family and love, and a series of problems left over from this contradiction. Matthews was so mad and anxious when he knew that the old lady Mattide and his father were lovers. This truth evokes the pain deep in his memory, the lonely childhood, the poor mother, the unreachable fatherly love... He drank a lot of wine, and it took a lot of time to figure out the way to accept this reality. In the same way, he also found a way to live.
Most of us feel that life is incomplete. Although we will regret why we didn't do this or that, we still can't help thinking: If we were born in a favorable environment, would we have no regrets? As a result, we began to lament the ill-fated fate, the injustice of the world, and the coldness of our family. As we grow older, we begin to feel sorry for ourselves, pass by pessimistically, and finally die in the haze.
Following such a clue, we suddenly realized that the reason that led us to tragedy turned out to be our own thoughts!
Matthews has such a monologue: "You spend your whole life waiting for your parents to turn around, waiting for them to do things right, but they won't. Things won't get better. To some extent, you have to let them pass. You have to convince yourself that you don’t need them anymore. Because you really don’t need them anymore." The best way to correct what others have done wrong is not to complain, but to wait for time to dilute everything. We wait for the rainbow to appear after the wind and rain, and we don’t need to curse yesterday’s rain, snow, wind and frost on a bright sunny day.
No matter how busy you are, there will always be a moment of tranquility.
Life is a gamble. We cannot choose the circumstances of our birth, nor can we predict the bad luck ahead. The bargaining chip we have is just our attitude towards life.
When the bright sun shines on the elegant Seine, I can seem to hear the couple on the shore whispering, hear the art-loving girl singing her life, and hear the breeze of nature shining on the world.
This is a story about the struggle between reality and the past. Fortunately, it is a warm story.
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