This sentence comes from Jian Zhen, and it is most appropriate to summarize "The Taste of Plum Chicken". The outstanding musician Nasha Ali chose to wait quietly for death to come, and ended his life in silence. This film records his memories of his life in the seven days before his death, and we trace the roots of the tragedy, but we can't see which gear turned to cause such a result. Since childhood, he and his younger brother Abudi have been separated from each other. One is called a bad species, and the other is called a good species. He was slandered by the principal and broke the window and humiliated him in front of all the students in the school. When he grew up, he and his younger brother took different paths. His younger brother became a revolutionary who worked for the cause of the whole nation, but he became a free and useless musician. After the younger brother learned of his decision, he came to question his irresponsible behavior, and he asked, "Aren't you selfish?" Are you responsible for your wife and children? If you want to change the world, other people deserve to suffer. My mother sold all of your property in order to get you out of prison. The younger brother became angry and said, is everyone the same as you? Nasha Ali asked again: What's wrong with me? Will the world be worse? No, the world will not get worse. If everyone could be free and useless, playing for a piano thousands of miles away, and playing to catch a sigh of life, the world would probably not be so bad. He is actually an indifferent person and doesn't care much about his children, which may be related to the persecution of the marriage itself. It is rare to take his daughter to the amusement park. His daughter wants a talking doll. He cannot be satisfied, and he personally pierced his daughter's imagination of fairy tales. The daughter wanted to play on the swing, but after obtaining his permission, she was slapped by her furious mother, telling her what his father had said. He can't protect his daughter, can't give her love and tenderness, so when she grows up, she also becomes gloomy and sensitive. She fell in love with an actor, who died unexpectedly early, and spent her life in casinos, tobacco and alcohol. And the noisy little son, the little boy who Nasha Ali affirmed to be useless, grew up smoothly and mediocrely, and had an absurd and warm family. He is probably the only person in the whole family full of warmth and vitality. Being pushed around like rubbish between mom and dad, but excited by being able to travel far with dad. Everyone in the car was so tired of his noise, but after getting out of the car, he happily said goodbye to them. Although there are few warm memories with his father, he named his daughter's child Nasha. Nasha Ali was not taken away by the god of death for a long time, because the only one who prayed all night for him, it was this noisy and useless little son who made him feel like a disaster for human civilization. The second greatest tragedy in his life was his marriage to his wife Frankie. Frankie had a crush on him since he was a young girl, watching him chase other girls with his violin, watching him go far away to learn the piano from a teacher, and buried himself in a book during the long and lonely years. She smashed Nasha Ali's piano not on an impulse, but an explosion after a long period of tolerance. From watching him play the piano for other girls when he was a young girl, to learning the piano without hearing anything, to when he got married, he gave all the chores to Frankie for the music and didn’t have a job. All the burdens of the family belonged to her. Man shoulders. Her violence was not natural, but was forced out by her husband's indifference. She believes that the culprit is the violin, and as long as it is destroyed, the husband can return to the family and return to a normal life. However, what she didn't expect was that the violin was the only thing Nasha Ali was good at, and the only thing he could get his own value and dignity from. When he returned to his hometown, he seemed calm, but he was actually ruined by a girl. He is cruel. Even at the last moment of his life, he has to say cruel words like "I never loved you, you remembered it in your head" even when facing his wife who came to show him. The marriage arranged by the mother did not bring happiness to Nasha Ali, but ruined the lives of the two. But is this mother's fault? No, she just wanted to patch up her son's broken heart. The greatest joy of Nasha Ali's life was to meet Yilan. This beautiful girl even glowed with a smile. She soothed his depressed heart that was not recognized by the teacher. But how does the poor musician deserve the daughter of the rich businessman? Her father said, how dare you propose to my daughter? Don't ruin my daughter's future. But in his eyes his daughter's future is only to marry a rich man, without considering her happiness and love. I can be considerate of a father's heart, and I can also be considerate of a daughter's unwillingness to hurt her father's heart. It's just that this made Yilan a gloomy old woman. When she met her former lover on the street, she dared to pretend to be strange, but turned around and cried bitterly at the corner of the street. They fulfilled their parents and married someone they didn't love, but let at least three people spend their lives in pain. Because of this memory, Nasha Ali is no longer the exquisite but emotionless music craftsman. He finally knows what a sigh of life is and became a great musician, but his heart is always empty. Life may be like this. If you want something precious, you must exchange it for something more precious. He traded the once-in-a-lifetime love for the teacher's piano, used it to breathe and sigh, but was smashed by his wife. Frankie knew that the story told by Qin Sheng had nothing to do with her, and she didn't know how to resolve the pain, so she had to choose the most violent way. But this also cut off the life force of Nasha Ali and brought him death. When I was in graduate school, my instructor once said that many tragedies in life happen for no reason. Everyone is not a bad person. Everyone has made the best choice at the moment from their own point of view. However, these choices have caused tragedy in the end. Life is like plum chicken, with sweetness in sourness and astringency in bitterness. There is no way to liberate, only to move forward. Love hard when you love, and face it when you're desperate. After all, the stories that have been there, even if there is no ending, can always add some memories.
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