The French comedy film "Delicious Poisonous Woman", known as the movie version of "Breaking Bad", tells the story of an old lady who sold drugs due to a dead end and battled wits with drug dealers.
Several videos were shown at the beginning of the film: a beautiful bride getting married in a church; having a cozy bakery with her husband; winning the pizza contest; playing games with her lovely daughter; traveling in a newly bought car...
Frame after frame, recording the happy smile of the heroine Porat, that is her beautiful youth and happy marriage. However, time flies, and a few decades later, an old grandmother with a gloomy expression and dry cheeks appeared in front of the audience.
Porat’s husband died, the shop was gone, and he took the minimum pension to maintain food and clothing. Because I haven't paid the utilities and rent for two years, the furniture and TV were removed by the court, and even the beautiful table lamp that I just picked home was not spared.
Don't think she is pitiful, she is not so innocent, and she is not easy to bully. She ran to put cockroaches in the dishes for the man who took over the business; when she confessed to the priest, she kept cursing her son-in-law; she ate up all the tastings on the cheese stall to solicit business, and said that the food they made was really unpalatable.
Such a lack of wintry, not so much to rely on the old to sell the old, it is better to break the jar. Here in Porat, years are like a pan, fried and stewed every day, and finally tormented her beyond recognition, cold and spicy.
How did you become what you are now? She didn't dare to look back, and she didn't want to think about the past, so when the little grandson looked through her old photos, she was furious.
In "The Queen Wearing Prada", the female editor-in-chief played by Meryl Streep is domineering, mean and critical, and it is not difficult to accept it. Being in a high position, a strong aura is inevitable.
Xu Anhua's "Sister Tao", old and sick, can only rely on a flexible feeling to inspire others to treat each other tenderly, but no matter how much warmth lingers, it still can't get rid of the coldness and sadness.
Although the old lady in "Delicious Poisonous Woman" is in a difficult situation, she refuses to please fate and beg for mercy, which confirms Hemingway's famous saying: "Man can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated."
She put on sunglasses and went to the garbage station, picked up roses, hard pears, and used anti-wolf spray to grab a few green onions. In order to make a fortune and protect herself, she played with drug dealers big and small, fearless and witty. While the audience laughed, those unwelcome attitudes and a few traces of compassion were shocked without a trace.
What does the ideal elderly person look like? I used to think that it must be elegant, dignified, speak softly, have a peaceful eyebrows, and dress clean and decently.
But as I grew older, I realized the naivety of these ideas. How can you do everything as you wish, and it is good to be old and old, but what if it can't be realized? I hope that by then, even if you are too old, you will not surrender easily, cheer up, and live sturdily. Like Porat.
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