This film is called Stealing Love in Chinese. The plot is very simple. It is about a male anchor who went to a small town to interview them on Groundhog Day. He repeated the interview activities of the original day for many days. Because the alarm clock goes off at 6 o’clock every morning, he finds himself back to the previous day. The morning broadcast broadcasts the same content. When going out and meeting the same people, the same greetings, the same passers-by, the same puddle, and the same colleagues standing. The same shooting angle waited for him to arrive and report to the same Groundhog Day. . . He didn't know why this happened. So he was confused, surprised, apprehensive, and helpless. He tried to explain to others what happened, but it seemed that he was the only one who had memories of yesterday. He hit the train, robbed the bank, jumped the clock tower, but all found himself back in the same morning when the alarm clock went off at six o'clock the next morning. . . Finally, he realized that everything was the same as yesterday, except for his memory. So he realized. He talked to the same woman every day, until he asked her all the details, pretending to be an acquaintance, and met by chance to go to bed on a date. Until I woke up at six in the morning the next morning, I found that the lonely self in the same pajamas was still on the bed, and I was going to participate in the same interview.
He can do anything illegal, and the consequences will be wiped out when the alarm goes off at six o'clock the next day. He can commit suicide countless times, and the days will restart at six o'clock the next day. He can convince almost every woman that fate keeps them together, and the feelings he carefully cultivated were forgotten by the women when the alarm clock went off at six o'clock the next day. He can do whatever he wants, but he can't. Get out of the cycle of "today" and go to "tomorrow".
Of course, the ending is always happy. He found that he was stuck today anyway, but he was alive and free. He took out all his money to beggars fighting the cold war on the side of the road, bought coffee for his colleagues and classmates whom he had always disdain to know, sat in a coffee shop and read books, found a home to teach piano, made ice sculptures, helped people repair tires, and rescued the trees. Up and down child (of course, he knows that this child will fall down again tomorrow). . . He started to care about everyone and everything "today". He knew that the beggar would die at night, so he remembered to take him to the Last Supper every day. . . In the end, he finally won the heart of a woman, and the love of this woman brought him to a new and new "tomorrow".
I believe that many people can see in this story the self who repeats the same day every day, the self who is bored and cannot get rid of it, the self who yearns for tomorrow and has countless resentments for today, and the self who is full of possibilities that are happening. I turned a blind eye to myself.
There will also be people who see the self that "tomorrow" finally shines into reality after countless hard work of today, and the self that makes the same today become different after discovering the clues of life.
Student Henry said that this film is about Buddhist principles. I don't understand religion. But I have always believed in reincarnation superstitiously. If you don’t treat your life well and realize it seriously, you will be sent back to reincarnation~
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