Mike-Lee quietly set up the camera on this journey, using spring, summer, autumn and winter as chapters to discuss the proposition of "aging":
Mary, after middle age, beauty is late, divorced and living alone, looking for a man to start over, Not being rejected by others is rejecting others. In the spring, she pinned her hope for a new life on a second-hand car, and looked forward to it with excitement for a long time. She finally bought a car, but found that a car could not save her from her bad life. In the summer, she flirts with Gerry's son, Joe, in an ambiguous attempt to get the young man's love. But in the fall, Joe had a young and beautiful girlfriend, and Mary couldn't hide her loss, and her harsh words offended the Gerry family. The actress who played Mary did a good job. Her flustered demeanor, chattering speed, and lonely and sad eyes portrayed the anxiety and nervousness of this little person very well, which is lamentable and lovely. In fact, Mary didn't really fall in love with Joy, she just liked the state of life he represented, a warm and happy family, a plain and warm life. She and the Gerry couple are completely different people. Chatting is always not very speculative, even a little out of place. However, she is keen to be a guest. I think it is a kind of psychological warming. When you are close to happy people, you will share some happiness yourself.
Ken, who has passed the retirement age but is reluctant to retire, doesn't love his job, but he can't pass the time after retirement. Life is short, and for some it is long. In the summer, Ken was a guest in London, and there was this conversation at the dinner table:
Marry: "What would you do with your time if you retire??"
Ken: "Pub...I don't know."
However, even Pub makes it difficult for him to find happiness again, where it belongs to young people, no Then it's his world. Every time he played, he kept eating and drinking beer, like a childish prank, who could blame him? He was so lonely and lonely.
There is also Ronnie, Tom's younger brother, whose wife has passed away, and his son refuses to show his face all the year round, and finally shows up at the funeral, but the father and son are incompatible with each other. In the end, I only went to my brother's house to seek a little family warmth.
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They are all unhappy people, and they are all unhappy in one way or another. They are trapped by "aging", lonely and lonely, but unable to get rid of them, unable to reconcile with life. We will all grow old one day. How will we live when we are old? Is there an answer in the video? Maybe, Tom and Gerry are a pair of lovers who have always been in love with each other even though they are old, and their lives may be Mike Lee's answer. Gerry and his wife met in college. They share a common outlook on life and values. They both like cooking and gardening. They live a simple and happy life. The scene of them plowing in the field is used as the interval between the four chapters of the film, spring, summer, autumn and winter. The picture is gentle and soothing. Compared with the depressive tone of the whole film, the life of the couple is a bright and warm main line. In the film, they will always meet inadvertently and smile at each other. That smile makes you warm. They are mild-mannered, generous, loving, tolerant, and have no prejudice or judgment against those who enter their world.
Maybe life is like the field that Tom and Gerry tend to take care of. It has to be cultivated and taken care of before it will bear fruit. But is this the answer? What if you work hard and still get nothing? Life, how can there be an answer?
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