It is very rare to see a completely authentic Chinese family emotional story in a foreign short film.
In the short film, when my mother was making buns, a little bun was alive, just like when we were young when we asked our mother where we came from. Mom responded in a variety of ways: we picked it up from the garbage heap, we bought it from the vegetable market, or we were transformed from small buns.
There is also the large table of dishes. After the mother finished cooking, the children did not want to eat and wanted to go out to eat. It's very real. That's how I am. My mother cooks very carefully, but I don't think it tastes good. I want to go out to eat. There's no right or wrong, I think these trivialities are normal in the family. I wanted to go out to eat, but I also saw my mother's hard work and trying to be kind to me.
Then there is the plot of the mother swallowing the buns, which many people find horrifying. But a child like me, who has a tense relationship with his mother, doesn't think this plot is too much at all. That's how they are. They have a strong desire to control and can't wait to swallow you. When you experience this emotion, you don't feel weird and creepy at all. I was choked up when I saw this.
Teacher Wu Zhihong once said that in China, when a child grows up, it is not the child who is not weaned, but the parents. Parents can't live without their children, they just instinctively want to tether their children to them.
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