still "alive"

Leora 2022-05-08 20:50:52

I remember that around 2000, when DVDs were not very popular, a friend of mine bought a DVD player. Once, I went to his place to watch discs. I saw "Alive" for the first time. I remember it very clearly. After that, I was silent for a while, and then shouted: "Okay."
A few days later, I bought a DVD of "Alive" and collected it. Later, I got my own DVD player, and I was the first to take out "Alive". , is a test machine! After that, every time I watch it, I have a different experience.
"Sai Weng lost his horse, how can I know it's not a blessing" lost the house and saved his life; the home was broken, the daughter-in-law came back, and she didn't die on the battlefield, but the daughter was dumb; the shadow puppet was saved, but the son was gone; ...that's life, it's like a sine curve, with ups and downs! Gains and losses!
Whenever I am in a bad mood and feel lost, I always think of "Alive". After watching it, my mood will always be much calmer. No matter how unhappy our ordinary life is, what is your experience compared to wealth? I always console myself like this. Maybe it's because I've watched too much, people ask me, what's so good about "Alive"? Maybe I really don't know how to answer, it's just a feeling, I like it. What is a good movie? Everyone's answer is different, and everyone has their own understanding, but if a movie can always encourage you and resonate with you, it should be a good movie! You and I are still "alive"



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  • Lupe 2022-05-08 18:49:47

    For people living in our age, this is undoubtedly a sci-fi film (the Cultural Revolution is very sci-fi··)

  • Matt 2022-05-08 15:42:47

    I found the novel I read first to find out this movie. I like Yu Hua’s novels. Most of the novels are about the joys and sorrows of small characters. The fate of the protagonist’s family is more comprehensible when I read the novel. Day after day, there are his parents, wives, daughters, and sons in the tomb next to the land, and they seem to hear the yelling of the grandpa

To Live quotes

  • Xu Fugui: What did you name our son?

    Xu Jiazhen: "Don't Gamble".

  • Xu Fugui: If Youqing does as daddy says, our lives will get better and better. Our family is like a little chicken. When it grows up, it becomes a goose and that will turn into a sheep. The sheep will turn into an ox.

    Xu Youqing: And after the ox?

    Xu Fugui: After the ox is Communism, and there will be dumplings and meat every day.