those flowers

Mollie 2022-03-21 09:01:59

That laughter reminded me of my flowers blooming
quietly for me in every corner of my life.
I thought I would stay by her side forever.
Today, we are gone
. They are all old, right?
where are they?
We went to the end of the world like this...


Suppose that one day, you just became the unlucky person who was abandoned by your girlfriend, but unexpectedly received an anonymous letter, telling you that a love experience you had a few years ago had already blossomed, and that you never The "son" who knows his existence may visit in the near future. The problem is that you have no idea about the mother of this child. The only information is the clues conveyed by the typewriter and pink stationery used to write letters, you what to do?

If you have a job with money and leisure like IT elite Don Jonathan, and have a warm-hearted and gossip neighbor who always thinks you are Jin Tiansan or Sherlock Holmes or Conan Doyle, most importantly, You do have ghosts in your heart, so congratulations, you can walk into memories like Lao Tang. Whether you like it or not, you will eventually face your former lover and your former self.

What is that old lover with your ear-smoothing look like now? Is she married? Have a child yet? How is she doing? Does she remember the past? Does she still miss it?

For every unending relationship, most people will selectively lose their memory. This kind of active forgetting has many benefits, and it will make people calmly welcome the arrival of the next protagonist without having to worry about the past. Whether it is a peaceful breakup or a rivalry, what remains in the memory will always be the beautiful stories left after the comparison.

However, Lao Tang, who was pushed back to the time-space tunnel by an anonymous letter, must face his former self truthfully. This is undoubtedly a heart-pounding journey. In front of the old lover, in their surprised or dejected or indifferent or angry eyes, everything seems to have returned to the original point, but the flowering period has passed, and what remains may be a few scents, or it may just return to dust.

Such a visit is destined to be fruitless. How can the former love be conveyed in one sentence, "Do you have a typewriter at home?" Old Tang could only look forward to every boy of the same age on the street, but he couldn't find the truth after all.

Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flower" has a dark humor that may be dull, but it really speaks to everyone's heart. The music that accompanies the high and low times in the journey of Lao Tang's time is like a bolt of lightning.

For Lao Tang, who has gone this far, it doesn't matter who the owner of the letter is, but I have to admit that this is indeed the best prank game on April Fool's Day.

View more about Broken Flowers reviews

Extended Reading

Broken Flowers quotes

  • [first lines]

    Sherry: I pretty much have all my stuff.

    [picks up mail]

    Sherry: Looks like you got a love letter from one of your other girlfriends.

  • [last lines]

    Don Johnston: Hold on a second. Wait. I know you think that I'm your father, don't you?

    The Kid: What?

    Don Johnston: Just tell me. You can talk to me, chief.

    The Kid: Man, you're fucked up!

    Don Johnston: Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait!