The sweet smell of tomato

Turner 2022-03-21 09:02:12

The love for Fried Green Tomato stems from the peace and equanimity it exudes from start to finish. While watching the movie, I feel like a person in the play, freely traveling through the two eras shown by the two-line narrative. The inextricable threads of fate make them quietly entangle them, and the emotional follow-up allows them to connect quietly. The sweet aroma of fried tomatoes is washed away and refreshed.

People can influence and change each other. More than once in our life's journey, we stop to appreciate another person's life and save a little bit of them. In the United States in the 1930s, Luce and Edge shared pain and joy. They were like sisters, but different from sisters. Luce's fiancé, Edge's eldest brother, is killed by a train in an accident, so fate brings the two closer. One has lost his favorite, and the other has lost his closest relative, which may be in line with the principle of "the same people who fall from the end of the world". Luce and Edge are inseparable because of too many things - throwing food to the poor on the galloping train, pouring out each other's feelings in the moonlit river, giving each other face in the station coffee shop Coated with chocolate... Their year-end friendship is a bit like Charlotte and Murray in "Lost in Translation", a little ambiguous, but not abrupt. Sometimes we share a wonderful feeling with someone, creating a little bit of romance other than love, small and silly, but more real to life. At the end of the 20th century, it was still the United States. Ai Warren, a housewife, met Nini, an old man with a bold face, in the hospital, and they hit it off. Ai Warren is often distressed by her obesity and ineffectiveness, but Nini tells the story of Luce and Edge every morning with her, and silently resolves Ai Warren with a warm smile. midlife crisis. The two women established a tacit understanding deep in their hearts, a mother-daughter affection. A century ago, they were no different from them. Life is often when you meet a person at a certain moment like God's blessing, and then something happens to him unnaturally, so that you both have a certain meaning - the meaning of understanding, the meaning of redemption, and the meaning of life. . Because life is like a shadow, if a person loses these meanings, he basically sinks.

It was unforgettable that Aggie was digging honey for Luce, and was surrounded by dense bee swarms, and Luce was sweating coldly by the side; it was unforgettable that Ai Warren's parking space was occupied by two young women, who said to her mockingly: " Let's face it, we're younger and faster than you." Ai Warren was first depressed, then suddenly thought of the story Nini told her about "Tawanda", and he had the courage to run into those two like crazy. The woman's car, facing the two twisted and frightened faces, she replied triumphantly: "Let's face it, I'm older and have more insurance."; Unforgettable Edge at Luce's house and Frank, the bad guy who abused Luce The scuffle, despite her petite frame being so insignificant in front of him; unforgettable Evron saw Nini's ward empty one morning, and thought she was dead in tears, only to learn a few seconds later that she was only discharged. Laughing through tears like a child... Scene after scene made me laugh and cry because they were so honest and heart-wrenching. We sometimes seem too complicated, building rails and isolating ourselves. Li Mubai in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" said: "If you hold your hand tightly, there is nothing in it; if you loosen your hand, you have everything." What a wise philosophy. In fact, the triviality of life often breeds its greatness, because if we can make our hearts softer, open a little more, and touch and accept those so-called distress and joy, they can become full of brilliance. If we can save a person's desolate soul, and spare no effort in return, we can also become rich and prosperous at the same time.

In the end, Luce died of cancer. In the warm bed, she walked peacefully in the story Edge told her; and Ai Warren was determined to bring Nini back to her home and become a real relative. They sat peacefully on the benches, listening to the roar of the train, the wind blowing their hair in strands... There was a fried green tomato in two eras, which is a unique food in the southern United States. Here, More as an emotional medium, it conveys well-informed thoughts. Yu Qiuyu said: "In the era of slow rhythm, everything is so eternal and immortal, love is like this, a piece of love letter, close to you for three years, and the same is true. In the era of high-speed tension, everything is born and destroyed, and it is the same. Rise and fall, love and friendship, all the mere bits and pieces are swallowed and spit out by the machine, becoming a consumable for the vehicle.” In fact, what the film shows is the simple and sincere relationship between people. , or feelings, an attitude to life, a good way to keep us awake in the confusion of right and wrong. So no matter in that era or this era, the film ended peacefully, there is no so-called great joy and great sorrow, no so-called seeing through the red dust. Didn't Han Han also say, "The so-called seeing the red dust is to see the originally beautiful red dust in tatters."

So we should do the same, make life simpler, look at it from the perspective of others, and experience it from the perspective of id. Calm while watching, give in calm, reap in giving, sweet in harvest, forget in sweet, grow in oblivion. Maybe one day, in the "beautiful red dust", in the sweet fragrance of silk tomato, we will become immortals like phoenixes. Even if they are not immortals, they are still half immortals---the half immortals can walk around and eat.

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Fried Green Tomatoes quotes

  • Buddy Threadgoode: Come on down, Li'l Bit. There's no firin' squad waitin' for ya.

  • Ninny Threadgoode: Did you know they took my gallbladder out?

    Evelyn Couch: Uh, no I didn't.

    Ninny Threadgoode: Oh yes, still in the hospital in a jar. I guess that's where they keep them.

    Evelyn Couch: I guess.